Morris Albert is a Brazilian singer-songwriter who wrote and recorded one of the most famous, and most gently mocked, soft-rock ballads of the 1970s. "Feelings", released in 1974 and a global hit in 1975, is a lush, sentimental ballad built around its "feelings, nothing more than feelings" refrain, and it became a worldwide standard, covered by countless artists.
Albert was never able to follow it, and to the wider world he is defined entirely by that one tender, much-parodied song.
On streaming, "Feelings" sits near 29 million plays, while his next most-streamed track trails at around four million. That sends the ratio above 7, past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Morris Albert is a certified one-hit wonder. His is a classic soft-rock story: a songwriter who struck a universal nerve with one earnest, emotional ballad that became a karaoke and easy-listening standard the world over, then never came close again, leaving that single sentimental song standing far ahead of everything else he recorded. For all the gentle mockery it has attracted over the years, "Feelings" remains one of the most recognisable ballads of its era, a karaoke perennial that has comfortably outlived everything else in his catalogue.