That Sugar Town ear worm ad and LSD.

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The song is an allusion to sugar cubes laced with Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) although, like other songs Hazlewood wrote, "Sugar Town" was equivocal, speaking to a young audience able to recognize its allusion, yet outwardly tame enough to receive radio play. Hazlewood denied that he had ever used LSD, or regularly partaken in drugs in general. He explained:

You had to make the lyric dingy enough where the kids knew what you were talking about—and they did. Double entendre. But not much more if you wanted to get it played on the radio. We used to have lotsa trouble with lyrics, but I think it’s fun to keep it hidden a little bit.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Town
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I’ve dug the vibe of the tune since I was a kid. A mean a ton, given where my tastes otherwise run. Some things are inexplicable, I guess.

Anyhow, here’s the promo video for the song:

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