Sugar Lips (album)

Sugar Lips
Studio album by
Al Hirt
Released1964
StudioRCA Victor, Nashville
GenreJazz
Length28:05
LabelRCA Victor
ProducerChet Atkins
Al Hirt chronology
Beauty and the Beard
(1964) 		Sugar Lips
(1964) 		Cotton Candy
(1964)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]

Sugar Lips is an album by Al Hirt released in 1964 by RCA Victor.[2]

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.[3]

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
  • Chuck Seitz - recording engineer[4]

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

References

  1. ^ Sugar Lips at AllMusic
  2. ^ Al Hirt, Sugar Lips. Discogs.com, Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  3. ^ Al Hirt, Sugar Lips Chart Position. AllMusic, Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  4. ^ "Al Hirt - Sugar Lips". Discogs.com. Retrieved 28 March 2022.



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