Feels Like I'm in Love

"Feels Like I'm in Love" is a song written and recorded by Ray Dorset with his band Mungo Jerry. It was a number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in September 1980 for Scottish singer Kelly Marie.^[2]

"Feels Like I'm in Love"
Single by Mungo Jerry
Released	1977
Length	3:32
Label	Polydor^[1]
Songwriter(s)	Ray Dorset^[1]
Producer(s)	Ray Dorset
Mungo Jerry singles chronology
"Hello Nadine" (1976) "Feels Like I'm in Love" (1977) "Sur le pont d'avignon" (1977)

Original version

Written by Ray Dorset^[3] of Mungo Jerry, the song was originally written for and recorded by Elvis Presley^{[citation needed]} but he died before it was released. Dorset's group recorded the song but their version was relegated to the B-side of a Belgian single "Sur Le Pont D'Avignon" (A-side). It was also featured on the band's album "In the Summer Time". The band later released several variations and remixes of the song.^{[citation needed]}

Kelly Marie version

"Feels Like I'm in Love"
Single by Kelly Marie
Released	July 1979 (1979-07)
Length	3:13
Label	Calibre^[1]
Songwriter(s)	Ray Dorset^[1]
Producer(s)	Pete Yellowstone^[1]
Kelly Marie singles chronology
"If I Can't Have You" (1979) "Feels Like I'm in Love" (1979) "Lovin' Just for Fun" (1980)
Music video
"Feels Like I'm in Love" on YouTube

"Feels Like I'm in Love"
Single by Kelly Marie
B-side	"My Heart Surrenders" "Stealing My Time"
Released	1990
Length	3:40 (radio edit)
Label	Dance Street, Loading Bay, ZYX
Songwriter(s)	R. Dorset
Kelly Marie singles chronology
"Stealing My Time" (1988) "Feels Like I'm in Love" (1990) "Rescue Me" (1997)
Music video
"Feels Like I'm in Love" on YouTube

In 1979, Kelly Marie recorded the song for Pye Records. The song was a sleeper hit on the Scottish club scene before breaking through nationally in the summer of 1980, reaching the top of the UK Singles Chart in September.^[4] The song sold 760,000 copies in United Kingdom in 1980 alone.^[5] The following year, aided by a number of remixes the song became a club hit in the United States, reaching number ten on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.^[6]

Re-released on the Calibre record label with a new B-side "New York at Night", it followed a rare breed of record labels who gained a chart-topping success after their debut release.^[1] It was then re-released again in 1990 as a remix that was done by PWL.

Composition

The song is performed in the key of C major with a tempo of 121 beats per minute.^[7]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1980–1981)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[8]^[9]	7
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)^[10]	6
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)^[11]	2
Ireland (IRMA)^[12]	3
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)^[13]	4
Netherlands (Single Top 100)^[14]	3
UK Singles (OCC)^[15]	1
US Hot Dance Club Play (Billboard)^[16]	10
West Germany (Official German Charts)^[17]	5

Year-end charts

Chart (1980)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[18]	85
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)^[19]	14
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)^[20]	38
Netherlands (Single Top 100)^[21]	36
UK Singles (OCC)^[22]	3

Chart (1981)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[9]	69

Cover versions

• Australian dance group Raffles released a cover version of "Feels Like I'm in Love" in November 1994, which peaked at number 66 on the Australian singles chart in early 1995.^[23]

Appearances in other media

The song featured in the 2002 romantic comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in the Midlands. It also appeared in the 2005 comedy-romance film, Imagine Me & You, in the Dance Dance Revolution sequence. It was also featured in the Channel 4 series It's a Sin in 2021.

References

1. Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 208. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
2. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 385. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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8. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 192. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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18. "National Top 100 Singles for 1980". Kent Music Report. 5 January 1981. Retrieved 17 January 2022 – via Imgur.
19. "Jaaroverzichten 1980". Ultratop. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
20. "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1980". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
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22. "The Official Top 50 best-selling songs of 1980". officialcharts.com\accessdate=2 July 2022.
23. "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 26 Mar 1995". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 20 April 2017.