Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)

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"Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)"

Standard European artwork (UK vinyl single pictured), also used for the back cover of the parent album, Secrets
Single by Robert Palmer
from the album Secrets
B-side "Love Can Run Faster"
Released July 1979
Format Vinyl
Genre Rock, hard rock
Length 3:10
Label Island Records
Writer(s) Moon Martin
Robert Palmer singles chronology
"Every Kinda People"
(1978)		 "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)"
(1979)		 "Can We Still Be Friends"
(1979)
Alternative cover
French vinyl single, which adds the name of the song on the picture sleeve
Artwork for Dutch vinyl single

"Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" is a 1978 song written by Moon Martin and first recorded on his album Shots From a Cold Nightmare. A year later the song appeared on Robert Palmer's 1979 album Secrets and was a hit, reaching #14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #10 on the Cash Box Top 100, and #1 on the Canadian RPM chart in 1979. The Palmer version was remixed with heavier guitars and drums for his greatest hits collection Addictions: Volume 1. The song was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards.[1]

The song begins with a stanza written in typical 8 bar blues structure & chord sequence, and then progresses to a 10 bar blues chorus. Other uses of mixing bar structure include "Bird Dog", recorded by The Everly Brothers and written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant in 1957, which has a 12 bar blues stanza and an 8 bar blues chorus. "Bad Case of Loving You", however, is an example of mixing the rarer 10 bar blues structure in charted country compositions.[2]

Mexican-American singer Tatiana recorded a Spanish-language cover version in 1994 for her album Un Alma Desnuda and was released as the second single from the album.[3] A cover version of the chorus also is part of the theme of the American syndicated series The Doctors.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1979) Peak
position
Australia KMR[4] 13
Belgium [5] 16
Canadian RPM [6] 1
France [5] 9
Netherlands [5] 27
New Zealand [5] 20
UK [5] 61
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[7] 14
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[8] 10
U.S. Record World [5] 9

Year-end charts

Chart (1979) Rank
Australia [9] 76
Canada [10] 35
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[11] 92
U.S. Cash Box [12] 76

References

  1. ↑ "Robert Palmer". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  2. ↑ "Bad Case of Loving You by Robert Palmer Songfacts". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  3. ↑ "Tatiana — Un Alma Desnuda". iTunes (in Spanish). December 12, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Australian Chart Book". Austchartbook.com.au. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Song artist 304 - Robert Palmer". Tsort.info. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  6. ↑ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  7. ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  8. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 9/29/79". Tropicalglen.com. 1979-09-29. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  9. ↑ Steffen Hung. "Forum - Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts - 1980s (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  10. ↑ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  11. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1979/Top 100 Songs of 1979". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  12. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
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