(Don't Fight It) Feel It

Written By: Sam Cooke    [Abkco Music Ltd. 1961]

Studio Version

Produced By Hugo Peretta and Luigi Creatore

Information

• "he inadvertently run into some trouble with his 1961 single, "Feel It," which some programmers found too risqué. The pop arrangement was fairly innocuous; it's a backhanded acknoledgment to Sam's considerable sex appeal that the self-proclaimed moral authorities could read so much into the tune. Just what, they wondered, was Sam suggesting his partner feel?"   - by Michael Hill in the booklet of Hits!
• First intended for the Simms Twins, but they couldn't get it right. It was intendes as the B-side for "Soothe Me" but was replaces by "I'll Never Come Back To You"

Arranged and Conducted By Stan Applebaum

Recorded At RCA Victor's Studio A in New York on August 9, 1961

Charts    #56 (RCA 7927), #95 (RCA 8751)

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Singles   

• RCA 7927 (Aug 29, 1960) & 1260 & 60262 (New Zealand) b/w It's Alright
• RCA 8751 b/w That's All (Jan 18, 1966)

Albums:   

• Hits! 
• Forever (32-tracks)
• Takeoff
• This is Sam Cooke
• 20 Golden Greats
• The Unforgettable Sam Cooke

Live Version

Albums:    Live at the Harlem Square Club    //    The Man Who Invented Soul (Box)

Lyrics (Studio Version)    /    Chords (live)

Feel it, feel it

Baby when the band is playing and that solid beat
O, make you wanna move, make you wanna groove
make you wanna pat your feet
Don't fight it, don't fight, feel it

No, now when we dance close together
with your cheeck close to mine
and you begin to feel, a funny little thrill
moving up your spine
Don't fight it, don't fight, feel it

Baby, when the swinging music, makes you wanna flip
Don't be in pain, trying to restrain
go ahead and move your hips
Baby when you're dancing near me
and I feel I wanna tease
And when I do, the feeling gets you
when you feel you wanna squeeze
Don't fight it, don't fight, feel it
feel it (many times)

Baby, when the swinging music, makes you wanna flip
Don't be in pain, trying to restrain
go ahead and move your hips
Baby when you're dancing near me
and I feel I wanna tease
And when I do, the feeling gets you
when you feel you wanna squeeze
Don't fight it, don't fight, feel it