Don't Call Us We'll Call You - Sugarloaf ( lyrics )

[@royceeason8680]

In 1975 this was my favorite song. Everytime it came on something good would happen! Hoping for the same today.

[@donreid6399]

Such a clever song skewering the music business of the 70s. Love it!

[@zaq55]

From an era when you had to pay extra for a long-distance call.

[@donreid6399]

Area code 212 was the New York City area code. Oh yeah...it was mucho bucks to call long distance!

[@majikman7355]

All paid to build the network 🤑

[@matthewpredmore6523]

“Please add 25 cents to continue this call”. Everyone of us carried pocket change in case our old beater mobiles broke down. Fun times.

[@wedge4hire]

This does not get old!!

[@IETCHX69]

I think you wd like to hear the David Grohl tickle on this one .

[@dalebeckett4796]

❤❤❤❤

[@jclpo]

I don't remember hearing this in 1975, but I'm glad to hear it now on the oldie stations and find the lyrics here!

[@mike91539153]

I got on 45 rpm.......

[@rocknative70]

Yeah... The station I listened to didn’t play it, but we went to visit my aunt&uncle and cousins 100+ miles away, and cousin had the 45 and I heard it on the radio there, too ! Thought ‘whats up with that ??!!’

[@rubenluna6457]

I grew up with that tune, back in 75!👏

[@JHoliday330]

It was released in '74 and peaked on the charts in '75, but it was more relatable to (aspiring musician) listeners on AOR / Rock stations than Pop. It got a lot more FM airplay than AM at a time when most car radios were still AM unless the car had a Deluxe option package or was customized with an aftermarket sound system. I was 9 and learning to play an electric guitar I rescued from the junk pile of a vacant rental property my family owned then.

[@canesmojo]

This one didn't get as much airplay as "Green Eyed Lady" in 1970, but it got into rotation on the local album rock station where I lived. I don't know that I realized it was them at the time, though.

[@robertcombs55]

I always loved this one...

[@youdeserveit8575]

I have never heard this song before and now it's my all time favorite!

[@linmcdowell8374]

And it's a true story!

[@skullivanfranklin3435]

They don’t make em like this anymore .... it’s called thinking outside the box and taking a chance !!!!!!!

[@edvaughan75]

I don't think record companies are interested in "outside the box" anymore. I think they are more interested in formulaic music that will produce a predictable profit.

[@tinfoilmagnolia2546]

The dial tones used on this song are the numbers of their record company and THE WHITE HOUSE! LOL!

[@canesmojo]

It was an unlisted number at CBS Records in Manhattan (area code 212) and a public number at the White House (area code 202). What were the odds?

[@donvincentwalters2705]

Nixon- my favorite 🚫Dick pic!

[@rschn7421]

Classic perfection

[@Drewster58]

Great song, reality therapy for aspiring musicians.

[@IETCHX69]

Haill yea , but only a vet would catch the references , i.e. , Beatles , Stevie Wonder , and the digital phone numbers that are for an unlisted New York ( Area code 212 ) , number for CBS records .

[@hollihardwick9787]

Omg!!! Wow taking it way back 💕

[@Donscottmusic]

You are very beautiful 💙

[@blueforest2927]

To a wayyyyyy better time ! ! !

[@danieltaylor4819]

cool tune!

[@markhanley4916]

Colorado band man. Love it

[@author]

The chorus of this song reminds me of those snowy days when we hoped they'd close our school for the day. A certain local radio station would go through the whole list of school district closures "alphabetically," and my school district began with a "W" for Webster. They'd say, "Don't call us - we'll call you." All we wanted to know was, is my school closed or not?

[@kenblack6114]

In rock n roll it is not who you know but who you blow

[@alivia56]

remember it well!

[@AliceMulle]

Perfect

[@JHoliday330]

It's actually a statement about the music business and the same styles being imitated and recycled, even in the emerging Shock Rock and Punk scene. The acknowledgments to how influential Wolfman Jack, The Beatles, and Stevie Wonder were then are probably the most obvious references, and the nudity reference pokes fun at a (possibly planned) costume malfunction from a The Tubes show that was referenced in a Penthouse article about the Rock scene, if I remember right. There was a nude photoshoot featuring the wife of one of the guys from Chicago around that same timeframe, Chicago LXIX was the title (a '69' reference), and the hottest Playmates back then included natural 'Triple D Plus Club' members such as Marilyn Lange.

[@colddeadhands5167]

I know it was imitation but love the Wolfman......R.I.P........

[@ScoriacTears]

Anyone get the feeling Sugerloaf is/was a Supergroup from a parrallel universe, where they were the most famous band in the whole solar system (and also renowned scientists) that discovered a way to travel between dimensions, and used their rock infused science skills to fashion a device with which they could make their escape (from uber celebrity of course), leaving only an explaination album on repeat playing over the tannoy in The Peoples Rock Shrine on Titan, and when appearing in this universe they kept their heads down always reining in the rock so as not to blow our minds and start the cycle again. . . ?

[@floydbryant8711]

No , but i think you should stop eating those Tide Pods😂

[@ScoriacTears]

@@floydbryant8711 . . .ahh! you don't want to believe all that crap about Tide pod being bad for your brain. . . try one.

[@floydbryant8711]

@@ScoriacTears ill pass i am fully vacinated😂😂😂😂

[@JHoliday330]

🤣🤣🤣

[@canesmojo]

No, but if they ever make Heavy Metal III, you should give 'em a call.

[@kleestard1013]

Don't EVER quit your day job.

[@kerrygraham6301]

Whenever I hear Frankenstein by Edgar Winter I think it's this.. not same riff but similar

[@raverwater1]

SO cool!!

[@Ethan_The_Actor]

It's like Beatles mixed with early areosmith... cool...also they forgot Ringo lol

[@johnh1001]

Yes , Sugarloaf ripped off the Beatles remember the Beatles and I feel fine ?

[@mikemartin2240]

Ethan Robbins ringo was not really a creative force of the Beatles-it wouldn’t sound like ringo he had no sound

[@canesmojo]

@@mikemartin2240 But he got by with a little help from his friends.

[@joelwlikes5380]

This one prolific

[@AliceMulle]

Yay

[@andrewtodd8082]

I liked this song better than Green Eyed Lady, and boy is that saying something.

[@richardmagnan6475]

Well ,, well ? ... ... ...

[@romekostis7948]

Singer sounds a little bit like Jerry Garcia

[@johnh1001]

This is a rip off song from the Beatles tune called "I feel fine" .

[@TheCheesyRice]

I'd say it's more of a nod than a rip off since they actually say "sounds like John, Paul, and George" about halfway through the song. Way too blatant to be called a rip off in my opinion. HA ha... what are the chances of playing a well known Beatles riff without it being noticed? Also, something I had forgotten about... the little funky part towards the end is very close to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition".

[@kennethbartholow2732]

Yeah, they’re clearly paying homage to the Beatles, much like the offspring’s Why Don’t You Get A Job

[@lonecrapshooter67]

And Stevie. Nice nod to Stevie in there too

[@tinfoilmagnolia2546]

Ripoff?! That is the point..SOUNDS LIKE JOHN PAUL GEORGE! Get it, like you know, humor hahaha! SHEESH!

[@mikemartin2240]

John H it’s a creative was to borrow- and build a story around it. Typical seventies story song. People like stories.

[@harrycasper762]

The part between "Don't call us" and "We'll call you" (the first one starts at 0:47) was stolen from "I Feel Fine" by the Beatles.

[@womanarethebest]

Well it"s not that bad, to stoll something from the Beatles.

[@philm.6113]

Harry Casper Really? Like when the songs says , "Sounds like John, Paul and George". That part? Stolen? It was intentionally obvious.

[@JHoliday330]

Not really 'stolen' so much as Fair Use, a (positive) critique of the original, with attribution. It's actually a nod to how influential the British Invasion really was at the time. Listen to some classic Raspberries, for example. Everyone in Pop was using those Vox AC30 amps, and the rest of them were playing Marshall Super Lead. Either way, it was Celestion speakers driven by sets of four (either EL84 or EL34 type) Mullard hi-fi tubes, or 'valves' as the Brits called them.

[@canesmojo]

Yeah, and they also borrowed a riff from Superstition by Stevie Wonder. What's your point?