Sugartime

"Sugartime"
Single by The McGuire Sisters
from the album Sugartime
B-side	"Banana Split"
Released	January 1958
Genre	Vocal pop
Length	2:31
Label	Coral
Writer(s)	Charlie Phillips and Odis Echols

"Sugartime" is a popular song written by Charlie Phillips and Odis Echols and published in 1958. The biggest hit version was by the McGuire Sisters, whose recording of it topped the Most Played Jockey chart in February 1958.^[1] The song refers to the Jimmie Rodgers song "Honeycomb", which had been recorded a few months earlier in 1957.

A version of the song by Johnny Cash, culled from his Sun Records catalogue, briefly returned to the Cashbox country chart in 1961.

The chorus of the song was sampled for the title song of the Bollywood movie Dil Deke Dekho.

Cover versions

• A recording of the song by the British singer Alma Cogan was a hit later in 1958.
• Alice Babs (Swedish lyrics by Eric Sandström)
• Linda McCartney
• Johnny Cash (on Now Here's Johnny Cash)
• Shigga Shay sampled the song in "Shigga Morning", featuring Inch Chua.

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (8th ed.). Record Research. p. 414.