Ronnie Love – Chills and Fever
Ron Dunbar aka Ronnie Love
Listen/Download Ronnie Love – Chills and Fever
Greetings all
It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to the middle of another week here at Funky16Corners.
The tune I bring you today is one one of those cornerstones of the Mod R&B/soul “thing” that is not only in demand (got fifty smackers?) but twice as groovy as any money you have to fork over to get your own copy.
Ronnie Love*, was a pseudonymous appellation for the man that would go on to have a stellar songwriting career as Ron Dunbar (co-writing Band of Gold, Give Me Just a Little More Time, Patches among many others).
He laid down ‘Chills and Fever’ in 1960 and managed to make it to #15 R&B and #72 Pop.
‘Chills and Fever’ is one of those records with an undeniable, hard charging beat, a wall of saxophones, pounding piano and a very solid vocal by Love/Dunbar.
The tune was fired up again a few years later when the mighty Tom Jones (still in the grip of his R&Beat thing) laid into it towing a truck full of TNT (check out this live performance from 1965!).
As I alluded to in the beginning of the post, Ronnie Love’s ‘Chills and Fever’ is a huge fave with the Mod and Northern Soul crowds, and as a result is not cheap or easy to score.
It should also not be confused with Paul Kelly’s Northern fave of the same name, which is an entirely different song.
I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Friday.
Keep the faith
Larry
*Chills and Fever was first issued as by ‘Johnny Love’ on the Startime label a few months earlier
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