You Met Your Match

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"You Met Your Match"
Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album For Once in My Life
B-side"My Girl"
ReleasedJuly, 1968
Recorded1968
Genre
Length2:42
LabelTamla
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Stevie Wonder, Don Hunter
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day"
(1968) 		"You Met Your Match"
(1968) 		"For Once in My Life"
(1968)

"You Met Your Match" is a song written by Stevie Wonder, Lula Mae Hardaway, and Don Hunter that was released by Wonder on his 1968 album For Once in My Life. It was also released as a single and reached No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart.[1]

Cash Box said that it has a "pounding rhythm and a vocal performance that scours the emotions," calling the single an "exciting drive side."[2] Billboard called it a "pulsating rocker" and a "blockbuster."[3] Wonder biographer Steve Lodder described the song as being "based around blues changes" but said that it "lacks an 'earworm' hook of a melodic line."[4]

"You Met Your Match" was one of the first songs to use a clavinet in a popular music recording.[5][4] It was the first song Wonder produced in the studio.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William (2002). AllMusic Guide to Rock. Backbeat books. p. 1238. ISBN 9780879306533.
  2. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. July 6, 1968. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  3. ^ "Spotlight Singles". Billboard. July 6, 1968. p. 74. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  4. ^ a b c Lodder, Steve (2005). Stevie Wonder: A Musical Guide to the Classic Albums. Backbeat. pp. 49–50. ISBN 9780879308216.
  5. ^ Lundy, Zeth (2007). Songs in the Key of Life. Boomsbury Academic. p. 77. ISBN 9780826419262.
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