RIP Chuck Mangione

[Inky_Wretch]

https://www.whec.com/top-news/rochester-music-legend-chuck-mangione-has-died-at-age-84/

 

[garrow]

Feels So Good was omnipresent back in the day. RIP.

 

[HanSenSE]

I hope they have lowered the flags to half-mast at the Arlen, Texas, Megalo Mart as well as at Tom Landry Middle School.

 

[ChrisLong]

My first real girlfriend loved his music and so did I. RIP, sir.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Feels So Good was such a great tune. RIP

 

[Huggy]

Feels So Good was such a great tune. RIP

One of the great earworms ever, some great guitar in there too.

 

[HanSenSE]

Feels So Good was omnipresent back in the day. RIP.

Late 70s and early 80s his music was all over the place. Played at the Closing Ceremony in Lake Placid.

 

[dixiehack]

One of those songs where I didn't know the title or the artist or probably never heard more than a 90 second clip before now. But man that was all over the place in its day.

I now have a vision, possibly apocryphal, of this playing as my dad watched the local tourism channel at the condo while on vacation instead of ever going to do any of the fun things they discussed.

 

[exmediahack]

Want something good on a long road trip?

Play all of Mangione’s albums until 1982. Start to finish.

It’s a good four hours.

 

[micropolitan guy]

He played a concert at my high school my junior or senior year, can't remember which. He and one of the music teachers at my school were friends and did us a solid.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

ABC commissioned Mangione to write this as the theme song for the 1980 Winter Olympics

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

For a minute I thought Luigi Epsteined himself… or got Epsteined.

 

[Flip Wilson]

I listened to Feels So Good every morning in the summer of 1979 driving to early-morning football practice in my dad's Ford LTD. I had the 8-track cranked up loud and the windows down. The long version of the song (9:43) was enough to get me from home to the football field.

I've got the song playing loud right now, and my 18-year-old son just walked into the room and said, "I like that song." I introduced it to the kids years ago, and I guess it stuck.

Chuck Mangione was the first concert I attended. It was Jan. 31, 1980, at the Waco (Texas) Convention Center. I had to convince a girl's conservative dad that I wasn't taking his daughter to a Satanic rock-n-roll concert on a Thursday night.

 

[maumann]

"Children of Sanchez" was a tremendous piece for drum corps.

 

[HanSenSE]

"Children of Sanchez" was a tremendous piece for drum corps.

The music was much better than the movie.

 

[UPChip]

He gave it all he got.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Want something good on a long road trip?

Play all of Mangione's albums until 1982. Start to finish.

It's a good four hours.

Perfectly put, ex.

I've got them all, too. Will probably run a marathon ... folks, he did so much more than "Feels So Good." Yes, that deserves the praise it still receives to this day, but there was a LOT more. On "Feels So Good" was also "The XIth Commandment."



"Children of Sanchez" was criminally underrated. Apparently, when Chuck was asked to produce music for the film, he came up with – if I have my stories straight – more than 20 hours' worth of music for it. The overture - the main theme, I suppose - "Lullabye" and "B'Bye" are more than worth numerous listens.

"Give It All You Got" was the official theme of the 1980 Winter Olympics. Memorable not only for Eric Heiden doing his thing on an outdoor speed skating rink - that venue was outside back then ... I seem to recall his looking through some Lake Placid snowstorms - but for the network using Mangione's theme. Not only can you find this on the album "Fun and Games," but also "Give It All You Got, But Slowly," which was a fun variation with a gentler timbre and ... slower.



So much other good stuff. I'll leave with "B'Bye" ... seems only fitting.



RIP, Good Sir and Thank You.
P.S.: The splash photo on the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle website. Probably Page 1 in the dead-tree edition.

https://www.democratandchronicle.co...ed-trumpeter-and-composer-was-84/85357708007/

 

[da man]

One of the great earworms ever, some great guitar in there too.

That’s Grant Geissman, and he is awesome. I had the Grant Geissman quintet’s first album, “Good Stuff”, which came out in the late ‘70s and I couldn’t get enough of it. The group featured the great Gordon Goodwin, who became one of my musical heroes, on tenor sax.

BTW, Chuck’s tenor player, Chris Vadala, was a stud, too.

 

[SixToe]

"Children of Sanchez" was a tremendous piece for drum corps.

Attended a couple of DCI events in the early '80s and now with your mention I'm in a rabbit hole with the Phantom Regiment, Vangard, Madison Scouts and looking at DCI in Indy and St. Elmo's /crossthread/.

 

[Here me roar]

So talented. RIP