4/27/2023 0 Comments Disco 70s makeup![]() Jimmy Somerville version "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"īritish singer Jimmy Somerville, formerly of the bands Bronski Beat and Communards, released a cover of " You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" in 1989. West Germany ( GfK Entertainment Charts) ![]() Time Out ranked it number eight in their list of The 50 Best Gay Songs to Celebrate Pride All Year Long in 2022. 39 in their list of 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time. Rolling Stone included it in their list of 500 Best Songs of All Time in 2021 at No. ĭaily Mirror listed "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" at number 13 in their ranking of Top 50 Happiest Songs Ever in 2020. ![]() In 2019, the song was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Pitchfork Media featured the song in their list of 50 Songs That Define the Last 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Pride in 2018. Q Magazine ranked "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" number 677 in their list of the 1001 Best Songs Ever in 2003. These two songs helped to establish Sylvester's career as a noted disco and dance music performer, both in the US and abroad. The two songs held down the top spot on the Billboard Dance/Disco chart for six weeks in August and September 1978. A 12" single was released in 1978, with " Dance (Disco Heat)" as the A-side and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" as the B-side, and these two extended dance mixes proved to be very popular in dance clubs at the time. The song also reached #20 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart. In Sylvester's home country, the single was his second Top 40 hit, peaking at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1979. The song was Sylvester's first Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart in October 1978. These 1970s songs using electronic instrumentation would have an influence on 1980s and 1990s dance music, which in turn, would have an influence on dance music in the next century. The result was one of the pioneering disco records using some electronic instrumentation and effects, following closely on " I Feel Love" by Donna Summer which heavily used electronic instrumentation ahead of its time. ![]() The song was originally recorded as a mid-tempo piano-driven gospel song however, after producer Patrick Cowley saw a rehearsal of the song at San Francisco's City Club, he offered to remix the song. In 2003, Q Magazine included "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever". Music critic Robert Christgau has said the song is "one of those surges of sustained, stylized energy that is disco's great gift to pop music". The song was already a largely popular dance club hit in late 1978, as the B-side of his previous single " Dance (Disco Heat)", before it was officially being released in December. It was written by James Wirrick and Sylvester, and released as the second single from Sylvester's fourth album, Step II (1978). " You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is a 1978 song by American disco/ R&B singer Sylvester. "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" on YouTube
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