[78-L] Sugar In The Morning....

[Michael Shoshani]

On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 15:44 -0700, Cary Ginell wrote:
> BMI shows Odis Echols, Sr. & Charlie Phillips as the writers. Whether they adapted the melody from the public domain or not, I can't say for sure. Echols was the lead singer for the Stamps Quartet, which got its start in 1924, so it's possible he wrote the melody by the time "Animal Crackers" came out.
> 

If he did, someone sat on it for a LONG time, because Buddy Holly
produced Charlie Phillips' own record at Norman Petty's recording studio
in July, 1957. Holly also played guitar on the recording.

For the curious, that demo found its way to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3rgMFNYtLU

(A lower-quality version that shows the Coral 45 RPM label is at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzMVfukjo_I )

And a Clovis, NM news article from a year ago, outlining a CD project by
the still-living Charlie Phillips, can be found at
http://www.clovisnm.org/news/release-detail.php?story_id=185 . This also
tells the story of Phillips' 1956 demo and 1957 record, both recorded in
Clovis at the Petty studio.