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 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!"

Mason Storm, as portrayed by Steven Seagal, enjoys listening to "Feels so Good" in his car in the 1990 action-thriller Hard to Kill.[13]

The tune for "Feels So Good" is used by the singing neighbor in the Friends Season 4 Episode, "The One with All the Haste." He wakes Rachel, who is sleeping in Joey's old room with the words, "Morning's here, the morning's here!" sung to the tune. The episode ends with Chandler and Joey having moved back into their old apartment, and Joey wakes to sing the song with his neighbor.

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.

The song is heard in the 19th season of South Park, when Mr. Garrison's Canadian students begin playing it in the middle of class.

The song makes an appearance in the 2016 film Doctor Strange where the title character points out that Mangione "charted a top 10 hit with a flugelhorn."

The song is used in The Big Bang Theory , season 11, episode 3, when Sheldon plays it in his sleep.

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. Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly".
  6. Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly".
  7. Flavour of New Zealand, 16 July 1978
  8. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 374.
  9. "Cash Box Top 100 6/10/78". tropicalglen.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  10. Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly".
  11. "Top 100 Hits of 1978/Top 100 Songs of 1978". www.musicoutfitters.com.
  12. "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1978". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  13. Seagal, Steven; LeBrock, Kelly; Sadler, William; Coffin, Frederick (1990-02-09), Hard to Kill, retrieved 2017-01-19
  14. Jackson, Grant (6 September 2013). "Chuck Mangione On Piano Jazz : NPR". Retrieved 1 March 2017.
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