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"Sugar Shuffle" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and Barry Blue. [1] It first appeared as the lead-in track on de Paul's album Love Bomb as an ethereal, chilled and dreamy song about nightlife and dating. [2] [3] AllMusic rated "Sugar Shuffle" as one of de Paul's song highlights. [4] Musician and music critic Bob Stanley wrote in The Guardian , "Sugar Shuffle is an especially gorgeous, woozy mid-70s confection, fit to sit at the table with Liverpool Express’s You Are My Love". [5]

Although never released as a single in de Paul's UK home market, it was released in edited form as a single in the US, [6] [7] where it was play-listed by radio stations such as KBBC-Phenix [8] and in Japan, where it was backed by the song "Dreams". [9] In the US, de Paul version received positive reviews in Record World [10] and Cashbox. [11] Most recently it was played on Flaneur Radio: MacArthur Park [12] and France's Radio Nova, played by Bill Brewster. [13]

An updated cover version of the song was released on the 1984 album Cryptograph by the Japanese artist Asami Kobayashi (小林麻美). [14] [15] This version had lyrics by Kobayshi and Yumi Matsutoya. [16] It received the "Best Album" award at the 26th Annual Japan Record Awards (Nihon Record Taisho) [17] and reached the top 10 in the Japanese album chart in 1984. [18] [19] It was also included on Kobayashi's "Best Collection" album, released in 1986. [20]

The song was released on CD in the US as a track on the Renaissance Records release of Love Bomb in 2010. [21] A remastered version of the de Paul version of the song was finally released on CD on her 2013 compilation CD Into My Music. [22] The song is also a track on the 2020 album, Bob Stanley presents 76 In The Shade, [23] with Martin Ruddock highlighting it as one of the standout tracks, writing in his review of the album "The poolside cool of Lynsey De Paul’s sedate Sugar Shuffle". [24] The album entered the Dutch compilations chart at No. 23 [25] and reached No. 78 on the UK Official Compilations Chart in September 2020. [26]

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