How Much I Feel Explained

How Much I Feel
Cover:	How_Much_I_Feel_-_Ambrosia.png
Type:	single
Artist:	Ambrosia
Album:	Life Beyond L.A.
B-Side:	Ready for Camarillo
Released:	August 1978
Recorded:	1978
Genre:	Soft rock^[1] ^[2] pop^[3] ^[4]
Label:	Warner Bros. 8640
Producer:	Freddie Piro Ambrosia
Prev Title:	Magical Mystery Tour
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	Life Beyond L.A.
Next Year:	1978

"How Much I Feel" is a 1978 song by American rock band Ambrosia. The song, written by the band's guitarist/vocalist David Pack, was released in the summer of 1978 as the lead single from their third album, Life Beyond L.A., peaking at position three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart^[5] and number two for three weeks on the Cash Box Top 100.^[6]

Personnel

David Pack – lead and backing vocals, guitars, acoustic piano, synthesizers, string arrangements
Joe Puerta – bass, backing vocals
Burleigh Drummond – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Jimmie Haskell – string arrangements

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1978–1979)	Peak position
Australia ^[7]	30
Netherlands (NED)^[8]	24
New Zealand (RIANZ)^[9]	24
US Cash Box Top 100	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1978)	Position
Canada ^[10]	43
US Cash Box ^[11]	35

Covers and sampling

"How Much I Feel" was covered by English duo Alibi; it reached No. 58 on the UK Singles Chart in early 1998.^[13]

It was sampled in the song "All Your Fault" by Big Sean featuring Kanye West, the third track on the 2015 album Dark Sky Paradise.^[14]

Notes and References

Chuck . Taylor . Radio 'Just Can't Let Go' of Songs from Ambrosia, Producer/Arranger David Pack . November 8, 1997 . 109 . 45 . . 84 . 0006-2510 .
Web site: Stephen Thomas . Erlewine . Stephen Thomas Erlewine . Ambrosia – Anthology . . September 15, 2017.
Book: Scapelliti, Christopher. Gary . Graff . Daniel . Durchholz . 1998 . MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide . Ambrosia. . Detroit . 24.
Book: Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s. Don. Breithaupt. Jeff. Breithaupt. July 17, 2000. The Six Million Dollar Tan: West Coast Pop. 46. St. Martin's Griffin. 978-0-312-19821-3.
Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Pop Singles: 1955–2006 . Joel Whitburn . 2007 . Record Research.
Web site: Top 100 1978-12-02 . . March 8, 2015 .
Web site: Steffen Hung . Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts) . Australian-charts.com . October 13, 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160602084720/http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092 . June 2, 2016 .
Web site: How Much I Feel (Netherlands). Dutch Charts. December 4, 2019.
NZ Top 40 Singles, 17 December 1978
Web site: Top 200 Singles of '78 – Volume 30, No. 14, December 30, 1978 . . 17 July 2013 . . July 31, 2017.
Web site: Top 100 Year End Charts: 1978 . . November 3, 2015 . October 27, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121027052253/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/1978YESP.html . dead .
Web site: Top 100 Hits of 1979/Top 100 Songs of 1979 . Musicoutfitters.com . October 30, 2016.
Web site: How Much I Feel | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company. Officialcharts.com.
News: Stern . Bradley . Big Sean Teams Up Again With Kanye West On "All Your Fault": Listen . . February 19, 2015 . January 11, 2018.