Funny Funny

Album: Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be (1971)
Charted: 13
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Songfacts®:

  • This was Sweet's fifth single release and their first international hit reaching the Top 20 in a number of European and South American countries and hitting the top in The Netherlands.
  • This was one of the first songs ever composed by Nicky Chinn and Michael Chapman, who wrote all of the Sweets early hits. Chapman has subsequently admitted that he modeled this on the Archies' "Sugar, Sugar."
  • The only member of Sweet to perform on this was vocalist Brian Connolly, session musicians filled in for the other members of the band. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for all above

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