I trust your answer, though I'm not so familiar with the details of Pocahantas. Actually, I was just posting for fun a portion of lyrics from Peggy Lee's "Fever" song -- one of the verses deals with Pocahontas and Captain Smith. :)
My dad was a Peggy Lee fan. I heard this song pretty much my whole life -- few songs are so great and deservedly iconic to me. :)
And I do find Lee's version the most "hot and erotic" song I've ever heard. Nothing specific is ever said, unlike so many other songs, but she just sings "hot!" Ha!
Did you ever hear the original version which is supposed to be better? Little Willie John was a popular rhythm and blues and pop singer. Peggy Lee did it as part of her nightclub act with just bass and drums but the original has a band with horns and all. And is more pleading. The Peggy Lee recording is sort of self-consciously trying to be "hip". Though musically good. All that finger-snapping etc.
I did look Little Willie up and listened. I liked it a lot. I'd say his original is distinctive in a great way, yet, which I like when people make a cover, Lee made the song into a different type of song. (As in, "If someone is going to do a cover, don't just copy the original song and artist. Make it your own a bit.") Little Willie's is more of pleading, I agree; I like that aspect.
And he's cuter than Lee, ha! :)
This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at March 5, 2018 7:22 AM MST
well, I for one like BOTH versions.......LOVED LIttle W. John's when it came out.......I almost wore out the record.......a 45 rpm.........(those were the days) back then if you played records a lot, they got a little grayish cast to them; still sounded ok, but the plastic was wearing a little!!
and as for him, you MUST try to find "Talk to Me' somewhere & listen to that......WOW another great song!!!!!
as for Peggy, saw her in Cleveland in the 1970's and she knocked herself out for over an hour........what a great concert!!! afterwards, many of us ran up to the stage.......I tried to just politely touch her hand, but she pulled back and blew me a kiss from her index finger, which, by the way, had a HUGE artificial nail on it........that looked gorgeous!!! but we did make eye contact just for that few seconds and it was a nice ending to a great concert........!!!