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

[martha]

 Also played during the opening credits of MONKEY BUSINESS, 1931 - but the 
Marx tune doesn't match Sugartime .  Explained at 
http://marxcouncil.blogspot.com/2009/08/hes-daffy-over-sugar-in-morning.html 
:


"Regarding Chico's theme song, this is what the late Frank Bland found out:

Motion picture audiences first heard what I call The Chico Motif (TCM) in 
the film version of Animal Crackers in 1930. This is the tune most people 
confuse with the McGuire Sisters' 1958 hit, Sugartime. While Sugartime bears 
a strong resemblance to TCM, the fellow who wrote the former wasn't even 
born when Chico began playing this theme.
Over the years, this theme became closely associated with Chico and was 
often used to introduce him on radio and television. Always a solid 
businessman, Chico knew a good thing when he saw (or heard) it. By 1933 
Chico had published at least two separate songs using TCM. The first is a 
song credited (words and music) to Chico Marx and Sol Violinsky, and called 
I'm Daffy Over You.
(Note: There is a published version of the script from Monkey Business that 
erroneously refers to this song as Sugar In The Morning, further confusing 
the issue. This script was published after Sugartime [aka Sugar in the 
Morning - MC] was released, and was probably someone's attempt to identify 
the tune without doing the research necessary.)
The second tune to utilize TCM is the Chico Marx, Benny Davis, Sol Violinsky 
collaboration, Lucky Little Penny. While there is a very slight difference 
in the melody during the introduction and bridge (and the introduction is 
much shorter), the feel and structure of this tune is identical to I'm Daffy 
Over You."



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Shoshani" <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Sugar In The Morning....


> 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.