"I'm Doin' Fine Now" is a song by AmericanR&B groupNew York City. Released in 1973 byChelsea Records from their debut album,I'm Doin' Fine Now (1973), the song reached number 17 on the USBillboardHot 100, number eight on theBillboardEasy Listening chart, number 20 on theUK Singles Chart and number 26 on the CanadianRPM Top Singles chart. It was the 46th most successful song of 1973 in the US.
When it debuted onCasey Kasem'sAmerican Top 40 on April 28, 1973, Kasem remarked that the members of the band were keeping their "day jobs" until they were sure that the band was going to be a big success. At the time of the record's debut on the Top 40, Tim McQueen was a systems analyst at a New York City bank, Claude W. Johnson serviced juke boxes in Harlem, John Brown was an apprentice engineer at a record company, and Edward Schell drove a New York City taxicab.
In 1992, British groupthe Pasadenas released acover of the song, retitled "I'm Doing Fine Now", that peaked at number four in the United Kingdom for four weeks, selling over 200,000 copies in the process.[10] The single was released in January 1992 byColumbia from their third album,Yours Sincerely (1992). It was produced byIan Levine andBilly Griffin, and also reached the top 10 in Belgium, Greece, and Ireland.
