When you kiss me, Fever when you hold me tight....
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| Title: Fever Writers: J. Davenport and E. Cooley Producers: Madonna and Shep Pettibone Album: Erotica (1992) Edition date: Fourth single from Erotica, only for Europe, April 1993 Length of the album version: 5 ' 00'' Credits: ©1956 (Renewed) Trio Music Co. Inc./Fort Knox Music BMI. | ||||||
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| Madonna doesn't make covers of other songs very often. But the reason for including Fever in the final tracklisting for her Erotica album was a casuality. As Shep Pettibone tells us in the Erotica Diaries, while one of the recordings sessions from the album, he was trying some bass lines and percussion for the song Goodbye To Innocence. Madonna was bored and she began to sing some lines of the song Fever (maybe remembering that her 'friend' Sandra Bernhard sang it recently). The result was really good, and both Madonna and Shep liked it, so they searched for the lyrics and made some arrangements to make it a dance song. Finally, Goodbye To Innocence wasn't included in the album, because the final choice, Fever, was really good. It was the last song they recorded, and it even was a single. Madonna made a version really different from the original, making an up-tempo dance song that was along with the sound of the Erotica album. Along with Dear Jessie and many others, Fever wasn't released as a single in USA, where it was just released as the Bad Girl B-side, although lots of promo remixes were released. | ||||||
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| Madonna has performed Fever live three times. The first one was in the american show Saturday Night Live, where she also performed Bad Girl. The second one was in the Arsenio Hall's 1000th show, where Madonna seems to be under the influence of any drug, and she even made a mistake, apologizing for it. She also performed The Lady Is A Tramp with Anthony Kields (from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers) in the same show. And finally, a club version of this song is the second tune from the The Girlie Show.
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 The single cover is a picture taken by Siung Fat Tjia in the set of the Bad Girl video. |
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| Fever reached #6 in the UK charts, and #7 in Japan. Although it wasn't released as a single in USA, it reached #1 in the dance american charts, which is a great success, knowing how boring the Fever remixes are. |
| official versions |
| 1. Album Version (5:00) 2. Album Edit (4:27) 3. 12" Intro W/O H3000 (0:22) 4. Extended 12" / Extended 12" Mix (6:05) 5. 12" Instrumental (4:56) 6. T's Extended Dub A / Dub 1 (2:56) 7. T's Extended Dub B / Dub 2 (5:03) 8. Radio Edit (5:06) 9. Murk Boys Miami Mix / Murk boys Miami Dub (7:07) 10. Murk Boys Deep South Mix (6:28) 11. Oscar G's Dope Dub / Oscar G's Dope Mix (4:55) 12. Back To The Dub 1 (5:02) 13. Back To The Dub 2 (4:52) 14. Hot Sweat 12"Mix/Hot Sweat 12"(7:55) 15. Hot Sweat 12" Mix (8:33) 16. Shep's Remedy Dub (4:29) 17. Instrumental And Extra Piece (5:25) 18. Bugged Out Bonzai Dub / Bugged Out Bonzai Mix (4:48) 19. Bonton Infernal Dub (4:52) 20. Drum Dub 1 (4:46) 21. Bass Dub And Tag Piece (5:29) 22. Bugged Out (4:57) 23. Edit One / Video Version (4:00) 24. Video Instrumental 25. Edit One With 12" Intro / Video Version With 12" Intro (4:19) 26. Edit Two (4:26) 27. Edit Two With 12" Intro (4:44) 28. Peggy's Nightclub Mix / Percapella (4:55) |
Fever was written by J. Davenport y E. Cooley, and, for many years, has been sung and covered by many many artists, making the song a classic. But it was Peggy Lee who made the tune really popular in the 60's. Tha White Lady of the Black Music has recently died, after 50 years in the music world, a Grammy and more than 600 songs. But many other artists have made versions of Fever: Little Willie John, Elvis Presley, Jerry Butler, Rita Coolidge, Joe Cocker, Chaka Khan, The Cramps, Annabella, Tom Verlaine,... and Madonna, of course.