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“No Sugar Tonight/ New Mother Nature” by Guess Who
From the album American Woman (1970)
“No Sugar Tonight/ New Mother Nature” by Guess Who appears on 9 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1994 and 2023. It was first released in 1970 on the album American Woman. Its best result is #88 on the KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,349 classic rock song of all time.
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Randy Bachman found "No Sugar Tonight" on a California sidewalk. Records tucked under his arm, he was steering clear of three hard-looking bikers when a little car pulled up and a woman about 5 feet tall lit into one of them for leaving her alone with the kids, skipping the trash and eyeing the girls, then hauled him off with a warning about what he wouldn't be getting that night. Bachman turned it into a short song in F-sharp; told by Burton Cummings and RCA that it was too short, the pair spliced it to Cummings's "New Mother Nature", in the same key.
The medley landed on the Guess Who's 1970 album American Woman, with Jack Richardson producing, and "No Sugar Tonight" alone rode the flip of the "American Woman" single to number one on RPM and the Hot 100.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Classic Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 945 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 2002 | 88 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002) | 923 |
| 2012 | 467 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2012) | 500 |
| 2013 | 468 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2013) | 500 |
| 2014 | 427 | Big 100 | BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 218 | 102.9 The Whale | 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2015) | 500 |
| 2019 | 1014 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 | 1025 |
| 2022 | 431 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) | 1025 |
| 2023 | 277 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2023) | 500 |
Also listed as: No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature.
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