Sugar Baby Love

"Sugar Baby Love"
Single by The Rubettes
from the album Wear It's 'At
B-side"You Could Have Told Me"
ReleasedJanuary 1974
Recorded1973
GenreBubblegum pop,[1] glam rock,[2] doo-wop
Length3:31
LabelPolydor
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Wayne Bickerton
The Rubettes singles chronology
"Sugar Baby Love"
(1974)
"Tonight"
(1974)

"Sugar Baby Love", recorded in autumn 1973[3] and released in January 1974, is a bubblegum pop song, and the debut single of the Rubettes. Written by Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington and produced by Bickerton, engineered by John Mackswith at Lansdowne Recording Studios, and with lead vocals by Paul Da Vinci, "Sugar Baby Love" was the band's only number one single on the UK Singles Chart, spending four weeks at the top of the chart in May 1974.[4]

  1. ^ Jorge Farah (28 May 2013). "Beatific Visions of Pop: "Sugar Baby Love" by The Rubettes | Every -ist and Every -ism". Jorgefarah.com. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Gold Weekender 8-11 April 2011 at Great Yarmouth Vauxhall Holiday Park". Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Biographies | Alan Williams | John Richardson | Mick Clarke | Tony Thorpe | Bill Hurd | Peter Arneson". Rubettes. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  4. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 300–1. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.