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This diary selects three songs with the word ‘sugar’ in the title, in preparation for Thanksgiving desserts.
wikis: Sugartime Sugar Shack No Sugar Tonight
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“Sugartime" is a popular song published in 1957. The biggest hit version was by the McGuire Sisters, whose recording of it topped the Most Played chart in February 1958. The song references the Jimmie Rodgers tune "Honeycomb", which had been recorded a few months earlier in 1957.
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“Sugar Shack" is a song recorded in 1963 by Jimmy Gilmer and The Fireballs. The unusual and distinctive instrument part was played by Norman Petty on a Hammond Solovox keyboard, Model L, Series A. On November 29, 1963, "Sugar Shack" received an RIAA certification for selling over a million copies, earning gold record status.
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"No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" is a medley by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who. The single was officially released as "American Woman/No Sugar Tonight" and peaked at #1 on the RPM magazine charts and #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, for three weeks on both charts.
According to Randy Bachman, the inspiration for the song arose after an incident when he was visiting California. He was walking down the street with a stack of records under his arm, when he saw three "tough-looking biker guys" approaching. He felt threatened and was looking for a way to cross the street onto the other sidewalk when a little car pulled up to the men. A woman about 5 feet (150 cm) tall got out of the car, shouting at one of them, asking where he'd been all day, that he had left her alone with the kids, didn't take out the trash, and was down here watching the girls. The man was suddenly alone when his buddies walked away. Chastened, he got in the car as the woman told him before pulling away: "And one more thing, you ain't getting no sugar tonight". The words stuck in Bachman's memory.
Bachman then wrote a short song in the key of F♯ called "No Sugar Tonight". When he presented the song to Burton Cummings and RCA, he was told that the song was too short. Bachman and Cummings expanded the song by adding to it a song Cummings had written that was also in the key of F♯, "New Mother Nature".
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Sugartime by The McGuire Sisters
Sugar Shack by Jimmy Gilmer
No Sugar Tonight by The Guess Who
