This was the #1 selling record of 1969. On summer nights, our whole neighborhood used to play the record on a player outside and have a dance party. My brother had the version that you could cut out from the back of a cereal box - great times!
There is a stereo version of Sugar Sugar by the Archies as it was a #1 hit on the Pop Singles Chart and is considered the biggest selling Bubblegum hit of all time! The second biggest selling Bubblegum hit is by Tommy Roe and is titled Dizzy, also a #1 hit!
I was 10 years old watching this cartoon when this song came on for the first time. I remember it so well. Might have been my first air guitar performance. :)
... this was originally a music segment from the Saturday morning TV show "The Archie Comedy Hour" on CBS-TV in 1969. Filmation was the production company that made the show and was Hanna-Barbera's biggest competitor for limited-animation Saturday morning cartoons. The first season of "Scooby-Doo" (Hanna-Barbera) debuted the same year as "The Archie Comedy Hour" (this was the second season of "Archie", as the first show, "The Archie Show", debuted on CBS-TV in 1968). In 1968, "The Archie Show" brought in unheard of ratings for a Saturday morning cartoon, sometimes surpassing the ratings of shows in prime-time. Part of the success of the show was due to the music. The Archies music group was a creation of Don Kirshner, licensed through Archie Comics, with lead vocals by Ron Dante, backing vocals by Toni Wine, and a fantastic group of studio musicians known as The Wrecking Crew. Production and songwriting talents included the well-known Jeff Barry as well as Andy Kim. It is not a surprise that because of the success of this Filmation show that Hanna-Barbera would try to compete with it the following year... and thus "Scooby-Doo" was born, and while that show did not feature any music numbers in their first season, there was musical numbers in the second season of "Scooby-Doo" with vocals by singer-songrwiter Austin Roberts. So yes... you are correct about the similarity in artwork and styles.
This was featured in a Saturday morning cartoon show called "the Archies" - which this clip is from. They also had a lot of comic books that came out that were very popular too. The girl who is kissing the boys & turning them into different creatures was "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch." She also had her own segments (& if I recall her very own comics that the other characters were apart of.) As a 70s kid, I loved the Archies TV show & I had a lot of their comics. I loved Sabrina, as well as the other characters & I have ALWAYS loved this song. It is just so happy, sweet (why it's called Bubble gum music) & innocent. There is nothing dirty, nasty, negative about it. Oh what the world of music used to (mostly) be. - (Don't get me wrong, I still love my raunchy, naughty 80s music - but that was still done with a spirit of "fun & sexy & what can we naughtily get away with as bad children" - vs. more SERIOUS, nasty, mean, vulgar music that has come out since.
If you were going to rollerskate to an Archies song, the most logical choice would have been their song "Bicycles, Rollerskates, and You." And yes, they DID have a song with this title. It was on the same album with "Sugar, sugar."
Your uncle might not be old enough to remember .But they asked the monkees to do this song. They turned it Down So It was. put out by the Archies that was taken from the Archie's comic book.
I am fortunate to have been around in the 60s and 70s; the cartoons, the movies and the music/songs (and D.Js). The great genuine and innocent songs and music, including singer-song writers and bands. I am happy this young person appreciates it has an open-mind to it. I am so taken to a place 45+ years back in time and appreciate not only the music, but the 'acknowledgement' of the pure artistry of the time. Thank you!!!
This cartoon series had nothing to do with Scooby Doo which was Hanna Barbera and Archie was Filmation. Designed by totally different people. The song was part of the bubble gum pop music industry, studio musicians with " ringers" performing to playback on Ed Sullivan and Where The Action Is. The bands were 1910 Fruitgum Co. The Ohio Express, any and all of the Kasenetz Kasz produced pop groups. Josie and the Pussycats were an Archie Comics spin off but were a Hanna Barbera cartoon, higher quality production and had different songwriters.
I had this album. It was called "Everything's Archie!." I know this song is a bit silly, but there was a really good song on the album called "Don't touch my guitar." Also another called "Melody Hill."
No way! This song is one of the catchiest songs in pop history. I was a small kid when this was big and I remember it catching my ear from the first listen. One of my guilty pleaures.
The Archie’s were a originally a comic book and then a cartoon series, they became a band to cash in on the popularity of the cartoon versions of The Beatles, The Osmonds and The Jackson 5. The White Haired Girl in the kissing booth is Sabrina The Teen-Age Witch which explains why every time she kissed someone they magically changed.
The characters were based on the Archie comic book characters and this show spun off another animated series "Josie and the Pussycats". I am not sure, but suspect that Scooby Doo was developed due to the popularity of that genre with pre-teen cartoon watchers. The animation does look similar! There's a modern day TV series called "Riverdale" that is also based on the Archie comic book series. This song, Sugar Sugar, was a big hit in 1969 and got all the kids on the floor for open skating at the roller rink! Lol! Good memories.
Riverdale is one of the nastiest shows I'd ever seen when it debuted. Thought is wouldn't be woke and anti everything good. Again, we cut the cable about 9 months ago. Had reentered tv "PROGRAMMING" 15 yr s ago after a 10 yr hiatus. It melts and confuses one's synapses. Look ar all.of the lardasses out there with zero fundamental knowledge . Used to be preceptor in a medical field. I about cried at their ignorance of basics that I thought was common knowledge. No one reads. Now they push medical lies and obey Lord fauchi and the WEF, CDC, and other alphabet agencies. No free thought. Sheep. Virilogic and infectious disease tenets have ben replaced with fear and nonsense. Please no more shots!! Blindly follow no one. Preachin. I have yet to even touch a mask. Not once. Ivermectin is a miracle drug as is fenbendazole . Fact. PhD in the shit. Viruses ALWAYS mutate into a LESS VIRULENT form!!! Read, research, turn off the lies and wake the F up. Peace. Wake up. The boot iz nearing your throats...
The only song that was a top ten hit from a band that never existed. Created by Filmation, they also did the Brady Bunch cartoon, and when they sing their song the movements are almost identical to the Archies' movements.scooby doo was Hanna-Barbera Productions.
Hey guys you should do a comparison both the song and lyrics between this and Bodies by The Sex Pistols to see how much music changed between 1969 and 1977.
The Beatles could have done this as well. but it is just not quite lyrically sophisticated enough for them. But I could visual them performing it. Either way it went to Number 1 !You uncle is cool as shit too.
Considered by many to be the ultimate bubble-gum song. As for the cartoon? Dreadful. It was a major trend in the Saturday morning cartoons to cut corners with the very limited animation. Some were even worse than this. They would indeed reuse cels from other cartoons as well as the cartoonists...thus the resemblance.
How did blonde Betty get that ebony singing voice? :-) The bass line is the same as on "All Right Now" by Free, issued around the same time. I wonder who thought of it first!
Ignore the crappy animation - that was never a strong suit of The Archies. Just enjoy the song and how it builds on itself - it might be easier to watch it be danced to on American Bandstand. Even the cool young adults are like, Uhk, This song, but somewhere in the middle they are all chugging way to it and having a great time.th-cam.com/video/9FNGEz8U_T4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=A_7KJ1LpyNQK5RFe&t=63
LMAO! New sub here, digging you Zep reactions. But OMG, Dude, you’re like a chick who can’t stop looking at herself in the mirror! Your constant fluffing of your hair makes me think that you honestly and secretly wish you were Justin Beiber.
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“HI UNCLE MATT!” This isn’t Metallica but it was cute. 😎 The cartoon is like Scooby Doo-ish. I LOVE IT!! It’s got a MONKEYS vibe, as well!
LOL!
Ha!! Hey J! Yep….surely not Metallica!! 💥
Monkees
I was 15 and the Archies weren't a real band so it is crap!
Studio musicians not in the Archies recorded the song.
Back in the day, this was called " Bubble Gum".
Andy Kim wrote this, and was on the backing vocals. The #1 song of 1969. You could get it on the back of a cereal box!
Welche's also sold their jelly in drinking glasses with The Archies on it.
Wow, the only song I know by Andy Kim is Rock Me Gently. I can hear totally hear the resemblence in this song.
This was the #1 selling record of 1969. On summer nights, our whole neighborhood used to play the record on a player outside and have a dance party. My brother had the version that you could cut out from the back of a cereal box - great times!
Tempos bons,saudades!
THIS WAS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT WAS AFFECTIONATELY CALLED BUBBLEGUM ROCK OR BUBBLE GUM MUSIC IN THE '60S!
That's exactly what it was called.
This kind of Pop will rot your teeth. God help me, I love it so!!
The sixties were a mixed bag of everything
There is a stereo version of Sugar Sugar by the Archies as it was a #1 hit on the Pop Singles Chart and is considered the biggest selling Bubblegum hit of all time! The second biggest selling Bubblegum hit is by Tommy Roe and is titled Dizzy, also a #1 hit!
I was 10 years old watching this cartoon when this song came on for the first time. I remember it so well.
Might have been my first air guitar performance. :)
So now we know where Def Leppard got "Pour Some Sugar on Me" from .... :-)
... this was originally a music segment from the Saturday morning TV show "The Archie Comedy Hour" on CBS-TV in 1969. Filmation was the production company that made the show and was Hanna-Barbera's biggest competitor for limited-animation Saturday morning cartoons. The first season of "Scooby-Doo" (Hanna-Barbera) debuted the same year as "The Archie Comedy Hour" (this was the second season of "Archie", as the first show, "The Archie Show", debuted on CBS-TV in 1968). In 1968, "The Archie Show" brought in unheard of ratings for a Saturday morning cartoon, sometimes surpassing the ratings of shows in prime-time. Part of the success of the show was due to the music. The Archies music group was a creation of Don Kirshner, licensed through Archie Comics, with lead vocals by Ron Dante, backing vocals by Toni Wine, and a fantastic group of studio musicians known as The Wrecking Crew. Production and songwriting talents included the well-known Jeff Barry as well as Andy Kim. It is not a surprise that because of the success of this Filmation show that Hanna-Barbera would try to compete with it the following year... and thus "Scooby-Doo" was born, and while that show did not feature any music numbers in their first season, there was musical numbers in the second season of "Scooby-Doo" with vocals by singer-songrwiter Austin Roberts. So yes... you are correct about the similarity in artwork and styles.
Listen to your uncle. In the Era of the Beatles, this novelty song was the biggest hit of 1969. "Who da thunk that!"
Simpler times, breathe of fresh air.
This was featured in a Saturday morning cartoon show called "the Archies" - which this clip is from. They also had a lot of comic books that came out that were very popular too. The girl who is kissing the boys & turning them into different creatures was "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch." She also had her own segments (& if I recall her very own comics that the other characters were apart of.)
As a 70s kid, I loved the Archies TV show & I had a lot of their comics. I loved Sabrina, as well as the other characters & I have ALWAYS loved this song. It is just so happy, sweet (why it's called Bubble gum music) & innocent. There is nothing dirty, nasty, negative about it. Oh what the world of music used to (mostly) be. - (Don't get me wrong, I still love my raunchy, naughty 80s music - but that was still done with a spirit of "fun & sexy & what can we naughtily get away with as bad children" - vs. more SERIOUS, nasty, mean, vulgar music that has come out since.
Oh God! Bubblegum rock! 😂
1969: "Pour a little sugar on it."
2024: "Hawk Tuah!"
The OG versions of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and the characters from Riverdale.
I used to rollerskate to this song 🎵 when I was in 5th grade 1976 at the roller rink. School birthday parties. 😆🤣😂😃
If you were going to rollerskate to an Archies song, the most logical choice would have been their song "Bicycles, Rollerskates, and You." And yes, they DID have a song with this title. It was on the same album with "Sugar, sugar."
"The Archie Show" was the highest-rated Saturday morning cartoon show in history. It had a 75 share.
Your uncle might not be old enough to remember .But they asked the monkees to do this song. They turned it Down So
It was. put out by the Archies that was taken from the Archie's comic book.
Loved this one! Loved watching the cartoons! This was my favorite episode!
I was 4 years old when this song was released and loved it. 😆🤣😂😃 My uncle purchased Beatles, Abbey Road same year in 1969. Loved that too!
I am fortunate to have been around in the 60s and 70s; the cartoons, the movies and the music/songs (and D.Js). The great genuine and innocent songs and music, including singer-song writers and bands. I am happy this young person appreciates it has an open-mind to it. I am so taken to a place 45+ years back in time and appreciate not only the music, but the 'acknowledgement' of the pure artistry of the time. Thank you!!!
This cartoon series had nothing to do with Scooby Doo which was Hanna Barbera and Archie was Filmation. Designed by totally different people. The song was part of the bubble gum pop music industry, studio musicians with " ringers" performing to playback on Ed Sullivan and Where The Action Is. The bands were 1910 Fruitgum Co. The Ohio Express, any and all of the Kasenetz Kasz produced pop groups. Josie and the Pussycats were an Archie Comics spin off but were a Hanna Barbera cartoon, higher quality production and had different songwriters.
I had this album. It was called "Everything's Archie!." I know this song is a bit silly, but there was a really good song on the album called "Don't touch my guitar." Also another called "Melody Hill."
Saturday morning cartoon from the comic book, #1 song of 1969, i was 12
No way! This song is one of the catchiest songs in pop history. I was a small kid when this was big and I remember it catching my ear from the first listen. One of my guilty pleaures.
Wow great reaction
The Archie’s were a originally a comic book and then a cartoon series, they became a band to cash in on the popularity of the cartoon versions of The Beatles, The Osmonds and The Jackson 5. The White Haired Girl in the kissing booth is Sabrina The Teen-Age Witch which explains why every time she kissed someone they magically changed.
Love to see your reactions to some '56 Elvis...
The characters were based on the Archie comic book characters and this show spun off another animated series "Josie and the Pussycats". I am not sure, but suspect that Scooby Doo was developed due to the popularity of that genre with pre-teen cartoon watchers. The animation does look similar! There's a modern day TV series called "Riverdale" that is also based on the Archie comic book series. This song, Sugar Sugar, was a big hit in 1969 and got all the kids on the floor for open skating at the roller rink! Lol! Good memories.
Riverdale is one of the nastiest shows I'd ever seen when it debuted.
Thought is wouldn't be woke and anti everything good.
Again, we cut the cable about 9 months ago.
Had reentered tv "PROGRAMMING" 15 yr
s ago after a 10 yr hiatus.
It melts and confuses one's synapses.
Look ar all.of the lardasses out there with zero fundamental knowledge .
Used to be preceptor in a medical field. I about cried at their ignorance of basics that I thought was common knowledge. No one reads.
Now they push medical lies and obey Lord fauchi and the WEF, CDC, and other alphabet agencies.
No free thought. Sheep.
Virilogic and infectious disease tenets have ben replaced with fear and nonsense.
Please no more shots!!
Blindly follow no one.
Preachin.
I have yet to even touch a mask. Not once.
Ivermectin is a miracle drug as is fenbendazole .
Fact. PhD in the shit.
Viruses ALWAYS mutate into a LESS VIRULENT form!!!
Read, research, turn off the lies and wake the F up.
Peace.
Wake up. The boot iz nearing your throats...
Their were Archie comics and Sabrina and the Pussycats then the cartoons also.
I can dance like the ladies.
This was the biggest hit of 1969.
Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, Jughead Jones, Veronica and Daphne, occasionally Sabrina
The characters from The Archies are currently featured as he cast of The CW's Riverdale.
LOL the catchy beat got the younger one pretty fast
Wow a trip down groovy lane!
The only song that was a top ten hit from a band that never existed. Created by Filmation, they also did the Brady Bunch cartoon, and when they sing their song the movements are almost identical to the Archies' movements.scooby doo was Hanna-Barbera Productions.
An oasis in the desert of Led Zeppelin thank you
music for 12/13 year olds in '69 - bubble gum music - still a great song.
"Scooby-Doo" cartoons every Saturday morning early 1970s. 😆🤣😂😃
It came out the same year as Scooby-Doo, so that makes sense.
Still have my comics and 45s from way back!
Hey guys you should do a comparison both the song and lyrics between this and Bodies by The Sex Pistols to see how much music changed between 1969 and 1977.
I thought Archie was 🔥
The Archies and Scooby Doo are both Hannah Barberra cartoons.
The Beatles could have done this as well. but it is just not quite lyrically sophisticated enough for them. But I could visual them performing it. Either way it went to Number 1 !You uncle is cool as shit too.
Still have this on original 45. Lol
Flashback all up here in the East bay of California…I got a Archie’s song on my cereal box. You cut them off the back..ask your uncles
Considered by many to be the ultimate bubble-gum song.
As for the cartoon? Dreadful. It was a major trend in the Saturday morning cartoons to cut corners with the very limited animation. Some were even worse than this. They would indeed reuse cels from other cartoons as well as the cartoonists...thus the resemblance.
How did blonde Betty get that ebony singing voice? :-)
The bass line is the same as on "All Right Now" by Free, issued around the same time. I wonder who thought of it first!
A little different than Led Zeppelin. 😆🤣😂😃
Ignore the crappy animation - that was never a strong suit of The Archies. Just enjoy the song and how it builds on itself - it might be easier to watch it be danced to on American Bandstand. Even the cool young adults are like, Uhk, This song, but somewhere in the middle they are all chugging way to it and having a great time.th-cam.com/video/9FNGEz8U_T4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=A_7KJ1LpyNQK5RFe&t=63
🤪
LMAO! New sub here, digging you Zep reactions. But OMG, Dude, you’re like a chick who can’t stop looking at herself in the mirror! Your constant fluffing of your hair makes me think that you honestly and secretly wish you were Justin Beiber.
I've hated this from time immemorial.
It's so bad...
This is just sad!
As a cartoon the Archies was not as good as scooby doo where are you but the music was better
Bubblegum music.
No.
Honestly, the cartoon ruined the song.
You should always try to get the best audio you can find. Clips from TV shows sound as old as they are and the visuals are distracting. 👎
Sorry but I'm tuning out. This and yesterdays.@$%yesterday's.! Is just too far from where you were. Ten steps back.
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