Fever (Little Willie John song)#Peggy Lee version

The idea for "Fever" was presented to Otis Blackwell by an old friend, Eddie Cooley, who had a hit song called "Priscilla" in 1956.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/fever-mt0010797774|title=Fever – Little Willie John|publisher=AllMusic|first=Bill|last=Dahl|access-date=September 8, 2014}} Blackwell said: "Eddie Cooley was a friend of mine from New York and he called me up and said 'Man, I got an idea for a song called 'Fever', but I can't finish it.' I had to write it under another name because, at that time, I was still under contract to Joe Davis." John Davenport, the name he used, was the name of Blackwell's stepfather.{{cite web|url=http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/eddie_cooley.htm|title=EDDIE COOLEY|website=Rockabilly.nl|access-date=March 28, 2018}} Little Willie John reportedly disliked the song, but was persuaded to record it, on March 1, 1956, by King Records owner Syd Nathan and arranger and producer Henry Glover.{{cite web|url=http://www.peggyleediscography.com/LeeResearchFever.html|title=Peggy Lee – Research About The Song Fever|website=Peggyleediscography.com|access-date=March 28, 2018|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204758/http://www.peggyleediscography.com/LeeResearchFever.html|url-status=dead}} It became the title track for his debut album, Fever, released in 1956.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/fever-mw0001279346|title=Little Willie John > Fever|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=May 18, 2018}} "Fever" is a soul and rhythm and blues minor key opus with an arrangement consisting of low saxophones played by Ray Felder and Rufus "Nose" Gore and guitar by Bill Jennings. The vocal style of Willie John is similar to moaning and he is backed by finger snaps. Bill Dahl from the website AllMusic noted a contrast between the song's "ominous" arrangement and the vocals along with the finger snapping which "marginally lightened the mood".

"Fever" was released as a single in April 1956 and became a double-sided hit along with the top-ten R&B song "Letter from My Darling". "Fever" was number one for three weeks on the Billboard R&B Best Sellers chart in the United States, peaking at the top on July 21, 1956.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/little-willie-john-mn0000269972/awards|title=Little Willie John – Awards|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=September 8, 2014}} It also made the pop charts, peaking at number 24 on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores.{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=301}} The single sold one million copies in the US. The song won the BMI Award for Best R&B song.{{Cite magazine|date=December 22, 1956|title=BMI Best Songs|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/50s/1956/Billboard%201956-12-22.pdf|magazine=Billboard|pages=34}}

The song was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=0899190251|chapter=A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php|access-date=March 16, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}} He later described it as a very "fervid" song.{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Little+Willie+John|title=Consumer Guide Reviews: Little Willie John|publisher=Robert Christgau|access-date=September 7, 2014}} Bill Dahl from the website AllMusic credited "Fever" for winning the "boisterous teen an across-the-board audience" for Willie John. The writer further opined that the singer's "sweaty case of love-rooted 'Fever' was seemingly grave, judging from his riveting intensity, yet he doesn't sound like he minds at all". New Musical Express magazine listed "Fever" as the 96th best song of the 1950s.{{cite news|url=https://www.nme.com/list/100-best-songs-of-the-1950s/262449/article/262460|title=100 Best Songs of the 1950s – #96 Little Willie John, 'Fever'|work=NME|access-date=September 7, 2014}} In his The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made list published in 1989, critic Dave Marsh ranked "Fever" at the position of 109.{{cite web|url=http://www.control.lth.se/~anton/personal/music/1001_number.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020204203107/http://www.control.lth.se/~anton/personal/music/1001_number.html|title=The 1001 Greatest Singles, by Number|first=Dave|last=Marsh|author-link=Dave Marsh|publisher=Control.lth.se|archive-date=February 4, 2002|access-date=September 11, 2014}} The song was included on the greatest hits albums Fever: The Best of Little Willie John (1993) and The Very Best of Little Willie John (2001).{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/fever-the-best-of-little-willie-john-mw0000104586|title=Fever: The Best of Little Willie John – Little Willie John|publisher=AllMusic|first=Ron|last=Wynn|access-date=September 7, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-very-best-of-little-willie-john-mw0000591516|title=The Very Best of Little Willie John – Little Willie John|publisher=AllMusic|first=Heather|last=Phares|access-date=September 7, 2014}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Fever

| cover = Fever peggy lee.jpg

| alt =

| border = yes

| caption = Label of the US vinyl single

| type = single

| artist = Peggy Lee

| B-side = You Don't Know

| released = June 1958

| recorded = May 19, 1958{{Cite web|url=http://www.peggyleediscography.com/p/capitolee2a.php|title=Peggy Lee Discography – The Capitol Years, Part 4|website=Peggyleediscography.com|access-date=April 17, 2020}}

| studio = Capitol Records (Hollywood, California)

| genre =

• Jazz
• R&B{{cite book|first= Bob |last= Stanley |year= 2022 |title= Let's Do It – The Birth of Pop Music: A History|chapter= Breaks A New Heart Every Day: Peggy Lee|publisher= Pegasus Books|location= New York|page= 431}}

| length = 3:21

| label = Capitol

| writer =

• Peggy Lee
• Eddie Cooley
• John Davenport

| producer =

• Eddie Cooley
• John Davenport

| prev_title = Joey, Joey, Joey

| prev_year = 1956

| next_title = Light of Love

| next_year = 1958

}}

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In May 1958, Peggy Lee recorded a cover version of "Fever" in Hollywood, which featured significantly rewritten lyrics composed by Lee herself without credit.{{cite book |last=Richmond |first=Peter |title=Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee |year=2007 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-1-466-81880-4 |page=318 |access-date=September 15, 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UlmXdbjmCZ0C&q=%22peggy%20lee%22%20lyrics&pg=PA318}} The song was not included on Lee's album, Things Are Swingin', when it was first released in 1959, but was listed as a bonus track on its 2004 reissue release. The uncopyrighted lyrics by Lee featured historical invocations (including the verses beginning "Romeo loved Juliet," and "Captain Smith and Pocahontas") and are now generally thought of as a standard part of the song, having been included in most subsequent covers of "Fever".

Lee's cover, arranged by the singer herself with arranger/conductor Jack Marshall, was described as being in "torchy lounge" mode, accompanied only by bass (played by Joe Mondragon) and a very limited drum set (played in part with fingers by Shelly Manne), while the finger snaps were provided either by the singer herself, by Howard Roberts, the guitarist for the date, who set aside his guitar for this number, or possibly even by the producer, Dave Cavanaugh.{{cite web|url=http://www.peggyleediscography.com/p/LeeResearchFever.php|title=The Peggy Lee Bio-Discography And Videography: Observations About The Song 'Fever'|first=Iván|last=Santiago-Mercado|access-date=October 5, 2015}} Lee's rendition was further described as "smooth, sultry".{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fever-singer-peggy-lee-is-hot-again/|title="Fever" Singer Peggy Lee Is Hot Again|publisher=CBS News|date=May 17, 2010|access-date=September 8, 2014}} It is written in the key of A Minor in a medium swing tempo with 135 beats per minute. Lee's vocals span from the musical note of G₃ to B₄.{{cite web|url=http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0102076|title=Peggy Lee "Fever" Sheet Music|date=April 16, 2012|publisher=Musicnotes.com. BMG Rights Management|access-date=September 8, 2014}}

A writer of the website NPR deemed "Fever" Lee's "most memorable tune" and considered it to be "slinky and inimitable". He went on to note that it displayed characteristics which were most remembered about the singer – "her playful delivery, charisma and sexuality".{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5386545|title=Delving into Peggy Lee's Steamy Mystique|publisher=NPR|date=May 6, 2006|access-date=September 10, 2014}} John Bush from the website AllMusic opined that the singer excelled in sounding "sizzling" in the song.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-best-of-miss-peggy-lee-mw0000601256|title=The Best of Miss Peggy Lee – Peggy Lee|publisher=AllMusic|first=John|last=Bush|access-date=September 10, 2014}} John Fordham, writing for The Guardian, felt that the "heated" atmosphere heard on Lee's version of "Fever", "has an underlying suggestion that the person raising the temperature for her right now doesn't have to be the one doing it next week".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/22/guardianobituaries.johnfordham|title=Peggy Lee|first=John|last=Fordham|work=The Guardian|date=January 22, 2002|access-date=12 September 2014}}

Lee's version peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and spent a total of 12 weeks on that chart. It was her only top 10 hit on the Hot 100. It reached a peak of number five on the UK Singles Chart, where it first appeared on August 15, 1958. A reissue of the single charted again in 1992, appearing at number 75 and staying for only one week. Elsewhere in Europe, Lee's "Fever" peaked at number eight on January 3, 1959, on the Dutch Singles Chart in Netherlands for five consecutive weeks before falling off the chart. The song also peaked at number two on the Australian Singles Chart compiled by Kent Music Report, and emerged as the twentieth-best-selling single of 1958 in that country.

"Fever" was nominated in the categories for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards held in 1959.{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/news/grammy-rewind-1st-annual-grammy-awards|title=GRAMMY Rewind: 1st Annual Grammy Awards|publisher=National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences|date=January 4, 2012|access-date=September 8, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://peggylee.com/all-about-peggy/the-grammys/|title=The Grammys – Peggy Lee|publisher=Peggylee.com|access-date=September 11, 2014}} The track became Lee's signature song and her best-known work, in addition to becoming her most successful hit.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/things-are-swingin-bonus-tracks-mw0000338602|title=Things Are Swingin' – Peggy Lee|publisher=AllMusic|first=John|last=Bush|access-date=September 8, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1451865/singer-peggy-lee-who-gave-the-world-fever-dies-at-81/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908133904/http://www.mtv.com/news/1451865/singer-peggy-lee-who-gave-the-world-fever-dies-at-81/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 8, 2014|title=Singer Peggy Lee, Who Gave The World 'Fever,' Dies at 81|publisher=MTV News|first=Jon|last=Wiederhorn|date=January 22, 2002|access-date=September 8, 2014}} It was ranked at number 100 in the book and the accompanying list 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die by Robert Dimery.{{cite book|first1=Robert|last1=Dimery|first2=Tony|last2=Visconti|date=2010|title=1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die|location=United Kingdom|publisher=Quintessence Editions|isbn=978-0789320896}}

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{{Infobox song

| name = Fever

| cover = Madonna - Fever.png

| alt =

| caption = Artwork for all commercial non-US releases

| type = single

| artist = Madonna

| album = Erotica

| released = March 6, 1993

| recorded = August 15, 1992

| studio = Soundworks (New York)

| venue =

| genre =

• Dance
• house
• deep house{{Cite podcast|url=https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/hit_parade/2018/03/how_madonna_turned_electronica_into_pop_for_her_1998_comeback.html|title= Hit Parade: the Veronica Electronica Edition|website=Hit Parade {{!}} Music History and Music Trivia|publisher=Slate|last=Molanphy|first=Chris|date=March 29, 2018|access-date=July 18, 2023}}

| length = 5:00

| label =

• Maverick
• Sire
• Warner Bros.

| writer =

• Eddie Cooley
• John Davenport
• Peggy Lee (uncredited)

| producer =

• Madonna
• Shep Pettibone

| prev_title = Bad Girl

| prev_year = 1993

| next_title = Rain

| next_year = 1993

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|P0kJ3r9j5MQ|"Fever"}}}}

}}

In 1992, American singer and songwriter Madonna recorded a cover version of "Fever" for her fifth studio album, Erotica (1992). It was released on March 6, 1993, by Maverick, Sire and Warner Bros.. Madonna served as a producer for the song along with Shep Pettibone. She was in the studio putting down tracks for the album and had just recorded a song called "Goodbye to Innocence".{{cite news|url=http://www.sheppettibone.com/sp_erotica_diaries.htm |title=Erotica Diaries – Written by Shep Pettibone |last=Pettibone |first=Shep |author-link=Shep Pettibone |publisher=ShepPettibone.com |access-date=July 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830193214/http://www.sheppettibone.com/sp_erotica_diaries.htm |archive-date=August 30, 2011 |url-status=dead }} She was going through the final stages of production on the song and suddenly started singing the lyrics to "Fever" over "Goodbye to Innocence". Madonna liked the way it sounded so much that she recorded it. In September 2008, Madonna's version was used in television promos for the fifth season of Desperate Housewives.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OBQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31|title=Sounds and Visions|magazine=Billboard|page=31|date=November 22, 2008|volume=120|issue=47|issn=0006-2510|access-date=September 7, 2014}}

According to author Rikky Rooksby, Madonna changed the composition of the original version by adding drum rhythms, accompanied by a beatbox sound like snare drums. Removing the chord progression of the original, Madonna introduces original lyrics into the song. Instrumentation of the track includes strings, marimba and finger-pops at various intervals throughout. Rooksby noticed that Madonna sang with a distant and disembodied voice, and relegated it to the dance music accompanying the lyrics.{{harvnb|Rooksby|2004|pp=39–40}}

In the United States, "Fever" was not released as a commercial single. It was released promotionally and became a dance hit, becoming Madonna's 15th song to hit number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. It topped the chart for the issue dated May 15, 1993, in its seventh week of ascending.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/1993-05-15/dance-club-play-songs|title=Dance Club Songs : May 15, 1993|magazine=Billboard|access-date=September 3, 2014}} In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at its peak position of number six on the UK Singles Chart on the issue dated April 3, 1993, and had sold 86,077 copies by August 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storycode=1035210|title=The immaculate guide to 50 years of Madonna|last=Jones|first=Alan|date=August 19, 2008|access-date=February 21, 2013|work=Music Week|archive-date=August 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080825001206/http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storycode=1035210}} It peaked at number one on the Finnish Singles Chart on April 15, 1993. In Ireland it entered the top ten of the Irish Singles Chart, peaking at the position of six and charting for four weeks. Elsewhere, it peaked at numbers 12 in Italy, 17 in New Zealand, 22 on the Ultratop chart of the Flanders region in Belgium, 31 in France and 51 in Australia.

The Baltimore Sun{{'s}} J. D. Considine praised the song as a "sassy, house-style remake" of the original version. He noted that when Madonna and the team of producers that worked on the album "push beyond the expected... [it] really heats up, providing a sound that is body-conscious in the best sense of the term", exemplifying his statements with "Fever".{{cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1992/10/18/madonnas-erotica-delivers-more-than-just-sexuality/|title=Madonna's 'Erotica' delivers more than just sexuality|work=The Baltimore Sun|first=J. D.|last=Considine|author-link=J. D. Considine|date=October 18, 1992|access-date=May 12, 2014}} A writer from Billboard called the song a "house-inflected rendition" and noted it was single-worthy.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2REEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA62|title=Madonna – Erotica |magazine=Billboard|date=October 24, 1992|page=62|volume=103|issue=41|access-date=September 3, 2014}} In August 2018, the magazine named it as the singer's 66th greatest single; "while most versions of this classic smolder, Madonna gets distant and detached, delivering an icy club banger that sounds less like a torch song from yesteryear and more like a soundtrack for anonymous encounters that would make Ms. Lee blush".{{cite magazine |title=The 100 Greatest Madonna Songs: Critics' Picks |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/8469835/100-greatest-madonna-songs-list |magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 25, 2018 |date=August 15, 2018}} Hunter Hauk from the Dallas Observer deemed it "subtly soulful and custom made for Madonna's pre-vocal-lesson voice".{{cite web |last1=Huk |first1=Haunter |title=The 20 Best Madonna Songs You Won't Hear at the Super Bowl |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/the-20-best-madonna-songs-you-wont-hear-at-the-super-bowl-7056019 |work=Dallas Observer |access-date=June 5, 2019 |date=February 3, 2012}} David Browne of Entertainment Weekly criticized Madonna's voice as "souless", "You and Shep sure do a bang-up job – pun intended – transforming 'Fever,' that old Peggy Lee hit, into a techno drone, but listen to the parched sound emitted from your throat on such tracks. It's cold, deadened, remote."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,312101,00.html|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|first=David|last=Browne|title=Music Review: Erotica, by Madonna|date=October 23, 1992|access-date=September 3, 2014|author-link=David Browne (journalist)|archive-date=December 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216003522/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,312101,00.html|url-status=dead}} Jude Rogers from The Guardian called it an "unnecessary trance-era update of pop's most achingly simple song about sex"; nonetheless, she placed the song at number 72 on her ranking of Madonna's singles, in honor of her 60th birthday.{{cite web |last1=Rogers |first1=Jude | author-link = Jude Rogers |title=Every one of Madonna's 78 singles – ranked! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/16/every-one-of-madonnas-78-singles-ranked |work=The Guardian |access-date=August 26, 2018 |date=August 16, 2018}}

In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton stated that "her crown is intact."{{cite web|last=Masterton|first=James|title=Week Ending April 3rd 1993|url=https://chart-watch.uk/archives/1993/week-ending-april-3rd-1993|website=Chart Watch UK|date=March 28, 1993|accessdate=September 11, 2021|author-link=James Masterton}} Alan Jones from Music Week gave it four out of five and named it Pick of the Week, adding that "this is fairly tame in original album edit, but packs more punch and dancefloor possibilities in selection of Pettihone [sic]/Falcon/Gaeten mixes, and should maintain her now record sequence of consecutive Top 10 hits."{{cite magazine|first= Alan |last= Jones |title= Market Preview: Mainstream – Singles – Pick of the Week |magazine= Music Week |date= March 27, 1993 |page= 30 |accessdate= March 31, 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1993/Music-Week-1993-03-27.pdf}} The New York Times editor Stephen Holden wrote that "the album's softer moments include a silky hip-hop arrangement of 'Fever'".{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/18/arts/recordings-view-selling-sex-and-oh-yes-a-record.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm| work=The New York Times|first=Stephen|last=Holden|title=Recordings View; Selling Sex and (Oh, Yes) a Record|date=October 18, 1992|access-date=September 3, 2014|author-link=Stephen Holden}} Author Rikky Rooksby, described it as "unsexy", and called it a "sterile track" which is "certainly misplaced as the second track of [Erotica]". Slant Magazine{{'}} Sal Cinquemani opined that it's "Madonna's vocal performance that's the real star here [...] she may lack Peggy Lee's command, but she exudes a detached confidence and control that is the pitch-perfect embodiment of Erotica{{'}}s main thesis: love hurts".{{cite web |last1=Cinquemani |first1=Sal |title=The Beat Goes On: Every Madonna Single Ranked |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/the-beat-goes-on-every-madonna-single-ranked/5/ |work=Slant Magazine |access-date=May 14, 2019 |date=August 1, 2018}} Alfred Soto of Stylus Magazine felt that this song has its unique, idiosyncratic energy which he compared with material by Joni Mitchell from her album Blue (1971).{{cite web|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/madonna-erotica.htm|title=Madonna – Erotica – On Second Thought|first=Alfred|last=Soto|work=Stylus Magazine|date=January 17, 2006|access-date=May 12, 2014|archive-date=May 30, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060530143324/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/madonna-erotica.htm|url-status=dead}} The Washington Post{{'}}s Richard Harrington deemed it a "cool mechanical recitation in which more attention is paid to the pulse of the music than that of the heart."{{cite news|last=Harrington|first=Richard|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/10/21/the-madonna-pornucopia/fe69f452-50a6-4f9c-8a8d-aa6047cb749f/|title=The Madonna Pornucopia|date=October 21, 1992|access-date=July 19, 2020|newspaper=The Washington Post}}

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The accompanying music video for "Fever", directed by French director Stéphane Sednaoui, was shot on April 10–11, 1993 at Greenwich Studios in Miami, Florida,{{cite web|url=http://www.madonna.com/news/title/madonnas-fever-video-is-filmed-by-stephane-sednaoui-in-miami|title=Madonna.com > News > Madonna's Fever" video is filmed by Stephane Sednaoui in Miami|publisher=Madonna.com|access-date=May 12, 2014}} and received its world premiere on May 11, 1993, on MTV. It has since been made commercially available on the DVD collection, The Video Collection 93:99.{{cite AV media notes|others=Madonna |title=The Video Collection 93:99|year=1999 |type=VHS, DVD, CD |chapter=Inlay credits|publisher= Warner Bros.| id=9362-49729-6}} The music video alternately features Madonna with a red wig and silver bodypaint in a variety of costumes dancing in front of funky, kaleidoscopic backgrounds. It showcases her posing like ancient goddesses. She is enveloped in a flame-like atmosphere and eventually burns up. According to Sednaoui, he wanted to portray the singer "like a provocative saint, somebody that speaks out and tells the truth, and is ready to burn for it"; he also recalled that the executives from Maverick wanted to do "something that's not the [Madonna] we know – more pop, more disco, more club [...] that's why she went all the way, like, 'OK, let's paint'".{{cite magazine |title=Strike a Pose: Madonna's 20 Greatest Videos |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/strike-a-pose-madonnas-20-greatest-videos-16146/19-fever-1993-40664/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=April 23, 2019 |date=July 7, 2016}} Charles Aaron writing for Spin magazine classified the clip as "dub".{{cite magazine|last=Aaron|first=Charles|title=Madonna, "Rain" (Maverick/Sire/Warner Bros.)|date=October 1993|access-date=June 17, 2010|volume=9|issue=7|issn= 0886-3032|magazine=Spin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsi_VCMy0tQC&pg=PA108|author-link=Charles Aaron}} The music video for "Fever" was later made available on Madonna's official YouTube channel in February 2018. It was digitally remastered on November 22, 2022, and had generated more than 3.2 million views as of early 2024.{{cite web|title=Madonna – Fever (Official Video)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0kJ3r9j5MQ|via=YouTube|date=February 13, 2018|access-date=September 11, 2021}}{{primary source inline|reason=Stats from primary source used. Need reliable secondary source instead.|date=December 2024}}

To start the promotion for Erotica, Madonna performed "Fever" and "Bad Girl" on Saturday Night Live in January 1993.{{harvnb|Parish|Pitts|2003|p=525}}{{cite news|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/270375/ANOTHER-BAD-GIRL-RIPS-UP-A-PHOTOGRAPH-ON-SNL.html?pg=all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214174141/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/270375/ANOTHER-BAD-GIRL-RIPS-UP-A-PHOTOGRAPH-ON-SNL.html?pg=all|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 14, 2015|title=Another 'Bad Girl' Rips Up a Photograph on 'SNL'|work=Deseret News|date=January 18, 1993|access-date=December 23, 2012 }} During the 1000th The Arsenio Hall Show, Madonna performed the original version of "Fever" accompanied by a band, wearing a black classic dress and smoking a cigarette.{{cite news|last=Willman|first=Chris|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-15-ca-35404-story.html|title=Pop Music Review: Madonna Bowls Over Arsenio's Show |work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 15, 1993|access-date=July 6, 2012}} Madonna also performed "Fever" on the 1993 Girlie Show World Tour as the second song from the setlist. After "Erotica", the singer partially strips and proceeds to straddle and dances suggestively with two half-naked male dancers. At the end of the song, Madonna and the two backup dancers descend into a literal ring of fire.{{cite book |last=Lenig |first=Stuart |title= The Twisted Tale of Glam Rock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGmj-tCfYC0C&q=girlie+show&pg=PA145|access-date=February 24, 2013 |date=June 16, 2010 |isbn=9780313379864|page=145|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}{{cite magazine |title= Madonna: The Rolling Stone Files : The Ultimate Compendium of Interviews, Articles, Facts and Opinions from the Files of Rolling Stone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a-gTAQAAIAAJ&q=Madonna,+the+Rolling+stone+files|access-date=February 24, 2013 |year=1997 |magazine=Rolling Stone|isbn=978-0786881543}} On October 8, 2015, Madonna performed an a cappella version of "Fever" during the Saint Paul stop of her Rebel Heart Tour.{{cite web|last=Bream|first=Jon|title=Madonna more playful than provocative in Xcel show |url=http://www.startribune.com/review-madonna-more-playful-than-provocative-in-sold-out-show/331504611/#1|work=Star Tribune|access-date=October 21, 2015|date=October 9, 2015}} She later performed the song on her 2023-2024 Celebration Tour; it was also used on one of the interludes on the show.{{cite web |last1=Savage |first1=Mark |title=Madonna's Celebration Tour reviewed: The Queen of pop brings out her crown jewels |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67098882 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=December 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015041341/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67098882 |archive-date=October 15, 2023 |date=October 15, 2023}}

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1. "Fever" (Album Edit) – 4:30
2. "Fever" (Hot Sweat 12-inch Mix) – 7:58
3. "Fever" (Extended 12-inch Mix) – 6:07
4. "Fever" (Shep's Remedy Dub) – 4:31
5. "Fever" (Murk Boys Miami Mix) – 7:10
6. "Fever" (Murk Boys Deep South Mix) – 6:28

• Digital single – "Bad Girl / Fever" (2022){{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/gb/album/bad-girl-fever/1650569685 |title=Bad Girl / Fever by Madonna on Apple Music |website=Apple Music |access-date=October 20, 2022}}

1. "Bad Girl" (Edit) – 4:35
2. "Bad Girl" (Extended Mix) – 6:29
3. "Fever" (Album Edit) – 4:30
4. "Fever" (Edit One) – 4:05
5. "Fever" (Extended 12-inch Mix) – 6:07
6. "Fever" (Hot Sweat 12-inch Mix) – 7:58
7. "Fever" (Murk Boys Deep South Mix) – 6:28
8. "Fever" (Murk Boys Miami Mix) – 7:10
9. "Fever" (Murk Boys Miami Dub) – 7:12
10. "Fever" (Radio Edit/Remix) – 5:09
11. "Fever" (Shep's Remedy Dub) – 4:31
12. "Fever" (Oscar G's Dope Mix) – 4:55

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American singer Beyoncé included her version of "Fever" on multiple releases. Her original recording of the song was included on the soundtrack album for the 2003 American musical dramedy film, The Fighting Temptations, in which she also had a leading role.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/69559/beyonce-tunes-lead-temptations-soundtrack|title=Beyonce Tunes Lead 'Temptations' Soundtrack|magazine=Billboard|date=August 13, 2003|access-date=September 7, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-fighting-temptations-r656058/review |title=The Fighting Temptations |first=Heather |last=Phares |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=March 26, 2011}} The song was also featured in the film itself, during a scene in which the character Beyoncé portrayed, named Lilly, sang the song in a nightclub while her eventual love interest Darrin (played by Cuba Gooding, Jr.) watches her.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GREEAAAAMBAJ&q=the+fighting+temptations+fever+beyonce&pg=PA20|title=Beyoncé Tempts Fans with More Movie Songs|magazine=Billboard|date=October 11, 2003|volume=115|number=34|first=Carla|last=Hay|page=20|access-date=September 7, 2014|issn=0006-2510}}{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/review/fighting-temptations/|title=The Fighting Temptations (2003)|work=PopMatters|first=Cynthia|last=Fuchs|date=September 18, 2003|access-date=September 7, 2014}} Beyoncé's version was produced by Damon Elliott and was recorded by her while she was still working on the 2002 film Austin Powers in Goldmember. Elliott suggested to the singer to record "Fever" as it was one of his favorite songs. When she got a role in The Fighting Temptations, the song seemed "perfect" for it as stated by Elliot.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1458988/damon-elliott-gives-beyonce-fever-writes-lame-raps/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907191135/http://www.mtv.com/news/1458988/damon-elliott-gives-beyonce-fever-writes-lame-raps/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 7, 2014|title=Damon Elliott Gives Beyonce 'Fever,' Writes Lame Raps|publisher=MTV News|first=Jon|last=Wiederhorn|date=April 12, 2002|access-date=September 7, 2014}} Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine provided a positive review for the cover, saying: "The seductive iciness of Peggy Lee's 'Fever' is successfully transplanted with a gumbo sound and sexy Southern comfort."{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/the-fighting-temptations-original-soundtrack/318 |title=The Fighting Temptations Original Soundtrack |first=Ed |last=Gonzalez |work=Slant Magazine |date=September 14, 2003 |access-date=March 26, 2011}}

Beyoncé appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on September 17, 2003, to promote The Fighting Temptations with a live performance of "Fever".{{cite episode |series=The Tonight Show with Jay Leno |series-link=The Tonight Show with Jay Leno |network=NBC |airdate=September 17, 2003 |season=11 |number=156 }} In November 2003, the song was included in the set list of the singer's first headlining solo Dangerously in Love Tour. Beyoncé was backed by four male dancers dressed in white, performing a choreography with her. In a review of the show, Dave Simpson from The Guardian felt that the performance of "Fever" was "a note perfect if pointless version" of the original.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/nov/04/popandrock3|title=Beyoncé, Manchester Arena|work=The Guardian|first=Dave|last=Simpson|date=November 4, 2003|access-date=September 10, 2014}} In 2004, the song was included on the live album Live at Wembley which was filmed during a London concert as part of the tour.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-wembley-mw0000464580 |title=Live at Wembley – Beyoncé|publisher=AllMusic |access-date=September 7, 2014}} Beyoncé's original recording was additionally included on the track-listing of her first mixtape Speak My Mind released in 2005.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/speak-my-mind-mw0001183654 |title=Speak My Mind |publisher=AllMusic|access-date=September 7, 2014}}

After releasing her first fragrance Heat, Beyoncé re-recorded her version of "Fever" as promotion for the fragrance, using the song in its advertisements.{{cite news|url=http://www.rap-up.com/2009/12/29/beyonce-catches-heat-in-fragrance-ads/ |title=Beyoncé Catches 'Heat' in Fragrance Ads |work=Rap-Up |date=December 29, 2009 |access-date=March 26, 2011}} The re-recorded 2010 version of the song was produced by Chink Santana and Beyoncé herself. It was released for digital download on the iTunes Store in the US on February 8, 2010.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/fever-single/353361561 |title=Fever – Single by Beyoncé – Download Fever – Single on iTunes |date=February 8, 2010 |publisher=iTunes Store. Apple Inc. |location=US |access-date=March 26, 2011}}{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Fever/dp/B0036JEW7E/|title=Fever: Beyonce|publisher=Amazon |access-date=September 7, 2014}} The next day, it was released in the United Kingdom.{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00379TDFY |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718155944/http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00379TDFY |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 18, 2012 |title=Fever |publisher=Amazon |access-date=March 26, 2011 }} In February the following year, "Fever" was included on the track-listing of the extended play (EP) Heat, a limited CD released with the perfume.{{cite AV media notes|year=2011|others=Beyoncé|title=Heat|publisher=Columbia Records/Coty, Inc.}}

As promotion for the fragrance, a TV commercial for Heat was directed by Jake Nava, who had previously worked with Beyoncé on various of her music videos.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1652482/beyonces-perfume-commercial-banned-from-daytime-broadcast-in-uk/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912205555/http://www.mtv.com/news/1652482/beyonces-perfume-commercial-banned-from-daytime-broadcast-in-uk/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 12, 2014|title=Beyonce's Perfume Commercial Banned From Daytime Broadcast in U.K.|publisher=MTV News|first=James|last=Dinh|date=November 17, 2010|access-date=September 12, 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://www.rap-up.com/2010/11/20/video-beyonce-brings-back-sasha-fierce-for-vizio-commercial/ |title=Beyoncé Brings Back Sasha Fierce For Vizio Commercial |access-date=March 26, 2011 |date=November 10, 2010 |work=Rap-Up }} The commercial features Beyoncé in a red satin dress sweating in a steamy room while the 2010 cover version of "Fever" plays in the background.{{cite news|url=http://www.wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/beyonce-discusses-launch-of-heat-fragrance-2398237//?full=true |title=Beyonce Discusses Launch of 'Heat' Fragrance – Beauty Industry and Products News |work=Women's Wear Daily |publisher=Ralph Erardy, Sr. |access-date=March 26, 2010}} Throughout the clip, she is seen lying naked in the middle of a room, touching her body, dancing and leaving a trail of fire as she touches a wall. The commercial concludes with Beyoncé walking away from the camera and melting the floor with her footprints. During the end, she turns and says "Catch the fever", the tagline of the fragrance.{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/beyonces-heat-perfumer-advertisement-deemed-too-sexy-for-uk-day-time-tv/story-e6frfn09-1225955356649|title=Beyonce's Heat perfumer advertisement deemed too sexy for UK day-time TV|publisher=News.com.au|date=November 18, 2010|access-date=September 12, 2014|archive-date=September 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912185521/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/beyonces-heat-perfumer-advertisement-deemed-too-sexy-for-uk-day-time-tv/story-e6frfn09-1225955356649|url-status=dead}}

In an interview with Women's Wear Daily, the singer described the sexual tone of the video stating: "My sexiest moments are when I'm just getting out of the tub or the shower and I'm clean, so I wanted to incorporate that in the ads. The dress was this liquid-y satin. The song Fever I did years ago and always loved it. [For the commercial] I got to sing it a bit more whispery, more natural." The silky red dress she wears in the video has been noted for exposing partial cleavage. The commercial for the fragrance found controversy in the United Kingdom with the Advertising Standards Authority where it was banned from daytime TV rotation for its "sexy imagery".{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1652556/beyonces-banned-perfume-ad-defended-by-company/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912182905/http://www.mtv.com/news/1652556/beyonces-banned-perfume-ad-defended-by-company/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 12, 2014|title=Beyonce's Banned Perfume Ad Defended By Company|publisher=MTV News|last=Vena |first=Jocelyn|date=November 18, 2010|access-date=March 26, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1652828/beyonce-laughs-off-heat-commercial-controversy.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120231821/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1652828/beyonce-laughs-off-heat-commercial-controversy.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 20, 2011 |title=Beyonce Laughs Off Heat Commercial Controversy|last=Vena |first=Jocelyn |publisher=MTV News|date=November 22, 2010 |access-date=March 26, 2011}}

• Elvis Presley recorded his version on April 3, 1960 and was released in April 8, 1960 on the Elvis Is Back! album. In January 14, 1973, Presley performed the song in Honolulu International Center for the concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite. In 2015, the 1960 studio version was given an orchestral arrangement by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, in a posthumous duet with Canadian singer Michael Bublé, and was released on the album If I Can Dream.
• Helen Shapiro recorded a version of "Fever" in 1964; her cover reached number 38 on the UK Singles Chart on January 23 of the same year.{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/at-abbey-road-1961-1967-mw0000746437 |title=At Abbey Road 1961–1967|publisher=AllMusic|first=Tim|last=Sendra |access-date=September 8, 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/helen%20shapiro/ |title=Helen Shapiro|publisher=UK Singles Chart |access-date=September 8, 2014}}
• The McCoys in 1965 released a version similar to their previous hit "Hang On Sloopy". The McCoys{{'}} version of "Fever" peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and 34 on the German Singles Chart.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/418608/mccoys/chart|title=The McCoys |magazine=Billboard |access-date=September 8, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/nl/song/2de60/The-McCoys-Fever|title=Ultratop.be – The McCoys – Fever|publisher=Ultratop.be. Hung Medien|access-date=September 8, 2014}}
• James Brown – Cold Sweat (1967). Music critic Robert Christgau opined that "Fever" placed on the album with several other cover versions "smelled a little fishy at the time".{{cite web|url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=james+brown|title=James Brown|publisher=robertchristgau.com|access-date=September 9, 2014}}
• La Lupe – Queen of Latin Soul (1968). Her version became famous worldwide.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lalupe/film.html|title=Independent Lens |publisher=PBS |access-date=September 11, 2014}} On the web site NBCNewYork.com Elizabeth Bougerol called it one of the best versions and essential at Boogaloo parties.{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/nonstop-sound/My-Playlist-DJ-Turmix-Schools-Us-in-Boogaloo-129530283.html|title=My Playlist: DJ Turmix Schools Us in Boogaloo|publisher=NBCNewYork.com |first=Elizabeth |last=Bougerol |date=September 9, 2011|access-date=September 11, 2014}}
• 1969 Chicago Cubs – A version of the song with the same music but different lyrics, called "Pennant Fever", was recorded by seven members of the 1969 Chicago Cubs: Billy Williams, Randy Hundley, Ron Santo, Don Kessinger, Willie Smith, Gene Oliver, and Nate Oliver.Sullivan, Paul (June 27, 2016). [https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-cubs-1969-pennant-fever-song-spt-0628-20160627-story.html "World Series Shuffle: Unlike Bears, '69 Cubs Couldn't Back Up Boastful Song"], Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 28, 2016. "The tune was borrowed from "Fever," a song originally performed by Little Willie John in 1956 and made popular a couple of years later in a slow-tempo rendition by Peggy Lee.... It was as cheesy as you'd expect, with lyrics like "lawdy how they love to win," and included lame sound effects of a bat hitting a ball and fan applause.... Though Hundley said he couldn't sing a lick, the song was well done, mostly because Nate Oliver and Willie Smith, both good singers, carried the others."
• Rita Coolidge – for The Lady's Not for Sale (1972) and it became a minor hit in her early career.{{cite web |last1=Ginell |first1=Richard S. |title=A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee |url=https://variety.com/2004/music/reviews/a-tribute-to-miss-peggy-lee-1200532189/ |website=Variety.com |access-date=November 17, 2018 |date=July 15, 2004}}{{cite web |last1=Pruett |first1=Jon |title=The Lady's Not for Sale |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-ladys-not-for-sale-mw0000839693 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=November 17, 2018}}
• Suzi Quatro included her own version of "Fever" on Your Mamma Won't Like Me in 1975. Dave Thompson from AllMusic called her cover "lukewarm".{{cite web |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |title=Your Mamma Won't Like Me |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/your-mamma-wont-like-me-mw0002207076 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=November 17, 2018}}
• Madleen Kane released her version in 1978, and it peaked at No. 19 on the Canadian Dance Chart.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5565&URLjpg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2Fobj%2F028020%2Ff4%2Fnlc008388.5565.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5565 |title=Dance/Urban |volume=28 |number=25 |date=March 18, 1978 |page=16 |access-date=May 29, 2017 |via=Library and Archives Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160628005832/http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5565&URLjpg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2Fobj%2F028020%2Ff4%2Fnlc008388.5565.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5565 |archive-date=June 28, 2016 |magazine=RPM Weekly}}
• Indian singer Usha Uthup performed the song on various of her concerts (including those in 2010) and included it on the album Usha in Nairobi released in 1978.{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101012/jsp/entertainment/story_13045484.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912000726/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101012/jsp/entertainment/story_13045484.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 12, 2014|title=Yesterday once more|work=The Telegraph|location=Calcutta|first=Radhika |last=Sen |date=October 12, 2010|access-date=September 11, 2014}}
• Lizzy Mercier Descloux recorded a parody of the song entitled "Tumor" on her 1979 album Press Color.
• The Cramps covered "Fever" on their debut album Songs the Lord Taught Us (1980) It was praised by Ned Raggett of AllMusic who felt that it challenged the original.{{cite web |last1=Raggett |first1=Ned |title=Songs the Lord Taught Us |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-the-lord-taught-us-mw0000201325 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=November 17, 2018 }}
• Annabella Lwin recorded the song in 1986 for her first solo album after the breakup of Bow Wow Wow, and it provided the title for the album itself. A music video was released for the song.{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-fever-vol-26-no-2/|title=Picks and Pans Review: Fever|website=People|access-date=December 21, 2019}}
• Michael Bublé released his cover of this song on his self named debut album in 2003. Aaron Latham at AllMusic considered it one of the highlights on the album, stating that Bublé "gives it a satiny sheen that the song hasn't seen in years".{{cite web |last1=Latham |first1=Aaron |title=Michael Bublé |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/michael-bubl%C3%A9-mw0000592979 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=November 17, 2018}}
• Bette Midler from her 2005 album Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook. In 2006 it reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Dance Chart.{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bette-midler/chart-history/dsi/|title=Bette Midler|magazine=Billboard|access-date=April 17, 2020}}
• Lulu Roman – At Last (2013){{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/1485719/lulu-roman-recruits-dolly-parton-georgetta-jones-on-new-album|title=Lulu Roman Recruits Dolly Parton, Georgetta Jones on New Album|magazine=Billboard|date=January 14, 2013|access-date=September 11, 2014}}
• Arielle Dombasle covered the song in 2022 and is part of her 2024 release Iconics.{{Cite web |last=Dombasle |first=Arielle |date=May 26, 2022 |title="Fever", le nouveau single d'Arielle Dombasle ! |url=http://www.arielle-dombasle.com/2022/05/arielle-dombasle-fever/ |access-date=July 25, 2024 |website=Arielle Dombasle}}

• On January 30, 2018, reality TV star Dorit Kemsley performed a version of the song with pop star friend Boy George on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.{{cite web |first=Lindsay |last=Denninger |date=February 2018 |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/dorit-boy-georges-duet-on-the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-was-the-highlight-of-pks-birthday-8070914 |title=Dorit & Boy George's Duet On The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Was the Highlight of PK's Birthday |website=Bustle.com |access-date=March 8, 2018}}

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• List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1958
• List of Top 25 singles for 1958 in Australia
• List of number-one dance singles of 1993 (U.S.)
• List of number-one singles of 1993 (Finland)

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