Sugar Lips (album) explained

Sugar Lips
Type:Album
Artist:Al Hirt
Cover:Sugar Lips (album).jpg
Released:1964
Studio:RCA Victor, Nashville
Genre:Jazz
Label:RCA Victor
Producer:Chet Atkins
Prev Title:Beauty and the Beard
Prev Year:1964
Next Title:Cotton Candy
Next Year:1964

Sugar Lips is an album by Al Hirt released in 1964 by RCA Victor.[1]

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.[2]

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

Technical

Chart positions

Singles
YearSingleChartPeak
position
1964"Sugar Lips"Easy Listening (Billboard)3
Billboard Hot 10030
"Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air)"Billboard Hot 10085

Notes and References

  1. http://www.discogs.com/Al-Hirt-Sugar-Lips/release/2041562 Al Hirt, Sugar Lips
  2. http://www.allmusic.com/album/sugar-lips-mw0000916401/awards Al Hirt, Sugar Lips Chart Position
  3. Web site: Al Hirt - Sugar Lips. 28 March 2022. Discogs.com.