Feelings (Morris Albert song)

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"Feelings"
File:Feelings by Morris Albert French vinyl artwork.jpg
One of artworks for French vinyl single
Single by Morris Albert
from the album After We've Left Each Other
B-side
  • "Christine" (original version)
  • "Come To My Life" (Decca version)
  • "This World Today Is a Mess" (RCA Victor version)
Released 1974
Genre Soft rock
Length 3:46
Label
Songwriter(s) Morris Albert, Louis Gasté
Producer(s) Morris Albert
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"The Man from Nazareth"
(1973)		 "Feelings"
(1974)		 "Sweet Loving Man"
(1975)

"Feelings" is a song by the Brazilian singer Morris Albert, who also wrote the lyrics. Albert released "Feelings" in 1974 as a single and later included it as the title track of his 1975 debut album. The song's lyrics, recognizable by the "whoa whoa whoa" chorus, concern the singer's inability to "forget my feelings of love". Albert's original recording of the song was hugely successful, performing well internationally.

In late 1975, "Feelings" reached number 4 in Record World magazine, number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number 10 in Cash Box. It also hit number 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart in the United States.[1] In 1986, French songwriter Louis Gasté successfully sued Albert for copyright infringement on the grounds that the tune was taken from Gasté's 1957 song "Pour Toi"; Gasté is now credited as the song's co-author.

Chart history

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Canada (Music Canada)[22] Platinum 200,000[23]
United Kingdom (BPI)[24] Silver 250,000
United States (RIAA)[25] Gold 1,000,000

^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Dispute over authorship

At the time of "Feelings"'s greatest commercial success, it was solely credited to Albert himself. In 1986,[26] the French songwriter Loulou Gasté sued Morris Albert for copyright infringement, claiming that "Feelings" plagiarized the melody of his 1956 song "Pour Toi". Gasté won the lawsuit, upheld on appeal in 1988; they now share the credits of the song.[27]

Recordings of the song have credited authorship variously to Albert alone, to Albert and Gasté (since the late 1980s), to Albert and Michel Jourdan (because of the French lyrics Dis-Lui), and to Albert and "Kaisermann". The last of these attributions is redundant, since the singer's real name is Mauricio Alberto Kaisermann.[28]

Other versions

In the years after its release, "Feelings" has been performed by many other vocalists. A version by Chicago soul singer Walter Jackson reached number 93 on Billboard's pop chart in January 1977.[29]

In 1975 Wess recorded the cover of the song for the album Wess & Dori released in Brazil (Young, 304.1052).

Bobby Vinton sang "Feelings" on his 1975 album Heart of Hearts.[30]

Lynn Anderson covered "Feelings" on her 1977 album Wrap Your Love All Around Your Man

In 1975, Mexican Grupero band Los Bukis released a Spanish language version (titled "Sentimientos") on their debut album Falso Amor.

Nina Simone covered the song for a set she performed at the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival.[31] SOPHIE and Cecile Believe performed a truncated version inspired by Simone's cover at Elsewhere in February 2018 during a tour leading up to the release of SOPHIE's album Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides.[32]

Japanese band Hi-Fi Set released a Japanese-language cover in 1977.

An instrumental version of the song was included on Ubaldo Continiello's soundtrack to the 1978 Italian film Last Feelings.

During a lecture at Chautauqua Institution, Julie Andrews stated that she considered this song too difficult to sing because it had no meaning behind it.[33]

The Gong Show had an episode in which every contestant sang this song.[34]

In "Switch", a 1990 Pepsi commercial, MC Hammer sings "Feelings" instead of "U Can't Touch This" when given a non-Pepsi drink.[35] (In fact Hammer lip-synched to a session singer.[36])

In the "Cousin Urkel" episode of "Family Matters", Steve Urkel serenades Laura Winslow with the song outside her window in a tree before falling down.

The Offspring recorded in their album Americana a parodic cover of "Feelings" concerning the narrator's hatred.[37]

References

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  4. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Morris Albert – Feelings" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  5. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Morris Albert – Feelings" (in French). Ultratop 50.
  6. ↑ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 3998." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  7. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 4036." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  8. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Morris Albert". Irish Singles Chart.
  9. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Morris Albert search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40.
  10. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Morris Albert – Feelings" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  11. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Morris Albert – Feelings". Top 40 Singles.
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  13. ↑ "Archive Chart: 19751012" UK Singles Chart.
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  15. ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
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  24. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Enter Feelings in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select single in the field By Format. Select Silver in the field By Award. Click Search
  25. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH
  26. ↑ Gaste v Kaiserman, S.D.N.Y. 1987, Casemine
  27. ↑ Gaste v. Morris Kaiserman 863 F.2d 1061 (2d Cir. 1988) , Music Copyright Infringement Resource, George Washington University Law School & Columbia Law School
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  37. ↑ The Offspring - A Piece of Americana
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