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Sugar-Foot Rag

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"Sugar-Foot Rag"
Single by Jerry Reed
from the album Texas Bound and Flyin'
B-side"I'm Wanna Go Back Home To Georgia"
ReleasedNovember 5, 1979
GenreCountry
Length2:24
LabelRCA Records
Songwriter(s)Hank Garland, Vaughn Horton
Producer(s)Ray Pennington, Ronnie Gant
Jerry Reed singles chronology
"Hot Stuff"
(1979)
"Sugar-Foot Rag"
(1979)
"Age"
(1980)

"Sugar-Foot Rag" (or Sugarfoot Rag) is a song written by Hank Garland and Vaughn Horton (given on Red Foley's record label as George Vaughn; both were aliases for songwriter George Vaughn Horton). It was originally recorded by Garland on August 26, 1949 (1949-08-26),[1] and released in 1949, selling over a million records. It was then recorded by American country music artist Red Foley on November 10, 1949 (1949-11-10).[2] It was also recorded by American country music artist Jerry Reed and released in November 1979 as the lead single from his album, Texas Bound and Flyin. The song reached a peak of number 12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and number 13 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.[3] Junior Brown covered "Sugar Foot Rag" on his 1993 album Guit with It.

Chart performance

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Red Foley

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Chart (1950) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 24

Jerry Reed

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Chart (1979-1980) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 12
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 13

References

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  1. ^ "Decca matrix NA 2027. Sugarfoot rag / Walter "Hank" "Sugarfoot" Garland - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  2. ^ "Decca matrix NA 2058. Sugar foot rag-1 / Red Foley - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 343. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.