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Culprit Peggy Lee
Title Fever
Year 1956
Written by John Davenport and Eddie Cooley
Submitted by Siegfried Baboon

I know, I know: this is a rather tenuous inclusion, and you have to listen quite carefully to the double bass to notice that it cranks the song up a gear twice. Not a truck driver's gear change in the "classical" sense, perhaps, but given this seems to be one of the earliest known examples, it's only fair to expect a little uncertainty concerning the most effective way to go up a key.

I love the little "drum moments" which punctuate this song, when she sings the title word – each one is slightly different.

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