Sugar-Foot Rag Explained

Sugar-Foot Rag
Type:single
Artist:Jerry Reed
Album:Texas Bound and Flyin'
B-Side:I'm Wanna Go Back Home To Georgia
Released:November 5, 1979
Genre:Country
Label:RCA Records
Producer:Ray Pennington, Ronnie Gant
Prev Title:Hot Stuff
Prev Year:1979
Next Title:Age
Next Year:1980

"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,[1] and released in 1949, selling over a million records. It was then recorded by American country music artist Red Foley on .[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

Red Foley

Chart (1950)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles4
U.S. Billboard Hot 10024

Jerry Reed

Chart (1979-1980)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles12
Canadian RPM Country Tracks13

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Decca matrix NA 2027. Sugarfoot rag / Walter "Hank" "Sugarfoot" Garland - Discography of American Historical Recordings . 2022-05-21 . adp.library.ucsb.edu.
  2. Web site: Decca matrix NA 2058. Sugar foot rag-1 / Red Foley - Discography of American Historical Recordings . 2022-05-21 . adp.library.ucsb.edu.
  3. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. 2008. 343. 978-0-89820-177-2.