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  • Fever
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  • Gramophone record
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  • eng
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  • 1993 singles
  • Capitol Records singles
  • 1958 singles
  • 1966 singles
  • Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs number-one singles
  • Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles
  • Elvis Presley songs
  • Eva Cassidy songs
  • Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
  • 1965 singles
  • 1956 songs
  • The McCoys songs
  • 1982 singles
  • Amanda Lear songs
  • Bang Records singles
  • Bette Midler songs
  • Beyoncé songs
  • Helen Shapiro songs
  • King Records (United States) singles
  • Madonna (entertainer) songs
  • Music videos directed by Stéphane Sednaoui
  • Number-one singles in Finland
  • Peggy Lee songs
  • Rita Coolidge songs
  • Song recordings produced by Frank Farian
  • Songs written by Eddie Cooley
  • Songs written by Otis Blackwell
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  • %22Fever%22 is a song written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell, who used the pseudonym John Davenport. It was originally recorded by American R&B singer Little Willie John in 1956 and released as a single in April of the same year. The song managed to top the Billboard R&B Best Sellers in the US and peak at number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was received positively by music critics and included on several lists of the best songs during the time it was released.It has been covered by numerous artists from various musical genres, most notably by Peggy Lee whose rendition became the most widely known version of %22Fever%22 and the singer's signature song. Lee's version contained rewritten lyrics different from the original and an altered music arrangement. It became a top-five hit on the music charts in the UK and Australia in addition to entering the top ten in the US and the Netherlands. %22Fever%22 was nominated in three categories at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year.Other notable cover versions of %22Fever%22 include those by Elvis Presley, The McCoys, La Lupe and Madonna. The latter released it as a single from her fifth studio album Erotica (1992) in March 1993 through Warner Bros. It topped the charts in Finland and the Hot Dance Club Songs in the US in addition to charting in the top 50 in many other countries. Madonna promoted %22Fever%22 by filming and releasing a music video directed by Stéphane Sednaoui and performing the song on several television shows as well as her 1993 The Girlie Show World Tour. Various versions of %22Fever%22 by different artists were used in many films, theater plays and television shows.
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