Best version of Fever (the song)

Originally recorded as a hit by Little Willie John but Peggy Lee's cover was even more popular.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i93-hlwULUk">Little Willie John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYxoAJ3Boyc">Peggy Lee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZT_tG8HnI">Beyoncé

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3ladrTbAk">Madonna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSc5X5vONnU">James Brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ZEB79MbEU">Christina Aguilera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yvHWyvexZA">Rita Moreno and the Muppets

I would have made this a poll, but as you can see....

Selected list of recorded versions:
* A Fine Frenzy
* Boney M.
* Amanda Lear
* Annabella Lwin
* Ann-Margret
* Daniel Ash
* Roy Ayers
* Michael Ball
* Paris Bennett
* Beyoncé (for the film The Fighting Temptations)
* Bobby & the Midnites
* Bobby "Blue" Bland
* The Bobs
* Bow Wow Wow
* James Brown
* Precious Bryant
* Michael Bublé
* Sam Butera
* Virginia Maestro and Chipper (Operación Triunfo)
* Junior Byles
* Eva Cassidy
* Ray Charles and Natalie Cole
* Christina Aguilera
* George Clinton
* Marc Cohn
* The Cramps
* Celine Dion
* The Doors
* Bob Dylan
* Brian Eno
* Gentlemen of St. John's
* Grateful Dead
* Buddy Guy
* Dick Dale
* Lalah Hathaway
* Gwyneth Herbert
* The Jam
* Tom Jones
* Laura Stoica
* Madleen Kane
* Diana Krall
* Claude Nougaro (French singer, song as "39 degrés de fièvre")
* La Lupe
* Little Nell
* Peggy Lee
* Lucybell
* Madonna (see Fever (Madonna song))
* Marine Girls
* The McCoys, which peaked at #7 on the Billboard Pop chart
* Rose McGowan (as Paige Matthews on Charmed)
* Meiko
* Judith Light (as Angela Bower on Who's the Boss)
* Syesha Mercado
* Bette Midler
* Mina
* Nina Hagen
* Willie Mitchell
* Sylvester James
* Rebbie Jackson
* Michelle Mc Grath
* Sophie Milman
* Rita Moreno
* Mika Nakashima
* Neville Brothers
* Una Palliser
* Over the Rhine
* Rhymefest
* Nicholas Pedro
* Elvis Presley
* The Pussycat Dolls
* Ratdog
* Quincy Jones
* Suzi Quatro
* Joe Sample
* Helen Shapiro
* The Simpsons
* Sumo
* Superpitcher
* Toots & the Maytals
* Fever Tree
* Sarah Vaughan
* Nana Visitor
* Don Williams
* Little Willie John
* Ana Carolina
* Mountain
* Farnham Youth Choir
* The Winkies
* Kate Ceberano
* G4
* Joe Cocker

She is SMOKIN'!

beyond a doubt.

I'm too young to remember Peggy Lee's when it was current. But I've heard a number of other covers of this, and nobody has surpassed Peggy Lee's cover. She established the gold standard, and no one yet has surpassed it.

Edit: corrected word order issue

The Cramps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43pRbQWhwlE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf2Z5GdKKP4
Nina Hagen...


Really great song...but, Little Willie does the very best...


Tikki
p.s. I love Peggy Lee's voice..

But then again, it's got absolutely nothing to do with the track you've posted...

His version on the In Their Own Words compilation is great.

He's joined by Marshall Crenshaw.

You can fix it...

But I won't