Sugartime

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"Sugartime"
Sugartime - The McGuire Sisters.jpg
Single by the McGuire Sisters
from the album Sugartime
B-side "Banana Split"
ReleasedDecember 1957 [1]
Genre Vocal pop
Length2:31
Label Coral
Songwriter(s) Charlie Phillips
Odis "Pop" Echols
The McGuire Sisters singles chronology
"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"
(1957)		"Sugartime"
(1957)		"Ding Dong"
(1958)

"Sugartime" is a popular song written by Charlie Phillips and Odis "Pop" Echols, and published in 1957. The biggest hit version was by the McGuire Sisters, whose recording of it topped the Most Played chart in February 1958. [2] It was also the second number 1 Billboard single for the trio after 1954's "Sincerely". The song refers to the Jimmie Rodgers tune "Honeycomb", which had been recorded a few months earlier in 1957.

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Background and recording

The song was co-written in 1956 by Clovis, New Mexico residents Charlie Phillips and musician and KCLV radio station owner Odis "Pop" Echols. [3] Phillips took the song to Norman Petty, who scheduled a recording session at his Clovis recording studio that included Buddy Holly on guitar and Jerry Allison on drums. This country version of the song was released on Coral Records and was a hit in Texas and Mexico. [4]

Petty suggested to Coral that they should do a pop version of the song with the McGuire Sisters, resulting in a number one hit for the singing trio in 1957 and one of the most successful singles of their career. [4]

A version by Johnny Cash, culled from his Sun Records catalogue, briefly returned to the Cashbox country chart in 1961.

The chorus was sampled for the title song of the Bollywood movie Dil Deke Dekho .

The melody is remarkably similar to that of "I'm Daffy Over You", written by Chico Marx and Sol Violinsky, and performed by Marx in several films. [5] The main melody is also reminiscent of Saint-Saens' Havanaise.[ need quotation to verify ]

Cover versions

References

  1. ↑ "This Week's Best Buys", Billboard , December 23, 1957. p. 34. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (8th ed.). Record Research. p. 414.
  3. ↑ "Odis "Pop" Echols - An Exhibit at the Southwest Collection". Southwest Collection. Texas Tech University. March 23, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Vnuk, Paul (September 2025). "Norman Petty Recording Studios". Recording. pp. 22–31.
  5. ↑ ""Unknown" Marx Brothers Music". Nitrateville.com. Retrieved 28 April 2021.


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