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Listen to Fever on Spotify. Little Willie John · Album · 1958 · 12 songs.
25 de ene. de 2022 · Born in Camden, Arkansas in 1937, Little Willie John, had already begun his professional singing career as a teenager in the early 1950's singing for the Pau...
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Fever (littéralement « fièvre » en anglais) est une chanson d'amour standard de jazz - rhythm and blues du Great American Songbook américain, des auteurs-compositeurs Otis Blackwell (sous le pseudonyme John Davenport) et Eddie Cooley (en).Elle est enregistrée en version rhythm and blues par Little Willie John [1] chez King Records en 1956 [2], tube vendu à plus d'un million d'exemplaires.
William Edward "Little Willie" John (15 de noviembre de 1937 – 26 de mayo de 1968) fue un cantante de rock 'n' roll y R&B norteamericano de éxito durante los años 50 y primeros 60. Se dio a conocer gracias a sencillos como "All Around the World" (1955), "Need Your Love So Bad" (1956) y "Fever" (1956). John fue póstumamente incluido en el Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll.
A friendly correction…Little Willie John was the first to record Fever (April 1958..Peggy Lee’s followed that May). Not that Peggy Lee’s version isn’t fantastic, but it’s important to remember these things because so many black artists of this era and decades to follow had hits that were re-recorded by white artists who were able to popularize/monetize them because they could be ...
"Fever" 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 for his debut album, Fever (1956), and released as a single in April of the same year. The song topped the Billboard R&B Best Sellers in the US and peaked at number 24 on the Billboard pop chart. [1]
