“Bad Case of Loving You” by Robert Palmer

"Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" wasn't Robert Palmer's song to begin with: Moon Martin wrote it and recorded it first, in 1978. The British singer took it on a year later for his album Secrets, Island released it as a single in 1979, and Palmer turned that lovesick title into a lean, wiry rocker that became one of his best-known hits.

Home soil was cool on it, since it entered the UK chart at number 61 in July 1979 and got no higher, but North America bit hard: 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, 10 on Cash Box, and all the way to the top of Canada's RPM chart. Later, for the greatest-hits set Addictions: Volume 1, it was remixed with heavier guitars and drums.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.