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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