Sugar Baby Love Sugar Baby Love "Sugar Baby Love", recorded in autumn 1973 and released in January 1974, is a bubblegum pop song, and the debut single of the Rubettes. Written by Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington and produced by Bickerton, engineered by John Mackswith at Lansdowne Recording Studios, and with lead vocals by Paul Da Vinci, "Sugar Baby Love" was the band's one and only number one single in the UK Singles Chart, spending four weeks at the top of the chart in May 1974. Bickerton and Waddington had been writing songs together since they were both members of the Pete Best
Love Theme from "The Godfather" (album) the chart for four weeks, eventually peaking at number 30. The album's title song (subtitled "Speak Softly Love") entered that same chart three months later, on April 8, for its first of 12 weeks, during which time it reached number seven. It also entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the April 8 issue and spent 11 weeks there, where it made it to number 34. The song debuted on the UK singles chart four months later, on August 5, and got as high as number 42 over a nine-week period. The next single, "MacArthur Park", "bubbled under" the Hot 100