"Sugar Town" Nancy Sinatra

"Sugar Town" is a 1966 song about the Los Angeles psychedelic drug culture by California pop star Nancy Sinatra from the album, Sugar.

According to songwriter-producer Lee Hazlewood, "Sugar Town was an LSD song if there ever was one."  Hazlewood wrote the song about being in an L.A. folk club where hippies lined up sugar cubes and put acid on each one with an eye-dropper.

"Sugar Town" was deliberately vague and lyrically directed at a hip young audience while the 'establishment' somehow found the song acceptable enough to give it heavy radio airplay.

"You had to make the lyric dingy enough where the kids knew what you were talking about --- and they did," added Hazlewood.

"Sugar Town" was a Top-5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1966 but, strangely enough, the song became a #1 smash on the Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary chart in 1967.

Unaware of its true meaning, parents of hippies loved the sunny-sounding song.

The 1967 music video to "Sugar Town" is strange yet groovy, with Nancy Sinatra made up as a polka-dotted, Go-Go-booted Barbie doll, strolling through a California Eden in psychedelic bliss (video below).

Her eyes are incredibly trippy, I must say.

Today, just about everyone over 13 would know what Nancy was really singing about.

Times have certainly changed.

A catchy little ditty, "Sugar Town" by Nancy Sinatra is one of the weirdest California songs ever, and one of the tunes that probably should have never been played on the radio, according to '60s convention.