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Musicbrainz DBNever know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me
I get a fever that's so hard to bear
You give me fever
When you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever! in the morning
Fever all through the night
Sun lights up the daytime
Moon lights up the night
I light up when you call my name
And you know I'm gonna treat you right
You give me fever
When you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever! in the morning
Fever all through the night
Everybody's got the fever
That is something you all know
Fever isn't such a new thing
Fever started long ago
Romeo loved Juliet
Juliet, she felt the same
When he put his arms around her
He said, "Julie, baby, you're my flame
"Thou giveth fever
"When we kisseth
"Fever with thy flaming youth
"Fever! I'm afire
"Fever, yea, I burn, forsooth."
Cap'n Smith and Pocahontas
Had a very mad affair
When her daddy tried to kill him
She said, "Daddy, oh, don't you dare!
"He gives me fever
"With his kisses
"Fever when he holds me tight
"Fever! I'm his missus
"Daddy, won't you treat him right?"
Now you've listened to my story
Here's the point that I have made
Chicks were born to give you fever
Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade
They give you fever
When you kiss them
Fever if you live and learn
Fever! till you sizzle
What a lovely way to burn
What a lovely way to burn
What a lovely way to burn
What a lovely way to burn
| msymmes (Toronto, CA) | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 19:23 Just love the diversity on RP ! | ||||||
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 22:19 NOTHING ELSE worth playing off of this Bill? Really? | ||||||
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 13:54 She owns this... The others who do this song are always in comparison...All do it well, but this version is slowed just right for her voice | ||||||
| msymmes (Toronto, CA) | Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 13:54 Pretty amazing recording from 1960 ! | ||||||
| PopKombo (Up Against the San Gabriels) | Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 13:54 THIS is why I listen to RP ... Who else would play this 60's classic in the middle of a rock set?!! "Chicks are gonna give you fever ... " | ||||||
| casey1024 (Here and Now) | Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 13:53 DD rabbi_phil wrote: Fever?...yeah that's great....till she calls you on the golf course...wants to talk..ugghhh.."hi yaa,how ya dooiiiin,howz your day...how you feeeelin...last night was special", do ya miss me??.....pleeeeeze, I'm trrryyin to birdie the 14th. then you turn your phone off..gotta putt now. MUCH later you get home and that feverz gonna kill you. brrrrrrrrr..ice cold..then she says we have to"talk"....oh no!....no no no..not "the Talk"!..then some tears,jeeeez not the tears.(why do they do that?)..she says you"re shallow selfish and insincere...only want 1 thing .....Ok..whats your point? you are NOT attracting the right type of woman | ||||||
| burdell (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 13:53 Ugh. An example of a song I guess you have to suffer through to hear all the other brilliant stuff on RP. | ||||||
| Umberdog (I'm in my body.) | Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 04:57 This could be a spy movie theme song. | ||||||
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Oct 26, 2012 - 20:12 What's not to like? | ||||||
| bachbeet | Posted: Oct 26, 2012 - 20:11 Always dug this one. | ||||||
| Dahlia_Gumbo (San Francisco) | Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 08:41 Cooooooooooooool. | ||||||
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 08:41 rabbi_phil wrote: Fever?...yeah that's great....till she calls you on the golf course...wants to talk..ugghhh.."hi yaa,how ya dooiiiin,howz your day...how you feeeelin...last night was special", do ya miss me??.....pleeeeeze, I'm trrryyin to birdie the 14th. then you turn your phone off..gotta putt now. MUCH later you get home and that feverz gonna kill you. brrrrrrrrr..ice cold..then she says we have to"talk"....oh no!....no no no..not "the Talk"!..then some tears,jeeeez not the tears.(why do they do that?)..she says you"re shallow selfish and insincere...only want 1 thing .....Ok..whats your point? Brutal. Love this song though. This is the definitive version. | ||||||
| Rooney (Near Paradise) | Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 08:39 Fever is still totally cool. She really nailed it with this one. Keep all your other versions. Only Peggy could pull this off, and you know it. | ||||||
| chelsiaann (Helena, Montucky) | Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 10:48 I know I'll get in trouble for this, but I like Madonna's version better. Still, I don't like "Fever" much at all. I'm sure that says something about me. | ||||||
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 10:45 rabbi_phil wrote: Fever?...yeah that's great....till she calls you on the golf course...wants to talk..ugghhh.."hi yaa,how ya dooiiiin,howz your day...how you feeeelin...last night was special", do ya miss me??.....pleeeeeze, I'm trrryyin to birdie the 14th. then you turn your phone off..gotta putt now. MUCH later you get home and that feverz gonna kill you. brrrrrrrrr..ice cold..then she says we have to"talk"....oh no!....no no no..not "the Talk"!..then some tears,jeeeez not the tears.(why do they do that?)..she says you"re shallow selfish and insincere...only want 1 thing .....Ok..whats your point? Ya Nailed it! Boom | ||||||
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 23:58 I normally love this song but having had a fever for the last 5 days its slightly lost its appeal today. You give me uncontrollable sweating, insomnia, a throbbing headache, moments of shivering and other generally unpleasant feelings??? | ||||||
| DD rabbi_phil (beach) | Posted: May 22, 2012 - 05:29 Fever?...yeah that's great....till she calls you on the golf course...wants to talk..ugghhh.."hi yaa,how ya dooiiiin,howz your day...how you feeeelin...last night was special", do ya miss me??.....pleeeeeze, I'm trrryyin to birdie the 14th. then you turn your phone off..gotta putt now. MUCH later you get home and that feverz gonna kill you. brrrrrrrrr..ice cold..then she says we have to"talk"....oh no!....no no no..not "the Talk"!..then some tears,jeeeez not the tears.(why do they do that?)..she says you"re shallow selfish and insincere...only want 1 thing .....Ok..whats your point? | ||||||
| capandjudy (Huntington, WV) | Posted: May 22, 2012 - 05:21 Randomax wrote: I find it amazing that the TWO songs she is really known for are CLASSICS!! ANd strange songs....I would like to hear "Is That All There Is?" a VERY strange song indeed.... Love "Is That All There Is?" Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller " The lyrics of this existentialist song are written from the point of view of a person who is disillusioned with events in life that are supposedly unique experiences. The singer tells of witnessing her family's house on fire when she was a little girl, seeing the circus, and falling in love for the first time. After each recital she expresses her disappointment in the experience. She suggests that we "break out the booze and have a ball — if that's all there is", instead of worrying about life. She explains that she'll never kill herself either because she knows that death will be a disappointment as well." | ||||||
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 19:51 exeter wrote: I like this song, but it always makes me think of Rita Moreno singing the same song on The Muppet Show... with Animal. Absolutely hilarious!!! AND Moreno still does a better version than Peggy Lee! | ||||||
| Stratocaster (Bermuda) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 10:56 Cooool, daddy-o. Dig it, yeah. | ||||||
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 10:56 Wow. I'm f-ing old. | ||||||
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 10:56 rabbi_phil wrote: cool cool cool..........did i say cool??......yup....cool cool cool ! cool daddy-o | ||||||
| DD rabbi_phil (beach) | Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 06:35 cool cool cool..........did i say cool??......yup....cool cool cool ! | ||||||
| pdjpirate (Near the Graveyard of the Atlantic!) | Posted: Nov 13, 2011 - 20:22 When they write the definition for class act at the end of time: Fever and Peggy Lee willl be part of the meaning!!  | ||||||
| hencini | Posted: Nov 13, 2011 - 20:20 Somewhere I believe I have a recording of Bob Weir playing this song at Clinton's inauguration. Good stuff. | ||||||
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Nov 13, 2011 - 20:19 minimalistic perfection | ||||||
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 07:05 salzburg4321 wrote: She sounds something less than feverish. I have the feeling she would be dismissed out of hand if she tried selling this today, esp. considering the hyper-emoting done by the likes of Beyonce & Co. This is, far and away, the best version of this song, in my opinion, and she sounds pretty smoldering to me. What would or would not sell today is completely meaningless. Almost any tune from the era of this tune would "be dismissed out of hand...today", but in today's era, a sizable portion of the population not only watch programs like American Idol, but also think that they are hearing "good music" while doing so. | ||||||
| salzburg4321 (Salzburg, Austria) | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 06:53 She sounds something less than feverish. I have the feeling she would be dismissed out of hand if she tried selling this today, esp. considering the hyper-emoting done by the likes of Beyonce & Co. | ||||||
| Randomax (Wimberley, TX) | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 06:52 I find it amazing that the TWO songs she is really known for are CLASSICS!! ANd strange songs....I would like to hear "Is That All There Is?" a VERY strange song indeed.... | ||||||
| Zeito (Sieur du Lhut) | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 06:52 This is so cool. | ||||||
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Sep 11, 2011 - 18:34 Let's hear the Cramps Version!!!!!!!!!!!!  | ||||||
| lawfitzg | Posted: Aug 10, 2011 - 15:03 Jazz singer. | ||||||
| Aegean (Earth) | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 16:43 Mar 12, 2011 UPDATE: I have posted a fuller rebuttal of this silliness under "Journal Entries". Anyone wishing to see more on this post, or to participate, or to quarrel with my assertions, should go there. Let's not clutter the Peggy Lee "Fever" song comments any further! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have no idea what this bizarre thread is doing under Peggy Lee's "Fever", but it is crying our for a response: ick (San Diego, CA)
Political correctness is the pussification of the world! flyboy(Sarah Palin's Hometown)
ick wrote: Political correctness is the pussification of the world! Amen. PC is Newspeak. If you don't know what that means, please read 1984 before they won't let you. Decoy (Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
flyboy wrote: Amen. PC is Newspeak. If you don't know what that means, please read 1984 before they won't let you. that is double-plus good etc., etc., etc... Oh, yeah... LOVE this Peggy Lee tune! | ||||||
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 16:04 My parents absolutely HATED Peggy Lee's singing. I'll never understand why - she's so dead-on and devilish... Thank goodness I can hear her here. I keep seeing that scene from "Mermaids" with Wynona Ryder in her mother's dress, singing along to this song. It was a good movie, but this song is much better. And that reminds me of "Is That All There Is?" I'm still limited in my musical knowledge of Ms. Lee, but I'm hoping to expand... | ||||||
| Huey (Netherlands) | Posted: Feb 03, 2011 - 08:28 I never tire of hearing this. 8. | ||||||
| meeshabeth | Posted: Dec 02, 2010 - 10:30 twitterpated wrote: When I heard her say "Captain" I swear I thought she was going to say "Kirk." :) HAHAHA! So did I....I've heard the song a million times but I still keep expecting to hear "Kirk" there lol | ||||||
| Netto (Khimki, Russia) | Posted: Oct 31, 2010 - 18:22 For the first time heard the Fever played Boney M in the school years
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| thediceareloaded (Berlin, Germany) | Posted: Sep 30, 2010 - 02:45 Albert1967 wrote: Rita Moreno at the Muppet Show: check Youtube exactly what I thought. Animal rocks.... | ||||||
| twitterpated | Posted: May 25, 2010 - 10:11 When I heard her say "Captain" I swear I thought she was going to say "Kirk." :) | ||||||
| Lrobby99 (Wisconsin, USA) | Posted: May 25, 2010 - 10:10 Peggy Lee definitely had it goin' on... | ||||||
| Decoy (Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe) | Posted: May 25, 2010 - 10:09 flyboy wrote: Amen. PC is Newspeak. If you don't know what that means, please read 1984 before they won't let you. that is double-plus good | ||||||
| flyboy (Sarah Palin's Hometown) | Posted: Apr 23, 2010 - 17:06 ick wrote: Political correctness is the pussification of the world! Amen. PC is Newspeak. If you don't know what that means, please read 1984 before they won't let you. | ||||||
| Albert1967 (Leusden, the Netherlands) | Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 02:09 Rita Moreno at the Muppet Show: check Youtube | ||||||
| crockydile (Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 12:02 peter_james_bond wrote: Right On! This original is often imitated but never surpassed, imo. FYI: Little Willie John sang it first: Wikipedia | ||||||
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 12:01 ThePoose wrote: Love to hear Tom Waits do this one. Can we get a petition on that? I think he'd do it for a case of cheap booze and a East German hooker. | ||||||
| crockydile (Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 12:00 Little Willie John's version I find much more "soulful." | ||||||
| bellhog (38 miles from the middle of nowhere) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 11:58 Ah, the power of a lean, minimalist production. One more instrument, one more note would spoil this. | ||||||
| peter_james_bond (The Burg) | Posted: Dec 18, 2009 - 16:22 Stefen wrote: Wow! Right On! This original is often imitated but never surpassed, imo. | ||||||
| Decoy (Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe) | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 06:23 ThePoose wrote: Love to hear Tom Waits do this one. Truth. Love this version. | ||||||
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 06:23 Nice. Some Dusty Springfield would be, too, as long as we're in this groove. |
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