C/D: "Feels So Good" by Chuck Mangione

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Chuck Mangione's signature song. One of those lite-jazz numbers to infiltrate its way into the pop charts back in the day. An instrumental that couldn't have been called anything else. From the samba intro to the eighth-note walk-ups to the impassioned climax, Classic.

I remember in the early nineties, working at Wal*Mart stores across rural Minnesota. I had a week-long stint in Fergus Falls. I'd stand there in the underwear aisle, wearing my khakis and tie, selling portrait photographs back to the townswomen. It'd get pretty empty and dry in that store at around two p.m. on a Tuesday. I'd go outside to the parking lot, smoke a cigarette, watch the cottonball clouds bounce by, and go back into the store. Inevitably, "Feels So Good" would be on the PA, and for a brief moment, I would.

Also see Chuck Mangione in "King of the Hill" - best use of musician in TV show ever? . And for another time, we'll have to do TS: "Feels So Good" versus Herb Alpert's "Rise".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm just surprised that (to my knowledge) no one has laid it over a house beat yet for the nu-jazz-house dancefloor set.
it's a helluva ... what.... trumpet? fluegelhorn?... lick

c indeed

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

The extended version is a mother, the band could really cook, and the rest of that album was solid as well. I still think The Children of Sanchez is a major jazz work of the 1970s, but I am the only one I know who feels this way.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Flugelhorn sales no doubt tripled as a result of "Feels So Good."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Very classic. I love it.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

i still want brother Gap Mangione's "Diana in the August Wind". too bad that shit is hecka expensive. http://popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=gap+mangione&x=0&y=0

― Jaxon von Jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Major tune. Also classic for being the eternal answer to "what does a flugelhorn sound like?"

I had a very similiar relationship with George Benson's "Breezin'" when I worked at a supermarket in HS. There's something transcendent about the combination of brightly-lit super-stores, cigarettes and 70s lite jazz.

― Keith C (lync0), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:01 (twenty years ago)

The local FM station in my home town back in the early 80s had that odd format where you never heard a DJ and they would play music back to back outside commercials with artists like Steely Dan, Breezin, Feels So Good, Herb Alpert, Grover Washington Jr. and Al Jarreau. I would often times go to sleep listening to this station and like a bunch of those tunes just for that reason.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Big classic!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

the other stone classic from the record that I used to love to rock was "Hide & Seek"

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 02:22 (twenty years ago)