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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