Sugarloaf (band)

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Sugarloaf
(clockwise from top left): Bob Yeazel, Jerry Corbetta, Bob MacVittie, Bob Webber and Bob Raymond in 1971.
Background information
Origin	Denver, Colorado
Genre(s)	Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Occupation(s)	musicians
Years active	1969–1975
Label(s)	Liberty Records United Artists Brut Records Claridge Records
Former members
Jerry Corbetta Bob Webber Bob Raymond Bob MacVittie Veeder Van Dorn (1970) Bob Yeazel (1971-1973)

[edit] History

Sugarloaf was a Denver, Colorado-based rock & roll band in the 1970s featuring Jerry Corbetta.

The band was originally known as Chocolate Hair. They changed their name to Sugarloaf, named after a mountain in Colorado, when they received their first recording contract.

They are best known for two songs, both of which hit the top 10 charts in the United States: "Green-Eyed Lady" in the autumn of 1970, and "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" in 1975. Other songs which charted on the Billboard Magazine top 100 singles charts were "Mother Nature's Wine" (1971), "Tongue in Cheek" (1971), and "Stars In Our Eyes" (1976). In addition, "West of Tomorrow" and "Myra Myra" were not hit singles, but received modest airplay at the time of their release on album rock radio stations.

The 1975 album Don't Call Us, We'll Call You was a re-release of their 1973 album I Got A Song, with one of the tracks on the earlier album replaced by the title track of the later album, which had become a hit single.

The song "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" is notable because it contained a practical joke at the expense of CBS Records, which had just turned them down for a recording contract. The song includes the sound of a touch-tone telephone number being dialed near the beginning & ending of the song. Those numbers were an unlisted phone number at CBS Records & a public number at the White House respectively.

Jerry Corbetta later went on to perform with the groups Wild Cherry (best known for their hit "Play That Funky Music"), and Disco Tex and the Sex-o-Lettes (best known for their hit "Get Dancin'").