I Feel So Bad (Chuck Willis song)

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"I Feel So Bad"
RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)Chuck Willis
Elvis Presley singles chronology
"Surrender" / "Lonely Man"
(1961)
"I Feel So Bad" / "
Wild in the Country
"
(1961)
"(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame" / "Little Sister"
(1961)

"I Feel So Bad" is a

RCA Victor that year.[1]

Background

Elvis Presley's version reached No. 5 on the US

UK singles chart, also in 1961. As of August 2017, the single "Wild in the Country" / "I Feel So Bad" is Presley's 38th best selling single in the UK.[4]

Other recordings

Blues singer Little Milton recorded a soul blues version, titled simply "Feel So Bad", in 1967. It rose to No. 7 R&B and No. 91 pop. The band Cactus recorded it on their 1971 Atco release, One Way... or Another. This song has since been covered by Foghat on their second album titled Foghat (Rock and Roll), Delbert McClinton (Plain from the Heart, 1981), Rory Gallagher (BBC Sessions 1972), and Big Dave & The Ultrasonics (Love & Money, 1993).

References

  1. ^ Elvis Presley: Original Versions of the songs he Sang Archived 2010-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Billboard Chart Statistics - Top 20 pop Singles Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Billboard's Top 20 R&B Singles Archived 2010-01-26 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Elvis Presley's Top 50 bestselling songs". Official Charts Company. 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2021-02-11.