Feel So Fine

"Feel So Fine"
Single by Johnny Preston
B-side "I'm Starting to Go Steady"
Released 1960
Format Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Genre Rock & Roll
Length 2:06
Label Mercury Records
Writer(s) Leonard Lee[1]
Johnny Preston singles chronology
"Cradle of Love"
(1959)
"Feel So Fine"
(1960)
"Charming Billy"
(1960)

"Feel So Fine" is a song released in 1960 by Johnny Preston. The song spent 14 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 14,[2] while reaching No. 9 in Australia,[3] No 14 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade,[4] No. 18 in the United Kingdom,[5] and No. 6 in Flemish Belgium.[6]

The song was a reworking of the 1955 song "Feel So Good" by Shirley & Lee, with modified lyrics.[7] Shirley & Lee's "Feel So Good" reached No. 2 on Billboard's Rhythm & Blues Records chart for "Most Played in Juke Boxes".[8][9]

Chart performance

Chart (1960) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 14
Australia 9
Canada - CHUM Hit Parade 14
UK - Record Retailer[5] 18
UK - New Musical Express[10] 18
Flemish Belgium 6

References

  1. ↑ Feel So Fine - By: Johnny Preston, MusicVF.com. Accessed July 25, 2015
  2. ↑ Johnny Preston - Chart History - The Hot 100, Billboard.com. Accessed July 25, 2015
  3. ↑ David Kent, Australian Top 20 Singles - Week Ending August 20, 1960
  4. ↑ "CHUM Hit Parade", CHUM, Week of August 22, 1960
  5. 1 2 Johnny Preston - Full Official Chart History, Official Charts Company. Accessed October 14, 2015
  6. ↑ Johnny Preston - Feel So Fine, Ultratop. Accessed July 27, 2015
  7. ↑ Singer Johnny Preston dies at 71, Variety, March 6, 2011. Accessed July 25, 2015
  8. ↑ Feel so Good - By: Shirley & Lee, MusicVF.com. Accessed July 25, 2015
  9. ↑ "Rhythm & Blues Records - Most Played in Juke Boxes", Billboard, November 26, 1955. p. 48. Accessed December 17, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Best Selling Pop Records in Britain", Billboard, August 22, 1960. p. 14. Accessed October 14, 2015
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