Remember Yummie, Yummie, I Got Love in My Tummie and Red Rubber Ball? We made fun of all that bubble gum music but we still sang along with it.Just couldn’t help ourselves.
yeah the troggs were so cool. and then they crossed everyone up with 'love is all around' which was like the polar opposite of wild thing - beautiful song that i still play now and then
No. 1 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1969 and remained there for four weeks. It was also No.1 on the UK Singles chart in that same year for eight weeks.
Yes, this was a song from "The Archies" Saturday morning cartoon show. Many one hit wonder bands were made up of the same studio musicians who produced hit after hit. The same musicians performing under several different names. Some personal trivia: I bought this 45 RPM single!!
@@JayveeTV When I was a kid, after the barber cut my hair he would give me a piece of bubblegum with a tiny Archies comic wrapped around it. The bubble gum was hard, chalky and took forever to chew it soft. But once you got it ready to go, you could get epic bubbles.
This song is 28 years older than me and here I am singing along. I need to find out if you have ever reacted to The Foundations and Build Me Up Buttercup because I want to hear that after this. ❤️ This also might actually be the studio version, I’ve only ever heard it sound like this anyway.
Build me up Buttercup was the song that played at the end of the movie There's Something about Mary. It's awesome, the whole cast and crew lip sync to it.
Gary Rogers. My parents did such a good job of introducing me to all the music they had grown up with. I love so many songs from different decades and I am always thinking that when I’m much older I could be listening to songs that are 100 years old and that is pretty cool to me.
OMG! FUN FACT: In the 60's when I was growing up, there was a kid's cartoon on tv called The Archies. The Archies were a fictional band with a Saturday morning animated show and a comic book series. "Sugar Sugar" hit #1 in 1969. You could get a thin plastic copy of the song on the back of a box of Alpha Bits cereal. A year later Wilson Picket charted with his version of "Sugar Sugar".
When I was a kid, I had a copy of this song, but it was made of cardboard, and was on the back of a box of breakfast cereal. Sounded ok at first, but deteriorated really fast.
Song is a major classic. Was made for a unique business model but they absolutely crushed the effort. That audio is the studio version, the file you played is truncated. Andy Kim wrote it, he has other great songs you might want to check out. "Rock Me Gently" is what he is most known for, worth a listen.
Wow. Still love this song so much! Watched the cartoon & read the comic strip! My brother is autistic and one year older than me. We danced to this hundreds of times! 1971 & all through our childhood. Our first dance, I was 5 yrs and he was 6 yrs. I remember this like yesterday! We held hands and shoulders and we rocked back and forth in a slow dance style turning in a circle! The adults would play this over and over to watch and exclaim over the cuteness. I didn't mind because it was the only time that my brother danced! I was honored to be his partner! I still love this song & those memories of he and I dancing to Sugar Sugar.
Coming to America 🇺🇸 I spoke little English, but I could some how sing along with this song. This song brings back so many memories of my childhood. I love this song so much I asked my mom for some money to go to the local Dime Store and I bought the 45. The Dime store in case you don't know, is similar to the Dollar store. The first time I heard this song I was riding in the back of a car staring at the sky looking at the trees and looking at the beautiful green grass and I thought this is a great country.
Excited for this reaction! I loved watching the Archies as a kid and reading the comic books. Its a cute little song. We kids around the neighborhood on Guam would go outside and dance when someone had the little record and would put it on their porch.
Hi from the UK , absolutely loved this song OMG I am so old , but I remember a lot of times with this ,,in love ,, out of love ,, in love ,, well you all know what I mean 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 .
After Don Kirsher was done with the Monkees, being they wanted to run the show, do their own songs etc, and the Monkees then lost their mojo. Kirsher created the Archies. Well the Band the Archies. Again Wrecking Crew studio musicians, Same Writers, and studio vocalists. So he got more hits with this cartoon band, with out the complaining. Here Ron Dante is shown singing. But this song was introduced to the public in a Saturday Morning cartoon by the cartoon characters. P.S. The girl in the song is Toni Wine not in this video.
"Sugar Sugar" was in fact the very song that caused the Monkees to fire Kirshner. And Kirshner was right that it was a hit song, but the Monkees (Mike Nesmith especially) wanted musical control and didn't want to keep recording bubblegum pop.
MrVato53, wasn’t he the one that had the “Midnight Special” tv show on Saturday nights? He would have groups like Fleetwood Mac and other groups. Who remembers the show?
Daryn Wikholm Peacock The Don Kirshner Rock Concert. I’ve been watching it on You tube and I’m shocked how good the quality is, he made sure those videos would last. It’s really great live music and it’s 4 or 5 songs. I didn’t know he was involved with the Monkees and Archie’s
@@Fool3SufferingFools That is all true. For Mike Nesmith, as far as songwriting, His biggest song was was recorded by another artist. Stone Ponies - Featuring Linda Ronstandt. Launched her career. If you know of any other song he wrote that was a hit, I am not aware. Monkees left Kiersher and the rest is history. Kirsher had other artists and projects. Monkees are mostly remebered for all the songs they produced with Kirsher. Not much on their own.
When I was 10 yrs old I went on a summer trip with some schoolkids. That was 1970! We stayed at a lovely 'almost' mansion. Around 7.00pm we'd be singing together with SUGAR SUGAR 1970!!!
I love me some bubblegum pop!! This song was number 1 that year! The singer Ron Dante also had a band called the Cuff Links, and there song “Tracy” Bit number 2 around the same time. They were both in the top 10 at the same time!
My dad use to listen to this oldies station when I was a kid so I grew up with like AC/DC and stuff cause he was into it, then the station played this song and it was like my little ten year old heart melted. Instant crush on the main singer. The radio played it again a few weeks later and I just remember leaning against the counter, inches from the radio, wishing I had a tape to record the song so I could listen to it for forever
The woman was Toni Vine who voiced both Betty and Veronica of The Archies. She went on to write a huge hit for Tony Orlando called "Candida." The song was co-written by Andy Kim who went on to have a big hit of his own in 1974 called "Rock Me Gently.' And the TV cartoon and band were created by Don Kirschner using "The Monkees' TV show from a few years earlier. Before this song, The Archies put out a single only reaching #53 on the charts. So Kirschner - believing so strongly in Sugar Sugar - thought audiences would unfairly compare it with Feels So Good - the previous song. So, they went around to radio stations across the country, had DJs play the song from a record with no band name listed to see if they would air it. They loved it and did - being told to tell listeners it was by a "mystery group." Once phone lines lit up and people started wondering where they could purchase the record - it was finally re-released about two months later identifying the band as "The Archies."
the first song i remember hearing was your mama don't dance , this was the second song i remember , i was hooked on music from such a young age ,,,, thanks for the memories with these reactions !!!
I remember this cartoon series. I miss those Saturday mornings when they had all the kid's shows. A shame you didn't get to see the cartoon band playing the song.
Lead singer was Ron Dante. He did a lot of session work, commercials, background singing. He was the lead singer for a group called the Cuff Links, although he was the only singer (they overdubbed all of the voices, which were his, as they did with his work on The Archies). In October of 1969 he had two songs in the top 10 (Sugar Sugar and Tracy by the Cuff Links) and he wasn't mentioned on either one of the records.
Written by by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. Ron Dante sang the lead vocals and went on to produce albums for Barry Manilow. Andy Kim a Canadian from Montreal, went on to a solo career. His biggest hit was Rock me Gently.
Sugar Sugar was written by Andy Kim from Montreal and Jeff Barry from NYC. It became the title track for the Archies, a fictional cartoon group. The Archies was both a cartoon and a comic strip.
If you haven't found out yet, this was the studio version. I don't remember ever seeing this video before but you can see Ron Dante singing, playing the drums, guitar and tambourine all at the same time (but he really only did the vocals on this record) and there's a female singer (Toni Wine) not there, so it is not a live performance. I never thought of The Archies as a one-hit wonder. Three of their other singles made the Top 40 (in the US): "Jingle, Jangle"(reached number 10), "Bang-Shang-A-Lang"(number 22) and "Who's Your Baby?"(number 40) and I loved many other Archies songs (and still do). "Sugar, Sugar" may have been the biggest bubble-gum song of all time and I believe it was the number one song on the Billboard chart for the year 1969. "Get On the Line" is one of their best songs IMHO and should have been released as a single.
Veronica says "I can make life so sweet". I also remember cutting the record off the back of a "Sugar Crisp" box, putting in on the turntable and listening to this song. Wish I had kept that record. Life was so simple when I was a kid.
The one singing lead vocals is Ron Dante, he is a singer songwriter, and producer. He produced the first nine Barry Manilow albums...he's also my friend on facebook
ron dante is the lead singer in this group and he wrote quite a few jingles for popular commercials in the 60's. i saw him perform at the calvin theater in northampton, mass. in 2018 on the 'happy together tour'. also in that show were the turtles,the cowsills, the association, mark lindsay of paul revere and the raiders and chuck negron of three dog nite. it was a spectacular 60's oldies revue. great night.
This made History in the sense that they don't "Exist". They had other hits like Jingle Jangle. This was written by Jeff Barry who is probably best known for Writing and Co-Writing Hits for The Ronettes (that you heard) Be My Baby, The Dixie Cups, Chapel Of Love, and The Crystals Da Doo Run Run. He Also Co Wrote River Deep Mountain High for Ike & Tina Turner. The Other Man who wrote this is Andy Kim (Not Gibb). It was called the Best In Bubblegum Pop.
Reminds me, every time I hear it of sitting on the curb with the neighbors across the street listening to kezy a popular radio station at the time. We waited for that song to come on, then we'd all jump up and start dancing all over the curb and street.
The lead singer was Ron Dante. He had a minor hit as a member of the group The Detergents doing Leader of the Laundromat (A parody of the song Leader of the Pack). He also sang lead for a group called The Cufflinks with the song Tracy.
Hahaha the other guys you saw in the band”band” was the singer 😊. Yes, this guy and a gal, I do not know her name, sessions singer...anyway, the first time i saw this was a young kid during The Archie’s show. They were high school kids- 3 boys, 2 girls. Archie, Veronica, Jughead...can’t think of the rest. Heard this song the first time on that show when they had The Archie’s playing it. It’s hard not to love.
You need to watch this song as they sing it in the cartoon... It's great remembering all the old songs you review. Brings back awesome memories....thanks!!!
One other note that you may find interesting - the guy in the video is none other than Ron Dante! Who's that you ask? Just the guy who went on to produce all of Barry Manilow's albums in the 1070's. Kinda makes sense, doesn't it?
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar (Original 1969 Music Video) 49M views 10 years ago Raynor Bear's Cave "Sugar, Sugar" is one of 16 animated music segments created to be shown on "The Archie Comedy Hour" on CBS-TV in 1969, ...
Ron Dante is the singer of this and he was the voice behind a ton of 70's Bubblegum hits. A great song for One Hit Wonder Wednesday would be "Tracy" by the Cuff Links, in which he also sings lead.
Jayvee, my elder step brother took me as as a munchkin who loved Sugar Sugar to Dark Side of the Moon. Mind explodes. I was never the same. Love that you’re walking in so many footsteps and enjoying “pop” music.
I remember my mom cutting out the '45' from the back of a cereal box. made my folks play it to death. god I am old. haha
I said the same thing! I think it was on Super Sugar Smacks!
@@kenwelch198 I was thinking Honeycombs, but it's pretty vague.
Wow. That’s a memory!!
Lol! I had forgotten all about that! I remember cutting them out myself! Yep, I'm old 😁
Yeah, kinda remember that but I think I was older so I didn't care, was more into Mad magazine, haha.
OMGoodness!!! Yes this was from the Archie comic book series that later became a cartoon series. This was real BUBBLE GUM music!!!
I forgot about the barber shop bubblegum. Good memory.
Bazooka gum
Made for the Teenie Boppers!
Remember Yummie, Yummie, I Got Love in My Tummie and Red Rubber Ball? We made fun of all that bubble gum music but we still sang along with it.Just couldn’t help ourselves.
Marlene Clausen As a kid in Colorado, the Governor was named John Love. We thought it was about him lmao.
The Archies Saturday morning cartoon! Squeeeee! 🥰🥰
I was always partial to Josie and the Pussycats, myself. lol
I feel old...but GREAT!! Remember the cartoon!! 😁
Yes indeed, the best bubble gum music ever! You can’t not like this song, it’s too sweet 💗💕💓
Before you roll off of the 60s give this a view, "The Troggs - Wild Thing"
OH YES,! DO THE TROGGS!!!
One of the very best of the 60s
yeah the troggs were so cool. and then they crossed everyone up with 'love is all around' which was like the polar opposite of wild thing - beautiful song that i still play now and then
Omg yes!!! Do wild thing!!!
@Shame nolan Also"A girl like you" "Love is all around" which was also a hit for Wet Wet Wet in the 90s
Never seen this performance video before,only the cartoon 'Archies' performing the song when I was a kid and this was no1 for weeks in the UK
I was disappointed it wasn't the cartoon.
I loved this ❤
Yup - also guilty as charged!
No. 1 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1969 and remained there for four weeks. It was also No.1 on the UK Singles chart in that same year for eight weeks.
I loved it , still do, great feel good song 🇬🇧
This is like drinking sweet tea while getting a warm hug from grandma... just makes you feel good
I know right, how good is that
The defining moment in "Bubblegum"
I really enjoy your channel,I’m 64. and you are playing the soundtrack of my life,Thank You.
63. Same
Hi Hazel and Susan!
@@hazelvee9793 Hi Susan and Hazel!
64 here also.
Same✌️😄
Yes, this was a song from "The Archies" Saturday morning cartoon show. Many one hit wonder bands were made up of the same studio musicians who produced hit after hit. The same musicians performing under several different names. Some personal trivia: I bought this 45 RPM single!!
I used to love reading Archie comic books! This is just a feel good, happy song! It makes me 😃
You found Bubble Gum Music! Have you ever heard of Bubble Gum Music?
😂😂👍
Nope lol
@@JayveeTV that was the term for teeny boppers 😁
Omg I haven't heard that term in ages lol
@@JayveeTV When I was a kid, after the barber cut my hair he would give me a piece of bubblegum with a tiny Archies comic wrapped around it. The bubble gum was hard, chalky and took forever to chew it soft. But once you got it ready to go, you could get epic bubbles.
This is the first song I remember. I was about 4 I would keep dancing to it. On hearing this I go back to that time. Thanks for playing this.
Special nostalgia for me.. my cousin, Andy wrote this song.
Fantastic 👏 👏 thanks 😊 👍 🙏
Thank you to your cousin, Andy! Loved this song as a little kid!
@@GirlWithAnOpinion
It was special for us too. I remember his mom (my mom's sister) calling us when it was on the radio.
Andy Kim…so talented! 👍🏻
This song is 28 years older than me and here I am singing along. I need to find out if you have ever reacted to The Foundations and Build Me Up Buttercup because I want to hear that after this. ❤️
This also might actually be the studio version, I’ve only ever heard it sound like this anyway.
I haven't done that one
JayveeTV Thank you... you could react to that song too, you’ll love it! ❤️
The song is 28 years older than you, and I was 15 when it came out. Build Me Up Buttercup was another good one!
Build me up Buttercup was the song that played at the end of the movie There's Something about Mary. It's awesome, the whole cast and crew lip sync to it.
Gary Rogers. My parents did such a good job of introducing me to all the music they had grown up with. I love so many songs from different decades and I am always thinking that when I’m much older I could be listening to songs that are 100 years old and that is pretty cool to me.
OMG! FUN FACT: In the 60's when I was growing up, there was a kid's cartoon on tv called The Archies. The Archies were a fictional band with a Saturday morning animated show and a comic book series. "Sugar Sugar" hit #1 in 1969. You could get a thin plastic copy of the song on the back of a box of Alpha Bits cereal. A year later Wilson Picket charted with his version of "Sugar Sugar".
Check out the animated Archies video.
Love, love Wilson Pickett's version!
Funny, I thought it was "Sugar Puffs" but it's more likely I was eating Alpha Bits! LOL Thanks!
Oh wow! 🤩 This was my favorite song when I was a small girl! Thanks for the wonderful memory walk! Peace and love to all!
I remember watching this on Top Of The Pops when they had reached number 1. Loved it then and love it now.
Me too
When I was a kid, I had a copy of this song, but it was made of cardboard, and was on the back of a box of breakfast cereal. Sounded ok at first, but deteriorated really fast.
same!!!
I was 4 lol
I remember that!
Also The Jackson Five had a couple of cereal box records too like ABC
Song is a major classic. Was made for a unique business model but they absolutely crushed the effort. That audio is the studio version, the file you played is truncated. Andy Kim wrote it, he has other great songs you might want to check out. "Rock Me Gently" is what he is most known for, worth a listen.
Love this one ☝️
Yesssssss!!!!!
Such a COOL Written lyrics it’s nice and it just makes you wanna dance. 💃💃💃💃💃💃
LOVE IT!!!!!! 💜💚💙💜💚💙💜
Right up there with I Think I Love You by the Partridge Family.
I love this song! I'd never get sick of this song no matter how times I heard it!
Wow. Still love this song so much! Watched the cartoon & read the comic strip!
My brother is autistic and one year older than me. We danced to this hundreds of times! 1971 & all through our childhood. Our first dance, I was 5 yrs and he was 6 yrs. I remember this like yesterday! We held hands and shoulders and we rocked back and forth in a slow dance style turning in a circle! The adults would play this over and over to watch and exclaim over the cuteness. I didn't mind because it was the only time that my brother danced! I was honored to be his partner!
I still love this song & those memories of he and I dancing to Sugar Sugar.
It spent 4 weeks at #1 on US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, and ended up being the #1 song of that year 1969.
This was the first record I ever bought. I was 5 and loved this song. I'm 57 and still love it today.
Coming to America 🇺🇸 I spoke little English, but I could some how sing along with this song. This song brings back so many memories of my childhood. I love this song so much I asked my mom for some money to go to the local Dime Store and I bought the 45. The Dime store in case you don't know, is similar to the Dollar store. The first time I heard this song I was riding in the back of a car staring at the sky looking at the trees and looking at the beautiful green grass and I thought this is a great country.
I spent all my weekly allowance on Archie comics.
The epitome of bubble gum music... loved The Archies cartoons on Saturday morning.
Yeah, that voice was Betty. At least I imagine that's so.
I always thought to 1st female voice was Veronica in the 2nd one was Betty! That's how I imagined it!😊
@@trcooper5793 me too!
I guess I'm on the other side. I always thought it was Ronnie's voice.
Fantastic childhood memorys, singing this song at Christmas with my cousins and my family at my nanas house. When I was 6 now 50 years later🤗🤗🤗♥️
Andy Kim had another great song, Baby I Love You.
Oh my my .I love this song 🎵.. Glad to see you enjoyed it to.thx for sharing.
The vocalist here is Ron Dante. He was the voice for all of The Archies recordings. The music was very good.
This is our favorite song to dance with our grandchildren with!!
My son was born in 1978 and I would play this for him...he still listens to this song today!!
Bubblegum music!!! This REALLY takes me back😃
Excited for this reaction! I loved watching the Archies as a kid and reading the comic books. Its a cute little song. We kids around the neighborhood on Guam would go outside and dance when someone had the little record and would put it on their porch.
Hi from the UK , absolutely loved this song OMG I am so old , but I remember a lot of times with this ,,in love ,, out of love ,, in love ,, well you all know what I mean 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 .
After Don Kirsher was done with the Monkees, being they wanted to run the show, do their own songs etc, and the Monkees then lost their mojo. Kirsher created the Archies. Well the Band the Archies. Again Wrecking Crew studio musicians, Same Writers, and studio vocalists. So he got more hits with this cartoon band, with out the complaining. Here Ron Dante is shown singing. But this song was introduced to the public in a Saturday Morning cartoon by the cartoon characters. P.S. The girl in the song is Toni Wine not in this video.
"Sugar Sugar" was in fact the very song that caused the Monkees to fire Kirshner. And Kirshner was right that it was a hit song, but the Monkees (Mike Nesmith especially) wanted musical control and didn't want to keep recording bubblegum pop.
MrVato53 I had no idea. Love reading and learning from the comments.
MrVato53, wasn’t he the one that had the “Midnight Special” tv show on Saturday nights? He would have groups like Fleetwood Mac and other groups. Who remembers the show?
Daryn Wikholm Peacock The Don Kirshner Rock Concert. I’ve been watching it on You tube and I’m shocked how good the quality is, he made sure those videos would last. It’s really great live music and it’s 4 or 5 songs. I didn’t know he was involved with the Monkees and Archie’s
@@Fool3SufferingFools That is all true. For Mike Nesmith, as far as songwriting, His biggest song was was recorded by another artist. Stone Ponies - Featuring Linda Ronstandt. Launched her career. If you know of any other song he wrote that was a hit, I am not aware. Monkees left Kiersher and the rest is history. Kirsher had other artists and projects. Monkees are mostly remebered for all the songs they produced with Kirsher. Not much on their own.
I was 3 when it came out!! Love this song.
When I was 10 yrs old I went on a summer trip with some schoolkids. That was 1970! We stayed at a lovely 'almost' mansion. Around 7.00pm we'd be singing together with SUGAR SUGAR 1970!!!
Woow'...this is my favourites song. I lovee..😆💗💓🔊🔊🔊🔊👋🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼😄👌🌅Great this, me danccee..thanks..
You gotta love this tune, just makes you wonna dance. Brings back a lot of memories.
You are adorable. I am so happy to see the younger generations enjoying the music we old folks grew up on . Sorry you missed out . The best of times.
I love me some bubblegum pop!! This song was number 1 that year! The singer Ron Dante also had a band called the Cuff Links, and there song “Tracy” Bit number 2 around the same time. They were both in the top 10 at the same time!
I love seeing these people 's (the younger ones that is)reactions to great songs. THE GIRL AT THE END IS ; THE LITTLE CHERRY ON TOP of the song!!!!!!
Andy Kim who had a hit in 1974 with Rock Me Gently is one of the backing singers here
He also had a hit with a nice remake of "Baby I Love You". 👍
My dad use to listen to this oldies station when I was a kid so I grew up with like AC/DC and stuff cause he was into it, then the station played this song and it was like my little ten year old heart melted. Instant crush on the main singer. The radio played it again a few weeks later and I just remember leaning against the counter, inches from the radio, wishing I had a tape to record the song so I could listen to it for forever
4th yr junior school, lunch time dance.....1971 I think....? So many of the 60s and 70s songs, so many memories 💚
The woman was Toni Vine who voiced both Betty and Veronica of The Archies. She went on to write a huge hit for Tony Orlando called "Candida." The song was co-written by Andy Kim who went on to have a big hit of his own in 1974 called "Rock Me Gently.' And the TV cartoon and band were created by Don Kirschner using "The Monkees' TV show from a few years earlier. Before this song, The Archies put out a single only reaching #53 on the charts. So Kirschner - believing so strongly in Sugar Sugar - thought audiences would unfairly compare it with Feels So Good - the previous song. So, they went around to radio stations across the country, had DJs play the song from a record with no band name listed to see if they would air it. They loved it and did - being told to tell listeners it was by a "mystery group." Once phone lines lit up and people started wondering where they could purchase the record - it was finally re-released about two months later identifying the band as "The Archies."
My wife loves this song . Still played a lot in the UK especially at wedding party’s 🇬🇧👍
the first song i remember hearing was your mama don't dance , this was the second song i remember , i was hooked on music from such a young age ,,,, thanks for the memories with these reactions !!!
Checkout Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently - he wrote this and sang backup vocals.
This was a key part of The Archie's cartoon
I remember this cartoon series. I miss those Saturday mornings when they had all the kid's shows. A shame you didn't get to see the cartoon band playing the song.
I was 3 when this song came out and it was my favorite song.
Michael Pate Perfect for a 3 year old. Not so sure about any other audience! 😂 Still it was a MONSTER hit!
52 years later, this song still songs good. It doesn't get old. It's positive and upbeat.
Lead singer was Ron Dante. He did a lot of session work, commercials, background singing. He was the lead singer for a group called the Cuff Links, although he was the only singer (they overdubbed all of the voices, which were his, as they did with his work on The Archies). In October of 1969 he had two songs in the top 10 (Sugar Sugar and Tracy by the Cuff Links) and he wasn't mentioned on either one of the records.
I found this record in my sister’s closet many many moons ago! Still makes me smile! 😁
This song is probably the EPITOME of One Hit Wonders!
It was a HUUUGE hit n played on the radio allllll the time. From the cartoon show Archie
Written by by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. Ron Dante sang the lead vocals and went on to produce albums for Barry Manilow. Andy Kim a Canadian from Montreal, went on to a solo career. His biggest hit was Rock me Gently.
Ron Dante, the lead singer of this song was also lead singer on a song called Tracy, by The Cuff Links. Also a good song!
The Archie’s were everything and every Saturday morning I was glued to the tv.
Fun fact: The Archies were the same personnel as The Cuff Links, another one-hit wonder with the song “Tracy.”
Singer Toni Wine backing up Ron Dante in the studio! The Archies Saturday cartoon was 1969-70? #1 for 6 weeks.
It was my favorite childhood song. It brings back some wonderful memories.
I grew up with this song and never saw the performers until tonight! Thanks Jay!
Sugar Sugar was written by Andy Kim from Montreal and Jeff Barry from NYC. It became the title track for the Archies, a fictional cartoon group. The Archies was both a cartoon and a comic strip.
Im old enough to remember hearing this when it was first released.. Loved it then and still loving it now..
If you haven't found out yet, this was the studio version. I don't remember ever seeing this video before but you can see Ron Dante singing, playing the drums, guitar and tambourine all at the same time (but he really only did the vocals on this record) and there's a female singer (Toni Wine) not there, so it is not a live performance. I never thought of The Archies as a one-hit wonder. Three of their other singles made the Top 40 (in the US): "Jingle, Jangle"(reached number 10), "Bang-Shang-A-Lang"(number 22) and "Who's Your Baby?"(number 40) and I loved many other Archies songs (and still do). "Sugar, Sugar" may have been the biggest bubble-gum song of all time and I believe it was the number one song on the Billboard chart for the year 1969. "Get On the Line" is one of their best songs IMHO and should have been released as a single.
Veronica says "I can make life so sweet". I also remember cutting the record off the back of a "Sugar Crisp" box, putting in on the turntable and listening to this song. Wish I had kept that record. Life was so simple when I was a kid.
Haha... Back in the early 70's I dressed exactly like that guy & had the same hair style. 😁
Groovy
This song is a classic, I use to hear it playing in the high school across the street from my house at lunch time. 💖🥂
The one singing lead vocals is Ron Dante, he is a singer songwriter, and producer. He produced the first nine Barry Manilow albums...he's also my friend on facebook
O wow just wow. I love this even though I was 3 when it came out. But for a long time my mum loved it. Great reaction Jay.😁😁💖💕💖
The Netflix show "Riverdale" is based on the Archies. Even had Josie and the Pussycats on!
ron dante is the lead singer in this group and he wrote quite a few jingles for popular commercials in the 60's. i saw him perform at the calvin theater in northampton, mass. in 2018 on the 'happy together tour'. also in that show were the turtles,the cowsills, the association, mark lindsay of paul revere and the raiders and chuck negron of three dog nite. it was a spectacular 60's oldies revue. great night.
This made History in the sense that they don't "Exist". They had other hits like Jingle Jangle. This was written by Jeff Barry who is probably best known for Writing and Co-Writing Hits for The Ronettes (that you heard) Be My Baby, The Dixie Cups, Chapel Of Love, and The Crystals Da Doo Run Run. He Also Co Wrote River Deep Mountain High for Ike & Tina Turner. The Other Man who wrote this is Andy Kim (Not Gibb). It was called the Best In Bubblegum Pop.
Reminds me, every time I hear it of sitting on the curb with the neighbors across the street listening to kezy a popular radio station at the time. We waited for that song to come on, then we'd all jump up and start dancing all over the curb and street.
The lead singer was Ron Dante. He had a minor hit as a member of the group The Detergents doing Leader of the Laundromat (A parody of the song Leader of the Pack). He also sang lead for a group called The Cufflinks with the song Tracy.
Hahaha the other guys you saw in the band”band” was the singer 😊. Yes, this guy and a gal, I do not know her name, sessions singer...anyway, the first time i saw this was a young kid during The Archie’s show. They were high school kids- 3 boys, 2 girls. Archie, Veronica, Jughead...can’t think of the rest.
Heard this song the first time on that show when they had The Archie’s playing it. It’s hard not to love.
Happy song love it
Requesting the song "That Thing You Do" from the 1996 movie of the same title, produced by and co-starring Tom Hanks.
Def Leppard got the idea of "Pour Some Sugar On Me" from this song. One of the members liked it as a kid.
Wow, I remember we use to play this on vinyl record. I'm 63, that was like 1970
This song always brings a smile to my face, guaranteed.
Yes I remember it on top of the pops to 😊😆😅😄😃😂😁😀
I am a product of that era and to my ears this is STILL pure pop nirvana!
I don't know why this resonates with me so much but I absolutely love it
This song was the inspiration for Def Leppard’s song “Pour Some Sugar On Me”.
I was six when this came out and remember that it was always on the radio at home for years afterwards.
Betty and Veronica banging tambourine on their hips Archie singing lead ..My favorite cartoon
You need to watch this song as they sing it in the cartoon...
It's great remembering all the old songs you review. Brings back awesome memories....thanks!!!
Memories. 8 weeks at No. 1 in UK. Soooooooo catchy.❤
One other note that you may find interesting - the guy in the video is none other than Ron Dante! Who's that you ask? Just the guy who went on to produce all of Barry Manilow's albums in the 1070's. Kinda makes sense, doesn't it?
This was my dancing recital song when I was 5, love it. My costume was orange, yellow green and pink stripes
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar (Original 1969 Music Video)
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"Sugar, Sugar" is one of 16 animated music segments created to be shown on "The Archie Comedy Hour" on CBS-TV in 1969, ...
Ron Dante is the singer of this and he was the voice behind a ton of 70's Bubblegum hits. A great song for One Hit Wonder Wednesday would be "Tracy" by the Cuff Links, in which he also sings lead.
Jayvee, my elder step brother took me as as a munchkin who loved Sugar Sugar to Dark Side of the Moon. Mind explodes. I was never the same. Love that you’re walking in so many footsteps and enjoying “pop” music.
Fun fact! This song was written as it was being recorded. They made it up in the studio on the fly.. 😯😳😁