I feel for you

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Chart positions
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Singles
I feel for you
  DE 4th 11/26/1984 (13 weeks)
  AT 14th December 15, 1984 (10 weeks)
  CH 6th 12/09/1984 (9 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 10/20/1984 (16 weeks)
  US 3 11/24/1984 (26 weeks)

I Feel for You is a song by the US musician Prince , released in 1979 , which he wrote , composed , arranged and produced . The piece is featured on his album Prince and in 1984 Chaka Khan released a commercially successful cover version produced by Arif Mardin .

history

Prince originally wrote I Feel for You in 1979 while working on the album Prince and recorded a demo. After five years, work on the song began in 1984, with Khan making some changes with Prince's consent: rap passages, bridges with harmonica and passages from Stevie Wonder's fingertips . Melle Mel could be won as a rapper for the harmonica playing Stevie Wonder.

The cover version of I Feel for You was released on October 29, 1984; it became a number one hit in the UK and Ireland . It's 5:46 minutes long and appeared on the album of the same name. On the B-side of the single is the song Chinatown .

The original version of I Feel for You can also be found on the Prince compilation The Hits / The B-Sides (1993). 40 years after the release of the album Prince brought The Prince Estate (dt .: The Princeton discount ) on 18 October 2019 the song in an "Acoustic Demo" version out on the Prince's song played exclusively with one of his acoustic Accompanied guitar . The recording is probably from December 1978 or January 1979.

Music video

The music video is set in a US neighborhood . For most of the plot, Chaka Khan performs a choreography with some background dancers, with a disc jockey operating a mixer and scratching a record.

Cover versions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sources chart placements: DE ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / AT / CH / US , accessed December 19, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  2. ↑ I Feel for You in the Official UK Charts (English)
  3. ^ I Feel for You. In: Princevault.com. October 20, 2019, accessed October 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Music video in MyVideo.de