In 1969, Everything was truly Archie! as their Filmation Associates produced series was entering its second season with the debut of “THE ARCHIE COMEDY HOUR” on CBS, “Sugar, Sugar” became among one of Billboard’s Top 20 songs of 1969, and because of its popularity, ABC-TV’s “MUSIC SCENE”, part of a 45 minute block with “THE NEW PEOPLE” (think of “GILLIGAN’S ISLAND” and “LOST”, but on a highly dramatic concept) that Fall season had aired clips from the CBS cartoon series performing “Sugar, Sugar” on one of their segments, while Don Kirshner’s Calendar Records were capitalizing on The Archie’s bubble gum music with their first three albums, as CBS’s Saturday Morning’s lineup in Fall 1969 also included reruns of the former NBC sitcom, “THE MONKEES” (1966-68) of which Don Kirshner factored heavily into! Filmation Associates, after producing the “BATMAN and SUPERMAN” cartoons, had a major hit on their hands with The Archies and their music, that they also tried to duplicate that success for ABC’s “THE HARDY BOYS”, also in Fall 1969, based on the Franklin W Dixon characters, were a rock band who performed rock music while solving mysteries, and RCA even released an LP of their bubble gum music that Dunwich Prods.Hello to allyou Sixties Pop & Sixties Bubblegum connoisseur's out there What you are looking at here is a beautiful handmade picture sleeve (ONLY) made for the 1969 all time classic Archies UK released single "Sugar, Sugar” RCA 1872. You are my candy girl Certainly one of the best One-Hit Wonders of All-Time… see which other classic tunes made our 1960’s Collection! 🙂 I’m gonna make your life so sweet, yeah, yeah, yeah Like the summer sunshine pour you sweetness over me When I kissed you girl I knew how sweet a kiss could be I just can’t believe the wonder of this feeling, too I just can’t believe the loveliness of loving you It was also a huge hit in the UK, where it stayed at #1 for 8 weeks. It beat out songs by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Jackson 5, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, and Stevie Wonder. And he wound up handclapping on ‘Sugar, Sugar.'” How did it measure up? Its fame would span decades / Amazon Wine further went on, “In fact, a friend of mine had been in town, Ray Stevens, who’s an incredible songwriter, singer, producer, musician, and we were going to just grab a bite to eat, so I told him to meet me at the studio, pick me up, and then we’ll go eat. We didn’t really know how huge, but it was huge.” It was a fun session, it was a blast, and at the session, we just knew that this was something, and something huge was going to happen. Jeff and Andy Kim, who had hits on his own as a writer and singer, Jeff and Andy wrote ‘Sugar, Sugar,’ Ronnie was Archie, and I was Betty and Veronica. And Jeff Barry was going to produce this fictitious animated group called The Archies. Donnie Kirshner wanted to bring the Archies to life, which he did. In our interview with Toni Wine, she explained: “It just was a very easy session.
Everything fell into place with ease Toni Wine, Valerie Simpson and Lesley Miller / Wikipedia
Greenwich has written many famous songs, including “Be My Baby” and “Chapel Of Love.” Toni Wine wrote the hit songs “A Groovy Kind Of Love” and “Candida.”Īs part of the bubblegum pop genre, the Archies’ biggest hit represented one of the most successful songs aimed at (or at least accessible to) younger listeners.
Kim had a hit in 1974with “Rock Me Gently,” Dante produced “Mandy” for Barry Manilow and “Heartbreaker” for Pat Benatar. The song was written by Andy Kim and Jeff Barry, and was performed by session musicians including Kim, Toni Wine, Ron Dante, and Ellie Greenwich. Composing a bubblegum pop hit Before Kidz Bop, other bands already formed the genre that would be accessible to all listening demographics / Facebook It’s simply a factoid Kirshner loved telling that added to the mythos nicely. Kirshner was the initial supervisor for the Monkees, and wanted to do the same thing with cartoon characters because they are much easier to work with than people.Ī popular urban myth says “Sugar, Sugar” was offered to The Monkees, but they turned it down. The Archies group was put together by Don Kirshner, a prolific promoter and producer. Archies, assemble! The Archies got the green light thanks to the success of The Monkees, which made them think this premise might just work again / Everett Collection
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