Lange, in return, asked Elliott if he wanted one lump or two and Elliott said, 'I don't care, just pour some sugar on me' and the name stuck. He asked Mutt Lange for some sugar to put in his tea. Joe Elliott got the name of the song when he was sitting in the basement of his London flat.

Thus, the band edited footage from an upcoming concert film to make a new promo clip for 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' and finally released it as the third single in North America. Within two weeks the song was completed, smoothed out, and included as the twelfth track on Hysteria.īy the spring of 1988, Hysteria had sold 3 million copies, but it still was not enough to cover the album's production costs (the most expensive ever at the time). Although already behind schedule, Lange felt that the album was still missing a strong crossover hit and that this last song had the potential to be one. Producer Mutt Lange, expressing great liking of it, suggested that it be developed into another song. And he wound up handclapping on “Sugar, Sugar”.Near the end of recording the album Hysteria, during a production break, lead singer Joe Elliott was jamming with a riff he had come up with two weeks earlier on an acoustic guitar. We were going to grab a bite to eat, so I told him to just meet me at the studio, pick me up, and then we’ll go eat. In fact, a friend of mine had been in town, Ray Stevens, who’s an incredible songwriter, singer, producer, musician. We didn’t really know how huge, but it was huge.

We just knew that something huge was going to happen. Jeff and Andy Kim wrote “Sugar, Sugar.” Ronnie was Archie, and I was Betty and Veronica. Jeff Barry was going to produce this fictitious animated group called The Archies. Donnie Kirchner wanted to bring the Archies to life, which he did. In the UK it stayed on top of the charts for 8(!!) weeks.Īs told to Songfacts by one of the voices behind the scene (that of Veronica) – Tony Wine: One of them, with this song, marked the peak of success for “Bubblegum Music”, becoming the highest US selling record in 1969. The never aging heroes of the teenagers comics and TV show had 16 musical episodes.

Pour some sugar on me video girl