Sugar Town

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title: "Sugar Town" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1966-singles", "1967-singles", "nancy-sinatra-songs", "songs-written-by-lee-hazlewood", "1966-songs", "reprise-records-singles", "songs-about-drugs", "lsd", "the-selecter-songs"] description: "1966 song written by Lee Hazlewood" topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Town" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary 1966 song written by Lee Hazlewood ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox song"]

Field	Value
name	Sugar Town
cover	Nancy_Sinatra-Sugar_Town.jpg
caption	Norwegian 7" vinyl single cover
type	single
artist	Nancy Sinatra
album	Sugar
B-side	Summer Wine
released	October 1966
genre	Pop
length
label	Reprise
writer	Lee Hazlewood
producer	Lee Hazlewood
prev_title	In Our Time
prev_year	1966
next_title	Somethin' Stupid
next_year	1967
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| name = Sugar Town | cover = Nancy_Sinatra-Sugar_Town.jpg | alt = | caption = Norwegian 7" vinyl single cover | type = single | artist = Nancy Sinatra | album = Sugar | B-side = Summer Wine | released = October 1966 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Pop | length = | label = Reprise | writer = Lee Hazlewood | producer = Lee Hazlewood | prev_title = In Our Time | prev_year = 1966 | next_title = Somethin' Stupid | next_year = 1967

"Sugar Town" is a song written by songwriter-producer Lee Hazlewood and first recorded by American singer Nancy Sinatra in 1966. As a single released under the Reprise label, it peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1966, while reaching number one on the Easy Listening chart in January 1967. It became a gold record. The song was included on Nancy Sinatra's LP, Sugar, also released in 1966, and was featured in her 1967 TV special Movin' with Nancy, released on home video in 2000. | people = Nancy Sinatra | title = Movin' with Nancy | medium = Song listing | publisher = Image Intertainment | location = Chatsworth, CA |date = 2000 }}

Background

The song is an allusion to sugar cubes laced with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) although, like other songs Hazlewood wrote, "Sugar Town" was equivocal, speaking to a young audience able to recognize its allusion, yet outwardly tame enough to receive radio play. Hazlewood denied that he had ever used LSD, or regularly partaken in drugs in general. He explained:

The B-side to "Sugar Town" was "Summer Wine", a popular duet also written by Hazlewood, and featuring Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra.

Personnel

According to the AFM contract sheet, the following musicians played on the track.

• Billy Strange – listed as session leader
• Don Lanier – listed as session conductor
• Roy Caton
• Ollie Mitchell
• Don Randi
• Carol Kaye
• Don Bagley
• Lou Morell
• Al Casey
• Glen Campbell
• Gary Coleman
• Hal Blaine

Cover versions

Hong Kong artist Nancy Sit covered the song, released as a single by Crane Brand Records in 1967.

Zooey Deschanel covered the song in the 2009 film 500 Days of Summer.

Swedish band Shitkid covered the song on the 2017 album Fish.

In 2022, Mariano Garcia released an adaptation of this song as a single with the name "Tucumán". The lyrics allude to the province of Tucumán, Argentina, where the music video was shot.

References

References

1. Whitburn, Joel. (2002). "Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001". Record Research.
2. Bessman, Jim. (February 3, 2007). "He's The Real Deal".
3. (1966). "Nancy Sinatra – Summer Wine". Discogs.
4. "Sugar Town AFM Contract". [[American Federation of Musicians]].
5. tucumano, el. "Tucumán, un viaje al corazón y las entrañas de nuestra identidad".

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