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Barry Beckett, Billy Carter – keyboards.Eddie Hinton, Jim O'Rourke, Jimmy Johnson – guitar.In Canada, "Cole, Cooke & Redding" was the A-side and charted first, reaching #58 in April 1970. Pickett's recording was later used in the 1997 film The Ice Storm. Pickett's cover of "Sugar, Sugar" peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The track was released by Atlantic Records as the second single from Pickett's tenth studio album, Right On. Pickett's rendition of the song was produced by Dave Crawford, Jerry Wexler, Rick Hall and Tom Dowd. In 1970, American singer Wilson Pickett recorded a cover version of "Sugar, Sugar" in his Criteria Studios sessions. Wilson Pickett version "Sugar, Sugar"ĭave Crawford, Jerry Wexler, Rick Hall, Tom Dowd Joe Mack, also known as Joey Macho – bass.The studio musicians on the Archies song are: In April 2020 the song was certified Silver by the BPI for selling 200,000 units since it was made available digitally in November 2004. Nevertheless, following the introduction of music downloads in 2004, "Sugar, Sugar" passed the one-million sales mark. The awards relied on record companies correctly compiling and supplying sales information, and "Sugar, Sugar" was erroneously awarded a gold disc in January 1970 despite having sold approximately 945,000 copies, as RCA Records had informed Disc that one million copies had been shipped, but not all were sold. Īlthough official music recording sales certifications were not introduced in the United Kingdom until the British Phonographic Industry was formed in 1973, Disc introduced an initiative in 1959 to present a gold record to singles that had sold over one million units. On February 5, 2006, "Sugar, Sugar" was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, as co-writer Andy Kim is originally from Montreal, Quebec. The single also spent eight weeks at the top of the UK singles chart and peaked at #1 on the South African Singles Chart. It ranked #81 on Billboard's "Hot 100 60th Anniversary" chart. The song was classified by the RIAA as a gold record in August 1969, meaning it had sold one million units (the gold threshold was later lowered to 500,000). It spent a total of 22 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 and was the 1969 US number-one single of the year. Billboard Hot 100 from September 20 through October 11. Reception Īfter topping the RPM 100 national singles chart in Canada on Septem(where it spent three weeks), the single went on to spend four weeks at the top of the U.S. "Sugar, Sugar" is written in the key of D major. In an article published in The Washington Times, lead vocalist Ron Dante recounts that the label was removed from the record, taken to a top radio station (KYA) in San Francisco, where the Program Director was told: "Just play it! It's a mystery group". Upon the song's initial release Kirshner had promotion men play it for radio station personnel without revealing the group's name, as the Archies' previous single, " Feelin' So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y-D.O.O)", had only reached No. The song was also made available, (along with two other Archies singles), on the back of boxes of Super Sugar Crisp cereal. When the song was re-released in mid-July 1969 on the Kirshner label, it attained enormous success nationwide by the late summer/early fall.
The song was initially released in late May 1969 on the Calendar label (the same label as with the two previous Archies singles), achieving moderate chart success in the early summer in some radio markets. Together they provided the voices of the Archies using multitracking. Ron Dante's lead vocals were accompanied by those of Toni Wine and songwriter Andy Kim. The album was the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner. Produced by Jeff Barry, the Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" was originally released on the album Everything's Archie. Their volunteers have spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours putting this music together and they were generous enough to share it with us.The Archies version Background Queen City Ukes Songbook | UkeGeek's Scriptasaurus Queen City Ukes SongbookĪ huge debt of gratitude goes out to the great folks in the Bytown Ukulele Group.
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