Chuck (Harold) Willis had a number eight R&B hit with "Feels So Bad" (Willis) in the summer of 1954. This appears on the LP "Chuck Willis Wails The Blues". Wikipedia "he paid the band out of his own pocket without ever deducting taxes. ... When he died, his wife had the house, she had the fur coats and the Cadillac, but there was no money."

The Elvis Presley version of "I Feel So Bad" was released in 1961 and it reached number five on the Top One Hundred while peaking at number fifteen on the R&B chart.