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Sweet Pea (song)

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B-side
  
"Much More Love"

Genre
  
Pop rock

Label
  
ABC Records 10762

Released
  
January 1966

Length
  
2:19

Writer(s)
  
Tommy Roe

"Sweet Pea" is a song written and performed by Tommy Roe. It reached #1 in Canada, #1 in New Zealand, #7 in Australia,, and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. It was featured on his 1966 album, Sweet Pea.

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The song was produced by Gary S. Paxton.

The song was ranked #44 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1966.

Other versions

  • The Ventures released an instrumental version on their 1966 album, Wild Things!
  • Roger Williams released a version as the B-side to his single "Love Me Forever" in April 1967.
  • Friar Tuck released a version as the B-side to his single "Alley-Oop" in May 1967.
  • Manfred Mann released a version as a single in May 1967 that reached #36 in the United Kingdom.
  • Donald Lautrec released a version as a single in 1967.
  • Gang Starr sampled Roe's version on their 1989 song "Movin' On" from the album No More Mr. Nice Guy
  • Big Audio Dynamite's song "Rush" samples the drum solo from Roe's "Sweet Pea".
  • The 2007 re-release of Cub's 1993 album Betti-Cola featured a cover of the song.

    • In media

  • Samantha Morton performs a frenetic dance to the tune in the 1999 film Jesus' Son.

    • References

    Sweet Pea (song) Wikipedia
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