"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.[2]
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Single by Mungo Jerry | ||||
A-side | "Sur le Pont d'Avignon" | |||
Released | 1977 | |||
Length | 3:32 | |||
Label | Polydor[1] | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ray Dorset[1] | |||
Producer(s) | Ray Dorset | |||
Mungo Jerry singles chronology | ||||
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Original version
editWritten by Ray Dorset[3] of Mungo Jerry, the song was originally written for Elvis Presley[4][5] 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".
Kelly Marie version
edit"Feels Like I'm in Love" | ||||
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Single by Kelly Marie | ||||
from the album Do You Like It Like That? | ||||
Released | July 1979 | |||
Genre | Disco | |||
Length | 3:13 | |||
Label | Calibre[1] | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ray Dorset[1] | |||
Producer(s) | Pete Yellowstone[1] | |||
Kelly Marie singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"[1]" on YouTube |
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Single by Kelly Marie | ||||
B-side |
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Released | 1990 | |||
Length | 3:40 (radio edit) | |||
Label | Dance Street, Loading Bay, ZYX | |||
Songwriter(s) | R. Dorset | |||
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Music video | ||||
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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.[6] The song sold 760,000 copies in United Kingdom in 1980 alone.[7] 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.[8]
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.[1] It was then re-released again in 1990 as a remix that was done by PWL.
Composition
editThe song is performed in the key of C major with a tempo of 121 beats per minute.[9]
Charts
editWeekly charts
editChart (1980–1981) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[10][11] | 7 |
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[12] | 6 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[13] | 2 |
Denmark (Hitlisten)[14] | 1 |
Ireland (IRMA)[15] | 3 |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[16] | 4 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[17] | 3 |
South Africa (Springbok Radio)[18] | 7 |
Switzerland (Sonntagsblick Hitparade)[19] | 11 |
UK Singles (OCC)[20] | 1 |
US Hot Dance Club Play (Billboard)[21] | 10 |
West Germany (Official German Charts)[22] | 5 |
Year-end charts
editChart (1980) | Position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[23] | 85 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[24] | 14 |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[25] | 38 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[26] | 36 |
UK Singles (OCC)[27] | 3 |
Chart (1981) | Position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[11] | 69 |
Cover versions
edit- Australian dance group Raffles released a cover version of "Feels Like I'm in Love" in November 1994, which peaked at number 66 on the Australian singles chart in early 1995.[28]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 208. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 385. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ "Feels Like I'm in Love". ACE Title Search. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
- ^ "THE WAY IT COULD HAVE BEEN - Record Collector Magazine".
- ^ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feels-Like-Im-Love-Best/dp/B000093NN0 [bare URL]
- ^ "One-Hit Wonders at the BBC". One-Hit Wonders at the BBC. 17 April 2015. BBC Four.
- ^ Rob Copsey (26 February 2021). "The Official Top 50 best-selling songs of 1980". Official Charts. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Kelly Marie | Awards". AllMusic. 23 October 1957. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- ^ "Feels Like I'm in Love - Kelly Marie - Spot on Track". www.spotontrack.com. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 192. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ a b "National Top 100 Singles for 1981". Kent Music Report. 4 January 1982. p. 7. Retrieved 11 January 2022 – via Imgur.
- ^ "Kelly Marie – Feels Like I'm in Love" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ "Kelly Marie – Feels Like I'm in Love" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ "Hits of the World" (PDF). Billboard. 17 January 1981. p. 47. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Feels Like I'm in Love". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 45, 1980" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ "Kelly Marie – Feels Like I'm in Love" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ "SA Charts 1969 - 1989 - Acts M". Springbok Radio. 16 November 1979. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ Swiss Charts Archive. 1 January 1981.
- ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ "Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm in Love". 10 September 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Kelly Marie – Feels Like I'm in Love" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ "National Top 100 Singles for 1980". Kent Music Report. 5 January 1981. Retrieved 17 January 2022 – via Imgur.
- ^ "Jaaroverzichten 1980". Ultratop. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1980". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1980". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ "The Official Top 50 best-selling songs of 1980". officialcharts.com\accessdate=2 July 2022.
- ^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 26 Mar 1995". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 20 April 2017.