Chuck Mangione ft Esther Satterfield - Land of Make Believe (A&M Records 1973)

Описание: "Land of Make Believe" is a 1973 jazz album and song by Chuck Mangione. Chuck is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.

Esther Satterfield is a US-American Soul, jazz & pop singer. She sang on such songs on the LPs "Chase The Clouds Away (1975)" and "Land Of Make Believe... A Chuck Mangione Concert (1974)" of Chuck Mangione. He produced her albums too. She married her late husband Jake Jordan and now is known as Esther Jordan. She had 6 children and currently resides in Maryland.

Charles Frank Mangione (November 29, 1940 – July 22, 2025) was an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter, and composer. He came to prominence as a member of Art Blakey's band in the 1960s, and later co-led the Jazz Brothers with his brother, Gap, achieving international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single "Feels So Good". He released more than 30 albums, beginning in 1960s. He also appeared in various television shows including a recurring role on King of the Hill.

Mangione grew up in Rochester, New York to Italian parents. His parents were jazz enthusiasts who owned a grocery store. While at elementary school, he began music lessons beginning with piano but later after watching Young Man with a Horn, switching to trumpet. With his pianist brother, Gap, he started a band in high school and played in sessions with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.

Mangione played with Art Blakey's band in the 1960s. He and his brother led the Mangione Brothers Sextet/Quintet, who recorded three albums for Riverside Records before Mangione branched out with other work. One of his compositions for the Mangione Brothers Sextet, "Something Different", was recorded by Cannonball Adderley on Adderley's 1961 album African Waltz. Mangione attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester from 1958 to 1963 where he started playing the flugelhorn. He then joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, filling the trumpet chair previously held by Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Dorham, Bill Hardman, and Lee Morgan.

In 1970, he recorded the album Friends and Love in concert with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and guest performers. Mangione's quartet with saxophonist Gerry Niewood was a popular concert and recording act throughout the 1970s. "Bellavia", recorded during the collaboration won Mangione his first Grammy Award in 1977 in the category Best Instrumental Composition.

The song "Feels So Good" became a rare instrumental Top Ten hit, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978. In 1980 Current Biography, a magazine, called "Feels So Good" the most recognized tune since "Michelle" by the Beatles.

In addition to music, Mangione made appearances in television shows including Magnum, P.I. and Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show on CBC. He had a recurring role on the animated television series King of the Hill as a fictional version of himself being a celebrity spokesman for the "Mega Lo Mart". His 2000 album Everything For Love contains a track titled "Peggy Hill" as an homage to the series.

On July 22, 2025, Mangione died of natural causes in his sleep at his Rochester home. He was 84 years old.

When you're feeling down and out
Wondering what this world's about
I know a place that has the answer.

It's a place where no one dies.
It's a land where no one cries.
And good vibrations always
Greet you.

How I love when my thoughts run
To the land of make believe.
Where everything is fun
Forever.

Children always gather around
Mother Goose and all her rhyme
They fill the air with sounds
Of laughter.

People dancing
Their hearts are filled
With all the reasons why.
You and I should learn the way
Of the land of make believe
And make this world of ours
Much brighter.

[Mangione on flugelhorn solo]

I once asked the Wizard of Oz
For the secret of his land
He said, "Just take a look around here."
Seven dwarves and Little Boy Blue,
Uncle Remus and Snow White, too.
(Now, just between us,
That's what's known as integration.)

Jack and Jill are hard at work
Helping children dream awhile,
And Snoopys making smiles
For grown-ups.

All the elves are making toys
They are rich with all the joys
Of seeing happy kids
At Christmas.

We are waiting
To help you find
The dream made just for you.

In a few words let's just say
That in answer to your quiz
Imagination is
The secret."

[Saxophone solo]

[Orchestra fugues a while]

Hear the music of the band
It was written in our land
For what's a song but someone's
Dream?

In your world there was a King
He once said, "I have a dream,"
Now there's a man who new
The secret.

Dreams are really
The thoughts that you
Have hidden in your heart.

When you start a brand new day
Let your heart show you the way
And make a dream or two
Come true.

How I love when my thoughts run
To the land of make believe
Where everything is fun
Forever.

[Mangione]