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Find here Lyrics, a Printable Lyrics PDF file for free download plus a Sing-along Video with Lyrics. You would have thought that would have been a giant clue for the pair to do more, but Barry wrote the majority of these songs by himself, and once he left the picture the Archies faded from music history.ĬONDITION: (SEE AVAILABLE OPTIONS AND PRICING) Sugar Sugar (The Archies) is a bubblegum pop song. But the two big Archies hits, "Sugar,Sugar" (#1) and "Jingle Jangle" (#10), were both co-written by Barry and Kim. Most of the songs recorded by the group were written by Jeff Barry, who usually wrote with his wife, Greenwich. Behind the animated figures of Archie and the gang were a group of seasoned session vocalists including Andy Kim, Ron Dante, Ellie Greenwich, Jeanie Thomas and Toni Wine. The group was created by producer Don Kirschner after he was fired by the Monkees.
But such things usually come in threes and one nomination for that final spot would be that in 1969 the biggest selling pop song of the year was "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies. Wilson Pickett even covered it, injecting some much needed soul into the proceedings.The year 1969 was a year in which unbelievable things happened: human beings walked on the moon and the New York Mets won the World Series. Fifty years later, “Sugar, Sugar,” remains a good pop song.
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Unlike the Monkees, who embraced the pop psychedelia in the culture and put out a grand folly of a movie called Head (with Frank Zappa! and Ringo Starr!), the Archies just kept banging out bubblegum until it turned into sunshine (the name of their third album) and the fad had passed. Rob Dante sang the lead vocals Toni Wine sang both Betty and Veronica (the latter had the higher register). But they all continued in the bubble gum vein, written by a small stable of songwriters such as Ritchie Adams, Jeff Barry, Robert Levine, Gene Allen, and others. The Archies released five albums in total, only the first featuring the comic characters on the cover. But so was that “candy girl” and that “honey, honey” and why wouldn’t people choose the latter? It was Billboard’s Number One song of the year for 1969, a year better known for the crumbling of the Summer of Love. Initially reluctant to play a fake band, pop radio started playing the single two months after its initial release, from May to July, and it would go on to spend 22 weeks in the chart, four of them at Number One. So take a rejected Monkees song, add a bit of Beatles-style, cheapo animation, and a guaranteed promotion machine (television) and “Sugar, Sugar” turned into a hit. (The rights for the Archie characters at that time were very affordable.) His son Ricky was reading Archie comic books, and the idea formed-why not turn the comic into a band, and have them perform the single. Kirshner returned home knowing that the song could be a hit. “It’s a piece of junk,” he told Kirshner. The Archies made no pretense of being a real band in the first place - their music, including the smash hit Sugar, Sugar, was performed by the animated. Upon hearing “Sugar, Sugar” as a possible Monkees song, Nesmith absolutely refused. But that dismissiveness of the actors’ own talents led to tensions in the band, especially Michael Nesmith, who had his own country-leaning interests. This led to “Last Train to Clarksville” (Boyce and Hart), “Daydream Believer” (John Stewart) and “I’m a Believer” (Diamond), all solid hits. Music Supervisor Don Kirshner came from a career at the Brill Building, launching the careers of Neil Diamond, Carole King, and Tony Orlando, and on the Monkees, he was in charge of seeking out songwriters for the group, along with studio musicians, calling in the band to sing only when necessary. This then led producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider to ask themselves: why use the Beatles when America could manufacture its own? The Monkees were born in 1966: three Americans and one Brit sorta-moptops who starred in a sitcom based around their own hilarious, failed attempts to be as good as John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Once the Fab Four had started to quickly outgrow their innocent image, King Features turned the four into a Saturday Morning cartoon show in 1965 so their Richard Lester-inspired antics could continue apace. They seem to have a preference for rock and roll. How we got there, we must go back to the Beatles. The Archies play a variety of contemporary popular music, consistent with the era in which the comic is drawn.
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