«Feels So Good» is a staple on most smooth-jazz radio stations and has been called one of the most recognized melodies.
Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck Mangione, who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-flavored single «Feels So Good» and later became a voice actor on the animated TV comedy «King of the Hill», has died. He was 84.
Mangione died at his home in Rochester, New York, on Tuesday in his sleep, his attorney, Peter S. Matorin of Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, told CBS News. The musician had been retired since 2015.
Perhaps his biggest hit — «Feels So Good» — is a staple on most smooth-jazz radio stations and has been called one of the most recognized melodies since «Michelle» by the Beatles. It hit No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the top of the Billboard adult contemporary chart.
«It identified for a lot of people a song with an artist, even though I had a pretty strong base audience that kept us out there touring as often as we wanted to, that song just topped out there and took it to a whole other level», Mangione told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2008.
He followed that hit with «Give It All You Got», commissioned for the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, and he performed it at the closing ceremony.
