{"id":21238,"date":"2025-07-24T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/21238\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:58:09","slug":"chuck-mangione-death-grammy-wining-musician-behind-feels-so-good-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/21238\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Mangione death: Grammy wining musician behind \u2018Feels So Good\u2019 dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chuck Mangione, the jazz<\/a> flugelhornist and trumpeter best known for his 1977 hit \u201cFeels So Good,\u201d died Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The 84-year-old passed away peacefully in his sleep at his Rochester<\/a>, New York, according to the Bartolomeo & Perotto Funeral Home, WROC<\/a> reports. <\/p>\n

Born in Rochester on November\u202f29,\u202f1940, Mangione began his musical journey alongside his brother, Gap, through their group The Jazz Brothers. He graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School and earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from the prestigious Eastman School of Music in 1963, later returning to teach jazz and even receiving an honorary doctorate. <\/p>\n

Over six decades, he released more than 30 albums, earning 14 Grammy nominations and winning two: Best Instrumental Composition for \u201cBellavia\u201d and Best Pop Instrumental Performance for \u201cChildren of Sanchez.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mangione\u2019s biggest hit, \u201cFeels So Good,\u201d topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in May 1978 and climbed to No.\u202f4 on the Billboard Hot 100 that June. The track also found its way into pop culture, from a memorable Memorex commercial with Ella Fitzgerald to recurring appearances in shows like King of the Hill.<\/p>\n

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Chuck Mangione, 84, died Tuesday. Over six decades, he released more than 30 albums (Getty Images)\"New<\/p>\n

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New York Yankees Pitcher Dock Ellis, right, has a little fun with a Chuck Mangione’s horn before a game with the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium on April 19, 1977, in New York. (AP)<\/p>\n

Mangione voiced a fictionalized version of himself on King of the Hill as a Mega Lo Mart spokesperson secretly living in the store under a never-ending endorsement contract. His character appeared in over a dozen episodes from Seasons 2 through 13, making him one of the show’s most memorable recurring guest stars.<\/p>\n

Mangione also composed music for two Winter Olympics. His song \u201cChase the Clouds Away\u201d featured in the 1976 Games, and he performed \u201cGive It All You Got\u201d at the 1980 Lake Placid closing ceremony.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Mangione was inducted into the Rochester Music Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-21238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}