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| "Sugartime" | ||||
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| 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 | |||
| The McGuire Sisters singles chronology | ||||
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"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 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.
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.[3]
The main melody is also reminiscent of Saint-Saens' Havanaise.[need quotation to verify]
- ^ "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.
- ^ ""Unknown" Marx Brothers Music". Nitrateville.com. Retrieved 28 April 2021.