Talk:Sugar Shack

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Aunt Faye[edit]

User:Historian Robin added the following to the accompanying article, in two of the page's consecutive edits:

Note: It has been stated in error above that Jim Torres had co-written the song 'Sugar Shack' with Keith McCormack but had given his share to his aunt, Faye Voss. Actually he was no kin to Mrs. Voss as she was Keith's aunt and Keith has stated that 'he' shared the song with his aunt Faye because of all the support she and her husband Johnny Voss had made to him over the years. Johnny Voss had been the band's original manager and promoter. (Historian Robin)

and i've removed it. (Read on!)
IMO we owe thanks to HR for pointing out there's reason to doubt our version. But they or some other editor will have to track down reliable sources for the info. And this talk page, not the accompanying article, is the place to collaborate on that task.
I'm leaving the contrary view, which purports to cite a reliable source, standing for now, but someone should soon also at least check the "Billboard Book ..." item to confirm what precisely it says, about whose Aunt Faye. And in the long run we need to find something more reliable than we editors' own beliefs (or even unverifiable knowledge) about what really went down.
--Jerzy•t 06:49, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I actually lived in Plainview for 27 yrs. and knew Faye and Johnny Voss. Faye was a sister to Keith McCormack's mother and therefore his Aunt Faye. She told me personally that Keith wrote the song 'Sugar Shack' but she had contributed a few words such as 'Leotards' to the lyrics. Keith stated in the article (Which I cited on Wikipedia) that he 'gave' his Aunt Faye a portion of Sugar Shack for all the help she and Uncle Johnny had given him and the band. Aubrey DeCordova another member of the band said that Johnny Voss was 'everything' to the String-A-Longs in their early days, too. Historian Robin (talk) 01:33, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

R & B chart[edit]

I found

Its run on the Billboard chart was cut short because Billboard ceased publishing an R&B chart from November 30, 1963 to January 23, 1965. "Sugar Shack" has the distinction of being the last single to make it to number one on the Billboard R&B chart because Billboard did not publish an R&B chart for fourteen months.

That would make sense if when they resumed after 14 months, they no longer made singles eligible, but it sounds more like an editor tripping over their tongue, or two editors each tripping over the other's tongue, wrote nonsense. Was it the last until the 14 months had passed? Do we know about its sales in that period, and thus how long it would have charted if the decision had not been made?
BTW, "because" presumably should modify "being the last" and not "make it", which might mean a comma or two is needed around there, in order to accurately state some editor's intent.
--Jerzy•t 07:28, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]