Sugar and Honey Sweet Love

Sugar and honey are two terms used as endearment between partners. They are interchangeable and can be used when referring to either females or males. When in love usually it gives the person being addressed a warm all-over feeling that their partner loves them so very much. I remember back in high school a very silly saying that had me and my girlfriends laughing until tears came to our eyes – “sure as the grass grows round the stump, you are my darling sugar lump”. These terms have inspired many songs. Among these one of my favorites is “Sugar Baby Love”. Which is yours?

“Brown Sugar” is a song that was recorded by the English rock band The Rolling Stones. It was written by band member Mick Jagger. The song is the opening track and lead single from their album Sticky Fingers released in 1971. It became a number one hit in the US and Canada. Billboard ranked it the number 16 song for 1971 and it is at number 495 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

“Sugar Magnolia” is a song that was written by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir. It was recorded by the American rock band Grateful Dead. The song is on their 1970 album American Beauty. The band gave the song its live debut at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, California. It became the band’s second-most-played concert song.

“Sugar, Sugar” is a song that was written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. Originally it was recorded by The Archies, a fictional band of studio musicians linked to the US Saturday morning TV cartoon The Archie Show and inspired by Archie Comics. In 1969 the single topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles charts. The song became the most successful bubblegum pop single of all time. R&B soul singer Wilson Pickett recorded the song in the mid-1970s and had success on both the US soul and pop charts with his cover version.

“Sugar Baby Love” is a bubblegum pop song that came out in 1973. It was the debut single by the English pop/glam rock band The Rubettes. The song was written by Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington. It became the band’s one and only number one single on the UK Singles chart.

“Sugar and Spice” is a song that was recorded by the Merseybeat band The Searchers in 1963. It was written by Tony Hatch under the pseudonym Fred Nightingale. The song charted on the UK charts. The first line of the song chorus “sugar and spice and all things nice” refers to the children’s nursery rhyme “What Are Little Boys Made Of?”

“I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” is a song which was written by the successful Motown team of Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, and Eddie Holland.” It was recorded by the American vocal quartet The Four Tops. The song became their first number one hit and also charted on the R&B chart.

“Honey Come Back” is a song that was written by Jimmy Webb. It was recorded by the American country music artist Glen Campbell. The song came out in 1970 as the second single from his album Try a Little Kindness. It charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

“Honey” or “Honey (I Miss You)” is a song that was written by Bobby Russell. It was recorded by American singer Bobby Goldsboro and is on his album of the same name. The song was released as a single in 1968 and became a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Hot Country Singles charts. It became Goldsboro’s only number one hit on the Pop Singles and Country Singles charts and became his first song to top the Adult Contemporary chart.

“Honeycomb” is a popular song from 1954. It was written by Bob Merrill and recorded by the American singer, songwriter, and musician Jimmie Rodgers. The song became a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B Best Sellers charts in 1957. It became a Gold record. In 2020 the Jimmie Rodgers version was featured in the Netflix psychological thriller film, “The Devil All the Time”.

“A Taste of Honey” is a standard pop song that was written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow. It was originally an instrumental track which was written for the 1960 Broadway version of the 1958 British play “A Taste of Honey”. In 1961 a film by the same name came out. The English rock band The Beatles performed Lenny Welch’s adaptation as part of their repertoire in 1962. The song became a part of their debut album Please, Please Me in 1963.