This is an old-school rhythm and blues song. I enjoyed it.
"Ronnie Love" was a pseudonym employed by Ron Dunbar (1939-2018), who was a songwriter from Detroit who started working for Motown in the late 1950s. "Chills and Fever" appears to have been more popular locally in Toronto than elsewhere, as it reached only #72 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
At Motown, Dunbar worked with the songwriting team of Holland, Dozier, and Holland. He followed them when they set up their own production company in 1968. Dunbar was credited as the co-writer of several of H-D-H's most famous post-Motown hits, including "Give Me Just a Little More Time", "Band of Gold", and "Patches", though Lamont Dozier claimed that H-D-H wrote the songs and gave Dunbar and family friend Edith Wayne songwriting credit because they were involved in a lawsuit.
Dunbar won a Grammy for "Patches"; he later sold it to the TV show Pawn Stars before he discovered that the buying and selling of Grammy trophies is not allowed. He worked with George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic for a while before returning to independent production.
Created February 19, 2026.