Sugar-Foot Rag
"Sugar-Foot Rag" | ||||
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Single by Jerry Reed | ||||
from the album Texas Bound and Flyin' | ||||
B-side | "I'm Wanna Go Back Home To Georgia" | |||
Released | November 5, 1979 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 2:24 | |||
Label | RCA Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Hank Garland, Vaughn Horton | |||
Producer(s) | Ray Pennington, Ronnie Gant | |||
Jerry Reed singles chronology | ||||
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"Sugar-Foot Rag" (or Sugarfoot Rag) is a song written by Hank Garland and Vaughn Horton (given on Red Foley's record label as George Vaughn; both were aliases for songwriter George Vaughn Horton). It was originally recorded by Garland on August 26, 1949 ,[1] and released in 1949, selling over a million records. It was then recorded by American country music artist Red Foley on November 10, 1949 .[2] It was also recorded by American country music artist Jerry Reed and released in November 1979 as the lead single from his album, Texas Bound and Flyin. The song reached a peak of number 12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and number 13 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.[3] Junior Brown covered "Sugar Foot Rag" on his 1993 album Guit with It.
Chart performance
[edit]Red Foley
[edit]Chart (1950) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 4 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 24 |
Jerry Reed
[edit]Chart (1979-1980) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 12 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 13 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Decca matrix NA 2027. Sugarfoot rag / Walter "Hank" "Sugarfoot" Garland - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
- ^ "Decca matrix NA 2058. Sugar foot rag-1 / Red Foley - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 343. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.