In 1984, thought Mel Melle rapped "Shuckin' Cone" (corn) instead of Chaka Khan. Wow!! A rap song with rural-aura farm harmonica background. Young black folk picking, shucking country corn in the heat, pulling a tractor, singing, dancing, romancing. Wish could see video of this...many people of color still are farmers and would put them in a good and humorous light!
This is an awesome song! Then the extended version came out OMG! This song made me wanna Break dance and pop all day 😁 52 now and still to this day when I hear it I wanna TICK!!! 😁
"I Feel for You" is a song written by Prince that originally appeared on his 1979 self-titled album, one of two songs on that album (along with "I Wanna Be Your Lover") written as demos for Patrice Rushen, though neither appeared on any Rushen album.[1] The most successful and well known version was recorded by female R&B singer Chaka Khan, appearing on her 1984 album, I Feel for You. Prince, as songwriter, won the 1985 Grammy Award for Best R&B Song.
This song has some serious groove. Brings back memories. I was fourteen years old. My mom is sound asleep. I turn the lights off in my room, put my headphones on, and I would danced to this. I was a good kid. Went to college, but I loved to dance. This song reminds of my best friend Jackie. We went clubbing a lot, and we broke a lot of floors with this song and many other. Jackie....she was the best. Thanks for the memories.
Eu sou de 80 eu deixava de sair em alguns finais de semana ate eu conseguir gravar esta musica num toca fita hoje tenho 42 anos e ate hoje nao consegui enjoar desta obra de arte efeel for you
This extended remix is the best version!! I can listen to it endlessly!! Awesome!! R.I.P. Prince, the genius!! Queen Chaka simply did her thing on your song and did you proud! She truly made it her own like only she can of course!! Plus, having the great genius Stevie Wonder doing his brilliance on harmonica!! This always will be right up there among the greatest cover renditions ever for any classic song for yours truly!!
Ah, that's why it's such an excellent song, Prince and Stevie! Wow. So great of Prince to work with Chaka Khan to get her the respect from the general public in the 1980's (and get paid too!). I mean "I'm Every Woman" is one of the best songs of the 70's but kids in the 80's had never heard of her. All hail Chaka and Prince!
32 years ago this was so enormous, and I played this version until my record player nearly exploded, ha! I loved mixing it for the cool intro and breaks. Simply one of the finest tunes to come out of the entire 1980's. It is so difficult to believe this was boss on every street corner and disco so long ago now. Damn! :(
@@arctictfan3470Did you look up Prince's 1979 self-titled album yet? Check the liner notes... Not only were Chaka and Prince close friends, they were label mates; so I'm certain there was no personal or professional resistance in updating Prince's original to help relaunch his friend's career.
For nothing else, this is the one song I know from my past that uses the harmonica as part of its defining identity. And this extended version's pretty impressive itself.
XTRABIG: Not ONLY Stevie's harmonica...his background vocals too towards the end of the song alongside with Chaka's...most people don't know that much...
I know with that much soul you are still feeling joy.. . Hallelujah 💗. 58 years old here. Got a 21 year old son, and just so thankful for you young angels... 😘🌍✌️
Just woke up from a dream that this song was on repeat from the radio station back in the house that I grew up in, in the 80's and I thought, " Dang, somebody st the radio station must be in love!" The breakdown that Chaka does towards the end after the guy says "Chaka baby, you make me wanna scream." Her voice woke me up out of my sleep!!! 😂
I was so happy when I snagged this song as a 13 year old boy in his bedroom playing music on his radio. I was trying to record good music to a cassette and was SO happy when I got the extended version of this song! I listened to it a million times and adored it. The cassette is history. It was great to be able to listen to it again!
Feel ya.... check it!! Before a friend of mine got real turntables and a mixer, I had this on cassette and another friend found the remix on vinyl. Here's the scenario, I had this turntable, cassette, radio stereo thingy. I found a couple of bassy sony speakers, but it got real wild when I hooked up this old Organ speaker I bought from my grandpa. It had this thing that spun around and it gave this sweet weird echo effect. For the life of me, I can't remember the name or why it was in this organ, Anyway, Friends, acquaintances would come over just to hook up a mic and rap. So this stereo I had, If you put the selector switch in the middle of Cassette deck and Record player, you could cheesy mix, but with the right music on cassette and a few dope tracks on vinyl, the Mic with the cord spliced into that spinning speaker (The spinning thing with the speaker, had it's own amp.) and the mic would cut out if the cord got moved and sometimes the selector switch would pop back to Cassette or to the turntable..... It was just too funny. I got the idea to take bets on which way it would go. sometimes there were more than a couple of bucks and then the everyone is poor but we still had a few dollars between us. Anyway, All the money went towards the loser or losers walking their ass to 7-11 about 2 miles; The first time I lost, the other two guys that voted with me had to play Rock, Paper, scissors to see who would get to ride with me.... I had an 83' RM 125 which was pretty impressive back in 1985. I would get on the ditch road about 50-60 yards from my house and ride about a 1/4 mile past the 7-11 and have to kill it, as the cops did NOT like me much, and hang back while my friend would get the goods..... LMGDMFAO Damn man those were the days. Fuck I miss that shit. Waiting for my parents to go out on their date night, so we could turn it up and trust me, It Was Loud. My bedroom was down, downstairs (Used to be the kids family room, like a playroom, but I snagged it when My dad wanted the nicer TV up, upstairs and my sister being a teenager was Always in her room or the bathroom with her friends) in this nice tri-level house, It was kinda out there... my nearest neighbor was just about a football field away, hence the 7-11 being 2 miles away. Memories..... Holy shit,,, sorry,,.. kinda rambled there.... LOL @ kinda.... like saying the cops would get kinda pissed when I lost them on the ditch road, but they would go to my house AFTER my dad got home. Man.... I believe I am old. L8er vader.
A masterful handling, reconstruction & production of a Masterpiece!! Brilliant!! Easily my favorite cover of a Prince song. Thanx 2 all involved. Fondest memories of this song - 1 of the movies theaters on 42nd Street, between 7th & 8th Ave., in NY (i wanna say the Harris, or Liberty) played this in between "Beat Street" & "Breakin''"! I had 2 have seen those 2 movies there like 50 times! & 2 this day, absolutely love this song, & both movies. RIP PRN. Ur music carries on.
A beautiful woman and a beautiful voice, a true classy legend in this business, and even the great but insular Prince ( as well as Whitney Houston) looked up to her as a legend.
LOL...She was already in the music business when Whitney or even Prince came out...She is the TRUE original legend...if you listen closely to ALL her entire back catalog since RUFUS (1972) you'll understand she is THE music industry (at least in the black/urban arena)...
Hi Sterling, yes those days are gone but no way are they forgotten, I loved driving around New York City and upstate NY to Buffalo and Niagra listening to WBLS sometimes I actually went into Bronx as well, WBLS just knew the best music that people wanted to hear, superb radio station, much respect.
prince was the king of 84 85 I FEEL FOR YOU ,SUGAR WALLS ,EROTIC CITY RAP REMIX ,PURPLE RAIN album. MICHAEL JACKSON always got better praise,but when PRINCE passed, the world finally figured him out .oh well better late than never. RIP Prince and MJ
I more or less grew up with Michael. He was only a year or two older than me. Even so, there was absolutely no way possible to ignore Prince's presence in the 80's. He was EVERYWHERE.
I first loved Prince singing on his own "Feel for You" on PRINCE. But I have to admit, I couldn't stop shaking my booty to Chaka's cover, and I love hearing Prince on the backup vocals at the song's climax. "Ohhh-ohhh-ohhh-ohhh, I feel for you!"
