Feels So Good (composition)

"Feels So Good"
Single by Chuck Mangione
from the album Feels So Good
B-side "Maui-Waui"
Released February 1978
Format 7" (45 rpm)
Recorded 1977
Genre Soft rock[1]
Length 3:28 (single edit)
9:43 (album version)
Label A&M
Writer(s) Chuck Mangione
Producer(s) Chuck Mangione

"Feels So Good" is the title of a 1978 instrumental by the American flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione. It was both written and produced by Mangione and is the title track from his 1977 album.

The album version of "Feels So Good" runs almost ten minutes, but an edit trimming the piece to 3 minutes 28 seconds was released as a single in early 1978. The single reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June of that year[2] after spending a week atop the Billboard easy listening chart in May.[3] The recording was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Record of the Year at the ceremony held in 1979, losing out to Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are".[3] Mangione re-recorded the tune (as a slow ballad, and with lyrics sung by Don Potter) for his 1982 album 70 Miles Young.

Mangione was quoted describing the editing of the original version of the track as "major surgery."[3]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1978) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles[4] 5
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[5] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 4
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles[6] 68
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[7] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (1978) Rank
Canada RPM Top Singles[8] 32
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[9] 21
U.S. Cash Box[10] 39

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ↑ "VH1's 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs". Stereogum. SpinMedia. May 31, 2007. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. 1 2 3 Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  4. ↑ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4595a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4595a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4595a
  5. ↑ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4590&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4590.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4590
  6. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 374.
  7. ↑ http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19780610.html
  8. ↑ Bac-lac.gc.ca
  9. ↑ Musicoutfitters.com
  10. ↑ http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/1978YESP.html

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