SARAH VAUGHAN - FEVER

FEVER

SARAH VAUGHAN

SONGWRITERS: EDDIE COOLEY & OTIS BLACKWELL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: FEVER

LABEL: VERVE RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2005

 

            Sarah Lois Vaughan(March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer.

        Nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One", she won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century

     Vaughan was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Asbury "Jake" Vaughan, a carpenter by trade who played guitar and piano, and Ada Vaughan, a laundress who sang in the church choir, migrants from Virginia. The Vaughans lived in a house on Brunswick Street in Newark for Vaughan's entire childhood. Jake was deeply religious. The family was active in New Mount Zion Baptist Church at 186 Thomas Street. Vaughan began piano lessons at the age of seven, sang in the church choir, and played piano for rehearsals and services.

           She developed an early love for popular music on records and the radio. In the 1930s, she frequently saw local and touring bands at the Montgomery Street Skating Rink. By her mid-teens, she began venturing illegally into Newark's night clubs and performing as a pianist and singer at the Piccadilly Club and the Newark Airport.

         Vaughan attended East Side High School, then transferred to Newark Arts High School, which opened in 1931. As her nocturnal adventures as a performer overwhelmed her academic pursuits, she dropped out of high school during her junior year to concentrate on music.

Never 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 (you give me fever)

When you kiss me

Fever when you hold me tight (you give me fever)

Fever in the mornin'

Fever all through the night

 

Sun lights up the day time

Moon lights up the night

I light up when you call my name

'Cause I know you're gonna treat me right

 

You give me fever (you give me fever)

When you kiss me

Fever when you hold me tight (you give me fever)

Fever in the mornin'

Fever all through the night

 

Everybody's got the fever

That is somethin' you all know

Fever isn't such a new thing

Fever started long time ago

 

Baby, turn on your love light (yeah, yeah)

Let it shine on me (yeah, yeah)

Well, baby, turn on your love light (yeah, yeah)

And let it shine on me (yeah, yeah)

Well, just a little bit higher (yeah, yeah)

And just a little bit brighter, baby (yeah, yeah)

 

You give me fever (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

You give me fever (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

You give me fever (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

You give me fever.