The Blue Orchids’ cover came out on their 2004 album Mystic Bud, and it sounds like that’s what they were on when they recorded “Sugar, Sugar.” The song has a dreamy, druggy feel – compares it favorably to the Velvet Underground’s “Heroin” – and the swirling haze alters the whole feel of the song from G-rated horniness to slow-motion realization of love. Here’s a bonus “Sugar, Sugar” from an artist not nearly as well known as any of the above, but who might have the inside track to having the best of these half-dozen covers. Still, if you want some jazzy easy listening sounds of the era, you could do worse than listen to his instrumental version of “Sugar, Sugar.” The Blue Orchids – Sugar, Sugar (The Archies cover) It’s most evident, though, that his heart isn’t in it. He covers hits of the late ’60s, in an attempt to cross over to the rock market. Give it this much: It’s a better title than Chet Baker Sells Out, which is what it amounts to. Chet Baker – Sugar, Sugar (The Archies cover)Ĭhet Baker’s 1970 album for Verve was titled Blood, Chet and Tears. But the Turners’ “Sugar, Sugar” has all the same grits ‘n’ grease with none of the anger or resignation of their non-covers. Anyone looking for clues within might have found them in the titles of Tina’s originals – “Too Many Women,” “Too Much For One Woman,” “Unhappy Birthday,” etc. The Ike & Tina Turner album Delilah’s Power was released a year after their breakup. Their “Sugar, Sugar” might not have been intended for the light of day, but as Robert Christgau noted, “there’s something in her voice, a hurtful rough place the honey missed, that makes me want to listen.” Ike & Tina Turner – Sugar, Sugar (The Archies cover) She and the Pips had left Motown for Buddah, and as they were reaping the benefits of having a smash hit in “Midnight Train to Georgia,” their former label opened up the vaults and grabbed whatever they could find to put in an album format. Gladys Knight & the Pips – Sugar, Sugar (The Archies cover)ġ975’s A Little Knight Music was a cynical cash grab, but not on Gladys Knight’s part. One listen to this and you’ll understand why the Replacements worshipped at the Church of Chilton.
Here, he does a sloppy, half-joke cover of “Sugar, Sugar,” throwing a little James Brown into the mix for good measure. He was leaving his gruff soul vocals behind and hadn’t yet landed on his keening pop voice, so he tried on a number of masks in the privacy of the studio. Post-Box Tops, pre-Big Star, the teenaged Alex Chilton began recording his first solo material in 1969.
Alex Chilton – Sugar, Sugar (The Archies cover) They perform the song engagingly, but as the evidence would soon show, Marley was better suited to bigger messages. And it’s raked up a lot of covers – including some by artists you never would have guessed…īob Marley & the Wailers – Sugar, Sugar (The Archies cover)į’rinstance, would you have guessed that before Bob Marley caught a fire, he chewed a little bubblegum? Marley and the Wailers’ cover of “Sugar, Sugar” was only released in the United States, likely as not in an effort to gain success via airplay.
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It’s been remade for Archie-related live-action TV shows, not once but twice. Sung by Ron Dante and backed up by Toni Wine (who turns 72 today!), it’s the perfect AM rock song, the #1 song of 1969, one that Lou Reed once admitted he wished he’d written. The Wicked Pickett’s version is indeed eternally worthy of relistening, but I don’t want to slight the Archies song. “This has songs on it I’ll actually want to listen to more than once!” In a twinkling he was holding a Very Best of Wilson Pickett CD, containing Pickett’s classic “Sugar, Sugar” cover. “If it doesn’t matter what version you lip-sync to…” “I have to learn this song for a lip-sync for work.” He grimaced. One day a customer came in and asked, “Do you have a copy of the song ‘Sugar, Sugar’?” We did, of course I took him to the Various Artists section and handed him a copy of Billboard Top Rock ‘n’ Roll Hits: 1969. I used to work in the music department of a chain bookstore.
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