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

[David Lennick]

And slow it down and add a few minor chords and you realize that it's similar to Saint-Saens' "Havanaise".

 

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> From: MLK402 at verizon.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 00:33:48 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Sugar In The Morning....
> 
> 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.
> 
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