Sugar town lee hazlewood biography

song written by Lee Hazlewood

For the film named after this song, see Sugar Town (film).

"Sugar Town" is a song written by songwriter-producer Lee Hazlewood and first recorded by American singer Nancy Sinatra in As a single released under the Reprise label, it peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot chart in December , while reaching number one on the Easy Listening chart in January ^[1] It became a gold record.

The song was included on Nancy Sinatra's LP, Sugar, also released in , and was featured in her TV special Movin' with Nancy, released on home video in ^[2]

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