You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester

[Bob]

I think we had a topic on this a long time ago. a 1978 disco hit, the beat's great cheesy electronic disco crappiness. love it.

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Bob said:

I think we had a topic on this a long time ago. a 1978 disco hit, the beat's great cheesy electronic disco crappiness campiness.

I hate this song beyond belief but he had some hot beats in some of his other songs.

[cartman2002]

This dance classic only got to #36 on the Pop chart in 1979. Should've gonna higher dance his previous hit Dance (Disco Heat)

[Chelsea Press 2]

I really loved this song. It has been sampled/remade so many times. The most notable sample track made of this song came out in 2000 in the form of "Fly Away (Bye Bye)" by Eyes Cream. It was a pretty big hit in the dance clubs.

[620 Soul Train]

One of the best dances song of the century! Jimmy Sommerville remade this as well.

[areyoureadytojump]

The video:

[B-Boy]

I like it. Just noticed that Pet Shop Boys lifted this for "West End Girls".

[beach1]

I love it. Great disco classic imo.

[Verisimilitude]

Inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

“You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” (single), Sylvester (1978)
Disco was at its peak of popularity in late 1978 when Sylvester (aka, Sylvester James, Jr., The Fabulous Sylvester) released “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real).” His urgent falsetto reflected his childhood background in both African-American gospel music and his work as a drag performer in San Francisco. To some, “You Make Me…” was evidence that disco was just a mass-produced sound, lacking in depth or personality although, to others, Sylvester’s highly personal and emotional performance gave it gravitas while also pushing gender-bending (which Sylvester reveled in) further into the musical mainstream. Patrick Cowley’s production anticipated later developments in electronic dance music. Together, the result was an anthem that has since been successfully covered many times.

www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-018/

Well deserved, it's both a disco AND a LGBTQ+ classic.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Love this! Classic bop!

[#LisaRinna]

A Disco classic. I slightly prefer "Do You Wanna Funk" though

[Live Your Life]

Classic.

[Caviar]

Still jam to this

[areyoureadytojump]

American Bandstand performance with the Weather Girls:



The crowd loved them.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#428 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: An electrical surge of futuristic disco energy that remains an all-time LGBTQ anthem, and one of the too-few disco hits of the time actually by an out gay artist.

This Magic Moment: In the song‘s intro, as the song’s main hook starts to gather steam, a laser synth sound rises from out of nowhere, as if the song’s about to zoom off into outer space. And then it does.

Who Put the Bomp: Co-producer Harvey Fuqua’s storied career goes back to the ’50s, when he founded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted doo-wop group The Moonglows — but his greatest contribution to pop history might have come as husband of record executive Anna Gordy, when he introduced a singer under his direction named Marvin Gaye to his brother-in-law, Berry Gordy.