Sugar Magnolia

Album: American Beauty (1970)
Charted: 91
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Robert C. Hunter, Robert Hall Weir
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 2

  • Lazylightning from San Francisco, CaSugar magnolia is referencing the pastry chef at Magnolia Thunderpussy's restaurant that existed in the Haight neighborhood, late 1960's as far as I've heard. Here is a quote from Wiki: Magnolia Thunderpussy (30 October 1939 – 15 May 1996), born Patricia Donna Mallon was a San Francisco burlesque performer, radio personality, filmmaker and restaurateur. Thunderpussy operated two San Francisco restaurants in the 1960s: the one at 1398 Haight Street (at the corner of Haight and Masonic), which bore her name, featured a late-night delivery service and erotic desserts such as "The Montana Banana", which was an unsplit banana, representing a phallus, served "erect" in a food service "boat" with two scoops of ice cream, representing the other components of male genitalia, with shredded coconut, representing pubic hair, and a small dollop of whipped cream at the end of the banana. She created a host of other such delectables that, at the time, seemed incredibly scandalous.
  • Daniela from Buenos Aires, ArgentinaThis song is so pretty! My favourite by Grateful Dead :)
    Anybody knows what is it about?
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