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Ambrosia – How Much I Feel (with lyrics) 1970s Music (1978)
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Ambrosia – How Much I Feel (with lyrics) 1970s Music (1978)
The Song
“How Much I Feel” is a 1978 song by American rock band Ambrosia. The song, written by the band’s guitarist/vocalist David Pack, was released in the summer of 1978 as the lead single from their third album, Life Beyond L.A., peaking at position three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart[3] and number two for three weeks on the Cash Box Top 100.[4]
The band
Ambrosia formed in Los Angeles, California in 1970. Ambrosia had five top 40 hit singles released between 1975 and 1980, including the top 5 hits “How Much I Feel” and “Biggest Part of Me“, and top 20 hits “You’re the Only Woman (You & I)” and “Holdin’ on to Yesterday“. Most of the original band members have been active with the group continuously for over thirty years to the present day, with the notable exception of original lead vocalist and guitarist David Pack since 2000.
Ambrosia currently tours internationally and has worked in the past and present with Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Alan Parsons, Bruce Hornsby, Bill Champlin, Michael McDonald and Peter Beckett among other notable artists.[1]
Personnel
- David Pack – lead and backing vocals, guitars, acoustic piano, synthesizers, string arrangements
- Joe Puerta – bass, backing vocals
- Burleigh Drummond – drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Jimmie Haskell – string arrangements
Band members
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Studio albums
- Ambrosia (1975)
- Somewhere I’ve Never Travelled (1976)
- Life Beyond L.A. (1978)
- One Eighty (1980)
- Road Island (1982)
Charts
Weekly singles charts
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Covers and sampling
“How Much I Feel” was covered by English duo Alibi; it reached No. 58 on the UK Singles Chart in early 1998.[15]
It was sampled in the song “All Your Fault” by Big Sean featuring Kanye West, the third track on the 2015 album Dark Sky Paradise.[16]
Selected YouTube comments quoted
I remember holding back tears as this song came on while in the backseat of my brother’s car. He was driving me back home. My brother had driven me to another state to see the love of my life. That night, my love and I had a misunderstanding and it ended up being the last time I ever saw him. 10 years later, this song still gets me and I still wonder what went wrong, and how we got so lost in translation. Love has never felt the same since and I don’t think it ever will again.
As a teenager in the 70’s, I had access to some of the best music ever recorded! This was a time when lyrics had true meaning. When music was pure. When artists recorded on analog tape without today’s digital effects. This song is a wonderful reminder of my youth.
As a kid growing up i never fully understood the lyrics but still appreciated the sound and arraingment. How can you love someone enough to watch them leave you..Decades later and i truly understand the bitter truth of these lyrics. It’s not about them leaving, it’s accepting the finality of it all…and the lingering pain of that irreversible love that was lost. Song is heartbreakingly brilliant.
I was a teenager when this song came out. I worked with my big sister at Jack in the Box in Los Angeles around 1977 or 78. There was a young married couple who also worked there. One day the couple were fighting, lots of talk that day that he cheated on her. All my hopes and dreams of love were based on the older people around me. I watched her suffer that day. This song has such a painful but oh so lovely memory for me because when I hear it now, I remember that day, my youth, and my innocence lost. I can feel the 1970s when I hear this song. It is on my ‘right before I die must listen to ‘ song list. This song still makes me cry.
Lyrics from How Much I Feel
But I don’t know how this whole business startedOf you thinkin’ that I had been untrueBut if you think that we’d be better partedIt’s gonna hurt me but I’ll break away from you
Well, just give me the signI will be gone…, yeah…
Feel for you, baby(How much I need)Well I need your touch(How much I live)I live for your lovingThat’s how much, that’s how muchThat’s how much, that’s how muchOoooSleep alone, and late at night I’m dreamin’Of the togethernessThat seems to be leavin’ meOh no(Aaah…)Give it all and then I’d give some more(Aaah…)If you would only love meLike you had before
Well take hold of my handAll will be forgiven…, yeah…
Feel for you, baby(How much I need)I need your touch(How much I live)I live for your lovingWell that’s how much, that’s how muchThat’s how much, that’s how much
So you try, (try)Try to stay in the middle (try)And then you cry, (cry)Well you cry just a little (cry)Then you both realizeJust how foolish you’ve been, oooo(Aaah…)And you try to make amends
But you’re better off as friends‘Cause that’s how much, that’s how muchThat’s how much, that’s how muchOoooHow’s your life been goin’ onI’ve got a wife nowYears we’ve been goin’ strongOh no(Aaah…)There’s just something that I’ve got to say(Aaah…)Sometimes when we make loveI still see your faceOoooJust try to recall when we were as one(Aaah…)That’s how much I feel, feel for you, babyHow much I need I need your touchHow much I live, I live for your lovingThat’s how much
