Catch My Disease

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“Catch My Disease”

Single by Ben Lee
from the album Awake Is The New Sleep

Released

April 25, 2005

Format

Length

4 min, 14 s

Label

New West Records (USA)
Ten Fingers / Inertia (Australia)

Producer

Brad Wood

Ben Lee singles chronology

"Gamble Everything For Love"
(2004)

"Catch My Disease"
(2005)

"Into The Dark"
(2005)

"Catch My Disease" is a single by Australian artist Ben Lee. It is from the album Awake Is The New Sleep, which was produced in America. The song gained moderate popularity and went to #27 in Australia, and also came in second place in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2005.

The song also got some international recognition when it appeared in the opening scene of an episode of the American drama series Grey's Anatomy, and consequently went on to appear as a live track on the drama's original soundtrack. It was also featured in "My Bad Too", an episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs.

[edit] Track listing

The following tracks appear on the single:

"Catch My Disease"
"Float On"
"No Right Angles" (live at KEXP, Seattle)
"Something Borrowed, Something Blue" (live for KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic)
"Catch My Disease" (Demo)
"Gamble Everything For Love" (Video)

[edit] Trivia

Catch was written by Ben Lee and Mcgowan Southwroth.
3 minutes and 17 seconds into the song, a person can be heard sneezing in the background, referring to the "catching" of the disease mentioned in the song.
When Lee performs the song live, he usually changes the second and third verses. Instead of singing "I was backstage in Pomona", he sings "backstage at/in..." and substitutes the name of whatever venue he is playing at the time. He will also change the next line, "She drank beer with Coca-Cola" to make it rhyme with the original. For example, when he performed on the live music TV series Live at the Chapel, the second verse went, "I was backstage at the Chapel, and that's the way I like it. She drank beer with schnapps and apple, and that's the way I like it." Similarly, Lee will substitute different band/artist names from those mentioned in the original version's third verse, Beyoncé and Good Charlotte. In his Australian tour with Missy Higgins, he added "Missy Higgins was playing on the radio...and that's that way I like it" and after a pause and cheering "I heard me playing on the radio and that's the way I like it" (to more cheering).
The song is featured in the 2005 film Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, a 2006 Dell computer commercial, the The CW Television Network's short-lived drama, Hidden Palms, the TV show Scrubs (TV series), and also the movie Just Friends.