Chaka Khan - "I Feel For You"

[Soulsista]

Topped the R&B chart for 3 weeks.

[Dreams]

Sometimes I forget about it and other times I go through phases where I listen to it like crazy. I love it though.
That chorus is good and I like the way she sang it.

[Live Your Life]

Fantastic.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Love it! Classic, iconic hit!

[Caviar]

Iconic

[Deleted]

Get it Chaka! Adore this and I love Stevie Wonder on the harmonica and Melle Mel rapping on the record. Love both Chaka and Prince's version.

[#LisaRinna]

Aug 2, 2019 13:52:19 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Iconic

[areyoureadytojump]

Prince's version:

[leonagwen]

This is a classic.

[Positive Tension]

I just heard this on the radio today- it's the first time I've ever heard this song. After the first 30 seconds or so, I was hooked. Listening to it on a loop now.

[gonecountry]

Classic song. Her voice is so much stronger on so many other hits. That said, this is a fun tune.

[Unhinged]

Love it!

[disman00911]

My all-time favorite Chaka Khan song and one of the best R&B/dance tracks of the 1980s.  Everything of this song from Chaka's vocals, Melle Mel's rap, and Stevie Wonder's harmonica, scream goodness all around.  Heard this song as an 80s flashback on WGCI, V103, B96, and defunct 103.5 Jammin' Oldies when I was younger.  Still enjoy this song today.

music video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW0sxgYAmLM

longer version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hmG6Ah3-rA

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

[phieaglesfan712]

Listen to this or Ain’t Nobody, and you can tell that Chaka had an influence on Lizzo’s new song About Damn Time. Lizzo brings back the late 70s/early 80s funk.

[Deleted]

So the success of this song is caused by The System guy, because frankly the original by Prince is nowhere near:
bass synthesizer and programming by The System's David Frank using an Oberheim DSX sequencer, which was connected to his Minimoog via CV and gate; and chromatic harmonica playing by Stevie Wonder.

[jdanton2]

Feb 22, 2007 17:58:38 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

Love it!!

They added the rap part after Chaka recorded it. She was horrified.

this was probably the first big hit that featured a popular singer and rapper together on one song . Mariah and others made it a more common thing in the 90's. Melle Mel was a member of one of biggest Rap groups of the early 80's Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

[jenglisbe]

OMG had no idea there was initially a different video that was set in a strip club:

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#395 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Songs

You Know What It Is: A heavenly slice of funk, memorable for rapper Melle Mel’s “Chaka Khan, let me love you” opening refrain, Stevie Wonder’s mellifluous harmonica playing and Khan’s incandescent vocals.

Who Put the Bomp: “I Feel for You” was written by none other than Prince, who originally recorded it for his 1979 self-titled album.

Coming Around Again: Plenty of folks have covered “I Feel for You,” including The Pointer Sisters, but the oddest, perhaps most misguided cover belongs to then-tweens Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, who duetted on the song on The Mickey Mouse Club in 1993.