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You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) is a Disco act. Their sound grew out of Donna Summer and Curtis Mayfield. Those roots explain a lot about how You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Rock Your Baby, We Are Family, Super Freak, You Sexy Thing and Funkytown, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jimmy Somerville, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 8 connections around You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), reaching back through Donna Summer and forward to Jimmy Somerville. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is a song by American disco/R&B singer Sylvester. It was written by James Wirrick and Sylvester, produced by Harvey Fuqua and Sylvester, and released by Fantasy Records as the second single from the singer's fourth album, Step II (1978). The song was already a largely popular dance club hit in 1978, as the B-side of his previous single "Dance (Disco Heat)", before it was officially being released in December. It rose to the number one position on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. Music critic Robert Christgau has said the song is "one of those surges of sustained, stylized energy that is disco's great gift to pop music".
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You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) grew out of Donna Summer and Curtis Mayfield, shares an orbit with Rock Your Baby, We Are Family, Super Freak and You Sexy Thing, went on to shape Jimmy Somerville. 8 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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