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Prince

I Feel for You

1979 · via Chaka Khan

Prince wrote “I Feel for You” and put out the earliest release of it on file, in 1979. Also recorded by The Pointer Sisters (released 1982), The Flying Pickets (released 1991) and Mary Wells (released 1996), among 87 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Prince – I Feel for You
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Prince wrote it and cut it himself back in 1979, years before Chaka got hold of it. Play his first and you can hear the bones she built the house on.

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Credited writer: Prince.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1979.

Other recordings on file · first release year

87 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Chaka Khan's "I Feel for You" is the one everybody knows, but it wasn't born with her. Who wrote it and put it on record first?Prince
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