Sugartime

For the 1995 crime film, see Sugartime (film).

"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.

"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
The McGuire Sisters singles chronology
"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" (1957) "Sugartime" (1957) "Ding Dong" (1958)

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]}

Cover versions

• A recording by British singer Alma Cogan was a hit later in 1958.
• The McGuire Sisters themselves covered it in a twist arrangement in 1960. It was their last chart hit as a trio, bubbling under the Billboard Hot 100 at number 107.
• Alice Babs (Swedish lyrics by Eric Sandström)
• Lily Berglund, another Swedish version
• Linda McCartney, Reggae-version produced by Lee Perry
• Johnny Cash (on Now Here's Johnny Cash)
• Shigga Shay sampled it 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)