Īn Indian feature film adaptation of The Archies directed by Zoya Akhtar is currently in production for Netflix. However, the band continues to appear with the five original members in the comic books published by Archie Comics. In 2020, a new version of the band was introduced in the television series Riverdale, with Kevin Keller replacing Reggie Mantle. Their most successful song, " Sugar, Sugar", became one of the biggest hits of the bubblegum pop genre that flourished from 1968 to 1973. The recordings were released as a series of singles and albums that achieved worldwide chart success. The music featured in the series was recorded by session musicians, including Ron Dante on lead vocals and Toni Wine on duet and backing vocals. I now have two copies, in fact.Calendar / Kirshner / RCA / WaterTower Music I know this is about the single, but I still have my original Calendar "Everything's Archie" LP. It sold well over a million copies, and even soul man Wilson Pickett recorded. Later, I discovered that a kid down the street had all of their albums. hen my freshman year at NMSU was completed. I'm still trying to figure that out as there were much more worthy contenders, but i'll take it. In later years I discovered that "Sugar Sugar" was the #1 single of 1969. It was even cooler when I put it on the big stereo and discovered stereo separation.Īnyway, you might say that I was just the right age to have been a fan. I liked the Archies so much that my sister bought me the "Everything's Archie" album at the PX on my seventh birthday and I played it like crazy. I immediately liked it as it wasn't about any super heroes, and it wasn't my father's Sad Sack comics from his army barracks. Actually, I discovered The Archies through a comic book my sister borrowed from her best friend at the time. I had just started watching The Archie Comedy Hour on Saturday mornings and started reading their comic books. 77.Ĭlick to expand.I was six when "Sugar, Sugar" came out. Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, From the Banana Splits to Britney Spears. ‘The Monkees’, to be reissued and updated in 2020. Referenced information from the following books: The song was originally issued in May 1969 on Calendar Records then reissued on Kirshner Records in mid-1969 when it proved to be a major hit. They were signed to Kirshner’s Calendar Records (later renamed ‘Kirshner Records’ due in no small part to Donny’s ego), and he chose the song as the next Archies single to follow ‘Bang Shang A Lang’. Jeff Barry and Andy Kim wrote and copyrighted ‘Sugar, Sugar’ in early 1969 with Barry producing it along with the other Archies recordings. Jeff Barry on the other hand with his wife Ellie Greenwich became the Lennon and McCartney hit-making team you’ve never heard of. Canadian born Kim later scored the multi-million selling hit ‘Rock Me Gently’. Again, he was hired for the project, he didn’t create them. Written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim who between them have penned so many hits. ‘Sugar, Sugar’ is never mentioned as having being written or recorded in 1967.ĭon Kirshner still continued in the music industry as a music coordinator with his stable of song writers when he signed unto the Archies project in selecting songs for the cartoon group. Kirshner was later fired from the project. The demos were presented to the Monkees prior to the infamous meeting between the Monkees and Don Kirshner where the group demanded that they wanted to record their own music. Further overdubs were done on January 28th, 1967. And Grammy Award winning producer Andrew Sandoval writes in his book ‘The Monkees’ that the demo for ‘Sugar Man’ was recorded on January 23rd, 1967 and overdubbed on January 27th, 1967.
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