| Feels Like I'm in Love | |
| Cover: | Mungo_Jerry_single.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Mungo Jerry |
| A-Side: | Sur le Pont d'Avignon |
| Released: | 1977 |
| Label: | Polydor |
| Producer: | Ray Dorset |
| Prev Title: | All That a Woman Should Be |
| Prev Year: | 1977 |
| Sur le Pont d'Avignon | |
| Title2: | Feels Like I'm in Love |
| Next Title: | We're OK |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
"Feels Like I'm in Love" is a song written and recorded by Ray Dorset with his band Mungo Jerry. It was a number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in September 1980 for Scottish singer Kelly Marie.[1]
Written by Ray Dorset[2] of Mungo Jerry, the song was originally written for Elvis Presley[3] [4] but he died before it was ever recorded. Dorset's group recorded the song but their version was relegated to the B-side of a Belgian single, "Sur le Pont d'Avignon".
| Feels Like I'm in Love | |
| Cover: | Feels Like I'm In Love Kelly Marie_song.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Kelly Marie |
| Album: | Do You Like It Like That? |
| Genre: | Disco |
| Label: | Calibre |
| Producer: | Pete Yellowstone |
| Prev Title: | If I Can't Have You |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | Lovin' Just for Fun |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
| Feels Like I'm in Love | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Kelly Marie |
| B-Side: |
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| Released: | 1990 |
| Length: | 3:40 (radio edit) |
| Label: | Dance Street, Loading Bay, ZYX |
| Chronology: | Kelly Marie |
| Prev Title: | Stealing My Time |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Rescue Me |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
In 1979, Kelly Marie recorded the song for Pye Records. The song was a sleeper hit on the Scottish club scene before breaking through nationally in the summer of 1980, reaching the top of the UK Singles Chart in September.[5] The song sold 760,000 copies in United Kingdom in 1980 alone.[6] The following year, aided by a number of remixes the song became a club hit in the United States, reaching number ten on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.[7]
Re-released on the Calibre record label with a new B-side "New York at Night", it followed a rare breed of record labels who gained a chart-topping success after their debut release.[8] It was then re-released again in 1990 as a remix that was done by PWL.
The song is performed in the key of C major with a tempo of 121 beats per minute.[9]
| Chart (1980–1981) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[10] [11] | 7 |
| Denmark (Hitlisten)[12] | 1 |
| South Africa (Springbok Radio)[13] | 7 |
| Switzerland (Sonntagsblick Hitparade)[14] | 11 |
| US Hot Dance Club Play (Billboard)[15] | 10 |
| Chart (1980) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[16] | 85 | |
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[17] | 14 | |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[18] | 38 | |
| Netherlands (Single Top 100)[19] | 36 | |
| UK Singles (OCC)[20] | 3 |
