You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"
Single by Sylvester
from the album Step II
B-side"Grateful"
ReleasedOctober 1978 (U.S.)
Recorded1978
Genre
Length6:40 (album)
3:35 (single)
LabelFantasy
Songwriter(s)
  • James Wirrick
  • Sylvester James
Producer(s)
Sylvester singles chronology
"Dance (Disco Heat)"
(1978)
"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"
(1978)
"I (Who Have Nothing)"
(1979)
Music video
"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" on YouTube

"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is a 1978 song by American disco/R&B singer Sylvester. It was written by James Wirrick 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 late 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".[1]

In 2003, Q Magazine included "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever".[2] In 2019, the song was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3] In 2023, Billboard ranked it among the "500 Best Pop Songs of All Time".[4]

  1. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: S". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 13, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  2. ^ "Q - 1001 best songs ever (2003)".
  3. ^ Andrews, Travis M. (March 20, 2019). "Jay-Z, a speech by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and 'Schoolhouse Rock!' among recordings deemed classics by Library of Congress". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 3, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  4. ^ "The 500 Best Pop Songs: Staff List". Billboard. October 19, 2023. Retrieved October 20, 2023.