"0"^^ . "Peggy Lee songs" . "1134" . "2009-05-21"^^ . "3895866" . "5714dedf25ac0d8aee4db5b3" . "71150"^^ . "1993-03-06"^^ . "Bang Records singles" . "2"^^ . "201000.0"^^ . "Henry Glover" . "Sound Works Studio" . "1993 singles" . . "Elvis Presley songs" . "Rita Coolidge songs" . "King Records (United States) singles" . "Amanda Lear songs" . "0813b35e-8bed-472e-821f-2e5cc0871479" . . "Capitol Records" . . "Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs number-one singles" . "Song recordings produced by Frank Farian" . . . "english" . . . "Eva Cassidy songs" . "Beyonc\u00E9 songs" . "%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 St\u00E9phane 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." . "Fever" . "Music videos directed by St\u00E9phane Sednaoui" . . "false"^^ . "Bette Midler songs" . . "Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles" . "Number-one singles in Finland" . "The McCoys songs" . "Songs written by Otis Blackwell" . "false"^^ . . "false"^^ . "1966 singles" . "1956 songs" . "0.119798"^^ . "Madonna (entertainer) songs" . "1982 singles" . . "1965 singles" . . "1958 singles" . . "Helen Shapiro songs" . "Fever" . "Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients" . "-0.0367426"^^ . "King Records (United States)" . . "--08-15" . "Gramophone record" . . . "Capitol Records singles" . "GBELT0816642" . "Songs written by Eddie Cooley" .