In 1939, The New York Worlds Fair, trumpeted as The World of Tomorrow, was the big national news on radio and in newspapers.
Among the hundreds of thousands of visitors to Gotham that summer was an unknown vocal group, The Quintones, who made their way East to record with legendary producer and manager, Buck Ram.
Ram recognized that a proven jazz standard was just the thing needed to pull a hit from the young untried vocal quintet.
He quickly decided on one of his own personal favorites, Jimmy McHugh’s When My Sugar Walks Down The Street.
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| Buck Ram |
Having decided on the perfect song for their sound, Buck took the group into the studio and recorded ‘Sugar’ on September 5, 1939.
Remarkably, only six weeks later, just as the Worlds Fair was closing, the record had already made it’s way to the top of America’s Hit Parade.
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| The Quintones |
Buck Ram later went on to earning his place in Rock & Roll history for his work with The Platters.
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