Bubblegum Pop
* The Archies: Everythings Archie (2.5 mb) | Bang Shang A Lang (3.5 mb) | Sugar Sugar (4 mb) | Carousel Man (3.5 mb)
From The Archies Anthology
We want to dance and we want to sing > Have some fun and go adventuring > All our friends are here, but it ain’t complete > We ain’t the Archies without the Jughead beat!
And with those immortal lines, the Archies were born. When the comic book Archies got together and decided to form a band, they obviously needed someone else to fulfill that dream. Luckily, Don Kirshner who, after having a bad experience dealing with human beings and their associated egos managing the Monkees, was looking to craft the perfect band (i.e. one that would do whatever he wanted them to!). It was a match made in bubblegum pop heaven. Of course, there was one more thing they needed to complete the dream. Archie himself needed a voice. They turned to the vocal talents of Ron Dante and never looked back.
Now, this honestly sounds like a recipe for disaster. I mean, a studio band based on characters from a comic book?!?! Nothing could be further from the truth. This band rocks! Well, “rocks” might be too strong of a word. But they definitely do something right. They even scored a number one hit with their song, sugar sugar. The name of this song really says it all, as this music is delightfully sweet. These songs give me warm fuzzies and bring me back to a time in my life when things were nice and innocent.
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r.piggy said,
January 19, 2005 @ 7:58 pm
Is this new? Too bad your pic of Archie doesn’t have crosshatching on his temple. Ooh, I love those hatchmarks! But actually I like the post, you should take your mirror eye out and let it roll around on the table more often.
cb said,
January 19, 2005 @ 10:37 pm
Hey R.Piggy.
Glad you like this…the pic is a new rendition of Archie, but the music is mostly from the late ’60s to early ’70’s, I believe. There wasn’t too much other information included with the compilation…
-cb
p.s. Look above for some crosshatching
r.piggy said,
January 20, 2005 @ 12:40 am
Ooh, and aah. Look at those circles on his face. But really, the crosshatchinng gave me a warm cozy feeling.
Anonymous said,
January 20, 2005 @ 6:37 pm
I’m not sure of the average age of your visitors.
BUT… These songs harken me back to the days of junior high lunch hour back in the late 1960s. We were allowed to bring our favorite singles to school and play them on the RECORD PLAYER.
cb said,
January 21, 2005 @ 2:09 am
What is this “Record Player” you speak of!?!?
That’s totally cool though…so, you could play your favorite singles for the whole class? Like a show and tell sort of thing? Awesome…
-cb
Anonymous said,
January 24, 2005 @ 12:48 pm
Heh, back in the days of the cave man, the record player……
Nah, it wasn’t show and tell. It was just bring your favorite singles in, and they’d play them during lunch hour.
I can’t imagine that they’d ever allow anything close to that with today’s mix of music.