Song · Stevie Wonder
“I Was Made To Love Her” by Stevie Wonder
From the album I Was Made to Love Her (1967)
“I Was Made To Love Her” by Stevie Wonder appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2001 and 2020. It was first released in 1967 on the album I Was Made to Love Her. Its best result is #326 on the WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,169 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Stevie Wonder cut "I Was Made to Love Her" in 1967 for Motown's Tamla imprint, and it gave his album that year its title. He wrote it with his mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, along with Sylvia Moy and producer Henry Cosby, and the Funk Brothers lay down the track: James Jamerson on bass, Eddie Willis on electric sitar, Wonder on harmonica and lead vocal. The final line he made up on the spot.
Cash Box heard a pulsing R&B workout, and it held the top of the R&B singles chart for four scattered weeks. On the pop side only the Doors' "Light My Fire" kept it from number one, and in Britain it reached number five, his first top ten there. Asked in 1968 which of his songs he'd single out, Wonder named this one, because it was true.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1126 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2001 | 326 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2019 | 727 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 727 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2020 | 810 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
Also listed as: I Was Made to Love Her.
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