''Feels So Right'' is the fifth studio album by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
band
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = "Alabama (state song), Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County, Al ...
, released in February 1981 by
RCA Nashville
RCA Nashville is an American country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is distributed by Sony Music Nashville which is part of Sony Music.
Current artists
*Kane Brown
*Andrew Jannakos
*Miranda Lambert
*Niko Moon (RCA/River Hou ...
. It was their first #1 on the ''
Billboard
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''
Top Country Albums
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chart. On the all-genre
''Billboard'' 200 the album peaked at #16 and stayed for more than three years, longer than any other Alabama album.
[Whitburn, Joel. ''The Billboard Book of Top Pop Albums 1955-1985'', Record Research Inc., 1985, p. 11, 493.]
''Feels So Right'' produced three Number One hits on the ''Billboard''
Hot Country Singles
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.
This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ...
chart: "
Old Flame", the
title track
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Title track may al ...
and "
Love in the First Degree". The latter two also reached the Top 20 of the
''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album was certified quadruple platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America
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.
Track listing
Notes
* "Burn Georgia Burn" is listed as "Burn Georgia Down" on the CD release.
Personnel
Alabama
*
Randy Owen
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- lead vocals, rhythm guitar
*Teddy Gentry - vocals, bass guitar, lead vocals on "Burn Georgia Burn"
*
Jeff Cook
Jeffrey Alan Cook (August 27, 1949 – November 7, 2022) was an American country music artist. He was best known for being a founding member of the band Alabama, in which he contributed to lead vocals, guitar, fiddle, piano and other musical ins ...
- vocals, lead guitar, lead vocals on "See the Embers, Feel the Flame"
*Mark Herndon - drums
Other musicians
*Rick Scott - drums
*Arliss Scott - guitars
*Jack Eubanks - guitars
*David Humphreys - drums
*Leo Jackson - guitar
*Fred Newell - guitar
*Willie Rainsford -
keyboards
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Music
* Musi ...
*Billy Reynolds - guitar
*David Smith - bass guitar
*Strings arranged by Kristin Wilkinson
Production
*Produced by Alabama, Harold Shedd and Larry McBride
*Engineers: Jim Cotton, Gene Rice, Harold Shedd
*Assistant engineers: Paul Goldberg, Ben Hall, Joe Mills
*Mastering: Randy Kling
Chart performance
Album
Singles
Certifications
References
1981 albums
RCA Records albums
Alabama (American band) albums
Albums produced by Harold Shedd
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