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.
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.
Track listing
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
Chart (1981) Peakposition U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1 U.S. Billboard 200 16
Year End Chart (1981) Peakposition U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 3 U.S. Billboard 200 25
Year End Chart (1982) Peakposition U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 2 U.S. Billboard 200 18
Singles Year Single Peak chart positions US Country US US AC CAN Country CAN AC 1981 "Old Flame" 1 103 — 1 — "Feels So Right" 1 20 — 5 1 "Love in the First Degree" 1 15 5 1 1
Certifications
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