Sugar Hill Records
File:Sugarhilllogo.jpg
Parent company Welk Music Group
Founded 1978
Founder Barry Poss, David Freeman
Distributor(s) EMI
Genre Bluegrass, Americana
Country of origin U.S.
Location Nashville, Tennessee
Official Website Sugar Hill Records.com

Sugar Hill Records is an American bluegrass and Americana record label. It was founded in Durham, North Carolina in 1978 by Barry Poss with assistance from David Freeman, the owner of County Records and Rebel Records.[1] [2] Poss acquired full control of Sugar Hill in 1980 and owned the label until 1998, when he sold it to the Welk Music Group, owner of Vanguard Records.[3] Poss stayed on as president, and in 2002 was promoted to chairman. Sugar Hill remained in Durham until 2007, when Poss moved the label to Nashville, Tennessee. Among the many notable artists who have released albums on the label are Nickel Creek, Doc Watson, Townes Van Zandt, Ricky Skaggs, Guy Clark, Sam Bush and Dolly Parton. One of Parton's albums for Sugar Hill, Halos & Horns (2002), included a song called "Sugar Hill", which she wrote as a tribute to the label. In 2008, Welk Music Group appointed EMI as distributor of its labels including Sugar Hill.[4]

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Label-related awards [link]

Sugar Hill artists have won a series of Grammy Awards for Best Bluegrass Album, including:

The label's Grammy-winning artists in other categories include:

In 2006, Sugar Hill executive Barry Poss won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association.[5]

Artists currently or formerly with Sugar Hill [link]

(alphabetical (by last name for single artist))

A-L [link]

M-Z [link]

See also [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ Hoffman, Frank and Ferstler, Howard, ed. (2005). "Country Records (sic)". Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (2nd ed.). CRC Press. pp. 245–246. ISBN 0-415-93835-X. 
  2. ^ Goldsmith, Thomas, ed. (2004). "Introduction". The Bluegrass Reader. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. pp. 24. ISBN 0-252-02914-3. 
  3. ^ Hoffman, Frank and Ferstler, Howard, ed. (2005). "Sugar Hill (label) (II)". Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (2nd ed.). CRC Press. pp. 1078. ISBN 0-415-93835-X. 
  4. ^ "EMI And Welk Group Announce Sales And Distribution Partnership" (Press release). 2008-06-30. https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/42342/emi-and-welk-group-announce-sales-and-distribution. Retrieved 2010-09-13. 
  5. ^ Schoenberger, John (2006-08-10). "Poss, Toussaint, Vaughan To Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards". Radio Monitor (San Francisco: AllBusiness.com). https://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-north-carolina/688546-1.html. Retrieved 2009-07-04. 

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Sugar Hill Records (disambiguation)

Sugar Hill Records may refer to:

  • Sugar Hill Records (rap), specializing in rap music
  • Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass), specializing in bluegrass and country music

  • Sugar Hill Records (Hip-Hop label)

    Sugar Hill Records was a record label specializing in hip hop music that was founded in 1979 by husband and wife Joe and Sylvia Robinson with Milton Malden and financial funding of Morris Levy, the owner of Roulette Records.

    History

    Joe Robinson had parlayed a music publishing company that he established years before in New York into the All Platinum, Stang, and Turbo record labels prior to establishing the Sugar Hill label. Artists included his wife Sylvia, of Mickey and Sylvia ("Love is Strange") fame, The Moments (Love on a Two Way Street), Brother to Brother, Shirley and Company ("Shame Shame Shame"), Linda Jones, Jack McDuff and Chuck Jackson.

    Beginnings

    The Sugar Hill label's first record was "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by The Sugarhill Gang, which was also the first Top 40 hip hop single. Afterwards The Sequence, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Funky Four Plus One, Crash Crew, Treacherous Three, and the West Street Mob, joined the label. Sugar Hill's in-house producer and arranger was Clifton "Jiggs" Chase. The in-house recording engineer was Steve Jerome. Al Goodman, leader of The Moments, ran the show and George Kerr was a major producer. Joe and Sylvia's sons Joey and Leland were also active in the business.

    Sugar Hill

    Sugar Hill may refer to:

    Places

  • Sugar Hill in Modoc National Forest, California
  • Sugar Hill, Georgia
  • Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
  • Sugar Hill, Manhattan, a section of Harlem, New York City, New York, US
  • Sugar Hill, Pennsylvania
  • Sugar Hill Historic District (Detroit), Michigan
  • Film and television

  • Sugar Hill (1994 film), a drama starring Wesley Snipes as drug dealer Roemello Skuggs
  • Sugar Hill (1974 film), a blaxploitation horror movie, later edited for TV and retitled The Zombies of Sugar Hill
  • Sugar Hill (TV program), the 1999 comedy television for Battery Park
  • Companies

  • Sugar Hill Records, a label whose artists include Nickel Creek and Chris Hillman
  • Sugar Hill Records (Hip-Hop label), an early hip hop label, whose artists included The Sugarhill Gang
  • SugarHill Recording Studios, Houston, Texas
  • Music

  • "Sugar Hill", written and sung by Dolly Parton on her album Halos & Horns
  • "Sugar Hill" (song), a 1995 hip hop song by rapper AZ on his album Doe or Die
  • See also

  • The Sugarhill Gang, an American hip hop group
  • Sugar Hill (song)

    "Sugar Hill" is the first single from Brooklyn rapper AZ's debut album Doe or Die. It has been his biggest commercial success, reaching #25 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks charts. It has been certified as Gold by the RIAA.

    The song features Miss Jones on the chorus and background vocals and the song also contains a sample of "Sugar Free" by Juicy.

    Track listing

    Side A

  • "Sugar Hill" (Album version)
  • "Sugar Hill" (Radio version)
  • "Sugar Hill" (Instrumental)
  • Side B

  • "Rather Unique" (Album version)
  • "Rather Unique" (Radio version)
  • "Rather Unique" (TV track)
  • External links

  • Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
  • Sugar Hill (1994 film)

    Sugar Hill is a 1994 American crime film starring Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright as brothers Roemello and Raynathan Skuggs. The film focuses on the two brothers, who are major drug dealers in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.

    Plot

    Through the course of the film, several flashbacks are shown involving the Skuggs brothers, including (in the beginning of the film) the drug-overdose death of their mother Ella (Khandi Alexander), the non-fatal shooting of their drug-addicted musician father, Arthur Romello "A.R." Skuggs (Clarence Williams III) (ultimately at the hands of the man they would later work for—Gus Molino (Abe Vigoda), and a scene where Roemello is offered a full scholarship to Georgetown. Roemello, as a teenager (Dulé Hill) avenges his father’s shooting by shooting and killing Sal Marconi (Raymond Serra), a business partner of Gus’s. After contemplating for a while, Roemello decides to quit dealing and start a new life with his girlfriend, Melissa (Theresa Randle), to the disdain of Raynathan, who is scared and hesitant to leave the drug game. However, Roemello learns that getting out is nowhere near as easy as getting in.

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    Sugar Hill

    by: Dolly Parton

    Up on Sugar Hill we'd go walkin' hand in hand while the south wind blowed
    Bob whites callin' black crows cawkin' countin' the warts on a toad in the road
    Down in the mill pond swimmin' naked showin' more than we should have showed
    We were just kids explorin' nature learnin' more than we should have knowed
    Sug sug sug Sugar Hill memories stealin' sugar on the mountainside
    Sug sug sug Sugar Hill sugar sweeter than candy and cake and pie
    A yellow dress drapin' off of my shoulder seein' myself in the looking glass
    Older now and a little bit bolder thinking about our summers past
    Up on Sugar Hill we'd go walkin' hand in hand up the mountainside
    Teenage lovers plannin' and talkin' dreamin' of a future for you and I
    Sug sug sug Sugar Hill memories stealin' sugar on the mountain top
    Sug sug sug Sugar Hill sugar sweeter than ice cream and soda pop
    Years have past we're married with children
    Our days are happy and our memories fond
    We still find it quite appealin'
    To go to Sugar Hill and swim naked in the pond
    Sug sug sug Sugar Hill memories stealin' sugar on the mountain top
    Sug sug sug Sugar Hill sugar sweeter than ice cream and soda pop
    Up on Sugar Hill there's a wealth of treasure
    Down it's memory lane I go walking still
    What it means to me is more than I can measure
    Golden moments up on Sugar Hill
    Up on Sugar Hill with the fireflies glowin'
    Sound of katydids and the whippoorwill
    Honeysuckle bloomin' and a mountain stream's flowin'
    A little spot of heaven up on Sugar Hill
    Up on Sugar Hill with the bobwhite's callin'
    Black crows cawkin' and the soft wind blows
    Up on Sugar Hill there are love birds talkin'
    Up on Sugar Hill where the good times roll
    Up on Sugar Hill Sug Sug Sug Sugar Hill memories
    Stealin' sugar on the mountainside
    Up on Sugar Hill sug sug sug Sugar Hill sugar
    Sweeter than candy and cakes and pies




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