Sugar Lips (album)

Sugar Lips
Studio album by Al Hirt
Released	1964
Studio	RCA Victor, Nashville
Genre	Jazz
Length	28:05
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Chet Atkins
Al Hirt chronology
Beauty and the Beard (1964) Sugar Lips (1964) Cotton Candy (1964)

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Sugar Lips is an album by Al Hirt released in 1964 by RCA Victor.

The single, "Sugar Lips", reached No. 3 on the Easy Listening chart and No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964. The single, "Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air)", hit No. 85 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.

Track listing

1. "Sugar Lips" (Billy Sherrill, Buddy Killen)
2. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel)
3. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence)
4. "Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air)" (Sister Rosetta Tharpe)
5. "Milano" (Cy Coleman)
6. "Back Home Again in Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley)
7. "Pink Confetti" (Jerry Kennedy)
8. "Poupee Brisee (Broken Doll)" (Eddie Vartan, Georges Aber)
9. "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson)
10. "New Orleans, My Home Town" (Beasley Smith, Teddy Bart)
11. "Night Life" (Willie Nelson)
12. "Looking For The Blues" (Billy Towne, Ritchie Adams)

Personnel

• Al Hart - trumpet
• Jerry R. Hubbard - guitar
• Floyd Cramer - piano
• Hargus Robbins - organ
• The Anita Kerr Singers - chorus, arranged by Anita Kerr
• Bob Moore, Boots Randolph, Buddy Harman, Dutch McMillin, Grady Martin, Ray Edenton - unspecified instruments

Technical

• Chuck Seitz - recording engineer

Chart positions

Chart (1964)	Peak position
Billboard Top LPs	9

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Peak position
1964	"Sugar Lips"	Easy Listening (Billboard)	3
		Billboard Hot 100	30
	"Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air)"	Billboard Hot 100	85