Song written by PRINCE. Rap by Grandmaster Melle Mel. Harmonica by Stevie Wonder. Principal dancers in the video: Adolpho "Shabba-Doo" Quionnes, Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers, and Poppin' Taco. And, of course, featured singer Chaka Khan. Nothing but legends all around.
@@jtaylor9562being a 90’s kid, you some how feel like you lived in the 80’s too. Especially if you had younger parents who used to always throw parties and blast these vibes.
Fun Fact: Arif Mardin's hand slipped on the record. He thought it sounded cool and did it a few more times. That's how the beginning of repeating Chaka's name was birthed. Chaka hated it when she first heard it , but Arif told her that this mistake will get her a hit. Lo and behold, she won the 1984 grammy for best female r&b vocal performance for the song. This here is history!
Arif baby nailed it, it demanded my full attention for the rest of the song when I 1st heard it! HOWEVER, when I saw the video, CHAKA demanded my full attention! 😉
I can’t remember where I read this, but I also understood that she didn’t like how the guy raps in it either. Ironically, she seemed to really despise what became one of her biggest hits.
When this song came out crack was destroying lives, the economy was horrible and nuclear war seemed imminent. Currently the economy sucks, crime is worse than the 1980s in some regards and nuclear war is back on the table again.
yes damn it is a Prince song, and exactly my feelings about Chaka Khan, and also those dancers did a good job , sadly the guy dancing on duration 1:37 - 1: 41 passed away some time ago.
It is physically impossible to be in a bad mood when this song is playing! Thank you, Chaka for keeping dancing for all these years later. 46 years old and this track makes me feel 10 years old again. Thank you! ❤❤
73 drop, I know how you feel. Music comes on, I start poppin & lockin. Might go find me a sheet of masonite to throw on the floor and wind up the windmill!
I bump this loud in my car from all thru the week. This music is REAL to the soul without speaking, This message for the soul and music lovers without social media
It takes a matured mind to make this kind of classic and timeless music. Thumb up if you agree with me. 2020 is a tough year but we must pull through it alive. R.I.P to those of loved ones who could not pull through. God bless us all.
Maturity, but also..... TALENT! The reason being that back in the 80's if you wanted to be a singer, you had to be able to sing! If you wanted to be a musician, you had to be proficient at music! Neither is the case anymore, and it shows.
I was 14 when this song came out. Bought the single on 45 and played the heck out of it. Wasn’t even really my style of music but the joy of it grabbed me. I still feel the same joy when I hear it now.
I was 13 when it came out, and as a white boy, I initially found it too black! But then it grew on me - and it just grew and grew. It's a bona fide classic.
This song made the first deep impact on me as a 13 year old kid growing up in Taiwan. Kept listening from time to time over the years because it has everything: funk, rap, R&B, etc. And I just learned from the comments here that Prince wrote it!?!? Mind-blown!!!!!
Chaka Khan wins a Grammy for I Feel For You in 1986. I still can’t believe this song has remained hot after nearly 40 years. Bravo, Chaka! Kenneth A Huang 8/20/22
Oh my, I remember watching the video I was so happy to see my two favorite breakdancers. I have a friend here in my local town who taught me breakdancing. Now I'm 55 years old and still know how to breakdancing.
Yes even Prince himself He gave Chakra Chan Honors for Recording his Original Song.He told her that she song it Better. Than zHe Done it.I likes both Version.But Chaka did Do a Good Ass Version.Queen Chaka my Girl she Bad.Another Good Legendary Icon.
30 year old white lady here, I'm obsessed with funky R&B! Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Prince, Chaka Khan, Ginuwine, Pointer Sisters, James Brown, Isley Bros, and many more! This music is INTOXICATINGLY AWESOME! ❤❤❤
I'm almost twice your age - that was our weekend of dancing music in 80s !! Check out Roy ayres, run away classic, average white band, (my family) . House and club songs of 90s take many samples like "Serious" sample became Strike - you sure make me feel like loving you ...
@@KangaZune I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing that. As a freetime "composer", I can tell that every pop song is just copying each other making them less and less original and more blend.
I will never get sick of this song. I'm 47 years young and this takes me back to my childhood on Saturday Mornings doing house chores with my Momma jammin this Album on the record player. Mmmmm, the good old days.
I was born in 1994 and I love music from the entire 20th century from the 1900s to the 1990s. When it comes to music, I live by the saying, "Variety is the spice of life." I don't have anything against today's music. I mean, I like Bruno Mars and Imagine Dragons. However, I will be honest about one thing. While I like hip hop and rap as much as the next person, I despise music that involves twerking or anything related to such dancing, such as this song for example. th-cam.com/video/-I-YY5p0uq8/w-d-xo.html
Ahh break dancing, popping and locking, fat shoe strings, shell toe Adidas, suede Puma's, Lee Jeans, 2 tone pants man take me back to this era please!!!!
what else could we expect from a Prince song with Chaka Khan singing it (and with the Mida's touch of Mr Wonder on it too)? One of my favourite songs ever... what an amazing song...
This song was produced by a man called Arif Mardin. Originally from Turkey, he's probably the most famous producer you've never heard of. He worked with many artists over a career spanning decades and has finger prints over many hits. One of my favourites of his is his previous collaboration with Khan on I'm Every Woman. A song of a very different time and style to this (only 7 years but huge change between 1977 and 1984 musically) but also superb.
Why do we not know of him. It is so bad when we love someones work but dont know their bacjground. Like was it because he was muslim. Its not right. We need to know truth
Arif Mardin put out a solo record for Atlantic back in '74 (the title escapes me now). Most of the top studio musicians from the era participated in this jazz "project" which Mardin produced/composed/arranged. Another seldom-heard gem from the Atlantic catalogue.
Arif Mardin worked with the Bee Gees, too. Barry Gibb put out some solo material in 1984, some of it reminiscent of this song, so perhaps Mardin played a part in Barry's songs.
One of the true party anthems of the 80s, had everything that epitomised the decade, Chaka's great voice, synth, breakdancing, happy vibes, the fashion... deserves to be on any 80s greatest hits compilation
I'll be 60 next year if the Lord sees fit. I hope I'm still rockin till the end lol It's been an awesome ride and privilege to have come up with the music of the 60's and back, a mom who loved to sing and all those WWII era songs but when the 70's came around with it's music and then trickled down into the 80's.... there's just nothing like all that talent in those two decades and never will be again. What fun! ❤❤
This song and video perfectly embodies the fun, playfulness and optimism that was the 80's decade. I was 14 in 1984 and it was a great time to be a teenager.
@@hawrify2148 It's from his 2nd album titled "Prince" [1979]...this song was originally aimed at singer/songwriter Patrice Rushen ["Forget Me Nots"], at the time a huge crush of Prince...it was always aimed at a female singer...and ironically it ended in Chaka's hands, at the time Prince's label mate...the initial "chkan, chkan" resulted from a studio accident during the mixing process and her then legendary producer Arif Mardin decided to keep it in the final cut of the recording...
Every time I hear this song I get in my feelings. It was my Moms favorite Song and she would play it all Day. Love you and RIP Mom. I know you're listening to this in Heaven.
A classic no doubt! Prince writing the song. Melle Mel doing the raps. Stevie Wonder on the harmonica. And Turbo and Ozone breakin'! R.I.P Prince and Turbo!
One of 5 songs to lift my spirits on the few bad days of homesickness while studying in France 84-85 - home brought abroad by the transcendence of music - merci!
Prince was a great friend of Chaka and played together with her on many occasions. There are a lot of videos of them performing together where he calls her his muse . He was such a generous artist all around, many other artists making career defining hits off of his songs and he never insisted on getting any credit. It was as if the fact that good music was being made was all that mattered . What a loss to the music industry and the world.
I was five years old when I first heard this. My Mom used to have the radio on in the mornings whilst she got me and my older sister ready for school. I remember Les Ross on BRMB playing it, and it blew my mind. My sister got one of The 'Hits' albums, and it was on it. We played it over & over. The beat, the vocals, it's all still brilliant. Somehow a song that was bang on trend when it was released, but has remained timeless.
''I Feel for You'' is a song written by Prince that originally appeared on his self-titled 1979 album. The most successful and well-known version was recorded by R&B singer Chaka Khan and appeared on his 1984 album I Feel for You. He became the recipient of two Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song (with Prince as songwriter) and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for Khan. Khan's version featured a supporting cast including rap by Miss Mel (from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five); guitar, drum lineup, bass guitar, keyboards and arrangement by Reggie Griffith; bass synthesizer and programming by David Frank of The System using an Oberheim DSX sequencer, which was connected to his Minimoog via CV and gate; and chromatic harmonica played by Stevie Wonder. The repetition of Khan's name by Miss Mel at the start of the song was a mistake made by producer Arif Mardin, who then decided to keep it. This version of the song has sold over a million copies in the US and UK and helped revive Khan's career. The song reached No.1 on the Cash Box Singles Chart and peaked at No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for the weeks of November 24, 1984 through December 8, 1984. The clip version of Khan's song showed her working at a club with dancers. As rap music and breakdancing gained popularity in mainstream pop culture at the time, the song came out and was a huge hit.
OK. I've wondered this for years, and don't know much beyond the basics of arranging/mixing and you seem to have the encyclopedic knowledge to answer these: 1. Is Stevie's chromatic harmonica processed in someway? It sounds somewhat "synthy"/modulated to me bc it doesn't sound exactly like the pure acoustic tone of his chromatica in all of the other songs he's used it. I'm guessing it's compressed and it def sounds like there's a bit of delay/echo to it but something else makes it sound sorta-"electronic". 2. I was always confused by the bass- the main, more prominent bassline I can hear sounds like moog-ish (presumably played on a keyboard) but you can hear the real electric bass guitar a little really only when it does the short descending part right after the 2nd "I think I love you" (like at 1:32) in each chorus. Is the bass guitar player playing the exact same part as the moog thing throughout, the moog just goes quiet during the little slap flourishes, or is the bass guitar just not playing anything other than a few notes the whole song?
This was my favorite song as a teen in the 80s. Chaka Khan has such a strong powerful voice. Her high notes are insane! The electric drum and classic harmonica enhances this song. It’s still my favorite song! I still wish songs were like this.
Salute to Prince (R.I.M.H. - Rest in Music Heaven) for writing such a WONDERFUL song! And shout-out to Arif Mardin for tweaking the production. This is one of THEE best R&B - Pop - Hip Hop collabs ever! 🎶🎶🎶 Chaka Khan + Melle Mel (of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five) + Stevie Wonder (on harmonica) = 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This song will never sound old to me. I love it. It may be 80s but it's great. Great songs never get old. Only younger idiots think it's dated and old.
Saw her do this live in her last performance over here in the UK and it was fantastic she still has it 🔥 amazing how in 2023 this still sounds so fresh
Had to come here and rare back and see Adolfo ( Shabba-Doo, O-zone) pop-lock in this classic. News flashed today that he passed away. Along with him John Fletcher (Ecstacy) of "Whodini" also passed away before Christmas. R.I.H. to you both. ✝
I lost my mom last year. Dec 22 2021. Day after my birthday. She liked a whole bunch of artists. But Chaka was her number one female artist all time. Mama i defentley feel.for u and miss uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu heavy. Cryin now. I love uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu mama Love Alwayssssssssss son
Prince was a musical Genius. I was a teenager when he first hit (I think he was 22yrs old?) and I was 18. I wasn't a fan of everything he did but when he hit my sweet spot he hit it with a damn sledge hammer. RIP
This is one of those records you can tell every step in the process had to be a blast. The base line has been everything since I was a kid. Before I could even explain why this song was so great.
I am 43 years old and for those of you who don't know there was things called a radio that you held in your hand and a cassette the song came out and I swear I almost broke through rewind button continually trying to get this first part of the song played
Chaka Khan ❤forever ♥️! I saw once in my country Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Europe in 1990! When I told my father who is the musician in Bulgaria 🇧🇬 he doesn't believe in that! We're going in live her concert. There was a Paul Young, C.C.Catch and Sandra! I never forget this❤ concert 😭!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Bulgaria
"I Feel for You," "The Glamorous Life," and the "Purple Rain" album all in heavy radio circulation in 1984, while in the same year he's in the studio recording "Nothing Compares 2 U" with The Family, "Manic Monday" with Apollonia 6 and the "Around the World in a Day" album. Quite a year.
plus When Doves cry ...top 1 single in 1984 ...Prince ruled in 1984 one of the best years in musical history of this earth...actually the best year or simply GOAYs
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Song written by PRINCE. Rap by Grandmaster Melle Mel. Harmonica by Stevie Wonder. Principal dancers in the video: Adolpho "Shabba-Doo" Quionnes, Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers, and Poppin' Taco. And, of course, featured singer Chaka Khan. Nothing but legends all around.
Had no choice but to be a hit!! Prince version on his first album was good but definitely made for Chaka to kill it.
Also Ana Lollipop Sanchez. Definitely legends.
There couldn't have been a better group of collaborators than this!! Perfection!!
Prince was a musical genius
Dang, that's a real A list of talent.
This is just brilliant being a 14 year old back in 1984 now nearly 54 still puts a shiver down my spine it's that bloody good
agree wholeheatedly - 1984 was a place, not a time!
1984 freedom!!!!
To the girls innChowchilla
Too bad 1984 isn’t a place, or just I would live there.❤
I love this video yow a mad bloodclaaaattt. Ting
I'm 58 years young...and I'll tell you..GOD BLESS.. the 80s❤❤❤
USS Francis Hammond…United States Navy yokosuka Japan ..❤❤❤❤....
YOUR 58 YEARS OLD , BE PROUD OF YOUR AGE
Turning 50 in July
Always keep that positive mindset 😘 🌞
49 anos , anos 80 não tem igual, só a melhores❤
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The 80's will never die because it meant so much to all of us.
💯💯💯
100%. I know people who were born in the 90's onwards, who say there is something about that decade.....says everything
@@jtaylor9562being a 90’s kid, you some how feel like you lived in the 80’s too. Especially if you had younger parents who used to always throw parties and blast these vibes.
A ne pas oublier top 👌👌👍👍
YES!!!! Great memories indeed ✨🧡✨🤗👍💯🔥
Probably the most perfect female R&B singer of all time. What an incredible woman.
The goat
No argument!
And the R&R Hall of Fame still won't recognize her greatness.
totally agree
@@Greyareas27She is in, finally! Legend
This song is WAAYYY ahead of its time in 1984. Play this song again today, 10 years from now, 20 years, 100 years and it will STILL be just as good!
A True Pop Master Piece !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always FRESH!
all american music was written by black people
Quality endures.💎🎤
One of the best songs in the history of music 🎶 chaka khan I want to rock ya
Fun Fact: Arif Mardin's hand slipped on the record. He thought it sounded cool and did it a few more times. That's how the beginning of repeating Chaka's name was birthed. Chaka hated it when she first heard it , but Arif told her that this mistake will get her a hit. Lo and behold, she won the 1984 grammy for best female r&b vocal performance for the song. This here is history!
XLNT!!!
Amazing how the little quirks give a song its identity!
Arif baby nailed it, it demanded my full attention for the rest of the song when I 1st heard it! HOWEVER, when I saw the video, CHAKA demanded my full attention! 😉
I can’t remember where I read this, but I also understood that she didn’t like how the guy raps in it either. Ironically, she seemed to really despise what became one of her biggest hits.
So her vocals got her the award but everyone remembers the song from the beginning to end?? It was a great touch to it.
Amazing. I got my first tape player when this came out in the 80’s. I never realized Electro Rock and the Breakin’ crew did this video. ANAZING!
This video is proof that the 80's were much more fun than nowadays.
Fun yes. Stylish no 😂
I was 9 when this came out th8s song rock❤
When this song came out crack was destroying lives, the economy was horrible and nuclear war seemed imminent. Currently the economy sucks, crime is worse than the 1980s in some regards and nuclear war is back on the table again.
Exactly 💯!! My adult kids love the music 🎶 but they will never totally get it!!
Hoje não existe NADA!
Tanto que estão regravando muitas e muitas músicas.
The 80s had everything we needed! Why did we leave?
I agree so much with you.
Wish we'd had a choice!! Love the New Order pic.
yall niggas had no drip in the 80's fym
I mean personally the perfect decade are the 00s
True...živa istina!
Don't ask if we're still here ... We never left ... 💗💗💗
That's the best response to all the "who's still here in...."❤❤❤
Right!!! Still here jamming!!
@@Stacia1975 absolutely 😆😆
Born in 1985.
And who is saying that we are going to leave right 😀
Written by the legend that is Prince and with one of the catchiest slap bass riffs ever.
Chaka Khan has such a wonderful voice and she is damn pretty.
yes damn it is a Prince song, and exactly my feelings about Chaka Khan, and also those dancers did a good job , sadly the guy dancing on duration 1:37 - 1: 41 passed away some time ago.
And stevie wonder was on the xylophone
Some 40 years later and this banger still hasn't aged at all... And my heart still melting for Chaka Khan like the first time...
@@stephanecourchesne9700 absolutely!!. Could you please explain that? 😆
TAKES ME RIGHT BACK TO THE BEST DECADE OF MY LIFE! BRING BACK THE 80'S!! TIMELESS!!
Totally on point, when life was simple with zero stress.
@@gman1010 the best years of my life. ♥️
@@mindfulness1118as a 23yo gen z…I wish I could’ve lived in the 80s😢
spot on !
…ohhhhh yes, Saturday morning cartoon, big wheels, bikes, Transformers, Ghostbusters, board games, bonkers candy…. John Candy….
Chaka, Stevie and Prince all rolled up in one delicious musical burrito.
Damn Right!!!
Hee hee love it 😁
and also Melle Mel
❤️
Nicely described!😄😄💯💯💯💯
This still sounds fresh 40 years on.
R.I.P. Prince & ShabbaDoo. This song just proves how amazing Prince really was to music. Chaka Khan is the 1st queen of hip-hop!!!
Pop N taco as well
He wrote heaps of songs that other singers sang ❤
“ MUSICAL GENIUS PRINCE”
It is physically impossible to be in a bad mood when this song is playing! Thank you, Chaka for keeping dancing for all these years later. 46 years old and this track makes me feel 10 years old again. Thank you! ❤❤
Agreed. I’m 47 and it takes me back to my mom playing this record over and over. God bless those innocent, unscarred days.
73 drop, I know how you feel. Music comes on, I start poppin & lockin.
Might go find me a sheet of masonite to throw on the floor and wind up the windmill!
I'm 48 today 4/4/76 and this tune puts me right back to the 80s tryin to break dance on a bit of lino in the street 😂
I bump this loud in my car from all thru the week. This music is REAL to the soul without speaking, This message for the soul and music lovers without social media
Whipper snappers 😂
Who still watching / listening to this classic? ✋🏽
Sheiilabailey to be for the ❤😊
I do
I am ❤😊❤
Yes I am. 2024 Dec And its as loud as I can get it!!!!
@ 🙌🏽
It takes a matured mind to make this kind of classic and timeless music. Thumb up if you agree with me. 2020 is a tough year but we must pull through it alive. R.I.P to those of loved ones who could not pull through. God bless us all.
👍🏽 🤙🏽 🙏🏽
A Master Piece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Period.
im with yah
Maturity, but also..... TALENT! The reason being that back in the 80's if you wanted to be a singer, you had to be able to sing! If you wanted to be a musician, you had to be proficient at music! Neither is the case anymore, and it shows.
I'm listening in 2021
I was 14 when this song came out. Bought the single on 45 and played the heck out of it. Wasn’t even really my style of music but the joy of it grabbed me. I still feel the same joy when I hear it now.
Was 13..likewise..
This version has such a unique vibe and feel to it
I was 13 when it came out, and as a white boy, I initially found it too black! But then it grew on me - and it just grew and grew. It's a bona fide classic.
I was 15 and remember when it came on BET'S Video Soul.
was 10....miss it
This song made the first deep impact on me as a 13 year old kid growing up in Taiwan. Kept listening from time to time over the years because it has everything: funk, rap, R&B, etc. And I just learned from the comments here that Prince wrote it!?!? Mind-blown!!!!!
That's so rad, bro.
nooooo way!! Man. Prince...
I was surprised too, but honestly, it makes sense with the groove - it's got him all over it!
Also Stevie Wonder plays the harmonica in this! 😉
Same here, cept I was in NZ! It was choice, aye!!
Man, I haven't seen this video since the days of the real MTV back in the 80s. So many great memories!
Big Big Memories
OMG, this song was my fave when I was able to drive and got a car. Bump Bump! Bump! 1984!
This was a huge video in 1984, mtv was playing this one often, awesome
it was a huge SOUND in 1984
Chaka Khan wins a Grammy for I Feel For You in 1986. I still can’t believe this song has remained hot after nearly 40 years. Bravo, Chaka! Kenneth A Huang 8/20/22
Classic songs never die
@@gregcampbell1263 Yeaaah
😊 Brasil 🇧🇷 2024...forever...
Tema da novela Corpo a corpo
@@wevertonrodrigues1572 2025 babe
I love the 80s style, the swing, the choreography, the intensity and the talent that was used in everything related to music.
Beautiful comment
🧡🤗🔥💯👍🔥🔥🔥
I was obsessed with this song when I was a kid. I still love it to this day, 38 years later. Growing up in the 80's was the best.
I know what you mean
Word
Like Sinead O'Conner nothing can compare haha. This music has life.
This reminds me of Mtv and Philippines in the 80's
GOOD ol’ 80’s❤️
Music like this from the 80s never gets old. One of my favourites as a teen growing up. Now I am 55 and still blare it in the house or in the car.
Same here!
I used this kind of music for going to run in a big park
That's because great stuff will always stay great and shit will always stay shit.
It's one of my days to fast
Just have to turn up that volume when listening to this!
Let the whole neighborhood know.......
To me, Chaka Khan embodies the essence of African American beauty. She is stunning! Her smile lights up a room! Lovely!
Oh my, I remember watching the video I was so happy to see my two favorite breakdancers. I have a friend here in my local town who taught me breakdancing. Now I'm 55 years old and still know how to breakdancing.
The energy she gives off is amazing. What a voice.
As huge of a Prince fan as I have been all my life... this song belongs to Chaka now and has since 1984.
I couldn't have said it any better!
I agree!!
@Kevin Prima Yes, but Chaka Khan was and still is a great who can carry her own
Yes even Prince himself He gave Chakra Chan Honors for Recording his Original Song.He told her that she song it Better. Than zHe Done it.I likes both Version.But Chaka did Do a Good Ass Version.Queen Chaka my Girl she Bad.Another Good Legendary Icon.
Prince's version was good but Chaka sure put her thumbprint on it....that means I dig this version more and I'm also a Prince fan...
30 year old white lady here, I'm obsessed with funky R&B! Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Prince, Chaka Khan, Ginuwine, Pointer Sisters, James Brown, Isley Bros, and many more! This music is INTOXICATINGLY AWESOME! ❤❤❤
It was equally as amazing living in that era! I miss it every day!!
You have great taste in music, @melindaking7944!
I love Pony by ginuwine, but I'm not sure he belongs on this list of Legends.
But everyone else you listed are definitely Legends.
No one cares that you're white
I'm almost twice your age - that was our weekend of dancing music in 80s !!
Check out Roy ayres, run away classic, average white band, (my family) . House and club songs of 90s take many samples like "Serious" sample became Strike - you sure make me feel like loving you ...
I was too young to realize how cute she was. What a smile. =)
This video is proof that the 80's were much more fun than nowadays.
Ha Ha Ha..MuSiC..IS LoVe Tho..
I'm 15 years old, and I can confirm that it isn't just about nostalgia, 80s music was definetely better than nowadays.
@@ArthurTheEagle You're my new favorite 15 year old MagicCurly!
@@BDCsSanctuary I'm glad to know that haha!
@@KangaZune I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing that. As a freetime "composer", I can tell that every pop song is just copying each other making them less and less original and more blend.
OMG..1st heard this song in 1984 when I was 18 years young. Now at 56 I still love it!! Chaka voice kills!!
Same here! I was a college freshman at the time!! Heard this song in the dorm. Great memories.
11 in 84 now 49 life is great ain't it
In 1984 I turned 74 years old. Those were the days.
Chaka khan is the greatest ever
@@gregcampbell3052 I concur!!
Who still listening to this classic masterpiece as of 10/26/24, I know I am, the 80's will never die.
I'm here now, I bought this in the 80s
Trump needs to hold a massive rally and dance to this while dedicating it to the Democrats. I want to see him do the Robot.
@@BlaineEdwards-z8c Chaka Don
@spy1965 OHHH, FUGGEDABOUTIT!! Do the Trump Dance!
Count me in!!! I was 11 when this masterpiece first came out!!!!!
I will never get sick of this song. I'm 47 years young and this takes me back to my childhood on Saturday Mornings doing house chores with my Momma jammin this Album on the record player. Mmmmm, the good old days.
If this doesn't take you back to the 80's, nothing will.
I say this all the time I'm buying a time machine back to the 80s
The best decade for music Michael Jackson prince Janet Jackson Madonna Sade Stephanie mills Anita baker Whitney Houston etc
@@gregcampbell3052 Prince, George Michael, Phil Collins 🎶 ❤😢
@@gregcampbell3052….don’t forget Luther…
I was born in 1994 and I love music from the entire 20th century from the 1900s to the 1990s. When it comes to music, I live by the saying, "Variety is the spice of life." I don't have anything against today's music. I mean, I like Bruno Mars and Imagine Dragons. However, I will be honest about one thing. While I like hip hop and rap as much as the next person, I despise music that involves twerking or anything related to such dancing, such as this song for example.
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Ahh break dancing, popping and locking, fat shoe strings, shell toe Adidas, suede Puma's, Lee Jeans, 2 tone pants man take me back to this era please!!!!
diblo ya deep hou se kachete
Takes me back my late mom bumping this in the living room, all of us dancing. Living in the 80s was the best.
Mine too.. Those were the good ole days!
Verdade os Anos 80 foram os anos mais loucos e livres que já existiram
Adsumus
Sorry for your loss God bless you and your family hope you have a wonderful life together
Awesome memory!
what else could we expect from a Prince song with Chaka Khan singing it (and with the Mida's touch of Mr Wonder on it too)?
One of my favourite songs ever... what an amazing song...
This song was produced by a man called Arif Mardin. Originally from Turkey, he's probably the most famous producer you've never heard of. He worked with many artists over a career spanning decades and has finger prints over many hits. One of my favourites of his is his previous collaboration with Khan on I'm Every Woman. A song of a very different time and style to this (only 7 years but huge change between 1977 and 1984 musically) but also superb.
He worked with Norah Jones too!
Why do we not know of him. It is so bad when we love someones work but dont know their bacjground. Like was it because he was muslim. Its not right. We need to know truth
Arif Mardin put out a solo record for Atlantic back in '74 (the title escapes me now). Most of the top studio musicians from the era participated in this jazz "project" which Mardin produced/composed/arranged. Another seldom-heard gem from the Atlantic catalogue.
Arif Mardin worked with the Bee Gees, too. Barry Gibb put out some solo material in 1984, some of it reminiscent of this song, so perhaps Mardin played a part in Barry's songs.
Was originally a Prince song.
One of the true party anthems of the 80s, had everything that epitomised the decade, Chaka's great voice, synth, breakdancing, happy vibes, the fashion... deserves to be on any 80s greatest hits compilation
I'll be 60 next year if the Lord sees fit.
I hope I'm still rockin till the end lol
It's been an awesome ride and privilege to have come up with the music of the 60's and back, a mom who loved to sing and all those WWII era songs but when the 70's came around with it's music and then trickled down into the 80's.... there's just nothing like all that talent in those two decades and never will be again.
What fun! ❤❤
I be also 60 next year .. Lords willing..
I'll be 60 next year, too. Leading edge of Gen X.
Still listening to this masterpiece in 2024! ❤
Présent
YESS! ME 2024...
I LOVE THIS SONG!...
on repeat
Is fun remembering all the good ol songs
This song and video perfectly embodies the fun, playfulness and optimism that was the 80's decade. I was 14 in 1984 and it was a great time to be a teenager.
No one will ever duplicate his choreography. He is an Old School OG. RIP Shabba Doo.🙏
just amazing choreography-first thing i think of when i hear this song
He got nothing on shrimp.
RIP SHABBA DOO
The video just seeps Shabba doo. His energy his style....
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Had no idea prince wrote this and all the other great artists involved. I can see it now. Great video and music.
Agree - hearing it now, it's so obvious :)
it's a track on his first album? this is a cover.
@@hawrify2148 It's from his 2nd album titled "Prince" [1979]...this song was originally aimed at singer/songwriter Patrice Rushen ["Forget Me Nots"], at the time a huge crush of Prince...it was always aimed at a female singer...and ironically it ended in Chaka's hands, at the time Prince's label mate...the initial "chkan, chkan" resulted from a studio accident during the mixing process and her then legendary producer Arif Mardin decided to keep it in the final cut of the recording...
What a song.. !!!!!! So many memories.. Used for my late uncles funeral.. R.I.P Uncle JoHanski ❤🙏🏽.. xxxx
The dancers are EVERYTHING! I had forgotten how fly they were. So grateful to have been young in the 80s.
Every time I hear this song I get in my feelings. It was my Moms favorite Song and she would play it all Day. Love you and RIP Mom. I know you're listening to this in Heaven.
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My sincere condolences and prayers go out to you and your family. 🙏🙏🙏
A classic no doubt! Prince writing the song. Melle Mel doing the raps. Stevie Wonder on the harmonica. And Turbo and Ozone breakin'! R.I.P Prince and Turbo!
One of 5 songs to lift my spirits on the few bad days of homesickness while studying in France 84-85 - home brought abroad by the transcendence of music - merci!
Prince was a great friend of Chaka and played together with her on many occasions. There are a lot of videos of them performing together where he calls her his muse . He was such a generous artist all around, many other artists making career defining hits off of his songs and he never insisted on getting any credit. It was as if the fact that good music was being made was all that mattered . What a loss to the music industry and the world.
Nah , Prince cared about money , and he also wanted people to own their own masters . One of the main reasons why he didn't want to work with Nas .
@@GMANKOOL23 you know nothing. Go to bed.
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My Mom was 19 years old and Dad was 18 years old when Chaka Khan released "I Feel For You" on October the 12th of 1984.
And I was 20 years old when this song came out so I feel for you
I turn 18 on that very day. Love this song
I was also 19 years that year.. with a jerri curl 😂😂😂
80's music definitely has staying power. Even in 2022, I still jam to this classic!!💯
Still my jam as well! Still fresh as the first time I heard it!!
I do as well!
mos def 100
@@BrendanPramjee timeless classic 4ever
See you in 2042. Still FIRE 🔥
If this song doesn’t get you moving then you’re already dead. 40 years old and still going. Love it.
❤😂❤😂 LOL
Facts!!! 😂😂
@@AshLee-s2e...O yes it's magic
I was five years old when I first heard this. My Mom used to have the radio on in the mornings whilst she got me and my older sister ready for school. I remember Les Ross on BRMB playing it, and it blew my mind. My sister got one of The 'Hits' albums, and it was on it. We played it over & over. The beat, the vocals, it's all still brilliant. Somehow a song that was bang on trend when it was released, but has remained timeless.
Only people from the Midlands would truly understand this. 96.4FM!!
''I Feel for You'' is a song written by Prince that originally appeared on his self-titled 1979 album. The most successful and well-known version was recorded by R&B singer Chaka Khan and appeared on his 1984 album I Feel for You. He became the recipient of two Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song (with Prince as songwriter) and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for Khan.
Khan's version featured a supporting cast including rap by Miss Mel (from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five); guitar, drum lineup, bass guitar, keyboards and arrangement by Reggie Griffith; bass synthesizer and programming by David Frank of The System using an Oberheim DSX sequencer, which was connected to his Minimoog via CV and gate; and chromatic harmonica played by Stevie Wonder. The repetition of Khan's name by Miss Mel at the start of the song was a mistake made by producer Arif Mardin, who then decided to keep it.
This version of the song has sold over a million copies in the US and UK and helped revive Khan's career. The song reached No.1 on the Cash Box Singles Chart and peaked at No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for the weeks of November 24, 1984 through December 8, 1984.
The clip version of Khan's song showed her working at a club with dancers. As rap music and breakdancing gained popularity in mainstream pop culture at the time, the song came out and was a huge hit.
Thanks for backstory!
OK. I've wondered this for years, and don't know much beyond the basics of arranging/mixing and you seem to have the encyclopedic knowledge to answer these:
1. Is Stevie's chromatic harmonica processed in someway? It sounds somewhat "synthy"/modulated to me bc it doesn't sound exactly like the pure acoustic tone of his chromatica in all of the other songs he's used it. I'm guessing it's compressed and it def sounds like there's a bit of delay/echo to it but something else makes it sound sorta-"electronic".
2. I was always confused by the bass- the main, more prominent bassline I can hear sounds like moog-ish (presumably played on a keyboard) but you can hear the real electric bass guitar a little really only when it does the short descending part right after the 2nd "I think I love you" (like at 1:32) in each chorus. Is the bass guitar player playing the exact same part as the moog thing throughout, the moog just goes quiet during the little slap flourishes, or is the bass guitar just not playing anything other than a few notes the whole song?
ok. feeling it.
Wow! You learn something every day! 😎
@@leoneljuarez3873 HA HA HA !!!
Chaka girl, you keeping me sane in these crazy times.....thank you
This was my favorite song as a teen in the 80s. Chaka Khan has such a strong powerful voice. Her high notes are insane! The electric drum and classic harmonica enhances this song. It’s still my favorite song! I still wish songs were like this.
Me too showing our age 😂
Salute to Prince (R.I.M.H. - Rest in Music Heaven) for writing such a WONDERFUL song! And shout-out to Arif Mardin for tweaking the production. This is one of THEE best R&B - Pop - Hip Hop collabs ever! 🎶🎶🎶 Chaka Khan + Melle Mel (of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five) + Stevie Wonder (on harmonica) = 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This song will never sound old to me. I love it. It may be 80s but it's great. Great songs never get old. Only younger idiots think it's dated and old.
Amen!!❤❤
The classics never do.
This song is timeless!
Couldn't agree more!😎😁♥️💃🎶
Tell me something good feels more timeless to me. This one has a little Disco Desperation. Pushing.
My favorite Chaka Khan song ever. The first time I heard it on the radio I absolutely blared it at maximum volume.
My favorite also
Same here.❤
このノリ、リズムは やっぱり今聞いても最高です❤ 足が自然に動きます😊
Impossible to resist the pure magic of the 80s music era❤❤❤
Saw her do this live in her last performance over here in the UK and it was fantastic she still has it 🔥 amazing how in 2023 this still sounds so fresh
Had to come here and rare back and see Adolfo ( Shabba-Doo, O-zone) pop-lock in this classic. News flashed today that he passed away. Along with him John Fletcher (Ecstacy) of "Whodini" also passed away before Christmas. R.I.H. to you both. ✝
This is one of the best musical creations in the history of music itself. This song aged like fine wine.
The production arrangement was magical. Everything was in sync
Just saw her live last night. Amazing!!!
I lost my mom last year. Dec 22 2021. Day after my birthday. She liked a whole bunch of artists. But Chaka was her number one female artist all time.
Mama i defentley feel.for u and miss uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu heavy.
Cryin now. I love uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu mama
Love Alwayssssssssss son
Sorry for your loss. Find Comfort in the very Fact that this will be never an end of an Era!
@@michaelschneider178 thank u sir
Sorry for your loss, I know the feeling, I lost my mother June 2022.. praying for you 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
@@Lovejazz01 sorry for your loss as well.
Stay strong be strong
Tupac voice dear mama
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Just heard this on SNF and now I have to listen to this classic in full!
Prince was a musical Genius. I was a teenager when he first hit (I think he was 22yrs old?) and I was 18. I wasn't a fan of everything he did but when he hit my sweet spot he hit it with a damn sledge hammer. RIP
Ever thing prince touches is magic
I was 13 when released, 51 now
That Chaka Khan smile........You just can't escape it!! 😍😍😍
The 80s is pure magic I wasent born in the 80s 😢 but I really enjoy it. It’s pure magic.
Back when men weren’t worried about being simps and women weren’t afraid to be in their feminine energy 100% 😩
It was good my friend.
The music and general vibe were so happy and carefree back then. 😊
I hope this video got some kind of award, because it, and the song, are so moving...
RIP Shabadoo 🙏🏾 Your smile and your energy will live on forever.
1984 Sitting in a club. This song comes on and the entire club dances. Supreme talent.
Dang and I was age 7 loving it from radio plays 😂
Everyone literally runs out on the dance floor!
This is one of those records you can tell every step in the process had to be a blast. The base line has been everything since I was a kid. Before I could even explain why this song was so great.
The way she hits that note at the end of the song gives me chills
75 and still loving and dancing to Chaka . Never too old .
She's 71 now. She just did NPR Tony Desk Concert earlier this month. She has not aged at all. Her voice is fire.
@@joellebrodeur1015I guess that when he says "75" he is talking about his own age, not Chaka's.
One of my most favorite bangers from the 80s.
Love Chaka, very underrated but very talented. You go girl!
Prince loved so much Chaka! Thank You Both!
Everyone knows that Prince wrote this song, but what many people don't realise is that Stevie Wonder plays the harmonica on this version.
We knew that too!
Congratulations to one of the BEST female singers of my 70’s generation finally inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2023❤
Everyone is mentioning how great the 80's were but what makes this song sound so great is the fact it sounds like it's from the 79's.
What a classic! Both the song and the music video. Chaka's vocals kill!!
They do! I like how she sang "I'm Every Woman" better!
Kudos to Prince.
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@King Italus aaaa!
Beautifull Woman beautifull singer , voice is great 😎👌
I am 43 years old and for those of you who don't know there was things called a radio that you held in your hand and a cassette the song came out and I swear I almost broke through rewind button continually trying to get this first part of the song played
Was this one of those building-size boom boxes?!!
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I feel you!
I was about to roast your ass Six Ways to Sunday
You are still a kid. I remember when there was this new thing called the Sony Walkman and it cost about £200.
The 80’s had some of the best music 🎶 😊
Yes!
Chaka Khan ❤forever ♥️! I saw once in my country Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Europe in 1990! When I told my father who is the musician in Bulgaria 🇧🇬 he doesn't believe in that! We're going in live her concert. There was a Paul Young, C.C.Catch and Sandra! I never forget this❤ concert 😭!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Bulgaria
Yesssss!!! PURE JOY! If you grew up in the 80's YOU KNOW!
Chaka Khan + Prince + Stevie Wonder + Grandmaster Melle Mel
@@davidjorda-manaut308 Absolutely! 💟
and Turbo and Ozone
Fantastic collabration
Dynamic collaboration seriously
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You cannot beat tunes like this…still makes me smile…
"I Feel for You," "The Glamorous Life," and the "Purple Rain" album all in heavy radio circulation in 1984, while in the same year he's in the studio recording "Nothing Compares 2 U" with The Family, "Manic Monday" with Apollonia 6 and the "Around the World in a Day" album. Quite a year.
Prince was absolutely amazing! I miss him 🥺❤️
plus When Doves cry ...top 1 single in 1984 ...Prince ruled in 1984 one of the best years in musical history of this earth...actually the best year or simply GOAYs
God, that Stevie Wonder "Fingertips Pt 2" sample is just PERFECT on this classic.