Smart money says he went back to Bensonhurst and Hiram Steiner and is now divorced and remarried, two boys and twin girls, nearing retirement as a Junior Vice President for Client Services. Or was, in the summer of 1970 when "Waldo P. Emerson Jones," who's probably really Hiram Steiner from Bensonhurst, who bought a Harley and "wormed his way backstage" at Woodstock or said he did and is now getting way too close to somebody else's girlfriend. Speaking of odd, on "Don't Touch My Guitar" he's got that guitar he never stops talking about (or playing), except this one time he mentions a fish tank, which one suspects they just threw in to make the rhyme come out.
2 In 2020, a new version of the band was introduced in the television series Riverdale, with Kevin Keller replacing Reggie Mantle. OK, maybe singer Ron Dante had trouble keeping a straight face for "Little Green Jacket," that sartorial seduction key that apparently fits in his pocket, unless that's the "Coppertone tan" completing the effect. Their most successful song, 'Sugar, Sugar', became one of the biggest hits of the bubblegum pop genre that flourished from 1968 to 1973. "Easy Guy" puts the lie to the Archies' mindless "baby baby sugar sugar" reputation: he got stabbed in the heart first time out ("Don't even take me for a fool/I've attended every school"), he doesn't trust easily, he's laying out the rules to his new girl.
It's also a solid demonstration of what made this prefab act resonant and unjustly ignored. Oh, if this best-of CD got any hotter it'd torch your ass. The genre they defined is commonly ridiculed.Allegedly the seventh release on Wisebuy Records, "licensed from Celebritty Lisencing ," the levels are all over the place song to song and in the first 30 seconds of "Over and Over" (a neat swipe of the "Little Bit o' Soul" riff that ironically, soulfully out-testifies the original), somebody sets a Big Gulp down on the vinyl he's mastering from. Learn Pop score for Lead Sheet / Fake Book by The Archies in minutes.
Seriously, they had a song that defined a genre. With vocals provided by Ron Dante and Toni Wine, the fictional group released a series of real-life albums and singles. Download The Archies Sugar, Sugar sheet music and printable PDF music notes. Now we ask you, should our Hall of Fame make a stop in Riverdale? That song was the biggest hit of 1969 and though it may be a little cheesy, is one of the most enduring songs in history. An irresistible 45RPM 7 vinyl pressing of the bubblegum pop hit that created a thousand cavities - The Archies Sugar SugarBacked with another classic from. Kim had a hit in 1974 with 'Rock Me Gently' Dante. The song was written by Andy Kim and Jeff Barry, and was performed by session musicians including Kim, Toni Wine, Ron Dante and Ellie Greenwich. With the Archies' 'Sugar, Sugar,' pop music moved 180 degrees away from the overtly political, consciousness-expanding aesthetic which emerged during the Summer of Love toward a calculated simplicity and innocence not heard since the years prior to the British Invasion. The group itself was never seen, just the cartoon characters. The main musician was Ron Dante, who provided the main vocals and we wager that half of the people reading this has his voice in their head, with the tune of “Sugar Sugar”. The Archies were the group that performed on the Saturday morning cartoon Archie. The show only generated 17 episodes, but the lasting feature was not the animation but the music. The Velvet Underground) by Go Home Productions music videos: Sugar, Sugar by The Archies recording of: Sugar, Sugar (in 1969) writer: Jeff Barry and Andy Kim publisher: Don Kirshner Music Inc. Based on the popular Archie comic books, music producer Don Kirshner assembled a group of studio musicians to play music for the “Archie Show”, a cartoon for CBS. Tom from San Francisco Not only was 'Sugar, Sugar' NOT ever offered to The Monkees, there was no guarantee that it would have been a worldwide phenomenon. We will argue that the Archies were the ultimate Bubblegum group, but what does that mean for this Hall of Fame? The only other song from any Archies singles to appear on the 17 episodes was Love Light (Episode 12) which was the b-side of Feelin' So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y.-D.O.O.). Length: 6 minutes Copyright 1969, Calendar Records (a division of 43 North Broadway. The late 1960’s and early 70’s gave us the height of the Bubblegum music genre, a perfect counter to the Woodstock generation. This is an extended version of Sugar Sugar performed by The Archies.