Feelings - Morris Albert song
a song with lyrics written by Brazilian singer Morris Albert, set to the tune of "Pour Toi" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZrQhuC6Gs separately composed by Louis “Loulou” Gasté in 1957. Albert recorded "Feelings" as a single and later included it as the title track of his 1975 debut album. The song's lyrics, recognizable by their "whoa whoa whoa" chorus, concern the singer's inability to "forget my feelings of love". Albert's original recording of the song was very successful, performing well internationally. In mid-1975, "Feelings" peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart in the United States.
Dispute:
At the time of "Feelings"'s greatest commercial success, it was solely credited to Albert himself. In 1981, the French songwriter Loulou Gasté sued Morris Albert for copyright infringement, claiming that "Feelings" plagiarized the melody of his 1957 song "Pour Toi". Gasté won the lawsuit; they now share the credits of the song.[5]
Recordings of the song have credited authorship variously to Albert alone, to Albert and Gasté (since the late 1980s), to Albert and Michel Jourdan (because of the French lyrics Dis-Lui), and to Albert and "Kaisermann". The last of these attributions is redundant, since the singer's real name is Mauricio Alberto Kaisermann.
Morris Albert's ''Feelings'' was not his own, a Manhattan jury has decided.
Mr. Albert introduced the song under his own name in 1975 and recorded it in a version that earned him a Gold Record award for selling more than a million copies. It has since been recorded by Julio Iglesias, Vic Damone, Dionne Warwick and Percy Faith, among others.
But a French composer, Louis Gaste, sued Mr. Albert for plagiarism, arguing that ''Feelings'' was essentially a song he had written in 1956.
The jury, in Federal District Court in Manhattan, found that more than 80 percent of ''Feelings'' had been taken from Mr. Gaste's ''Pour Toi'' and that Mr. Gaste is entitled to a settlement of at least $500,000.
Mr. Gaste's wife, the singer Line Renaud, said yesterday that her husband had first heard the French version of ''Feelings'' in a Paris cafe. He thought it was an arrangement of ''Pour Toi,'' and was pleased to think that his song - which had not been a big hit when it came out - was back in circulation.
Later he ran into two musicians from the orchestra that had recorded ''Pour Toi'' with Miss Renaud in 1956. They told him it was a different song.
After some musicological sleuthing, Mr. Gaste, who is 79 years old, traced ''Feelings'' to a Brazilian music publishing house that had once handled ''Pour Toi.'' Mr. Gaste asserted that the publisher gave ''Pour Toi'' to Mr. Albert, who copied it, changing only a few bars.
