There's a lot of cheerful "la la la" singing in this song and the recording includes people having fun in the background. It sounds like they're on a party boat somewhere. It could be worse.
Travis Lewis and Boomer Clarke were pseudonyms of Michael Martin Murphey (born 1945) and Boomer Castleman (1945-2015). "I Feel Good (I Feel Bad)" did much better in Toronto than most places, as it only reached #64 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Lewis & Clarke Expedition released one album before Murphey and Castleman went on to other things. Murphey became an early exponent of what was termed "progressive country" and hit it big in 1975 with "Wildfire". Castleman became a session guitarist based in Nashville and invented the palm pedal, which enables a guitarist to bend strings to emulate the sound of a pedal steel guitar.
Created February 20, 2026.