This song was begun in January of 1989. Other than the title, some of the melody including the hook, the bridge which is almost intact from the original and the sighs at the ends of the choruses this song barely resembles the original. Sun had written the lyric and as kind of usual was composing the melody while walking around town in between destinations. He had a chorus melody which stayed the same as it is heard on "Inquire Within". With one exception. The musical lines that answer the title used to have words. In various re-writes over the ensuing months and years, all sorts of different ones. He says you’d either roar with laughter or hurl if you heard them...as well as the many versions of the verse lyrics. Sun will only allow the exposure of the original first line of the song: “I’m in a state of euphoria...” Oh brother! We both laugh at this now! Sun’s ‘Hokey Alert System’ was not fully developed at the time which certainly explains the incredibly nauseating lyrics.

            This was not the only fopah Sun made in the early stages of this song. Sun had taken alot of song writing workshops  from the mid 80’s into the early 90’s...like 7 or 8 years (almost like a college education). Though when he started this process and was writing by himself, he had shifted over to working only with collaborators for a few years (The Song Writing) when he began wanting to write some things by himself. These songs were still being composed with other artists in mind but sometimes the process was very personal. “My Baby Makes Me Feel So Good” was one of these. One night walking to work at the Pyramid Sun was trying to make the verse melody a little more interesting and came up with something extraordinary. It sounded familiar but Sun couldn’t put his finger on it.

            When he got to the studio and sang the melody to Art Labriola (Those Nick At Nite Jingles) who did the original basic track they both tried to figure out what old girl group song it sounded like. Art was convinced that it was “Bobby’s Girl” but Sun said it wasn’t. It seemed glaringly obvious but he couldn’t figure it out. That problem was solved when he played it in that week’s workshop. When the song ended the hands shot up. Even the workshop teacher said something like “Okay, who knows what’s wrong with this song?” Joey Bartell said “Whoever wrote “It’s My Party” would sue you for plagiarism!!!”.

            Sun still liked the song enough to go back to the studio, change a few chords and rewrite a bit of the melody. Sun thinks you can hear the influence...if you’re in the know.

            Somewhere around 1990 Sun got turned on to Sam Phillips’ album "The Indescribable Wow" by a guy who worked in a used record and book store. Really, Wow! (Still one of Sun’s favorite albums of all time). What a brilliant songwriter Sam is. Having been in those workshops seemed to be limiting at times. If someone had brought in a song with a chorus that just repeated the title twice they’d’ve been told the chorus was too short or that the title needed answer lines. Which is pretty much the case when writing songs for other artists. Sun still hears this sort of by rote response from stale ears that seem to predominate the music business. The fans don't mind two line choruses at all...especially ones as beautiful and melodic as this one. That type of writing was only acceptable by artists who wrote their own material...and barely at that.

            Sun shelved the song. He hauled it out again in September of 1992 and wrote a completely new first verse, new answer lines for the chorus and revamped the second verse. The  title and bridge remained intact. The song was originally written for a girl to sing about a boy. This version was rewritten two more times before it was tossed back into Sun’s song graveyard. But oh, that title lyric and melody...ah, well...

            When Sun next pulled the song out of the scrap heap he deemed the rewrite lyrics as tragic as the original ones. It was spring of 1999, shortly after Sun had gone into the studio to sketch out what would be the first songs written expressly for some sort of pipe dream solo project (that turned into "Inquire Within") that he pulled out this song as well as “Nowhere”, “Move On” and two other (really beautiful) songs that didn’t make the final cut. These songs seemed worth following through on.

            A reassessment of all of the wretched incarnations of “My Baby Makes Me Feel So Good” reeked of the need for a complete overhaul. If Sun was to do the song himself it would best be served by changing it from third to second person. First of all...Sun is more about the universal appeal of a song and for him to sing it in third person would turn it into a gay song...or if he changed the gender, it would be a lie (imagine, some people don't know that Sun is gay). So the verses got completely rewritten in May of 1999 and inspired by Sam Phillips, the answer lines in the chorus were dropped completely. Oh but how to have the chorus work... He tried changing it to “Baby You Make Me Feel So Good” but it just didn’t feel the same. (He eventually threw one of those in at the end of the last chorus). This time it he just put it on the back burner.

            On December 12th, 1999, while his most cherished cat Monte (short for Montclair), lay dieing on the floor at his feet he sat and quietly examined the lyric one last time. “How to make the verses work in second person with the chorus in third. Hmm...” a few tweaks & the line, “I couldn’t imagine how it would feel to say”, the dillemma was solved and the last of the severe hokum was gone. What was left was just plain delicious sweetness. He looked down at Monte, typed a dedication to him, then got up to lay down a scratch vocal on the original sketch track. Sun has no tracking equipment so he has to come as close as possible to nailing vocals done at home in one pass. This can take more than a dozen passes. Right before the third pass he looked down at Monte then sang one of the best single pass vocals he’d ever sang. Monte began going into death throes about 2 hours later and was gone later that evening. For over 18 years Monte was the constant  and loyal “Baby” who made Sun “Feel So Good”. Sun fell apart while recounting this story.

            The next day, Sun put together the first draft of "Inquire Within". “My Baby Makes Me Feel So Good” was on it.