Heat Wave (1963 song)

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"Heat Wave" (also known as "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave") is a 1963 song written by Holland–Dozier–Holland. It was first made popular by the Motown vocal group Martha and the Vandellas, who issued it as a single on July 10, 1963, on the Motown subsidiary Gordy Records. The single reached number one on the Billboard Hot R&B chart (where it stayed for four weeks) and number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was covered 12 years later by vocalist Linda Ronstadt on her Platinum-selling 1975 album Prisoner in Disguise. Ronstadt's version of the song was released as a single in September 1975, reaching number 5 in on the Hot 100, number 4 on the Cash Box chart, and 6 in Record World. In 2010, a version by Phil Collins spent a single week at number 28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

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