The Story of Sweet Sugar Kisses

Love has been an inspiration for music and art for thousands of years. "Sweet Sugar Kisses" is a series of songs and colorfully illustrated videos inspired by real love.

I grew up in a home where my mother, Dorothy had music playing from our small white kitchen AM radio while she cooked and cleaned. There was a lot of dancing and singing in that kitchen starring my mom and her four children.

My father, Paul Joseph, an attorney, taught me to look up and learn words at a very young age. Then there was the wonderful love and laughter in the house, even when there were very tough times to go through.

With love in my heart, music in my soul and lots of words in my mind jumping at the chance to get out into the world, I was ready to create the first Sweet Sugar Kisses song. "Fire Love." It was1989 when my good friend, Joe Rappa and I decided we could write songs just as good as or even better than the songs we heard on the radio. We sure as heck gave it a try. Joe wrote about 20 songs, and I wrote about 25 through the years. Some were better than many songs we heard on the radio for sure. I guess it is in the ear of the listener. 

I got the first words and melody to "Fire Love" from the rhythm of the packing machines I worked on at the Buffalo Milk-Bone Bakery. I recorded the first line in the stairway area that had a nice big room sound in it. My voice almost echoed there. I used a cardboard box for the drum sound and recorded the line on a small tape recorder on my lunch break. I repeated the line, in my mind over and over and I got a second line, then another and another until I had a whole song with a drumbeat recorded. Then, I took the recording to Bobby Lebel, a very talented musician and friend, to produce the music that I sung along with and soon "Fire Love" was created.

Ten years later, I met Marianne, the muse and inspiration for 15 more love songs. Although we did not stay together for very long, I kept getting song ideas about her, the things we experienced and the feelings I had, happy and sad from the spiritual connection with her and even the eventual disconnection from her and the good times we had when we were together.

When I finished the 15th song, some 15 years after we broke up, I listened to them and realized that in a certain order, the songs tell a love story. Another friend of mine, Gerald G. Ralston heard the songs, and he told me I should make videos with illustrations for the songs. Being a song writer himself and also very business minded, Gerald also told me to put the illustrations on merchandise, like coffee mugs and T-shirts to spread a little love into the world and make some money.

So, that is where "Sweet Sugar Kisses" came from and what it is all about. The videos are not completed yet. There will be 15 or 16 done as soon as I can complete them. There will also be more illustrations, song titles and lyrics on merchandise very soon.

I hope to someday have the videos fully animated and have the world watching them and enjoying the merchandise and the love I believe they can create.

Thank you all for reading this, exploring my website and watching my Sweet Sugar Kisses videos.

Paul Quintilone