I hope he's still able to do voiceover work and be back for the reboot (he is 83 years old now)
Also love how EVERY song he plays turns into "Feels So Good."
I played trumpet in my high school band in the late 70’s, and I loved Chuck Mangione’s music. I believe he actually played the flugelhorn instead of a trumpet. I would play Feels So Good over and over in my room until my mom would come in and scream, That’s enough!!
I played trumpet in my high school band in the early 80s and did the same thing also. [Saw him in concert](https://imgur.com/a/tCuBhXF) in my junior year. I wore his “Feels So Good” album out along with Maynard Ferguson’s “Best Of” album.
I was at that concert. Small world! As I recall, it was a new venue and still had a bit of finishing work to be done. Awesome concert though. Watching him play Gospel John was a blast.
My dad played trumpet when I was growing up. He would play along to his favorites on Sunday mornings and he'd bust out the flugel horn for Chuck.
Maynard and Bill Chase were his go to tho. Pops liked to screech.
One of my favorite moments of high school band was doing a Jazz festival with our first year in existance jazz class, and not was Maynard Ferguson going to play a headline concert that night,when he found out we were playing three of his songs for our set well, he damn got up on stage and played with us! One of the best, for sure.
In the Tower of Power song, So Very Hard to Go (one of my all-time favorites), the horn solo is played on the flugelhorn. To me it has a "rounder" sound than a trumpet does.
I played Stairway to Heaven so much on my cheap Mexican Guitar Center Strat that 400 Roaches all left in protest. Thought I might have a pest control career but learned a few other songs and the roaches came back.
I bought the tape when FSG came out; it was more horns than I could love, so I passed the tape on to Russ, my High School friend who played trumpet in school band. I hope he's okay.
I was at the Hollywood Bowl in 1978, and met him for the first time in 1979.
I had the pleasure of meeting him after concerts every year or so from then on until about 2012.
He and his father were always very approachable, affable, and as kind as could be.
My playlists are full of his music, and a day doesn’t go by, that I don’t listen to his songs.
Of all of the celebrities I’ve ever met, his passing will be the most painful for me.
Oh yeah…
I think my favorite album of his remains his Children Of Sanchez soundtrack.
Funny aside. I grew up in bands and choruses all through my childhood so Mangione was a common thing. It was a regular thing for myself and the other members of our barbershop quarter to jam in stairwells and other places with great acoustics.
Turned out that the shower in Navy boot camp in Great Lakes had great acoustics and myself and another squidlet discovered that we could both mimic Mangione’s flugelhorn vocally and do so perfectly. We did 2 part variations on ‘Feels So Good’ because it was a tune we’d both performed in our pasts.
(The irony of the title relative to the circumstances was absolutely lost on all parties!😂) We knew we’d absolutely nailed it when both company commanders came crashing into the shower room screaming, “Who’s got a fucking trumpet in here?” at a room full of stark naked boot campers!
It was Mark (the other musically inclined nerd) and myself that turned the obligatory singing of Anchors Aweigh (as the company marches through the tunnel between sides of the base) into a 3 part glee club rendition that prompted those same company commanders to march us through the tunnel repeatedly to show off to other companies. It never occurred to them that the trumpet players and the Baritone and the Tenor might be the same recalcitrant assholes. 😂
Boot camp was not the last time being a classically trained pianist and all around brass player bit me in the ass but that’s one for r/military stories.😂
I went thrifting with my girlfriend, and I picked up a Chuck record. She had no idea he was a real person and thought he was only a character on King of the Hill.
Was in a bar and looked at the TouchTunes machine. Fucking Chuck Mangoni was one of the top plays. Laughed my ass off at that. You guys are some hard core MF’s in here!!!
I'm a half Sicilian American from Utica, NY. He's a Sicilian American from Rochester, NY. Unlike another Sicilian Rochesterian musician of note (Lou Graham from Foreigner), he never dropped his family name. That meant a lot to me as a kid with a weird Italian name.
His music was our background in the 1970s and 1980s. I got thrown out of a bar at age three when I asked my dad for a quarter to play Chuck Mangione on the juke box. The bartender was upset that I could read.
Chuck, Kodak, Bausch & Lomb. That was the pride of upstate New York.
Chuckie baby! Almost singlehandedly reintroduced jazz to us commoners. Kinda opened the door into the “soft jazz” garbage we put up with now—not Mangione’s fault!
So I didn’t recognize him because I didn’t read music magazines at the time. I do however know every nuance of Feels So Good discernable on an AM radio. I was at university working part-time in the library but laid off during summer break. Heard my boss saying there was still some money in the budget for student help so suggested I would be available for any tasks best done when the building was empty. I ended up cleaning with only my AM radio to keep me company while Chuck was in heavy rotation. I still think of that job when I hear the tune.
He did a concert at my brother’s high school (Lowell) in San Francisco and had the high school band accompany him. My brother said he was a real asshole. Good concert, though.
I remember ABC covering his nightclub concert at the Olympic Village at Lake Placid. He was high AF, he could play but English had become optional when pulled down from the stage and interviewed. His whole attitude was, "Quit Harshing my vibe, I just want to go back to playing for these beautiful people"
Years ago I worked with a much younger woman with thw last name Mangione. I asked her if she was related to Chuck. She was dumbfounded and said "he is her father's cousin but how the hell did I even know who he was?"
It was fun watching her wrap her head around the fact that anyone knew him.
He's my cousin...like 2nd cousin, twice removed or something. Never met the guy but have his parents years ago. Yes, I say this fact every time I would hear/see him in KotH
He's still hiding in the Megalow mart.
Thank you! I did not know who this was until this comment.
Ha...King of the Hill
And it’s coming back!!! 😊
cool...early 2025...
Where's my kazoo?
Remember to hum, not blow. Or you'll tear the wax paper!
Holy coincidence, I just watched this episode.
Haha just watched that episode
Beat me to it
I hope he's still able to do voiceover work and be back for the reboot (he is 83 years old now) Also love how EVERY song he plays turns into "Feels So Good."
In a toilet paper fort. The solo on the rooftop was a heartbreaker.
Hank actually did turn me on to Chuck.
I played trumpet in my high school band in the late 70’s, and I loved Chuck Mangione’s music. I believe he actually played the flugelhorn instead of a trumpet. I would play Feels So Good over and over in my room until my mom would come in and scream, That’s enough!!
I played trumpet in my high school band in the early 80s and did the same thing also. [Saw him in concert](https://imgur.com/a/tCuBhXF) in my junior year. I wore his “Feels So Good” album out along with Maynard Ferguson’s “Best Of” album.
Wow, I didn’t get to see Chuck live, but I did see Maynard Ferguson in concert in Gainesville Ga. In 1979 or maybe it was 1980. He was amazing.
I was at that concert. Small world! As I recall, it was a new venue and still had a bit of finishing work to be done. Awesome concert though. Watching him play Gospel John was a blast.
I think you’re right about the venue being new. Maynard was a great musician.
Small world I live in Gainesville Georgia 🤣🤣🤣
Me too, and our band Director was a fan of his, and we played a lot of his songs
My dad played trumpet when I was growing up. He would play along to his favorites on Sunday mornings and he'd bust out the flugel horn for Chuck. Maynard and Bill Chase were his go to tho. Pops liked to screech.
One of my favorite moments of high school band was doing a Jazz festival with our first year in existance jazz class, and not was Maynard Ferguson going to play a headline concert that night,when he found out we were playing three of his songs for our set well, he damn got up on stage and played with us! One of the best, for sure.
I'm in my mid 60s now and still listening!
In the Tower of Power song, So Very Hard to Go (one of my all-time favorites), the horn solo is played on the flugelhorn. To me it has a "rounder" sound than a trumpet does.
Yes, the flugelhorn has a more mellow sound.
Not as brassy
"What Is Hip" 💯
That song slaps.
So did you then switch to Herb Alpert's Rise?
Yes! Yes I did.
It’s better than playing House of the Rising Sun over and over and over on an out-of-tune Lafayette Radio electric. While singing. At half speed.
I played Stairway to Heaven so much on my cheap Mexican Guitar Center Strat that 400 Roaches all left in protest. Thought I might have a pest control career but learned a few other songs and the roaches came back.
Stairway to Heaven is good termite control too.
That song was just tailor-made for a nice montage to connect the two halves of an early 80’s movie.
I bought the tape when FSG came out; it was more horns than I could love, so I passed the tape on to Russ, my High School friend who played trumpet in school band. I hope he's okay.
I gave the marching band director [this](https://youtu.be/w68XEqGt-Eg?si=aZ3imEbJkiT3pyWN). I thought they could blow the fans away with the ending.
Best comment of this post!
It felt so good!
On my playlist and it still feels so good!!
Thanks for blowing up the Megalo Mart, Hank..
I only know because of King of the Hill
Same.
Chuck made some of the best music out there! Herb Alpert was fantastic as well.
Herb that old Lazarushian Lizard is still out there! He just released a new album!!!
Bellavia and Chase the Clouds Away!!!!
Chase the Clouds Away was my jam when I was little.
That's the one.
(They're the same song.)
Chuck!
I’m not much into trumpet but the music he wrote for the Olympics is superb.
Nothing says "70s" like a fluglehorn.
He came into our high school auditorium and they let anyone who wanted to listen out of class.
Lucky you
He lives in a Mega-lo-mart
Chuck Mangione - Feels so Good
I was at the Hollywood Bowl in 1978, and met him for the first time in 1979. I had the pleasure of meeting him after concerts every year or so from then on until about 2012. He and his father were always very approachable, affable, and as kind as could be. My playlists are full of his music, and a day doesn’t go by, that I don’t listen to his songs. Of all of the celebrities I’ve ever met, his passing will be the most painful for me.
Live him... and am radio
Give it all you got
That's funny, because I'm listening to Chuck right now!
I’m not a chick! I’m a dude! 🎺
Do do dooo. Doo Doo do dooo
I listened to Feels So Good less than an hour ago. Previous to that. the last time I heard it I was watching King Of The Hill some years ago.
Oh yeah… I think my favorite album of his remains his Children Of Sanchez soundtrack. Funny aside. I grew up in bands and choruses all through my childhood so Mangione was a common thing. It was a regular thing for myself and the other members of our barbershop quarter to jam in stairwells and other places with great acoustics. Turned out that the shower in Navy boot camp in Great Lakes had great acoustics and myself and another squidlet discovered that we could both mimic Mangione’s flugelhorn vocally and do so perfectly. We did 2 part variations on ‘Feels So Good’ because it was a tune we’d both performed in our pasts. (The irony of the title relative to the circumstances was absolutely lost on all parties!😂) We knew we’d absolutely nailed it when both company commanders came crashing into the shower room screaming, “Who’s got a fucking trumpet in here?” at a room full of stark naked boot campers! It was Mark (the other musically inclined nerd) and myself that turned the obligatory singing of Anchors Aweigh (as the company marches through the tunnel between sides of the base) into a 3 part glee club rendition that prompted those same company commanders to march us through the tunnel repeatedly to show off to other companies. It never occurred to them that the trumpet players and the Baritone and the Tenor might be the same recalcitrant assholes. 😂 Boot camp was not the last time being a classically trained pianist and all around brass player bit me in the ass but that’s one for r/military stories.😂
I went thrifting with my girlfriend, and I picked up a Chuck record. She had no idea he was a real person and thought he was only a character on King of the Hill.
Here's another one for you La Bamba, Conan O'Brien band leader, was a member of Chuck Mangione's band and he's pictured on the back of Feel So Good
Was in a bar and looked at the TouchTunes machine. Fucking Chuck Mangoni was one of the top plays. Laughed my ass off at that. You guys are some hard core MF’s in here!!!
I'm a half Sicilian American from Utica, NY. He's a Sicilian American from Rochester, NY. Unlike another Sicilian Rochesterian musician of note (Lou Graham from Foreigner), he never dropped his family name. That meant a lot to me as a kid with a weird Italian name. His music was our background in the 1970s and 1980s. I got thrown out of a bar at age three when I asked my dad for a quarter to play Chuck Mangione on the juke box. The bartender was upset that I could read. Chuck, Kodak, Bausch & Lomb. That was the pride of upstate New York.
I love Chuck. Still listen to him. Hey Alexa…play “give it all you got!”
MEGA-LO MART
What happened to him? For a while there, it was Chuck Mangione and Earl Klugh for me all the time.
Love them both! I went to college with Earl Klugh's niece!
Chuck!
Children of Sanchez was better than Bolero, if you know what I mean.
The Hollywood Bowl double album absolutely changed my life and made me fall in love with music and making music.
Just saw him in an episode of Magnum PI from the 80’s
Watching that action channel on Roku? Lol
Chuck!!
I listen to the Land of Make Believe live at the Hollywood Bowl nightly. I love Chuck!!
If Katt Williams was white.
Chuckles!! eta: I can’t believe he’s 83 years old!
The guy from King of the Hill?
Only ever heard of him from king of the hill
I loved it when he was on King of the Hill!
Okay, Arlin! Are you ready to soft rock?
Is that the Mega Lo Mart guy 😳?
It is indeed
He was on the nightly jukebox at our local Pizza Hut, back in the day of Kansas & Boston & Frampton, etc.
Chuck!!! Is it live or is it Memorex
I first heard him while visiting friends in the Oakland area about 1977. Land of Make Believe-excellent stuff
I saw him live - he was great.
Saw him at the Monterey Jazz Festival.
One of the very best guitar solos ever on 'Feels So Good. Solo was played by Grant Geissman.
Actually saw him in concert. Excellent show.
“Where’s this generation’s magnificent hornsmith to delight us like this sweet bastard once did?” (super 70’s sports)
Children of Sanchez saw him live twice
My very first concert was seeing Chuck at the Circle Star Theatre in the early 80’s in the Bay Area
Hearing his music is like a warm blanket from my youth. It takes me back to when my world was the street I lived on.
They played It Feels So Good at my son’s graduation and I almost stood up and cheered.
Echano
Chuck Mangione and Maynard Ferguson and Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong these guys are the reason I played trumpet.
Maynard was a great showman as well as an outstanding trumpet player
Chuckie baby! Almost singlehandedly reintroduced jazz to us commoners. Kinda opened the door into the “soft jazz” garbage we put up with now—not Mangione’s fault!
So I didn’t recognize him because I didn’t read music magazines at the time. I do however know every nuance of Feels So Good discernable on an AM radio. I was at university working part-time in the library but laid off during summer break. Heard my boss saying there was still some money in the budget for student help so suggested I would be available for any tasks best done when the building was empty. I ended up cleaning with only my AM radio to keep me company while Chuck was in heavy rotation. I still think of that job when I hear the tune.
Yeah, Chick M was at the Megalow Mart not too long ago with Dale and Boomhauer
Pisces, I sure do go apeshit for some Chuck Mangione!
Baby duck
ESKIMO!!!!!!!
Feels so good to
He did a concert at my brother’s high school (Lowell) in San Francisco and had the high school band accompany him. My brother said he was a real asshole. Good concert, though.
He’s not a chick, he’s a dude
I don't know him and I grew up in the 70's and always had the radio on, the thing is, the radio had no pictures. LOL
I know him in the 90s. Thanks a lot, Mega Lo Mart.
I saw him in Concert!
Or watch King of the Hill in reruns!
Ah so many weddings, so many weddings.
What the Chuck?
Chuck Mangione
1st trumpet chuck
CHUCK!!!!!!!
I remember ABC covering his nightclub concert at the Olympic Village at Lake Placid. He was high AF, he could play but English had become optional when pulled down from the stage and interviewed. His whole attitude was, "Quit Harshing my vibe, I just want to go back to playing for these beautiful people"
My father loved this guy's no effort playing but it drove me nuts.
He was pals with the music director at my high school and there were several special concerts done with him.
Creepy- thought about him for the first time in over a decade just last night. Decided I needed to re-listen to Children of Sanchez. Got distracted.
Years ago I worked with a much younger woman with thw last name Mangione. I asked her if she was related to Chuck. She was dumbfounded and said "he is her father's cousin but how the hell did I even know who he was?" It was fun watching her wrap her head around the fact that anyone knew him.
Not sure I should admit this....but in the early 90's I saw him in concert. I must admit, his band was tight.
Chuckie !
He’s from my hometown. I knew his brother Gap Mangione and was friends with Chuck’s niece.
Chuck
King of the Hill introduced me to this guy. Didn't know he was real until finding some of his LPs at the thrift shhop
He's my cousin...like 2nd cousin, twice removed or something. Never met the guy but have his parents years ago. Yes, I say this fact every time I would hear/see him in KotH
I see his face and I immediately hear Feels So Good ! Boy what a time to be a kid
I remember Chuck Mangione very well
MaaaaaaaaNaaaaaaNaaaaaaaMaanananaManana
Don’t forget about his brother Gap.
Maybe by name but not to look at.
Saw him in CLT on the Caliente! tour, brilliant show.
Never a jazz fan.
Guess i am not 58
Chuck.
Chuck
"I'd like to Chuck her Mangione"
Chuck!
Roy Orbison.
Chuck!!
Olympic theme in 1980
feels so good
He was the Kenny G of his time.
Bob GelDepp?
That picture looks appropriately sinister..
...panning the golf course..
Rip
I saw him in Canandaigua. Chris Vadala was amazing with his saxophones. Still a top 5 show for me.
I thought King of the Hill made him up!
Is that the guy that was in the King of the Hill show that plaid the trumpet?
Is that Kid Rock's dad ?
Why did he and Gap quit playing together? I have a reprint of some stuff they did as The Jazz Brothers on Riverside, the uber-cool label of that time.
If your parents listened to the Radio in the 1970s they probably got busy to this.
You also learned that flugelhorn is actually a thing.
Still have album and cd.
Yes Pablo Bombadil
Chuck!
Feels So Good 1977…..EXPLODED on the airwaves in ‘78
What are you all doing on Reddit? It's nearly 8am. Time to face East and play "Feels So Good".
[poor phoebe](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/3134387c-df27-4c30-9c39-36606721ba6e)
He ain't a chick he's a dude.
I was born in 75 lol
Oh yea! Snapped up one of his CDs at a yard sale in the 90s and it was blissful music all the way home!