Rock n Roll
The song “Sugar Shack” was written in 1962 by Keith McCormack and Jimmy Torres, who talked New Mexico band Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs into recording the song in 1963. (They recorded where Buddy Holly had to launch his career, which was at Norman Petty’s studio in Clovis, New Mexico.) From the day of its release, the record’s infectious beat made it a smash. “Sugar Shack” sold more than one million copies in a five-week period and was eventually named Billboard’s 1963 “Song of the Year.” It also went to #1 on the R&B Chart and the Australian Chart. What is that high-pitched instrument? Is it a piccolo? An Ocarina? Nope. It was a Hammond Solovox Organ.
The most famous misheard lyric (aka mondegreen) in “Sugar Shack” is “There’s this cute little girlie, she’s a’workin’ there. / A black leotard and a three-dollar bear” instead of “and her feet are bare.”