“No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature” #1 5/9/1970

The flip side of “American Woman” came from a situation where Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings had each written short, somewhat incomplete songs. They combined the two, except Burton’s “New Mother Nature” was edited out of the 45. Randy was in California when he encountered some biker types on the sidewalk. Just as he was ready to cross the street to avoid a bad scene, a car pulled up and a tiny woman got out to berate her significant other for running out and leaving the kids. Her last words were, “And you ain’t getting no sugar tonight!” “New Mother Nature,” included here, is considered to be pretty much of a pot song these days.