# RIP Chuck Mangione

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-chuck-mangione/1021297>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [July 25, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-chuck-mangione/1021297 "2025-07-25T00:31:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-chuck-mangione/1021297/1 "2025-07-25T00:31:57Z")

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> **[Chuck Mangione, ‘Smooth Jazz’ Hitmaker With a Fluegelhorn, Dies at 84](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/arts/music/chuck-mangione-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZE8.NeNd.lK0HJYifW7FO&smid=url-share)**
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> Wearing his signature fedora, he won wide popularity and 14 Grammy nominations, winning twice, and scaled Billboard’s adult contemporary charts in the 1970s and ’80s.

Gift link

Another one leaves us.

His song “Feels So Good” was the soundtrack of an ill-fated romance in 1978-ish that _felt so good_ at the time. It’s been long enough that I can look back with nostalgia.

Thanks for the memories, Chuck. ❤

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-chuck-mangione/1021297/2 "2025-07-25T00:32:20Z")

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Another thread already exists.

I’ll link shortly.

> [@Next up on the dead B-list celebrity list, Chuck Mangione](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-up-on-the-dead-b-list-celebrity-list-chuck-mangione/1021280):
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> [[Chuck Mangione Compilation | King of the Hill] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFqp2Bcekwk)