Created for mass consumption by bubblegum-pop
genius Don Kirshner (the man who gave us the Monkees), the
Archies were the ultimate manufactured pop group. They
existed on television as an animated series based on the
comic book characters of the same name. The voices behind the
singing cartoon characters were vocalists Ron Dante (b. 22
August 1945, New York, USA), Toni Wine and Andy Kim, who were
later called upon for touring purposes. Kirshner was astute
enough to employ solid commercial writers of some standing,
including Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. After several minor
successes, the group released one of the biggest selling
singles in the history of RCA Records. Sugar Sugar became a
transatlantic number 1, hogging the top spot in Britain for
over two months. Back in the USA, where the television series
was extremely popular, the group enjoyed another Top 10 hit
with Jingle Jangle before suffering the
sharp plunge into obscurity common to animated creations. And
Veronica was hot.
ALBUM:
THE ARCHIES (Calendar KES-101) 1968 (Archies
Theme (Everything's Archie)/Boys And Girls/Time For Love/ You Make Me Wanna
Dance/La Dee Doo Down Down/Truck Driver/Catchin' Up On Fun/I'm In
Love/Seventeen Ain't Young/Ride Ride Ride/Hide And Seek/Bang-Shang-A-Lang)
EVERYTHING'S ARCHIE (Calendar KES-103)
1969 (Feelin' So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y.-D.O.O.)/Melody
Hill/Rock & Roll Music/Kissin'/Don't Touch My Guitar/Circle Of Blue/Sugar,
Sugar/You Little Angel, You/Bicycles, Roller Skates And You/Hot Dog/Inside
Out - Upside Down/Love Light
SUGAR, SUGAR (Same as above) (Kirshner
KES-103) 1969
JINGLE JANGLE (Kirshner KES-105) 1969
(Jingle Jangle/Everything's Alright/She's
Putting Me Thru Changes/Justine/Whoopee Tie Ai A/Nursery Rhyme/Get On The
Line/You Know I Love You/Senorita Rita/Look Before You Leap/Sugar and
Spice/Archie's Party)
SUNSHINE (Kirshner KES-107) 1970
(Sunshine/Who's Gonna Love Me/Mr. Factory/Love And Rock 'N'
Roll Music/Over And Over/Waldo P. Emerson Jones/A Summer Prayer For
Peace/Dance/Comes The Sun/Suddenly Susan/One Big Family/It's The Summertime)
THE ARCHIE'S GREATEST HITS (Kirshner
KES-109) 1970
THIS IS LOVE (Kirshner KES-110) 1971
(This is Love/Don't Need No Bad Girl/Should
Anybody Ask/Easy Guy/Maybe I'm Wrong/What Goes On/Carousel Man/Hold On to
Lovin'/This Is The Night/Little Green Jacket/Together We Two/Throw a Little
Love My Way)
45s:
Bang-Shang-A-Lang/Truck Driver (Calendar 1006) 1968
Feelin' So Good
(S.K.O.O.B.Y.-D.O.O)/Love Light (Calendar
1007) 1969
Sugar, Sugar/Melody
Hill (Calendar 1008)
1969
Jingle Jangle/Justine (Kirshner 5002) 1969
Who's Your Baby?*/Senorita Rita (Kirshner 5003) 1970
Sunshine/Over and Over (Kirshner 1009) 1970
Together We Are Two/Everything's Alright (Kirshner 5009) 1971
This is Love/Throw A Little Love My Way (Kirshner 5011) 1971
A Summer Prayer For Peace/Maybe I'm Wrong (Kirshner
5014) 1971
Love is Living In You/Hold On To Lovin' (Kirshner
5018) 1971
Strangers In The Morning*/Plum Crazy* (Kirshner
5021) 1972
* NON-LP
RON DANTE ALBUMS:
RON DANTE BRINGS YOU UP (Kirshner
KES-106) 1970
STREET ANGEL (?)
SPECIAL RON
DANTE PAGE!
The Classic Bubblegum Music
can't help but bring you up
some great
Archies/Ron Dante/Andy Kim/Jeff Barry sites:
Laura's
Ron Dante Fan Pages
Jeff
Barry: Mark Chadbourne Online
