How the HELL DID THEY EVER Have Major HITS With A BAND NAME Like This? | Professor of Rock

Today’s bass line broke 70s radio! It was from the song was Green Eyed Lady by the rookie band Sugarloaf, and it flew out of the gates with mysterious lyrics about a mysterious woman that took them to the top of the charts. But then just as quickly the band fell apart…Then Sugarloaf lost their record deal, not once but two times… desperate to overcome the one-hit wonder label the band re-formed and recorded a demo at a friend's studio, no record deal, just a demo. They actually recorded a song about what they were going through at the moment. it was a song about getting rejected by labels and the quest for a hit song and the song became their second hit and destroyed the one-hit wonder curse... or did they? Turns out they were in trouble with the feds when the random phone number they cited in their song ended up being the phone number to the white house! Find out next as I track down this band to find out what happened. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Jude, Jase Bosarge, Chad Sites, Tim Muñoz, John Shoemaker ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my Hand Picked Selection Below Professor's Store Van Halen OU812 Vinyl Album https://amzn.to/3tLsII2 The 80s Collection https://amzn.to/3mAekOq 100 Best Selling Albums https://amzn.to/3h3qZX9 Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie https://amzn.to/3ifjdKQ 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art https://amzn.to/2QXzmIX Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon https://amzn.to/3h4ilrk Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) https://amzn.to/2ZcTlIl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out The Professor of Rock Merch Store -http://bit.ly/ProfessorMerch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out Patron Benefits http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Help out the Channel by purchasing your albums through our links! As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support. Click here for Premium Content: https://bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent https://bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_... https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of... #classicrock #70smusic #onehitwonder #70srock Hey Music Junkies, Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you remember the days when you spent forever walking around the video store trying to find the perfect movie to watch on a Saturday night, before everything was at your fingertips with streaming You’ll dig this channel. , make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out, and click the bell so you know when our latest interviews are dropping. Also, check out our exclusive content on Patreon and our latest merch... I’m excited to bring you another episode from our series Revelations- where featured artists go deep on their greatest songs. On today’s episode, we talk to a surviving member of the 70s band Sugarloaf whose Green Eyed Lady has become a 70s classic. The band Sugarloaf started the 70s off with a bang as their debut single became an overnight smash. Green Eyed Lady written by singer Jerry Corbetta and 2 others was an instant crowd-pleaser with its ear-catching baseline and the laid-back cool swagger of Corbetta’s voice the song was actually inspired by Corbetta’s girlfriend at the time. It hit #1 on the RPM charts and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Sugarloaf was actually not the original name of this band. Singer Jerry Corbetta and today’s interview guitarist Bob Webber had played together in a band called the Moonrakers then they formed the band Chocolate Hair this was the group that recorded Green Eyed Lady but just before they released it, the record label talked them into changing their name to Sugarloaf which was the name of a mountain in Colorado. After the record went to #1 in different parts of the US the band went through some changes and released their second album Spaceship Earth and it sputtered. The two singles from the album Tounge in Cheek and Mother Nature's Wine missed the top 40/ During this time the band toured with the likes of Deep Purple, Eric Burdon and War, The Who and others but the band everyone left the group with singer jerry Corbetta left under the band name but basically the band was broken up. Then to make matters worse their label dropped them until Corbetta signed Neil Bogart Brut Records. The band actually came back together to record a third album that didn’t do much and then Brut Records folded leaving them in jeopardy once again. So they went into a friend's studio in Denver and recorded a new song.