I Feel for You
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| Single by Chaka Khan from the album I Feel for You |
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| Released | 1984 | |
| Format | Vinyl single | |
| Recorded | 1984 | |
| Genre | R&B | |
| Length | 5:46 | |
| Label | Warner Bros | |
| Writer(s) | Prince | |
| Producer | Arif Mardin | |
| Certification | Gold (U.S.) | |
"I Feel for You" is a song from Prince's 1979 self-titled album. The repetition of the name Chaka Khan was originally a mistake made by producer Arif Mardin, who then decided to keep it. [1]
The song was re-recorded in 1984 by Chaka Khan. Her version featured an all-star supporting cast, with rapping from Melle Mel, keyboard and guitar by The System, and harmonica playing and sampled vocals by Stevie Wonder. Also, samples from Wonder's "Fingertips Part 2" are used. This version of the song became a million-selling smash in the U.S. and UK (reaching #1 in the UK Singles Chart) and relaunched Khan's career. She titled her 1984 album after the song. It reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for three weeks, before being knocked off by New Edition's "Cool It Now". While touring with Prince in 1998 in support of her collaborative album, Come 2 My House, Khan performed "I Feel for You" as a duet with Prince.
There are several less well-known covers of the song. The Pointer Sisters recorded the song in 1982, two years before Khan's version was a hit, on their album So Excited!. Their version, however, was not a single. Rebbie Jackson also covered the song on her 1984 album, Centipede. On an episode of The Mickey Mouse Club, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears performed "I Feel for You". The song's chorus has appeared in popular culture, such as on the Simpsons episode Brake My Wife, Please, in which Homer Simpson calls out "Save me Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan!!!" as his car starts to sink into the ocean.
[edit] External links
- Video on VH1 Classic website
| Preceded by "I Just Called to Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder |
Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks number one single (Chaka Khan version) November 3–November 17, 1984 |
Succeeded by "Cool It Now" by New Edition |
| Preceded by "Freedom" by Wham! |
UK number one single (Chaka Khan version) November 25, 1984 |
Succeeded by "I Should Have Known Better" by Jim Diamond |
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