Valentine's Day follows Friday The 13th this year, and that seems pretty ominous to me, but here's a sugar laden tune for all you lovers that has a fairly interesting story to it.
I wasn't listening to much bubblegum music back in 1971, but preferred music a little harder like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Argent, Traffic, and The Stones, but a good friend recently told me about this record by The Sugar Bears, so I had to give it a listen.
Honey Bear was the voice of Kim Carnes who would go on to have the monster hit "Bette Davis Eyes" ten years later in 1981. "Bette Davis Eyes" was number one on the charts for nine weeks, and was the song of the year, so I guess it was worth the wait for her.
The other members were vocalist Errol Sober, and songwriters Baker Knight and Mike Settle.
This record by The Sugar Bears was available on cereal boxes of Post's Super Sugar Crisp cereal
The fidelity wasn't that good but the kids didn't care, and this song actually made it to number 51.
By the end of the Sixties I had become a Music Snob and had quit defending a lot of the Bubblegum music I had given a free pass earlier. Too bad because it meant that I missed this excellent Bubblegum, which is far better than all the AM radio drek of the early '70s.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine was looking for a copy of this song for karaoke. I wasn't familiar with it either, but after hearing it, I too thought it was much better than most of the other Bubblegum Music of the time.
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