Sugar-Foot Rag

"Sugar-Foot Rag"
Single by Jerry Reed
from the album Texas Bound and Flyin'
B-side "I'm Wanna Go Back Home To Georgia"
Released November 5, 1979
Format 7" single
Genre Country
Length 2:24
Label RCA
Writer(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). It was originally recorded by Garland and released in 1949, selling over a million records. It was then recorded by American country music artist Red Foley in 1950. 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.[1] Junior Brown covered Sugar Foot Rag on his 1993 album Guit with It.

Chart performance

Red Foley

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

Jerry Reed

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

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 343. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.


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