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Showing posts with label Chuck Mangione. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chuck Mangione. Show all posts

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Chuck Mangione - Chase The Clouds Away (1975)


Mangione's first release on the A&M record label finds him safely treading water in his favorite pool: Latin-tinged instrumental pop/smooth jazz. Reedist Gerry Niewood brings his A game to the cuts on this album and brings some quality solos to some otherwise bland and/or over-orchestrated compositions. Maybe using the word "bland" is a bit much - the music here is perfectly agreeable, but there's only a couple of tracks that really grab my ear. As my dear friend Richard used to say, "good, not great."

The liner notes (written by Mangione himself) state the album was recorded live to tape so there are an above-average number of clams from Mangione, but that's the nature of the beast. As a recovering trumpet player myself, I can recall participating in my fair share of clambakes.

The title track was nominated for two Grammy Awards:
  1. Best Instrumental Composition (eventually losing to Images by Michel Legrand)
  2. Best Pop Instrumental Performance (eventually losing to The Hustle by Van McCoy)
It also gained exposure when it was used by ABC during its coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

How big was Mangione in pop culture back then? Well, he was popular enough to not only have chart success with instrumental singles, he also appeared on TV in such classics as Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party in 1979. And here's a clip with Chuck providing his own background music while onscreen with Tom Selleck in an episode of Magnum PI:


Starting in 1997 he was a recurring character on the animated show King Of The Hill. I noticed that Mangione's discography on Wikipedia is rather lacking, so I'm going to go ahead and spin this CD again while I start up a rudimentary singles history for the man. As my father used to bemoan, "I guess I gotta do everything myself."

Title Year
Hot 100
AC
R&B
Hill Where The Lord Hides 1971 76 32
Chase The Clouds Away 1975 96

Bellavia 1976
49
Land Of Make Believe 1977 86

Feels So Good 1978 4 1
Children of Sanchez 1978
44
Bellavia (from Children of Sanchez album) 1979
41
Land Of Make Believe (Live) 1979
44
Give It All You Got 1980 18 132
Fun And Games 1980
49
Steppin' Out 1982

80

Plus, I respect Mangione's deep commitment to brown felt fedoras with a flat crown and colorful hatband.

Reviews/ratings:
  • High Fidelity: "Altogether, a thoroughly enjoyable album."
  • Stereo Review: "full of good music of the middle-of-the-road jazz variety"
  • Billboard: "The music is very easy to appreciate."
  • Record World: "Mangione's ability to lushly weave sounds to form special moods is at its height"
  • The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (1999): ★★


Album chart peaks:
  • US Billboard 200: #47
  • Billboard Jazz: #6
  • CashBox: #88
  • CashBox Jazz: #33
  • Record World Jazz: #5

Tracks: The title track is the cream of the crop and the only tune I had heard prior to finding this CD in a used bin. The first two tracks are also quite nice. The album ends with a lone vocal track, Soft, which is a nice ballad, but seems out of place here.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None with this particular album, but Mangione's death on July 22, 2025 certainly put me in a melancholy mood. His music has definitely played a role in my life since I first heard Feels So Good on my AM radio. My Feels So Good cassette was the first jazz album I ever purchased. The 1979 live album, An Evening of Magic: Live at the Hollywood Bowl, provided background music for me for decades as I tackled writing assignments in undergraduate and graduate schools (and possibly high school?). My very first year of teaching marching band in 1989, the main director of the high school band chose an arrangement of Mangione's Land Of Make Believe for the band to perform. That scenario repeated itself at a different school with different colleagues and different students in the late '90s. And, around 2002 or 2003, yet another band I taught worked up an all-Mangione halftime show, which not only included Land Of Make Believe, but also El Gato Triste and one other Mangione tune I can't recall.

And why hasn't the 1981 A&M album Tarantella ever been released on CD? 2008 Universal Studios fire maybe?

Previously revisited for the blog:
Everything For Love (2000)
Eyes Of The Veiled Temptress (1988)
Classics, Volume 6 (1987)
Journey To A Rainbow (1983)
Love Notes (1982)/Disguise (1984)/Save Tonight For Me (1986)
An Evening of Magic: Live at The Hollywood Bowl (1979)
Feels So Good (1977)
Land Of Make Believe (1973)


Thursday, January 16, 2025

Chuck Mangione - Journey To A Rainbow (1983)


Note: this release was originally purchased as an LP, later replaced by a CD. The disc I own is the original made in Japan-for-US market pressing in a "Patent Pending" smooth sided jewel case.

Mangione's second of five albums released on the Columbia label, 1982-1988. Mangione hadn't had a hit since 1980 and I completely missed Mangione's 1982 album, Love Notes, when it was released. So this album was an impulse buy - I was at the record store with Burger-King-paycheck money to burn and finding no New Wave/New Romantic synthpop albums to buy, I switched gears to smooth jazz and saw this new release from a familiar artist. And even though was I trying my best to dress like Ren McCormack, Jeff Spicoli, or a member of Duran Duran, I still enjoyed my smooth jazz and must have listened to this thing quite a bit because when I put the LP on again after a couple of decades, I remembered every tune. Within the first few seconds, you can tell you're listening to a Mangione release. It's a happy thing with light jazz/pop melodies and hardly any improvisation. Feels So Good fans would be happy with the purchase - I was and am. Hardly essential, but a nice flashback, nostalgia listen every now and then.

Reviews/ratings:
  • Stereo Review: "It's strictly for hard-core Mangione fans, of which I'm told there is a surprisingly large number."
  • CashBox: "another fine sampling of frothy free-flight music"
  • Billboard (6/4/83): "Mangione's unabashed romanticism brings the usual warmth to this latest smaller group outing."
  • Billboard (6/18/83): "Mangione is back on the upswing with his bumptious brand of intoxicating pop-jazz."
  • DownBeat (★★★½): "a good album - pleasant, worth a listen, and refreshing for its acoustic quality."
  • The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (1999): ★★
  • The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz (1999): ★★★


Album chart peaks:
  • US Billboard 200: #154
  • Billboard Jazz: #10
  • CashBox Jazz: #6
  • Radio & Records Jazz Radio National Airplay: #4

Tracks: The title cut, track 1, was released as a single but never gained traction on either the pop or adult contemporary charts. It's decent enough, but my favorites here are the ballads Do I Dare To Fall In Love and Please Stay The Night.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: see above

Previously revisited for the blog:
Everything For Love (2000)
Eyes Of The Veiled Temptress (1988)
Classics, Volume 6 (1987)
Love Notes (1982)/Disguise (1984)/Save Tonight For Me (1986)
An Evening of Magic: Live at The Hollywood Bowl (1979)
Feels So Good (1977)
Land Of Make Believe (1973)


Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Chuck Mangione - Eyes Of The Veiled Temptress (1988)


I'm not sure how Chuck got together with the legendary Thom Bell, one of the architects of Philly soul, but I guess the 'how' doesn't matter. The result of their collaboration is this album, Mangione's final release for Columbia and his last on any major label. Bell is listed as co-producer and co-arranger of the album along with Mangione. Of the seven tracks, Mangione wrote 3, while Bell wrote or co-wrote the remaining 4, including two tracks featuring vocals from Rob Mathes. It's not a very consistent album, but I enjoy most of the tracks anyway and I've got to say that saxophonist Chris Vadala has never sounded better. As one might guess, the Bell tracks are more soulful and the Mangione tracks are his usual Spanish-influenced jazz/pop. As the CashBox review states, there's "nothing new under this sun" but the thing is an easy listen and much better than Mangione's previous albums Disguise and Save Tonight For Me.

Reviews/ratings:
  • Billboard: "vet R&B boardmeister Bell frames Mangione's easy-going compositions well"
  • CashBox: "If Mangione's for you, this easy-on-the-ears album's for you"
  • The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (1999): ★★
  • The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz (1999): ★★★


Album chart peaks:
  • US Billboard 200: Did not chart
  • Billboard Contemporary Jazz: #22
  • CashBox Jazz: #23

Tracks: The opener, That's Nice, is a catchy earworm that is almost completely ruined by the loud, gated drums (hey, it was the '80s). With a track title like that, they're really asking for it, so please appreciate my restraint. I usually despise vocal tracks on otherwise instrumental jazz albums, but I kinda dig the two here: Do You Ever Think About Me and Freedom Song. Of those two, I give the edge to Do You Ever Think About Me. The Mangione tracks sound like Mangione tracks - there's just no other way to put it. One of the album's blander tracks, Long Hair Soulful, was edited and released as a single plus the album version was released as a 12" single. I can't find that either vocal track was released as a single. Sadly, Chuck and the singles charts haven't seen each other since 1980.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: Thanks to long-time reader and friend o' the blog Dirk Digglinator for hipping me to this one via social media. After reading the post, I almost immediately ordered a used copy on eBay and when the CD was delivered, it felt so good to discover the autographs of Mangione and guitarist Mark Manetta inside the CD booklet. I don't know who Paddy is, but I'm glad he went to the trouble of getting the autographs, I'm guessing at a concert supporting the album.

Previously revisited for the blog:
Everything For Love (2000)
Classics, Volume 6 (1987)
Love Notes (1982)/Disguise (1984)/Save Tonight For Me (1986)
An Evening of Magic: Live at The Hollywood Bowl (1979)
Feels So Good (1977)
Land Of Make Believe (1973)


Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Chuck Mangione - Love Notes (1982)/Disguise (1984)/Save Tonight For Me (1986)


UK Import

Three albums on 2 CDs from Mangione who, at the time, had switched labels from A&M to Columbia and was slowly fading from charts and radio playlists.

Excellent remastering job and thorough liner notes. Well done, BGO. In 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Mangione among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire.

LOVE NOTES (1982)
5 tracks, 41 minutes


I'm not sure why I didn't pick this up in '82. I wasn't finished buying new Mangione releases at that time - I bought Journey To A Rainbow the following year. But Mangione albums didn't exactly fit into the pseudo-New Wave hipster image I was trying (and failing) to cultivate in '82 so that might have had something to do with it.

Any of the 5 tracks wouldn't have been out of place on his earlier few albums. It's all melodic, pleasant, and well-performed, but not very memorable. Still, fans of his Feels So Good and Fun & Games albums weren't disappointed.

Album chart peaks:
  • US Billboard 200: #83
  • Billboard Jazz: #8
  • Billboard R&B: #53
  • CashBox: #103
  • CashBox Jazz: #4

Tracks: The opener, Steppin' Out, is the best tune on the album and bears more than a passing resemblance to the Feel So Good single. Columbia released it as a single and it saw a little action on the R&B chart, peaking at #80. I have a problem with the second track, No Problem, in that it works for 13+ minutes and never goes anywhere. It's not bad, just too long - just when you think it's finally over, someone else gets a solo turn. The remaining three tracks are, as stated earlier, pleasant enough but I won't be whistling them later.


DISGUISE (1984)
7 tracks, 39 minutes


In which Mangione jettisons his band, teams up with Juicy and producer Deodato, and discovers synths and drum machines. And the cover photo ain't doing anybody any favors. Enter at your own risk.

Album chart peaks:
  • US Billboard 200: #148
  • Billboard Jazz: #26
  • CashBox: #145
  • CashBox Jazz: #9

Tracks: Mostly failed attempts at updating the sound for a younger market (hey, it worked for Herbie Hancock a year earlier, so why not?). The most traditional Mangione pieces are Josephine and Love Theme From 'London And Davis In New York,' the theme for a failed CBS TV pilot about a crime-solving photographer. However, there's also a track with Shirley MacLaine rapping which will surely knock your chakras out of alignment.

Would I have preferred the inclusion of the aforementioned Journey To A Rainbow (1983) in lieu of Disguise in this three-fer? Without question.


SAVE TONIGHT FOR ME (1986)
8 tracks, 42 minutes


The synths and LinnDrums also appear on this album, but their sound is slightly more understated (as understated as synth drums could possibly be, anyway), thanks to producer Morris "Butch" Stewart. It's all very generic DX7 smooth jazz that immediately dates itself to the mid-'80s. Still, it's better than Disguise.

Album chart peaks:
  • US Billboard 200: Did not chart
  • Billboard Jazz: #28
  • CashBox Jazz: #12

Tracks: Secret of Love - with vocals by Brenda Mitchell Stewart (the producer's wife) - is the cream. Rockin' At Red Rocks can actually be an enjoyable funk tune once I'm able to get past Chuck's rap. The more traditional, familiar Mangione sound is available here on Sweet Cheryl Lynn.


Previously revisited for the blog:
Everything For Love (2000)
Classics, Volume 6 (1987)
An Evening of Magic: Live at The Hollywood Bowl (1979)
Feels So Good (1977)
Land Of Make Believe (1973)


Thursday, April 20, 2017

Chuck Mangione - Classics, Volume 6 (1987)


A "best of" compilation, covering the flugelhornist's years on the A&M label (1975-82). These were his most commercially successful years; I myself became a fan in '78 as I was just learning to play trumpet while Chuck was hitting #4 on the pop chart with "Feel So Good." Bonus points for using the longer cuts rather than the single edits.

Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart

Tracks: I dig 'em all and have for years. The Grammy voters seemed to like his stuff, too.
  1. Feels So Good (#4 pop, #1 AC) - from the Feels So Good album (1977). Mangione's signature tune, it was nominated for a Grammy Award for Record of the Year, losing out to Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are.
  2. Hill Where The Lord Hides (original version #76 pop, #32 AC) - from the live album Tarentella (1981). Original version appears on Friends & Love...A Chuck Mangione Concert.
  3. Bellavia (#49 AC) - title track from the Bellavia album (1975). Grammy winner for Best Instrumental Composition.
  4. Fun And Games (#49 AC) - title track from the Fun And Games album (1980), which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance, losing out to Birdland by The Manhattan Transfer.
  5. Children of Sanchez Theme (#44 AC) - title track from the soundtrack album for Children of Sanchez (1978). The album won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance
  6. Land Of Make Believe (#86 pop, #44 AC) - from the live album An Evening of Magic: Live at The Hollywood Bowl (1979) - my personal favorite album of Mangione. The tune was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
  7. Give It All You Got (#18 pop, #1 AC) - from the Fun And Games album (1980). ABC commissioned this tune to be used as the official theme of the 1980 Winter Olympics, held in Lake Placid, New York. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, losing out to composer John Williams and his score to the film The Empire Strikes Back.
  8. Chase The Clouds Away - title track from the Chase The Clouds Away album (1975). The tune was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Instrumental Composition and Best Pop Instrumental Performance, losing to Michel Legrand's Images and Van McCoy's The Hustle, respectively.
  9. Cannonball Run Theme - taken from the movie soundtrack of The Cannonball Run (1981). The track later appeared on his 1982 album 70 Miles Young.
  10. Doin' Everything With You - taken from the Main Squeeze album (1976).

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None. Just purchased the disc for the (admittedly bland) Cannonball Run Theme. If I've seen that movie in its entirety, I don't remember it. Never seen the Children of Sanchez movie, either.

Land Of Make Believe has been a staple of marching band shows for almost 40 years. I've personally taught marching drill to that song twice myself.

Previously revisited for the blog:
Everything For Love (2000)
An Evening of Magic: Live at The Hollywood Bowl (1979)
Feels So Good (1977)
Land Of Make Believe (1973)

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Chuck Mangione - An Evening of Magic: Live at The Hollywood Bowl (1979)


Note: this release was originally purchased as a 2 LP set, later replaced by this CD set.

Recorded in Los Angeles, July 16, 1978.

At the peak of his popularity, Mangione (and A&M Records) wanted to cash in with a live album. You can't blame them - how often can a jazz instrumentalist turn a such a profit? His surprise single, Feels So Good, peaked at #4 on the pop charts just a month before this album was recorded. 4 of the 15 tracks come from the Feels So Good album - the astute Mangione was savvy enough to both open and close the concert with the hit single. Another 5 tracks come from the predecessor to Feels So Good, 1976's Main Squeeze album. The rest of the concert explores his earlier catalog with the exception of the Main Theme to the soundtrack from the movie Children Of Sanchez that made up the dreaded "now we'd like to play something from our new album" part of the concert. The whole thing is Mangione's brand of instrumental white boy funk meets jazz/pop which, at the time, was right in the wheelhouse of this teenaged trumpet player trying to expand his musical horizons. Not as good as the later 1980 live album Tarentella (which, to my knowledge, has yet to be reissued digitally in any format), it has kept me company often throughout the years (see memory below).

I'm glad the CD reissue included the original liner notes because they are unintentionally humorous. The whole recap of the weekend concert is written in the same vainglorious style. My take: "Conditions were against us! Traffic in LA was too much! The July heat was nearing 100 degrees! Code Red! Situation: critical! I don't know how we pulled off this miracle of a concert, but we did! Indeed, it was an evening of magic." Hilarious.

Press of the time:
Maybe Chuck got some airplay on WKRP?
for more posters as seen on WKRP in Cincinnati, click here

Album chart peaks:
  • US Billboard 200: #27
  • Billboard Jazz: #5
  • CashBox: #37
  • CashBox Jazz: #3
  • Rolling Stone: #53

Tracks:  My favorites are Feels So Good and Land Of Make Believe. I'm not much for the Children of Sanchez stuff.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD:  I love this album, if only for nostalgia's sake. I got my album set from one of those Columbia House "12 for a Penny" promos and listened to it only rarely (who has time for a 2 LP set when you've got important high school stuff to do?). However, in college, it became an important part of a routine that hasn't varied much since then. During my freshman year of college, I needed to write a paper for English class that was due on a Monday. Respecting time-honored traditions, I waited until Sunday to get started. For some reason, I selected this album to listen to as I wrote. Everything went well; I made an A in the course. From that point on, Monday due dates meant Sunday morning writing while listening to Mangione's Live At The Hollywood Bowl. When I started grad school back in 1998, I found the recording on CD and began using it as background music while I wrote exciting papers along the lines of "The Effect of Calculator Use on Mathematics Achievement for Urban Elementary School Students." Mozart called this 'musical wallpaper' as he would often compose music to be played in the background at royal social gatherings back in his day. To this day, this album is still my "go to" music when I need to hunker down and get some serious writing done.

Also, I had a good friend in high school named Missy that saw Chuck in concert around 1980 and brought me this pinback from the show:


Previously revisited for the blog:
Everything For Love (2000)
Feels So Good (1977)
Land Of Make Believe (1973)


Monday, January 16, 2012

Chuck Mangione - Land Of Make Believe (1973)


I love that album cover because it is pure '70s. Back then, a grown man musician riding in a hot air balloon with a bunch of kids was kinda innocent.

Recorded live in concert in Toronto, this album attempts to merge latin, pop, classical, and jazz styles and almost succeeds. It's no Sketches Of Spain, but you can tell Mangione was very familiar with that work. Later in the decade, he would be more successful with his big-thinking orchestrations with his Hollywood Bowl and Tarantella albums. Taken as a whole, this album is diverse to the point of being unfocused. Mangione isn't the best player, but his writing and arranging can make up for it. The recording quality, however, is bad. This doesn't get much playing time around here; I'd much rather listen to the Hollywood Bowl CD (I'll get to that one later).

Speaking of the 1981 Tarantella album, I'd love to get my hands on a digital copy of that thing. I lost my cassette long ago. I may need to find another and convert it myself. It's been too many years; I'd like to revisit that set. (Update: Tarantella album was purchased and transferred to mp3 files this morning! - July 7, 2012)

Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: #157

Tracks: The highlights are the title track, Legend Of The One-Eyed Sailor, and El Gato Triste. I could do without the other three tracks, even though guest vocalist Esther Satterfield has a great voice.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: Because of its simplicity, the title track is a very popular marching band piece and I was very familiar with those arrangements before ever hearing this original recording. Needless to say, the fact that it had vocals threw me for a loop.

Previously revisited for the blog:
Everything For Love (2000)
Feels So Good (1977)

Monday, February 14, 2011

Chuck Mangione - Everything For Love (2000)


I had given up on Mangione and his music in the early '80s, but when I saw this CD in a used bin for $3, I figured it couldn't hurt to give him another try. It's about what I would have expected: a more mature, low-key, subtle recording. On the other hand, he's still wearing that damn hat. As of this writing, this CD is Mangione's latest release of new material (according to his official website).

Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart

Tracks: The opener, Peggy Hill (yes, written for the King of the Hill TV show), sounds like late '70s Mangione as do Seoul Sister and Fox Hunt. Slo Ro is a nice bluesy piece that doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard Mangione play. That could be because he switches from his trademark flugelhorn to a muted trumpet. You would expect an arrangement of Amazing Grace to fall on its face and you'd be right. Not even a decent organ solo can save it. The ballad Viola also never seems to get anywhere. The jazz waltz written for his father, Papa Mangione, is a nice piece. The CD ends with Freddie's Walkin', described in the liner notes as "a song of celebration written for my godson born with cerebral palsy." That sort of comment almost dares you not to like the piece, but I have to admit it's an uplifting gospel number with a surprisingly good vocal from bassist Charles Meeks. It's probably the best song on the CD.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: I bought this CD during a trip to San Antonio in 2009 and first listened to it on my way home up Hwy 21. I put it in the CD player expecting to hate it completely before realizing it wasn't as bad as I had thought it might be. After all, if it was so great, why was it in a used bin? When you don't have any expectations, you're never disappointed.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good (1977)


Note: this release was originally purchased as a cassette tape, later replaced by a CD.

The title single from this release hit the top ten in June 1978. Later that same year, I began learning to play trumpet. In my 12 year old mind, that meant that I absolutely HAD to buy it (I believe it was the first pre-recorded cassette tape I ever purchased). I bought it that fall and listened to it over and over. So much that, even though it is an instrumental album, I could vocalize along with all the tracks. I eventually found a copy of the sheet music to the title track and was surprised to find that the song had optional vocals. Unfortunately, I can't find that sheet music now or I'd share some of the lyrics here. (Update 23 Sept 2013: sheet music found! Lyrics below.)

To my young, untrained ear, I thought Mangione was a great player, not realizing that he often missed attacks, played out of tune, and his tone is incredibly pinched in the upper register. Now, I hear all of that so I don't enjoy the music as much as I once did, but it still is a fun trip down memory lane every now and then. I continued to purchase Mangione releases until I lost interest in 1983 after he released Journey to a Rainbow. I wish that his 1980 double-LP set titled Tarantella would be reissued on CD because I'd like to revisit that set. Of course, Mangione later became his own punch line on the animated series King of the Hill, becoming the mascot of the Mega Lo Mart in Arlen, Texas.



Reviews/ratings:
  • CashBox: "Chuck uses a jazz core in which to take his instrumental visions through varied musical genres always yielding carefree explorations into the listenable."
  • Billboard: "Mangione and his magical flugelhorn paint musical passages that come to life via his light and breezy orchestrations."
  • The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (1999): ★★
  • The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz (1999): ★★★


Album chart peaks:
  • US Billboard 200: #2
  • Billboard Jazz: #1
  • CashBox: #2
  • Cashbox Jazz: #1
  • Record World Jazz: #1

Tracks: I like the title track, Hide & Seek, Maui-Waui, and The XIth Commandment. I could do without the Theme from "Side Street". Back in the '70s, I didn't enjoy the ballad Last Dance, but I can appreciate it now.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: In the eighth grade, I participated in a carpool to school with other neighborhood kids. One of the mothers that drove us had this release on 8-track and was playing it in the car when I commented that I liked that song that was playing, entitled Maui-Waui. She told me that was a slang term for marijuana. I lost a little bit of my innocence that day.



Lyrics to Feels So Good:
There's no place for me to hide
the thoughts of all
the times I've cried and felt this pain
that I have known
because I need just to hear
that special something

And then one day
you just appeared
you said "Hello
let's make love along the way."
Your name is music to my heart
I'll always really love you

Feels so good when I'm with you
I can't believe you love me too
with you it feels like it should feel
feels so good

I'll trade my baseball cards for you
Now I can't believe that dreams come true
with you my smile sticks all the time
with you the sun will always shine

Feels so good when I'm with you
I can't believe you love me too
with you it feels like it should feel
feels so good