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45 Insert: Sugarloaf

by Don Fleming

Sugarloaf "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" (1975)

Sugarloaf was best known for their hit “Green Eyed Lady” in 1970, but they hit #9 with this Beatlesque gem in 1975. The song plays off their rejection by CBS Records — “We've heard it all before, it sounds like John, Paul and George.” For good measure, the band liberally lifts the riff from the Beatles’s “I Feel Fine,” as well as a bit of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” and even a Wolfman Jack sound-alike thrown in for good measure. And the phone number being dialed in the song is supposedly either an unlisted number at CBS or the number for the White House!
Sugarloaf
Sugarloaf was based in Denver, Colorado, and originally called Chocolate Hair. The band included four guys named Bob: Bob Yeazel on guitar, Bob Raymond playing bass, Bob MacVittie, drums, and Bob Webber on guitar, and “non-Bob” Jerry Corbetta on keyboards and vocals. After Sugarloaf, Corbetta spent some time in Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes, and then The Four Seasons, and is now in the Classic Rock All Stars with Iron Butterfly guitarist Mike Pinera.

There doesn’t seem to be any official "Loaf" video for the song. Musicvideoswhd on YouTube put this together with a 1947 Bell Telephone animated piece, Just Imagine:

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