This tune was written by Wonder, who was 16 at the time, together with his mother Lula Mae Hardaway, Motown songwriter Sylvia Moy, and the song's producer Henry Cosby. Wonder's mother co-wrote many of Wonder's songs during her son's teenage years. She was nominated for the 1970 Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for co-penning "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours."
Wonder recalled to the Rock Around The World newspaper that this song, "kind of speaks of my first love to a girl named Angie, who was a very beautiful woman." He added: "Actually, she was my third girlfriend but my first love. I used to call Angie up and, like, we would talk and say, 'I love you, I love you,' and we'd talk and we'd both go to sleep on the phone. And this was like from Detroit to California, right? You know, mother said, 'Boy, what you doing - get off the phone!' Boy, I tell you, it was ridiculous."
Sylvia Moy, who is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, also worked on Wonder's songs "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" and "My Cherie Amour." She says that her inspiration for "I Was Made To Love Her" was stories she heard from her parents - her mother is from Arkansas, which is why Stevie opens the song singing, "I was born in Little Rock."
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