Feels So Right
{{short description|1981 album by the American band, Alabama}}
{{For|the song|Feels So Right (song)}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Feels So Right
| type = Studio album
| artist = Alabama
| cover = Alabama - Feels So Right.jpg
| alt =
| released = February 1981
July 7, 1987 (re-release)
| recorded = 1980
| venue =
| studio = The Music Mill, Nashville, TN
| genre = Country
| length = 34:59
| label = RCA Nashville
| producer = Alabama
Larry McBride
Harold Shedd
| chronology = Alabama
| prev_title = My Home's In Alabama
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = Mountain Music
| next_year = 1982
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Feels So Right
| type = studio
| single1 = Old Flame
| single1date = January 23, 1981
| single2 = Feels So Right
| single2date = May 1, 1981
| single3 = Love in the First Degree
| single3date = October 2, 1981
}}
}}{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r91586|pure_url=yes}}]|noprose=yes}}
Feels So Right is the fifth studio album by American country music band Alabama, released in February 1981 by RCA Nashville. It was their first #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums 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. This was the last album to be co-produced by Larry McBride, who had discovered the band and later suffered a heart attack and died in 1991.{{cite web |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1991/03/09/deaths-elsewhere/|title=Tampa Bay Times obit for Larry McBride}}
Feels So Right produced three Number One hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart: "Old Flame", the title track 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database#|title=Alabama – Gold & Platinum Certifications|publisher=Recording Industry Association of America|access-date=July 6, 2014|at=If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
|headline=
|extra_column=Lead singer
|title1=Feels So Right
|writer1=Randy Owen
|extra1=Randy Owen
|length1=3:37
|title2=Love in the First Degree
|writer2=Tim DuBois, Jim Hurt
|extra2=Randy Owen
|length2=3:19
|title3=Burn Georgia Burn
|writer3=Tim Lewis, Roger Murrah
|extra3=Teddy Gentry
|length3=3:31
|title4=Ride the Train
|writer4=Teddy Gentry
|extra4=Randy Owen
|length4=3:46
|title5=Fantasy
|writer5=Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry, Owen, Rick Scott
|extra5=Randy Owen
|length5=4:03
|title6=Hollywood
|writer6=Gary Stewart, Wayne Carson
|extra6=Randy Owen
|length6=3:52
|title7=Old Flame
|writer7=Donny Lowery, Mac McAnally
|extra7=Randy Owen
|length7=3:13
|title8=Woman Back Home
|writer8=Lowery
|extra8=Randy Owen
|length8=2:21
|title9=See the Embers, Feel the Flame
|writer9=Cook
|extra9=Jeff Cook
|length9=2:43
|title10=I'm Stoned
|writer10=Owen, Gentry
|extra10=Randy Owen
|length10=4:53
}}
=Notes=
- "Burn Georgia Burn" is listed as "Burn Georgia Down" on the CD release.
Personnel
=Alabama=
- Randy Owen - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
- Teddy Gentry - vocals, bass guitar, lead vocals on "Burn Georgia Burn"
- Jeff Cook - 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
- 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=
{{col-begin}}
{{col-3}}
| class="wikitable"
! Chart (1981) ! Peak |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums
| align="center"| 1 |
| U.S. Billboard 200
| align="center"| 16 |
{{col-3}}
| class="wikitable"
! Year End Chart (1981) ! Peak |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums |
| U.S. Billboard 200 |
{{col-3}}
| class="wikitable"
! Year End Chart (1982) ! Peak |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums |
| U.S. Billboard 200 |
{{col-end}}
=Singles=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Single ! colspan="5"| Peak chart positions |
| style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="40"| US Country ! width="40"| US ! width="40"| US AC ! width="40"| CAN Country ! width="40"| CAN AC |
| rowspan="3"| 1981
| align="left"| "Old Flame" | 1 | 103 | — | 1 | — |
| align="left"| "Feels So Right"
| 1 | 20 | — | 5 | 1 |
| align="left"| "Love in the First Degree"
| 1 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
=Certifications=
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|title=Feels So Right|artist=Alabama|type=album|award=Platinum|number=4|relyear=1981|certyear=1985}}
{{Certification Table Bottom | nosales=true}}
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Alabama (band)|Alabama}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Alabama (American band) albums
Category:Albums produced by Harold Shedd
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