Chords for Behind The Vinyl: "Sugar Sugar" with Andy Kim
Tempo:
124.2 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
A
C
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[D] It's your love [G] turntable.
[D] They are every
[G]
[D] [G]
[D] So [G]
[D] [G] [A]
[D] [G] you're obviously [Am] waiting for me to say something about [D] this great song [B]
[G] or are you
[D] [G] It's the strangest thing [D] that
[G] I've always [A] said to myself [D] and
Said to other people eventually that you can't take a bow for [G] inspiration.
Well, we wrote the song [D] in about 10 minutes [G] and
the interesting [D] thing for me is that I
think I [C]
[G] I was [D] so excited about that song [G] that I kind of [A] just loved playing it all [Abm] day long [D] and
But [G]
the arts of the record is a different [D] story.
You have to go into the [G] studio and get musicians to make this
song come [A] alive in the studio [D] and
I think it was [G] rough going at [A] the beginning, [D] but I
Recorded everything [G] on on this little Sony cassette [D] player that I had that made [G] everything that I [D] wrote
[G] Sound like a hit at [Am] least to me sounded like it was coming [D] out of a transistor radio.
And so
after about an hour [C] of it not working [D] my producer Jeff Barry [G] saw the [D] look in my eyes and
we took a break [C] and
We [D] were in the RCA recording [G] studios at the [A] time in New York [D] and
So he said so [G] I said well, you know
it [D] just sounds so great on my [G] cassette player and when we were in the office writing and [B] you were doing what you do, which [D] is
just a great percussionist kind of banging on the desk and just making sounds to my [Bm] guitar [G] playing and
Sounded [D] like a record then and so [G] so I said well
I'll just play it for you [D] [G] and it was kind of [Abm] like the groove that [Dm] I was playing that that [D] that wasn't happening
Because someone else was actually playing
[G]
The guitar I mean the acoustic [D] guitar version and [G] and for me I've always felt that
[D] [G] Although songwriters [A] don't usually get into the [D] studio, but I was an artist
[G]
baby, [D] I love you was about to come out that that [G] year and
So [D] finally through [G] everybody listening to [D] my guitar playing
[G]
[A] We [D] finally got this pocket as they say which meant that everything sounded great and
So we were all excited about the record.
We had you know people come in while we were doing backgrounds and and
[Ab] Ray Stevens, you know, everything is beautiful and they had the a rap he showed up and
He's part of the hand claps that you hear and
Then they put the record out now, baby.
I love you was starting to climb the charts
sugar sugar comes out and nobody wants to play it and So Don Kirshner
man with the golden ear at the time
hired an independent promotion man, and he decided that
The
Independent promotion man should walk in with a [N] blank label so that nobody knew it was the Archie's and
he he wrote some
He wrote some
funky, let's say funky words on the on the label and walked into a radio station in San Francisco and
Obviously he goes there every Tuesday as we continue to do today.
I think it's still Tuesdays and he
He walked in and the music director which was also the program director said, okay, so what do you got he said I got this hit and
The guy said so
So who's it by and he said I can't tell you he said well you got to tell me
There's got to be a history.
You got it.
Um, no.
No, no
I want you to hear this and if you don't think it's a hit you don't have to play it
But if you think it's a hit
Then will you play it he says we only play the hits here
That's what you hear from people that that listen to your music and decide not to play it
They say well, you know, it doesn't sound like the other records.
It's not really for our station
So he plays him the record and the guy
Said okay, I'll add it.
It's it sounds like a hit to me.
Who is it?
He says the Archie's says I can't play it.
What do you mean?
I said, well, it's a non group
It's the Archie's
What do you do well
He said you promised that you would play it
He said okay.
I'll give you a couple of spins, but I you know
You're a Woodstock
the Vietnam War
all the excuses in the world said he wouldn't play it and
He turns around and he said okay, I'll play it this afternoon
He plays it that afternoon and and at that time
1969 I think everything in life is about context at that time
The audience was
Really that was the interactive time.
No one had a cell phone.
You didn't have social media you interacted with radio stations
You know you call them you requested songs
you wanted to be part of whatever radio station was doing and
Though that one play
The lights lit up at the switchboard and
He added it and then it was like wildfire went all over the world
I can travel and no matter what language the [E] population
Speaks every day if I start singing sugar everyone's gonna end up saying honey, honey
so
and they're probably singing better than I just did but
So to me, it's it's really it's an out-of-body experience.
It's something that Comes from
somebody and that's all the singers and
Musicians that play and make records all the time, and then it doesn't belong to you it belongs to
to the audience that actually you know love the record and purchase the record and
And here I am today a thousand years later still enjoying
The song when I hear it I
Love the Wilson Pickett version and I can Tina Turner and Bob Marley versions
but the Archie version is the best and
So maybe maybe my a bit will have
The word sugar sugar in it.
It's okay.
I've lived a
Very lucky and blessed life if you look at all you have to do is look at this song, you know
[D] [Gbm] [C] [G] [C]
[G] [Em] [D] [A]
[C] [G] [C] [G]
[B] [Bm] [A]
[C] [G] [N]
[D] They are every
[G]
[D] [G]
[D] So [G]
[D] [G] [A]
[D] [G] you're obviously [Am] waiting for me to say something about [D] this great song [B]
[G] or are you
[D] [G] It's the strangest thing [D] that
[G] I've always [A] said to myself [D] and
Said to other people eventually that you can't take a bow for [G] inspiration.
Well, we wrote the song [D] in about 10 minutes [G] and
the interesting [D] thing for me is that I
think I [C]
[G] I was [D] so excited about that song [G] that I kind of [A] just loved playing it all [Abm] day long [D] and
But [G]
the arts of the record is a different [D] story.
You have to go into the [G] studio and get musicians to make this
song come [A] alive in the studio [D] and
I think it was [G] rough going at [A] the beginning, [D] but I
Recorded everything [G] on on this little Sony cassette [D] player that I had that made [G] everything that I [D] wrote
[G] Sound like a hit at [Am] least to me sounded like it was coming [D] out of a transistor radio.
And so
after about an hour [C] of it not working [D] my producer Jeff Barry [G] saw the [D] look in my eyes and
we took a break [C] and
We [D] were in the RCA recording [G] studios at the [A] time in New York [D] and
So he said so [G] I said well, you know
it [D] just sounds so great on my [G] cassette player and when we were in the office writing and [B] you were doing what you do, which [D] is
just a great percussionist kind of banging on the desk and just making sounds to my [Bm] guitar [G] playing and
Sounded [D] like a record then and so [G] so I said well
I'll just play it for you [D] [G] and it was kind of [Abm] like the groove that [Dm] I was playing that that [D] that wasn't happening
Because someone else was actually playing
[G]
The guitar I mean the acoustic [D] guitar version and [G] and for me I've always felt that
[D] [G] Although songwriters [A] don't usually get into the [D] studio, but I was an artist
[G]
baby, [D] I love you was about to come out that that [G] year and
So [D] finally through [G] everybody listening to [D] my guitar playing
[G]
[A] We [D] finally got this pocket as they say which meant that everything sounded great and
So we were all excited about the record.
We had you know people come in while we were doing backgrounds and and
[Ab] Ray Stevens, you know, everything is beautiful and they had the a rap he showed up and
He's part of the hand claps that you hear and
Then they put the record out now, baby.
I love you was starting to climb the charts
sugar sugar comes out and nobody wants to play it and So Don Kirshner
man with the golden ear at the time
hired an independent promotion man, and he decided that
The
Independent promotion man should walk in with a [N] blank label so that nobody knew it was the Archie's and
he he wrote some
He wrote some
funky, let's say funky words on the on the label and walked into a radio station in San Francisco and
Obviously he goes there every Tuesday as we continue to do today.
I think it's still Tuesdays and he
He walked in and the music director which was also the program director said, okay, so what do you got he said I got this hit and
The guy said so
So who's it by and he said I can't tell you he said well you got to tell me
There's got to be a history.
You got it.
Um, no.
No, no
I want you to hear this and if you don't think it's a hit you don't have to play it
But if you think it's a hit
Then will you play it he says we only play the hits here
That's what you hear from people that that listen to your music and decide not to play it
They say well, you know, it doesn't sound like the other records.
It's not really for our station
So he plays him the record and the guy
Said okay, I'll add it.
It's it sounds like a hit to me.
Who is it?
He says the Archie's says I can't play it.
What do you mean?
I said, well, it's a non group
It's the Archie's
What do you do well
He said you promised that you would play it
He said okay.
I'll give you a couple of spins, but I you know
You're a Woodstock
the Vietnam War
all the excuses in the world said he wouldn't play it and
He turns around and he said okay, I'll play it this afternoon
He plays it that afternoon and and at that time
1969 I think everything in life is about context at that time
The audience was
Really that was the interactive time.
No one had a cell phone.
You didn't have social media you interacted with radio stations
You know you call them you requested songs
you wanted to be part of whatever radio station was doing and
Though that one play
The lights lit up at the switchboard and
He added it and then it was like wildfire went all over the world
I can travel and no matter what language the [E] population
Speaks every day if I start singing sugar everyone's gonna end up saying honey, honey
so
and they're probably singing better than I just did but
So to me, it's it's really it's an out-of-body experience.
It's something that Comes from
somebody and that's all the singers and
Musicians that play and make records all the time, and then it doesn't belong to you it belongs to
to the audience that actually you know love the record and purchase the record and
And here I am today a thousand years later still enjoying
The song when I hear it I
Love the Wilson Pickett version and I can Tina Turner and Bob Marley versions
but the Archie version is the best and
So maybe maybe my a bit will have
The word sugar sugar in it.
It's okay.
I've lived a
Very lucky and blessed life if you look at all you have to do is look at this song, you know
[D] [Gbm] [C] [G] [C]
[G] [Em] [D] [A]
[C] [G] [C] [G]
[B] [Bm] [A]
[C] [G] [N]
Key:
D
G
A
C
B
D
G
A
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ It's your love [G] turntable.
_ _ _ [D] They are every
_ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ So [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] you're obviously [Am] waiting for me to say something about [D] this great song _ [B]
[G] or are you
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] It's the strangest thing [D] that
[G] I've always [A] said to myself [D] and
Said to other people eventually that you can't take a bow for [G] inspiration.
Well, we wrote the song [D] in about 10 minutes _ [G] and
the interesting [D] thing for me is that _ I
think I [C]
[G] I was [D] so excited about that song [G] that I kind of [A] just loved playing it all [Abm] day long [D] and
_ But [G]
the arts of the record is a different [D] story.
You have to go into the [G] studio and get musicians to make this
song come [A] alive in the studio [D] and
_ I think it was [G] rough going at [A] the beginning, [D] but I
Recorded everything [G] on on this little Sony cassette [D] player that I had that made [G] everything _ that I [D] wrote
[G] Sound like a hit at [Am] least to me sounded like it was coming [D] out of a transistor radio.
And so
_ after about an hour [C] of it not working [D] my producer Jeff Barry [G] saw the [D] look in my eyes and
we took a break _ [C] and
We [D] were in the RCA recording [G] studios at the [A] time in New York [D] and
So he said so [G] I said well, you know
it [D] just sounds so great on my [G] cassette player and when we were in the office writing and [B] you were doing what you do, which [D] is
just a great percussionist kind of banging on the desk and just making sounds to my [Bm] guitar [G] playing and
Sounded [D] like a record then and so [G] so I said well
I'll just play it for you [D] _ [G] and it was kind of [Abm] like the groove that [Dm] I was playing that that [D] that wasn't happening
Because someone else was actually playing
_ _ [G]
The guitar I mean the acoustic [D] guitar version and [G] and for me I've always felt that
[D] _ [G] Although songwriters [A] don't usually get into the [D] studio, but I was an artist
[G] _
baby, [D] I love you was about to come out that that [G] year and
_ _ So [D] finally through [G] everybody listening to [D] my guitar playing
[G] _ _
[A] We [D] finally got this pocket as they say which meant that everything sounded great and
_ So we were all excited about the record.
We had you know people come in while we were doing backgrounds and _ and
[Ab] _ Ray Stevens, you know, everything is beautiful and they had the a rap he showed up _ _ _ and
He's part of the hand claps that you hear _ _ _ and
Then they put the record out now, baby.
I love you was starting to climb the charts
_ sugar sugar comes out and nobody wants to play it and _ _ _ So Don Kirshner
_ _ man with the golden ear at the time _
hired an independent promotion man, and he decided that
_ _ _ _ The _
Independent promotion man should walk in with a [N] blank label so that nobody knew it was the Archie's _ _ and
he he wrote some
_ He wrote some
_ funky, let's say funky words on the on the label and walked into a radio station in San Francisco _ and
_ Obviously he goes there every Tuesday as we continue to do today.
I think it's still Tuesdays and he
_ He walked in and the music director which was also the program director said, okay, so what do you got he said I got this hit _ and
The guy said so
_ So who's it by and he said I can't tell you he said well you got to tell me
There's got to be a history.
You got it.
Um, no.
No, no
I want you to hear this and if you don't think it's a hit you don't have to play it
But if you think it's a hit
_ Then will you play it he says we only play the hits here
That's what you hear from people that that listen to your music and decide not to play it
_ They say well, you know, it doesn't sound like the other records.
It's not really for our station
So he plays him the record and the guy
Said okay, I'll add it.
It's it sounds like a hit to me.
Who is it?
He says the Archie's says I can't play it.
What do you mean?
I said, well, it's a non group
It's the Archie's _
_ What do you do well _
He said you promised that you would play it
He said okay.
I'll give you a couple of spins, but I you know
You're a Woodstock
the Vietnam War
all the excuses in the world said he wouldn't play it and
_ He _ turns around and he said okay, I'll play it this afternoon
He plays it that afternoon and and at that time
_ 1969 I think everything in life is about context at that time _
_ _ The _ _ _ audience was
Really that was the interactive time.
No one had a cell phone.
You didn't have social media you interacted with radio stations
You know you call them you requested songs
_ you wanted to be part of whatever radio station was doing and
Though that one play
The lights lit up at the switchboard and
He added it and then it was like wildfire went all over the world
I can travel and no matter what language the [E] population _ _
Speaks every day if I start singing sugar everyone's gonna end up saying honey, honey _
so
_ and they're probably singing better than I just did but
_ So to me, it's it's really it's an out-of-body experience.
It's something that _ _ _ Comes _ _ from
_ somebody and that's all the singers and
Musicians that play and make records all the time, and then it doesn't belong to you it belongs to
to the audience that actually you know love the record and purchase the record and
_ And here I am today a thousand years later _ still enjoying
The song when I hear it _ _ I
Love the Wilson Pickett version and I can Tina Turner and Bob Marley versions
_ _ but the Archie version is the best _ and
_ So maybe maybe my a bit will have _
The word sugar sugar in it.
It's okay. _
I've lived a
Very lucky and blessed life if you look at all you have to do is look at this song, you know _ _ _
[D] _ [Gbm] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ [A] _
_ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ It's your love [G] turntable.
_ _ _ [D] They are every
_ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ So [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] you're obviously [Am] waiting for me to say something about [D] this great song _ [B]
[G] or are you
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] It's the strangest thing [D] that
[G] I've always [A] said to myself [D] and
Said to other people eventually that you can't take a bow for [G] inspiration.
Well, we wrote the song [D] in about 10 minutes _ [G] and
the interesting [D] thing for me is that _ I
think I [C]
[G] I was [D] so excited about that song [G] that I kind of [A] just loved playing it all [Abm] day long [D] and
_ But [G]
the arts of the record is a different [D] story.
You have to go into the [G] studio and get musicians to make this
song come [A] alive in the studio [D] and
_ I think it was [G] rough going at [A] the beginning, [D] but I
Recorded everything [G] on on this little Sony cassette [D] player that I had that made [G] everything _ that I [D] wrote
[G] Sound like a hit at [Am] least to me sounded like it was coming [D] out of a transistor radio.
And so
_ after about an hour [C] of it not working [D] my producer Jeff Barry [G] saw the [D] look in my eyes and
we took a break _ [C] and
We [D] were in the RCA recording [G] studios at the [A] time in New York [D] and
So he said so [G] I said well, you know
it [D] just sounds so great on my [G] cassette player and when we were in the office writing and [B] you were doing what you do, which [D] is
just a great percussionist kind of banging on the desk and just making sounds to my [Bm] guitar [G] playing and
Sounded [D] like a record then and so [G] so I said well
I'll just play it for you [D] _ [G] and it was kind of [Abm] like the groove that [Dm] I was playing that that [D] that wasn't happening
Because someone else was actually playing
_ _ [G]
The guitar I mean the acoustic [D] guitar version and [G] and for me I've always felt that
[D] _ [G] Although songwriters [A] don't usually get into the [D] studio, but I was an artist
[G] _
baby, [D] I love you was about to come out that that [G] year and
_ _ So [D] finally through [G] everybody listening to [D] my guitar playing
[G] _ _
[A] We [D] finally got this pocket as they say which meant that everything sounded great and
_ So we were all excited about the record.
We had you know people come in while we were doing backgrounds and _ and
[Ab] _ Ray Stevens, you know, everything is beautiful and they had the a rap he showed up _ _ _ and
He's part of the hand claps that you hear _ _ _ and
Then they put the record out now, baby.
I love you was starting to climb the charts
_ sugar sugar comes out and nobody wants to play it and _ _ _ So Don Kirshner
_ _ man with the golden ear at the time _
hired an independent promotion man, and he decided that
_ _ _ _ The _
Independent promotion man should walk in with a [N] blank label so that nobody knew it was the Archie's _ _ and
he he wrote some
_ He wrote some
_ funky, let's say funky words on the on the label and walked into a radio station in San Francisco _ and
_ Obviously he goes there every Tuesday as we continue to do today.
I think it's still Tuesdays and he
_ He walked in and the music director which was also the program director said, okay, so what do you got he said I got this hit _ and
The guy said so
_ So who's it by and he said I can't tell you he said well you got to tell me
There's got to be a history.
You got it.
Um, no.
No, no
I want you to hear this and if you don't think it's a hit you don't have to play it
But if you think it's a hit
_ Then will you play it he says we only play the hits here
That's what you hear from people that that listen to your music and decide not to play it
_ They say well, you know, it doesn't sound like the other records.
It's not really for our station
So he plays him the record and the guy
Said okay, I'll add it.
It's it sounds like a hit to me.
Who is it?
He says the Archie's says I can't play it.
What do you mean?
I said, well, it's a non group
It's the Archie's _
_ What do you do well _
He said you promised that you would play it
He said okay.
I'll give you a couple of spins, but I you know
You're a Woodstock
the Vietnam War
all the excuses in the world said he wouldn't play it and
_ He _ turns around and he said okay, I'll play it this afternoon
He plays it that afternoon and and at that time
_ 1969 I think everything in life is about context at that time _
_ _ The _ _ _ audience was
Really that was the interactive time.
No one had a cell phone.
You didn't have social media you interacted with radio stations
You know you call them you requested songs
_ you wanted to be part of whatever radio station was doing and
Though that one play
The lights lit up at the switchboard and
He added it and then it was like wildfire went all over the world
I can travel and no matter what language the [E] population _ _
Speaks every day if I start singing sugar everyone's gonna end up saying honey, honey _
so
_ and they're probably singing better than I just did but
_ So to me, it's it's really it's an out-of-body experience.
It's something that _ _ _ Comes _ _ from
_ somebody and that's all the singers and
Musicians that play and make records all the time, and then it doesn't belong to you it belongs to
to the audience that actually you know love the record and purchase the record and
_ And here I am today a thousand years later _ still enjoying
The song when I hear it _ _ I
Love the Wilson Pickett version and I can Tina Turner and Bob Marley versions
_ _ but the Archie version is the best _ and
_ So maybe maybe my a bit will have _
The word sugar sugar in it.
It's okay. _
I've lived a
Very lucky and blessed life if you look at all you have to do is look at this song, you know _ _ _
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[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _