Sugartime

"Sugartime"
Single by The McGuire Sisters
from the album Sugartime
B-side	"Banana Split"
Released	December 1957[1]
Genre	Vocal pop
Length	2:31
Label	Coral
Songwriter(s)	Charlie Phillips and Odis Echols

"Sugartime" is a popular song written by Charlie Phillips and Odis Echols and published in 1957. The biggest hit version was by the McGuire Sisters, whose recording of it topped the Most Played Jockey 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 song "Honeycomb", which had been recorded a few months earlier in 1957.

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

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

The song's 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.[3]

The main melody is also reminiscent of Saint-Saens' Havanaise.

Cover versions

A recording of the song by the British singer Alma Cogan was a hit later in 1958.
The McGuire Sisters themselves covered the song in a twist arrangement in 1960. It was to be their last chart hit as a trio, bubbling under the Billboard Hot 100 at no. 107.
Alice Babs (Swedish lyrics by Eric Sandström)
Linda McCartney
Johnny Cash (on Now Here's Johnny Cash)
Shigga Shay sampled the song in "Shigga Morning", featuring Inch Chua.
Bagel Bites co-opted the song for a jingle in a 1996 commercial titled "Pizza in the Morning".
The Wilburn Brothers on the album "Side by Side" (Decca, 1958)

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References

"This Week's Best Buys", Billboard, December 23, 1957. p. 34. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (8th ed.). Record Research. p. 414.
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[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.

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