Sugarloaf (band): Difference between revisions
Line 36: | Line 36: | ||
==Discography== |
==Discography== |
||
===Albums=== |
===Albums=== |
||
* ''Sugarloaf'' (1970) |
* ''Sugarloaf'' (1970) LIBERTY RECORDS |
||
* ''Spaceship Earth'' (1971) |
|||
* '' |
* ''Spaceship Earth'' (1971) LIBERTY RECORDS |
||
⚫ | |||
* ''I Got A Song'' (1973) BRUT RECORDS |
|||
⚫ | |||
===Singles=== |
===Singles=== |
Revision as of 14:29, 7 November 2007
Sugarloaf |
---|
Sugarloaf was a Denver, Colorado based rock and roll band in the 1970s featuring Jerry Corbetta.
The band was originally known as Chocolate Hair. They changed their name to Sugarloaf, named after a mountain in Colorado, when they received their first recording contract.
They are best known for two songs, both of which hit the top 10 charts in the United States: "Green-Eyed Lady" in the autumn of 1970, and "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" in 1975. Other songs which charted on the Billboard Hot 100 were "Mother Nature's Wine" (1971), "Tongue in Cheek" (1971), and "Stars In Our Eyes" (1976). In addition, "West of Tomorrow" and "Myra Myra" were not hit singles, but received modest airplay at the time of their release on album rock radio stations.
The 1975 album Don't Call Us, We'll Call You was a re-release of their 1973 album I Got A Song, with one of the tracks on the earlier album replaced by the title track of the later album, which had become a hit single.
The song "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" is notable because it contained a practical joke at the expense of CBS Records, which had just turned them down for a recording contract. The song includes the sound of a touch-tone telephone number being dialed near the beginning and ending of the song. Those numbers were an unlisted phone number at CBS Records and a public number at the White House respectively. In addition, the recording includes snippets of the guitar riff of The Beatles' "I Feel Fine," Stevie Wonder's "Superstition," and a line of dialogue from Wolfman Jack stating the call sign of a radio station.
Corbetta later went on to perform with the groups Wild Cherry (best known for their hit "Play That Funky Music"), and Disco Tex and the Sex-o-Lettes (best known for their hit "Get Dancin'"). In 1980, he became a member of The Four Seasons. He currently performs with the group Classic Rock All Stars.
Discography
Albums
- Sugarloaf (1970) LIBERTY RECORDS
- Spaceship Earth (1971) LIBERTY RECORDS
- I Got A Song (1973) BRUT RECORDS
- Don't Call Us, We'll Call You (1975) CLARIDGE RECORDS
Singles
- "Green-Eyed Lady" (Liberty 56183) 1970 charted #7 in US
- "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" / "Texas Two Lane" (Claridge 402) 1975
"Tougue in cheeck" /"Woman" Liberty Records 56218 1971 45 RPM US "Mother Natures Wine"/ "Chest Fever" United artists 50784 1971 45 RPM US "round and Round" / Colorado Jones" Brut 805 1973 45 RPM US "stars in my eyes" Claridge 405 1975 45 RPM US "GREEN EYED LADY" DJ COPY 2:58 SHORTEST AVAILBLE VERSION 1970 US WABC 770 AM RADIO NY.