{"id":7339,"date":"2023-12-15T10:35:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2023-12-15T10:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:38:35","slug":"catching-fever-with-maia-the-toad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7339","title":{"rendered":"Catching Fever with Maia the Toad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-one years ago, Horace Andy had a big hit song with <strong><em>\u2018Fever\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, his reggae version of a track made famous by American stylist Peggy Lee. Rock singer Maia the Toad adds a fresh flavor to Andy\u2019s cover with a rendition produced by Errol \u201cGeneral Smiley\u201d Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>The American artist\u2019s cut was released in November by General Smiley\u2019s RuffCompany Records, based in Los Angeles. It is done on a revamped beat Andy did his version for Studio One in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>For her second reggae song, Maia The Toad was determined to do justice to a song first done by American blues singer Little John in 1956, and made world-famous two years later by Lee, then one of the top jazz singers in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy big goal was to make both Peggy Lee fans and reggae people from all over the world share a positive experience together when listening to the song. I tried to maintain as many elements from the original as possible by trying to replicate Peggy Lee\u2019s velvety vocals, while adding a little more dancehall for the reggae lovers,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Maia The Toad, who is from Tucson, Arizona, first did a reggae song in 2019. That track was <strong><em>\u2018Planet Jam\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which was done for <strong><em>\u2018Nebular\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, her first album.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, General Smiley\u2019s recording career started at Studio One in the late 1970s. He was part of a successful deejay duo with Papa Michigan, that recorded two big songs (<strong><em>\u2018Rub A Dub Style\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>\u2018Nice Up the Dance\u2019<\/em><\/strong>) for that label and its owner Clement \u201cCoxson\u201d Dodd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-one years ago, Horace Andy had a big hit song with \u2018Fever\u2019, his reggae version of a track made famous by American stylist Peggy Lee. Rock singer Maia the Toad adds a fresh flavor to Andy\u2019s cover with a rendition produced by Errol \u201cGeneral Smiley\u201d Bennett. The American artist\u2019s cut was released in November by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7340,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/7340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}