Feels So Good (composition)

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

"Feels So Good"
Single by Chuck Mangione
from the album Feels So Good
B-side"Maui-Waui"
ReleasedFebruary 1978
Recorded1977
Genre
Length3:28 (single edit)
9:43 (album version)
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Chuck Mangione
Producer(s)Chuck Mangione

The album version of "Feels So Good" runs almost ten minutes, but an edited (3 min 28 sec) version was released as a single in early 1978, which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June of that year[3] after spending a week atop the Billboard easy listening chart in May.[4] 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".[4] 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."[4]

Chart performance

Personnel
  • Chuck Mangione: Flugelhorn & electric piano
  • Chris Vadala: Saxes
  • Grant Geissman: Guitar
  • Charles Meeks: Electric Bass
  • James Bradley, Jr.: Drums

Mangione appeared in a commercial for Memorex in 1979 performing "Feels So Good". Ella Fitzgerald, who became famous for Memorex commercials in the 1970s, heard Mangione and musicians perform it, then it was played back for her. When she was asked "if it was live or it is Memorex?", Ella shrugged and said, "beats me!"

The composition was heard frequently in King of the Hill, including a running gag in which Mangione (who often guest starred on the show as himself)[14] worked it into whatever he was playing.

See also
  • List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1978 (U.S.)

References
  1. Don Breithaupt (2007). Steely Dan's Aja. A & C Black. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-8264-2783-0.
  2. "VH1's 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs". 31 May 2007.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  4. Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 190. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  6. Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly".
  7. Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly".
  8. Flavour of New Zealand, 16 July 1978
  9. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 374.
  10. "Cash Box Top 100 6/10/78". tropicalglen.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  11. Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly".
  12. "Top 100 Hits of 1978/Top 100 Songs of 1978". www.musicoutfitters.com.
  13. "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1978". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  14. Jackson, Grant (6 September 2013). "Chuck Mangione On Piano Jazz : NPR". Retrieved 1 March 2017.
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