| Feels So Good | |
| Cover: | Feels_So_Good_-_Chuck_Mangione.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Chuck Mangione |
| Album: | Feels So Good |
| B-Side: | Maui-Waui |
| Released: | February 1978 |
| Recorded: | 1977 |
| Length: | 3:31 (Single Version) 9:43 (Album Version) |
| Label: | A&M |
| Producer: | Chuck Mangione |
| Prev Title: | Hill Where the Lord Hides |
| Prev Year: | 1978 |
| Next Title: | Children of Sanchez |
| Next Year: | 1978 |
"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" was released as a single in early 1978, which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June of that year[1] after spending a week atop the Billboard easy listening chart in May.[2] 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".[2] 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."[2]
The jazz-classical fusion duo Marimolin covered "Feels So Good" (arranged for marimba and violin) on their 1994 album Combo Platter.
| Chart (1978) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] | 49 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles[4] | 5 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[5] | 1 |
| New Zealand (RIANZ)[6] | 20 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles[7] | 68 |
| U.S. Cash Box Top 100[8] | 6 |
| Chart (1978) | Rank |
|---|---|
| Canada RPM Top Singles[9] | 32 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[10] | 21 |
| U.S. Cash Box[11] | 39 |
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 "is it live or is it 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)[12] worked it into whatever he was playing.
The Friends episode The One with All the Haste begins and ends with scenes in which a neighbour across the alley from apartment 19 sings a song about the morningtime loudly to himself first thing in the morning, much to the annoyance of Rachel, but to the pleasure of Joey. The song uses the melody from "Feels So Good".
"Feels So Good" was heard in the 2016 Marvel Studios film Doctor Strange in a scene where Dr. Stephen Strange responds to trivia questions while performing surgery. [13]
