The Rubettes lyrics
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Artist's albums
Smile
1994 · album
The Rubettes' Greatest Hits
1989 · compilation
Foe-Dee-Oh-Dee (Sped Up 10 %) (Remastered 2023)
2023 · single
I Can Do It (Sped Up 20 %) (Rerecording)
2023 · single
I Can Do It (Sped Up 10 %) (Rerecording)
2023 · single
Baby I Know
2023 · single
Foe-Dee-Oh-Dee
2023 · single
I Can Do It
2023 · single
Juke Box Jive
2023 · single
Little Darling
2023 · single
Sugar Baby Love
2023 · single
The Best of the Rubettes
2023 · compilation
Tonight
2023 · single
Under One Roof
2023 · single
You’re the Reason Why
2023 · single
Together We Stand
2022 · single
I Can't Believe It's Christmas
2021 · single
Shangri'la
2021 · album
Still Unwinding
2021 · album
Mix 2020
2020 · single
Sugar Baby Love (Remastered 2022)
1974 · single
The Rubettes (Megamix)
2016 · single
Plastic Christmas (feat. Alan Williams)
2015 · single
I Can Do It (Re-Recording Remastered 2022)
1974 · single
Foddie O Dee
2012 · single
Sugar Baby Love
2011 · single
Sugar Baby Love
2011 · EP
21st Century Rock 'n' Roll (feat. Bill Hurd)
2010 · album
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Biography
Formed in 1973 in England, the Rubettes were originally organized as a session outfit by Wayne Bickerton of Polydor A&R. Inspired by the successes of Sha Na Na, Mud, and Showaddywaddy, they combined glam rock presentation (red and white suits with matching caps) with a rock & roll revival sound. Their first release, 1974's "Sugar Baby Love," was an instant smash, remaining at number one in England for five weeks while denting the U.S. charts at number 37 in August, and remains their best-known record. Subsequent releases would be less successful, but the band soldiered on and continued to tour on the nostalgia circuit well into the 2000s. "Sugar Baby Love" was recorded in October 1973 by a group of session musicians, with Paul DaVinci singing lead. Three months after the song's recording, the band was established with a lineup consisting of vocalist/guitarist Alan Williams, John Richardson on drums, Mick Clarke on bass, Bill Hurd and Peter Arnesen on keyboards, and Tony Thorpe on guitar. The Rubettes' name, like their music, was selected to consciously tap into '50s America iconography, and the revival sound bore fruit in the U.K. on several more singles: The "Sugar Baby Love" sound-alike "Tonight" was a strong follow-up, and "Jukebox Jive" and "I Can Do It" went Top Ten there as well. None charted in the States, though, and the group moved from glammy nostalgia into more serious territory. They turned many a head with 1976's "Under One Roof," a sensitive portrayal of a gay man disowned and later murdered by his father; along with Rod Stewart's "The Killing of Georgie," it was one of very few songs tackling the difficult topic of homophobia. The track reached the Top 40, and the band scored one more Top Ten hit with 1977's "Baby I Know" before they dissolved by the end of the decade. In 1982, though, at the urging of a German promoter, Williams re-formed the group for festival shows. Redubbed the Rubettes featuring Alan Williams to counteract other acts passing themselves off as the Rubettes, the reconstituted unit continued to tour Europe in oldies revival packages intermittently into the 2000s, with original members Richardson and Clarke back in the fold along with ex-Kinks keyboardist Mark Haley. ~ Joseph McCombs, Rovi