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The Archies

Sugar, Sugar - The Complete Albums Collection

The Archies

60 SONGS • 2 STUNDEN UND 26 MINUTEN • JUL 29 2016

  • SONGS
    SONGS
  • DETAILS
    DETAILS
SONGS
DETAILS
1
Archie's Theme (Everything's Archie)
01:37
2
Boys and Girls
02:13
3
Time for Love
02:18
4
You Make Me Wanna Dance
02:26
5
La Dee Doo Down Down
02:11
6
Truck Driver
02:53
7
Catchin' up on Fun
02:15
8
I'm in Love
02:23
9
Seventeen Ain't Young
02:17
10
Ride, Ride, Ride
02:11
11
Hide and Seek
02:28
12
Bang Shang a Lang
02:32
13
Feelin' so Good
03:09
14
Melody Hill
02:24
15
Rock & Roll Music
02:32
16
Kissin'
02:26
17
Don't Touch My Guitar
02:15
18
Circle of Blue
02:17
19
Sugar, Sugar
02:44
20
You Little Angel, You
02:37
21
Bicycles, Roller Skates & You
02:33
22
Hot Dogs
02:18
23
Inside out, Upside Down
02:13
24
Love Light
02:29
25
Jingle Jangle
02:41
26
Everything's Alright
02:16
27
She's Putting Me Thru Changes
02:16
28
Justine
02:14
29
Whoopee Tie Ai A
02:10
30
Nursery Rhyme
02:32
31
Get on the Line
02:31
32
You Know I Love You
02:14
33
Senorita Rita
02:27
34
Look Before You Leap
02:14
35
Sugar and Spice
02:03
36
Archie's Party
02:11
37
Sunshine
03:18
38
Who's Gonna Love Me
01:50
39
Mr. Factory
02:32
40
Love and Rock 'N' Roll Music
02:18
41
Over and Over
02:19
42
Waldo P. Emerson Jones
02:36
43
A Summer Prayer for Peace
02:49
44
Dance
02:19
45
Comes the Sun
02:24
46
Suddenly Susan
02:17
47
One Big Family
01:53
48
It's the Summertime
02:49
49
This Is Love
02:27
50
Don't Need No Bad Girl
02:21
51
Should Anybody Ask
02:01
52
Easy Guy
02:37
53
Maybe I'm Wrong
02:07
54
What Goes On
03:53
55
Carousel Man
02:20
56
Hold on to Lovin'
02:30
57
This Is the Night
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03:05
58
Little Green Jacket
02:47
59
Together We Two
02:34
60
Throw a Little Love My Way
02:32
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Künstler:innen-Biografie

Most '60s bubblegum groups were faceless studio concoctions, made up of hired professionals and given nominal group identities after the fact. 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 TV cartoon characters spun off from Archie comics. In reality, of course, they were a studio concoction made up of hired professionals (most notably lead singer Ron Dante), but in this case, they weren't technically faceless.

The Archies were created by promoter Don Kirshner, who was coming off a major success as the creator of the Monkees. In late 1967, Kirshner was hired as music supervisor for CBS' new Saturday morning cartoon The Archie Show, which was to feature a new original song every week. He immediately brought on producer Jeff Barry, who with Ellie Greenwich had formed one of the preeminent songwriting teams of the girl-group era (Greenwich also sang on several Archies records). Kirshner's original choice for lead singer was Kenny Karen, but Barry brought in Ron Dante, an experienced session singer who'd fronted the Detergents' novelty parody "Leader of the Laundromat"; Dante had met Barry at a Neil Diamond session, and had previously cut promos for Kirshner. Dante won the job, and Barry hired Jeannie Thomas as the group's female vocalist. When the TV show debuted, it was a hit, and the first Archies single, "Bang Shang-a-Lang," nearly made the Top 20 in late 1968.

Shortly thereafter, Barry hired songwriter/backing vocalist Andy Kim, and replaced Thomas with Toni Wine. Barry and Kim co-wrote "Sugar, Sugar," which became a breakout smash in 1969; it topped the charts for four weeks, sold over three million copies in the U.S. alone, and wound up as Billboard's number one song of the year. Meanwhile, the TV show was expanded to a full hour, and Dante enjoyed a simultaneous Top Ten hit during "Sugar, Sugar"'s run, thanks to his lead vocal on the Cufflinks' "Tracy." The follow-up, "Jingle Jangle," reached the Top Ten, but from there the Archies' chart success tailed off quickly. Their last Top 40 hit came in the spring of 1970 with "Who's Your Baby?"; the same year, Donna Marie replaced Toni Wine.

However, by the end of 1970 Barry left the Archies to pursue other projects, and stories detailing the group's breakup named their primary personnel for the first time. Their final Barry-produced single was released in early 1971, although "A Summer Prayer for Peace" became a hit in South Africa later that summer. Ron Dante embarked on a short-lived solo career before moving into record production, and found substantial success as Barry Manilow's producer throughout the '70s; he also returned to singing on commercial jingles. Andy Kim went on to score a substantial solo hit in 1974 with "Rock Me Gently."

In 2008, Ron Dante revived the Archies name, brought in two vocalists to play Betty and Veronica (Danielle van Zyl and Kelly-Lynn), and released The Archies Christmas Party album on the Fuel 2000 label. Right around that time, Dante, who by now owned the rights to the original recordings, oversaw the reissue on CD of all the band's original albums. In 2016, Goldenlane Records reissued all five Archies albums under the title Sugar, Sugar: The Complete Albums Collection. ~ Steve Huey

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