By MARK KENNEDY
NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck Mangione, who achieved worldwide success in 1977 along with his jazz-flavored single “Feels So Good” and later turned a voice actor on the animated TV comedy “King of the Hill,” has died. He was 84.
Mangione died at his residence in Rochester, New York, on Tuesday in his sleep, stated his lawyer, Peter S. Matorin of Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP. The musician had been retired since 2015.
Maybe his largest hit — “Feels So Good” — is a staple on most smooth-jazz radio stations and has been referred to as one of the vital acknowledged melodies since “Michelle” by the Beatles. It hit No. 4 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and the highest of the Billboard grownup modern chart.
“It recognized for lots of people a music with an artist, though I had a fairly sturdy base viewers that stored us on the market touring as typically as we wished to, that music simply topped on the market and took it to an entire different stage,” Mangione instructed the Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette in 2008.
He adopted that hit with “Give It All You Obtained,” commissioned for the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, and he carried out it on the closing ceremony.
Mangione, a flugelhorn and trumpet participant and jazz composer, launched greater than 30 albums throughout a profession wherein he constructed a large following after recording a number of albums, doing all of the writing.
He received his first Grammy Award in 1977 for his album “Bellavia,” which was named in honor of his mom. One other album, “Pals and Love,” was additionally Grammy-nominated, and he earned a finest unique rating Golden Globe nomination and a second Grammy for the film “The Kids of Sanchez.”
Mangione launched himself to a brand new viewers when he appeared on the primary a number of seasons of “King of the Hill,” showing as a business spokesman for Mega Lo Mart, the place “purchasing feels so good.”
Mangione, brother of jazz pianist Hole Mangione, with whom he partnered in The Jazz Brothers, began his profession as a bebop jazz musician closely impressed by Dizzy Gillespie.
“He additionally was one of many first musicians I noticed who had a rapport with the viewers by simply telling the viewers what he was going to play and who was in his band,” Mangione instructed the Submit-Gazette.
Mangione earned a bachelor’s diploma from the Eastman Faculty of Music — the place he would finally return as director of the varsity’s jazz ensemble — and left residence to play with Artwork Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
He donated his signature brown felt hat and the rating of his Grammy-winning single “Feels So Good,” in addition to albums, songbooks and different ephemera from his lengthy and illustrious profession to the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of American Historical past in 2009.
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