hypersongs

How Much I Feel

Pack's ballad, a number 3 hit in the US in 1978.
Ambrosia, from Life Beyond L.A. (1978)

David Pack wrote it and sings lead. It came out as a single in August 1978, Warner Bros. 8640, with "Ready for Camarillo" on the B-side, produced by Freddie Piro and the band, with Puerta on bass, Drummond on drums and Jimmie Haskell's strings. It reached 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, 2 on Cash Box and in Canada, and 11 on adult contemporary, and was certified Gold, their first Gold single. A promotional video was directed by Bruce Gower, who also directed Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" video. Drummond told Classic Rock Bob that when it arrived FM stations accused them of abandoning them, and that it drew a younger, largely female audience.

American Songwriter reads it as a love song in which the narrator does not understand why his partner is pulling away, with a last verse where he has a new wife but still pines; Songfacts hears a man still hung up on a woman long after the breakup. We found no direct quote from Pack on writing it. The English duo Alibi covered it to 58 in the UK in 1998, and Big Sean sampled it in "All Your Fault" with Kanye West (2015). Setlist.fm lists it as their second most-played song, with 211 plays. Our upload is presumably the album version, though we have not verified that.

On stage

  • 2011-05-02, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon A yacht-rock segment.

Covers and versions

  • Alibi (1998) Reached 58 in the UK.

Sources

  1. How Much I Feel, Wikipedia
  2. David Pack bio, David Pack
  3. The two tastes of Ambrosia, Classic Rock Bob (2022-09-23)