{"id":10473,"date":"2019-06-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2020-12-12T06:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T14:56:14","slug":"cover-me-the-pointer-sisters-the-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/16\/cover-me-the-pointer-sisters-the-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, The Pointer Sisters: The Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pointer Sisters&#8217; version of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/04\/roll-of-the-dice-the-fever\/\">The Fever<\/a>&#8221; has long been one of my favorite Springsteen covers.\u00a0It&#8217;s not that they bring anything new to the table&#8211;their arrangement is very close to the original, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that they bring so much <em>heat.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check it out in this video (which I only just discovered as I wrote this post&#8211;I never knew there was a high-quality video of it until now), and you&#8217;ll see what I mean.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DL126FttZFs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>She&#8217;s got the fever, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the studio version on The Pointer Sisters&#8217; 1979 studio album,\u00a0<em>Priority<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years later, the Pointer Sisters&#8217; cover of &#8220;The Fever&#8221; still smokes. 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