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1. #SUGAR SUGAR ARCHIES 45 RECORD PICTURE SLEEVE MOVIE#
2. #SUGAR SUGAR ARCHIES 45 RECORD PICTURE SLEEVE PROFESSIONAL#

And the song stabs away with its own scientifically calibrated power, building to a weirdly overwhelming crescendo.ĭo people still get snobby about “Sugar, Sugar”? Probably not, right? A song like that does what rock ‘n’ roll is supposed to do. The half-mocking keyboard riff on the chorus will remain in your head through any calamity that doesn’t kill you. There’s an almost mechanical precision to the beat - bass, drums, handclaps, guitar-strums. It’s a bright and shiny love song, aimed at actual toddlers, that tries to express nothing other than non-threatening warmth.

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These were professional music-biz lifers who didn’t fit with the era’s excesses but who knew their way around a hook.Īnd “Sugar, Sugar” is a merciless hook machine. Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry’s ex-wife who’d co-written most of those classic songs with him, also contributed. Toni White, who’d co-written “A Groovy Kind Of Love” for the Mindbenders, sang the Veronica part. Ron Dante, who sang the lead Archie part, was a former novelty-song guy who would go on to produce records for Barry Manilow and Pat Benatar. Jeff Barry was a pop genius who, in the early ’60s, had co-written “Be My Baby” and “Then He Kissed Me” and “ Chapel Of Love” and “ Leader Of The Pack.” He co-wrote “Sugar, Sugar” with Andy Kim, a Lebanese-Canadian singer and songwriter who was on the way to a pretty decent run as a solo performer. It’s a beautifully engineered ballistic missile of a pop song, a towering edifice built out of nothing but hooks. “Sugar, Sugar,” the one Archies single to hit #1, is both the biggest and the best thing to come out of bubblegum. And the music that they made fit right into the nascent bubblegum-pop wave. In putting together the Archies, Kirshner drew on the Brill Building songwriters and session musicians who were getting left behind in the album-oriented psych-rock explosion of the late ’60s. None of these fictional characters ever tried to get Don Kirshner fired.

Jughead Jones’ dog Hot Dog was a member of the band. Bassist and backing vocalist Reggie Mantle never got pissed off at frontman Archie Andrews for naming the band after himself, since Mantle was just a drawing on an animation cel, and so was Andrews. The Archies were not a real band they were simply Archie and his cartoon friends making music together. He ended up as the man in charge of the music on The Archie Show, the Saturday-morning cartoon adaptation of the comic books that had existed since 1941. It would’ve been a 9.)įor his next project, then, Kirshner found a way to do away with human band members entirely. (“A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You” peaked at #2, and it absolutely rules. They were deemed more important than Kirshner, so Kirshner was out the door. The band members were pressuring the show’s producers for more musical control, and they were pissed off about one more song that had no real input from them. For Kirshner’s part, he got fired from the show after releasing the Neil Diamond-written Monkees single “ A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You” without authorization from the show’s producers. The Monkees, Michael Nesmith in particular, resented the hell out of Kirshner, the executive who spent years preventing them from being in charge of their own musical destinies.

#SUGAR SUGAR ARCHIES 45 RECORD PICTURE SLEEVE MOVIE#

In 1968, the Monkees TV show was cancelled, and the Monkees themselves made Head, a surreal and perplexing movie that Jack Nicholson co-wrote. They started making their own decisions, pivoting to bugged-out psychedelic pop music. They fought and fought for their independence. They wanted to be a real band, and they did not like the way they’d become a punchline in the music world. Kirshner hardly ever let the actors who’d been cast as Monkees play on records, and those records often ended up being truly great. Those same TV producers hired the producer Don Kirshner to oversee the Monkees’ music. TV producers had assembled the four fresh-faced actors in 1966, casting them in a sitcom about the struggles of a go-nowhere band. The Monkees were not a real band until they became one. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.