Shoo-Gah (My Pretty Sugar)
| PROFILE | |
| Composer | Carlos Gedarro |
| Lyricists (German) | Andre Hoff |
| Lyricists (English) | Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl |
| Year Written | 1954 |
| About Shoo-Gah | |
| This song is a bit of an enigma, though it seems to have been originally published in Germany as “Auf Jamaika Schenken Abends Die Matrosen,” which translates, roughly, to something about sailors in bars at night in Jamaica. How this all turned into “My Pretty Shoo-gah” is up in the air. In the German, it was recorded by the Willy Berking Orechster with vocals by Werner Dies. Well, the English version sounds kind of Jamaican. | |
Lyrics
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Session / Album Information
1954
“Shoo-Gah” was recorded on September 24, 1954 and released that year as a single.
This recording released on:
- 1954: Columbia 78: 40376
- 1954: Columbia 45: 4-40376
- 2007: Proper CD: PROPERBOX 121 — Young Tony
- 2011: Disc #5 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK5) The Columbia Singles, Volume 3