Sugarloaf was an American
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band that originated under the name Chocolate Hair in 1968. The band, which formed in
Denver, Colorado
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, scored two
Top 10 hits, with the singles "
Green-Eyed Lady" and "
Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" is a hit song by the American rock band Sugarloaf. Co-written by lead vocalist Jerry Corbetta, the song was featured as the title track of the band's fourth and final album. It was their fourth single and was recor ...
".
Moonrakers and Chocolate Hair
Lead vocalist and keyboardist
Jerry Corbetta
Jerry A. Corbetta (September 23, 1947 – September 16, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter, keyboardist and organist, record producer— best known as a frontman for the Colorado rock band Sugarloaf, best known for their classic rock hit â ...
, along with guitarist Bob Webber, played together in the Denver-based band The Moonrakers. The Moonrakers had previously released 4 singles on
Tower
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; three of the songs being collected in 2005 on the Colorado garage rock compilation album ''
Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 18'' and another having been released earlier on the ''
Pebbles Volume 10'' LP. The Moonrakers had evolved from the early 1960s band The Classics (previously The Surfin' Classics, until dropping their
surf music
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focus)—various members of all three incarnations would later appear on Sugarloaf songs.
In late 1968, Corbetta and Webber formed the band Chocolate Hair, including drummer Myron Pollock, who'd played previously with Corbetta, plus Webber's friend, bassist Bob Raymond. Corbetta had originally started out as a drummer at the age of 4 before switching over to keyboards by age 7. During his stint in The Moonrakers, he had gone back to playing drums but one of his main reasons for leaving to form the new band was his desire to return to playing keyboards.
Name change and the Liberty years
Corbetta and Webber were signed to
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at this time and began recording demos during 1969. Slay got Chocolate Hair signed to
Liberty Records
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after Liberty liked the demos the band presented to them. Slay then ended up having them put the demos on the album since they sounded so good.
In September 1969 Myron Pollock decided to leave the group and the former drummer for The Moonrakers and The Surfin' Classics, Bob MacVittie, was recruited. Moonrakers singer Veeder Van Dorn was also brought in to sing on the record, making his most notable appearances on the tracks "Things Gonna Change Some" and "West of Tomorrow", though he didn't end up becoming a permanent member. "
Green-Eyed Lady", recorded at Original Sound Studios in
Hollywood, California
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, which featured MacVittie on drums, was a last minute addition to the album, which was released in the very late spring of 1970.
Just before the album's release, however, the legal department at Liberty suggested the name Chocolate Hair might be taken as having racist overtones. The band members agreed to change their name to Sugarloaf, the name of a mountain outside of
Boulder, Colorado
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, where Bob Webber resided in an
A-frame house
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.
"
Green-Eyed Lady" was written by Corbetta along with his friend Ray Payne's Sweet Pain collaborators J.C. Phillips and
David Riordan
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. The single went on to peak at No. 3 on the ''
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''
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in October 1970, while their eponymous debut album got to No. 24.
Just after the first album's release, the group added singer/guitarist/composer Bob Yeazel. Yeazel had previously played in Denver psych band Beast with
Kenny Passarelli
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. The group recorded two albums with famed Buddy Holly producer
Norman Petty
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. Yeazel was also a member of Superband with
Jimmy Greenspoon
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, who would go on to join
Three Dog Night
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. Yeazel would feature heavily on Sugarloaf's second album, ''Spaceship Earth'' (January 1971), which would only manage to make No. 111, while the two singles taken from it, "Tongue-In-Cheek" and "Mother Nature's Wine", would peak at No. 55 and No. 88 respectively. The former was the final single ever issued by Liberty itself before it was folded into
United Artists
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.
During 1970 and 1971, Sugarloaf had a heavy touring schedule that included appearances with
The Who
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,
Deep Purple
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,
Eric Burdon
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&
War
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and other popular acts of the time. On March 16, 1971 they performed at an after party for the 13th Annual
Grammy Awards
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with
Aretha Franklin
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, Three Dog Night and others.
The band became a sextet when they welcomed former Maul & The Kutups bassist Bobby Pickett (not the "
Monster Mash
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" performer) on May 16, 1971 and six days later, they appeared on ''
American Bandstand
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'' to play "Green Eyed Lady" and "Mother Nature's Wine".
In 1972 Sugarloaf played on the single "
I.O.I.O.
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", a cover of a
Bee Gees
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song recorded by TV actor
Butch Patrick
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that was produced by Frank Slay.
Bob Yeazel and Bobby Pickett left Sugarloaf sometime in mid-1972. Pickett later went on to perform with
Etta James
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,
Gregg Allman
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, the rock group
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and Cafe R&B. Yeazel stayed in music for a while playing in various bands, then took an eight-year break from performing before he once again began touring, writing songs and recording demos.
And after a falling out with Corbetta, Bob Webber, Bob Raymond and Bob MacVittie departed the group as well by late 1972, leaving Corbetta with the rights to the Sugarloaf name.
Resumption and another hit
Eventually Liberty decided to drop all their artists and Sugarloaf was in limbo in 1973 as
Jerry Corbetta
Jerry A. Corbetta (September 23, 1947 – September 16, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter, keyboardist and organist, record producer— best known as a frontman for the Colorado rock band Sugarloaf, best known for their classic rock hit â ...
signed to
Neil Bogart
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's Brut Records label, which Bogart had created and distributed, via his
Buddah Records
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imprint, for the
Brut Fabergé company.
The next album, ''I Got a Song'', released in late 1973, was started as a Corbetta solo record but ended up becoming Sugarloaf's third album when Webber and Raymond rejoined Corbetta, with drummer Larry Ferris, to play on the album and once again began making live appearances. This iteration of Sugarloaf played a spot on ''
The Midnight Special'' that aired on April 19, 1974.
But after Brut folded, the group's future was once again in question as Corbetta and Frank Slay bought the album back from Bogart and went to a friend's recording studio in Denver in 1974 to record a new song, "
Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
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", with session players Paul Humphries (drums), Max Bennett (bass), Ray Payne (guitar) and a group called the Flying Saucers (Jason Hickman, Mikkel Saks and David Queen) on harmony vocals. This song was notable because it contained a
practical joke
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at the expense of
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, which had just turned them down for a recording contract. The song includes the sound of a
touch-tone
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telephone
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number being dialed near the beginning and ending of the song. Those numbers were an unlisted phone number at CBS Records in
Manhattan
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("area code 212" stated in the song) – coincidentally a public number at the
White House
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as well (different area code). In addition, the recording includes snippets of the guitar riff of
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' "
I Feel Fine
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",
Stevie Wonder
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's "
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" and a line of dialogue from
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Ken Griffin imitating
Wolfman Jack
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(who would later perform the song live with the group on their ''
Midnight Special'' appearance) stating the
call sign
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of a radio station ("Stereo 92" in the nationwide release); numerous tracks of this line were cut to match local markets. "Don't Call Us...", written by Corbetta along with
John Carter, was released in November 1974 on Slay's
Claridge Records
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label and after it took off and peaked at No. 9 in April 1975, the ''I Got a Song'' album was quickly re-released under the new title of ''Don't Call Us, We'll Call You'' with the hit single added in place of another track, "Easy Evil". But the album stalled out at US No. 152 on the ''
Billboard
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'' Top 200.
Also in 1974, Corbetta played with the group
Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
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on their hit "
Get Dancin'
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", that was produced by
Bob Crewe
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, Corbetta's new partner, and contributed to other projects, including the band Chinook.
Another single not on the LP, "Stars in My Eyes", peaked at No. 87 in June 1975 and Sugarloaf realigned with Corbetta, Webber, Raymond and original Chocolate Hair/first album drummer Myron Pollock and toured once again in 1975 behind the success of "Don't Call Us...". A live recording of the band was made at Ebbets Field (a small club, not the former
Brooklyn ball park) in Denver in July 1975 that was eventually released in 2006 as the CD ''Alive in America''.
"I Got a Song", the title track of their 1973 album, was released as a single in October 1975 but only "bubbled under" on ''
Billboard
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'' at No. 110. A Corbetta solo single, "You Set My Dreams to Music", recorded around this time, ended up in a 1977 film ''The Legend of Frank Woods'' and Sugarloaf's final single, "Satisfaction Guaranteed", was released in 1976 but failed to chart. All singles from "Don't Call Us..." on appeared on the Claridge label.
Break-up and later years
By the end of '75, Webber and Raymond were gone from the group and Corbetta continued to tour as Jerry Corbetta and Sugarloaf with drummer Myron Pollock, adding Ray Payne on guitar and Rusty Buchanan (later with
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) on bass until 1978 when he decided to retire the Sugarloaf name and pursue a solo career. His first and only solo album, ''Jerry Corbetta'', was put out on
Warner Bros.
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that same year. He was also a member of
Frankie Valli
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...
and
The Four Seasons from 1980 to 1984.
On June 12, 1985 there was a one/off Sugarloaf reunion at the Colorado Cream Festival that included Corbetta, Myron Pollock, Bob Yeazel, and new players Larry Wilkins (guitar) and Bryan Grassmeyer (bass).
During 1989 to 1991, Corbetta and Wilkins attempted to get Sugarloaf up and running again with the help of
Bob Crewe
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but without success.
In 1991 Corbetta was part of a touring rock & roll nostalgia show, ''30 Years of Rock and Roll''. This led to him teaming with two other rock vets on that bill, guitarist/singer
Mike Pinera
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(ex-
Blues Image
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and
Iron Butterfly
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) and bassist Dennis Noda (ex-
Cannibal & the Headhunters), later that year to form another all stars touring act, The Sugarloaf/Iron Butterfly/Cannibal & the Headhunters Revue, which changed its moniker to
The Classic Rock All-Stars
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in 1992 and added former
Rare Earth singer/drummer Peter Rivera and various others, like
Micky Dolenz
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and
Spencer Davis
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, who drifted in and out over the years.
According to Corbetta, a few times during the 1990s and in 2005, The Classic Rock All-Stars did a few shows as Sugarloaf with a different drummer in place of Rivera.
On January 19, 2008 The Brewery Arts Center in
Carson City, Nevada
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presented the Brewery’s Legends of Rock show, which featured Corbetta and Noda, plus Omar Martinez (ex-
Paul Revere and the Raiders
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) and local guitarist Michael Furlong.
Corbetta was forced to retire from performing in 2010 after contracting
Pick's disease
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, a progressive neurological problem similar to
Alzheimer's disease
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.
On September 8, 2012 Jerry, Bob Webber, Bob Raymond, Bob MacVittie, Bob Yeazel, Bobby Pickett, and Myron Pollock reunited to play as Sugarloaf at the Boulder Theater for their induction into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame.
On September 9, 2012 Bob Webber had a Hall of Fame after-party at a golf club in Denver in which he, Corbetta, Raymond, and Pollock gathered to play one last time as Sugarloaf.
Bassist Bob Raymond (born Robert William Raymond on March 4, 1946) died of lung cancer in
Centennial, Colorado
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on February 11, 2016, at the age of 69.
Guitarist Bob Yeazel (born Robert Devon Lee Yeazel on November 1, 1946 in Denver, Colorado) died in
Stuart, Florida
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on June 9, 2016 at the age of 69.
After a seven-year battle with Pick's disease, Corbetta died in Denver on September 16, 2016, at the age of 68.
Former Sugarloaf guitarist Bob Webber went on to become an
aerospace
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engineer
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and drummer Bob MacVittie moved to
Arkansas
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and pursued restaurant management.
Discography
Albums
* ''
Sugarloaf
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'' (
Liberty Records
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, 1970) US No. 24
* ''Spaceship Earth'' (Liberty Records, 1971) US No. 111
* ''I Got a Song'' (Brut Records, 1973)
* ''Don't Call Us - We'll Call You'' (
Claridge Records
Claridge Records was an American independent record label, owned by Frank Slay.
History
Claridge Records was started in 1965 by Frank Slay and Dennis Ganim as a division of River Bottom Enterprises. At that time, it was based in New York. The Ro ...
, 1975) US No. 152
Singles
* "
Green-Eyed Lady" (1970) US No. 3, Can. No.1, AUS No. 53
* "Tongue in Cheek" (1971) US No. 55, Can. No. 40
* "Mother Nature's Wine" (1971) US No. 88
* "
Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" is a hit song by the American rock band Sugarloaf. Co-written by lead vocalist Jerry Corbetta, the song was featured as the title track of the band's fourth and final album. It was their fourth single and was recor ...
" (1974) US No. 9, Can. No. 5, AUS No. 97
* "Stars in My Eyes" (1975) US No. 87
* "I Got a Song" (1975) US No. 110
References
External links
Former member Bob Yeazel's web site with Sugarloaf photos & band historyClassic Rock All Stars (Jerry Corbetta)*http://www.bobbypickett.net
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