"Heat Wave" (Holland - Dozier - Holland) was released in 1963 by Motown's Martha and The Vandellas. The single peaked at number four on Billboard's pop and number one on the R&B charts.

Linda Ronstadt covered "Heat Wave" in 1975 on the album "Prisoner In Disguise". The single reached number five. According to Wikipedia and band member Andrew Gold: "[her] band had been trying to get Linda to add it to her [live] set for quite awhile [sic]...one night at a Long Island club called My Father's Place we received six encores and we'd run of tunes. One of us yelled out 'Heat Wave in D' and we did it. [The band was] awfully sloppy but the crowd really liked it. So we kept the song in our set."