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"Feelin' Alright?", also known as "Feeling Alright", is a song written by Dave Mason of the English rock band Traffic for their eponymous 1968 album Traffic. It was also released as a single, and failed to chart in both the UK and the US, but it did reach a bubbling under position of #123 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
The album was somewhat of a departure from the psychedelia of Traffic's debut, featuring a more eclectic display of influences from blues to folk and jazz. Mason ended up writing and singing half of the songs on the album (including his biggest hit "Feelin' Alright?"), but making scant contribution to the songs written by Jim Capaldi and Steve ...
The US version of the album had completely different artwork and a slightly different track listing [11] to cater for the US market, including the track "Straight Mackin'" which replaced "Number One" ("Straight Mackin'" was the B-side to the international single "Number One" [12]). "The Way You Work It" was remixed for the US album.
Their first single, "Feelin' Alright", sold over 60,000 copies in the UK [9] and peaked at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. [11] E.Y.C.'s debut album, Express Yourself Clearly, peaked at number 14 on the UK Albums Chart. [11] The band sold over 500,000 records outside the US. [12]
Best of Traffic is a compilation album by the band Traffic, released in 1969. The U.S. LP version of the compilation had a different cover design and replaced "Smiling Phases" with "You Can All Join In".
Feelin' Alright: The Very Best of Traffic – 2000 (re-released in 2007 as The Definitive Collection, part of Universal's The Definitive Collection series) The Collection – 2002; 20th Century Masters - The Best of Traffic - The Millennium Collection – 2003 (part of Universal's 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection series)
Feeling Alright may refer to: "Feelin' Alright?", a 1968 song by Traffic, made famous by a 1969 version by Joe Cocker retitled "Feeling Alright"; also recorded by many other artists "Feelin' Alright" (Len song), 1999 song by Canadian alternative rock group Len; Feelin' All Right, 1981 album by the New Riders of the Purple Sage
The album was released on the Dunhill record label on June 11, 1969 [1] and was the first of two albums released by the band that year. The album contains the top 20 hit singles "Easy to Be Hard", "Eli's Coming", and "Celebrate"; the latter of which (along with the album's opening track "Feelin' Alright") featured the Chicago horn section.