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"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is the title of a 1978 single by American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 disco singer Sylvester James
Sylvester James

Sylvester James , better known as Sylvester, was an United States disco and soul music singer, and a gay drag queen performer. He is considered to be one of the first Hi-NRG artists....
, who performed using just his first name, Sylvester. The song was Sylvester's first Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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, where it peaked at #8 on the UK singles chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
. It was also a Top 10 hit in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, where the song reached #7. In Sylvester's home country, the single was his second Top 40 hit, peaking at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
 chart in early 1979. The song appears on his 1978 album, Step II.






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"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is the title of a 1978 single by American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 disco singer Sylvester James
Sylvester James

Sylvester James , better known as Sylvester, was an United States disco and soul music singer, and a gay drag queen performer. He is considered to be one of the first Hi-NRG artists....
, who performed using just his first name, Sylvester. The song was Sylvester's first Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, where it peaked at #8 on the UK singles chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
. It was also a Top 10 hit in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, where the song reached #7. In Sylvester's home country, the single was his second Top 40 hit, peaking at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
 chart in early 1979. The song appears on his 1978 album, Step II. A 12" single was released in 1978, with "Dance (Disco Heat)
Dance (Disco Heat)

"Dance " is the title of a 1978 single by United States disco music singer Sylvester James, who performed using just his first name, Sylvester. The song became Sylvester's first Top 40 hit in the US, where it peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1978; it also reached #29 on the UK singles chart....
" as the A-side and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" as the B-side, and these two extended dance mixes proved to be very popular in the dance clubs at the time. The two songs held down the top spot on the American dance chart
Hot Dance Club Play

Billboard 's Hot Dance Club Play chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. nightclubs. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys who must apply and meet certain criteria to become "Billboard-reporting DJs."...
 for six weeks in August and September of 1978. These two songs helped to establish Sylvester's career as a noted disco and dance music performer, both in the U.S. and abroad.

Other versions

The song has been recorded by other musicians, including British singer Jimmy Somerville
Jimmy Somerville

Jimmy Somerville is a Scotland pop music singer, born and raised in Glasgow. He had considerable success in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and Communards , and has also had a successful solo career....
, formerly of the bands Bronski Beat
Bronski Beat

Bronski Beat were a popular United Kingdom synth pop Trio of the 1980s....
 and Communards. His 1989 version of the song also received substantial club play, and it peaked at #5 on the UK singles chart, making it the highest-charting version of the song in the UK. Somerville's version of this song appears on his first solo album, Read My Lips.

In 1991, actress/comedian/singer Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard

Sandra Bernhard is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures....
 recorded her own version of the single, which is a tribute to James, on her album Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part One). A series of 12" remix singles was released in 1994 by Epic Records
Epic Records

Epic Records is an United States record label. It is owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment. The label was founded in 1953 as a jazz label, and was eventually expanded to several genres of music....
' 550 Music imprint, who also signed Bernhard and picked up her album for a major push that same year. It peaked at number 13 on the Dance Club Play chart in 1995.

Also recording a cover of this song was Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
-born house music
House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
 singer Byron Stingily
Byron Stingily

Byron Stingily is an African American Contemporary R&B and house music singer born in Chicago, Illinois....
, formerly of the band Ten City
Ten City

Ten City was a Chicago, Illinois-based dance-pop/house music act which enjoyed a number of club hits and Urban contemporary radio hits in the late Eighties and early Nineties and was one of the first exponents of deep house....
. Like Sylvester's original recording, Stingily's cover version of "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" also went to #1 on the American dance chart, where it spent one week atop the chart in March of 1998. Although there have been instances where the same song, recorded by two different artists, has reached #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart ("Don't Leave Me This Way
Don't Leave Me This Way

"Don't Leave Me This Way" is an R&B/soul music/disco song written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Cary Gilbert. First charting as a hit for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, an act on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label in 1975, "Don't Leave Me This Way" was later a hit single for both Thelma Houston and The Communards....
" is one example), it is still a fairly rare occurrence. This version also reached #13 in the UK.

See also

  • List of number-one dance hits (United States)
    List of number-one dance hits (United States)

    This is a list of number-one dance hits as recorded by Billboard magazine's Hot Dance Club Play chart — a weekly national survey of popular songs in United States dance clubs....