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THAT MAGIC BUBBLEGUM MOMENT
Submitted by BOB MATTHEWS
Crazy Elephant - Gimme, Gimme,
Good Lovin'
"Whooo!" (at they end)
Ohio Express - Chewy, Chewy
The great Joey Levine's "aww, chewy."
Ohio Express - Yummy, Yummy,
Yummy
Joey Levine's outrageous "BAAH-da-da."
Submitted by ANDY BERGEY
Fun & Games - The Grooviest Girl
In The World
"Impeccable taste . . . tah!"
American Machine - Snowball
The first "snowball ball ball ball ball ball ball
ball ball ball."
Rock And Roll Dubble Bubble
Trading Card Company of Philadelphia 19141
The drum intro.
George Baker Selection - Little
Green Bag
The intro. "Ahhh!"
Shadows of Knight - Run Run Billy
Porter
End of the first chorus, the barely heard background voice (0.51).
Majic Ship - Hummin'
The intro. "Uhh, uhh, uhh, uhh . . . allright."
FAVORITE BUBBLEGUM SONGS
(Top 10)
Submitted by CASEY D:
yummy yummy yummy - ohio
express Submitted by ERIN: ohio express -
down at lulu's As apparently is
required (but honestly, it was a joy, not a bummer In no particular order (honest!):
1. Sugar, Sugar - The Archies As it happens (just another
coincidence, I'm sure), six of these ten songs were composed or
co-composed by Jeff Barry, and one of the ones that wasn't
written by him was produced by him! (Not a trace of doubt in my mind
. . . )
Hey, does this make Neil Diamond a bubblegum artist?
Submitted by FRANK
D'AGOSTINO: 1. Sugar,
Sugar - Archies (no other song comes close) 1. Mercy, Roll It
Up, Chewy Chewy - Ohio Express (Three for one deal!)
UNDERRATED GUM
Submitted by KENNY: 1. Pam - Crazy Elephant
POTENTIAL
GUM GROUP NAMES Submitted
by KENNY: The Toy Truck
Towing Company Submitted
by ANDY BERGEY: Sugar & Spys
funny funny - sweet
catchy catchy groove - ohio express (even tho this was recorded way after
the gum era, this is one of the most addictive songs I've heard. I can't
stop playing this and you would swear it was joey levine singing.)
cinnamon- derek.
beg, borrow or steal - Ohio
express.
lollipop man - the sweet.
patty cake - the yummies
let go - ohio express (off the first album nothing sweeter than my baby-
ohio express-chewy chewy album.)
Indian giver - 1910 fruitgum co
1. Tasty (To Me) - Jerry Blavat
2. I'm a Believer - The Monkees
3. Julie Do You Love Me? - Bobby Sherman
4. Sugar Sugar - The Archies
5. Goody Goody Gumdrops - 1910 Fruitgum Company
6. Chewy Chewy - Ohio Express
7. Mercy - Ohio Express
8. Knock Three Times - Tony Orlando and Dawn (it's on a compilation
of gum songs my sister has, so it counts)
9. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse
10. Will You Be Staying After Sunday - Peppermint Rainbow
Submitted by KENNY:
1. Heather
Honey & Jam Up And Jelly Tight - Tommy Roe (Tied)
2. Easy Come Easy Go & La La La - Bobby Sherman (Tied)
(Yes, and I know that Andy doesn't really consider Bobby Sherman to be
Bubblegum, but like I said it all depends on who you talk to, and
classifications. But Andy has yet to hear Bobby Sherman's 1965 single
of "Goody Galum Shush" then he can really determine that. As that
song is about as Gum as you can get. It almost borders on Hardcore
Gum with Garage type vocals.)
3. Mercy - Ohio Express
(Gotta throw in some of that rare obscure Gum now here.)
4. Fairyland - The Pop Workshop
5. The Magic Book - The Gibsons
6. Wait For Summer - Jack Wild
7. Run Tell The People - Daniel Boone
8. Elephant Candy - Fun And Games
9. The Bump - Kenny & The Bay City Rollers version both tied
10. Some Girls - Racey
Submitted by ION:
the fun & games - grooviest girl in the world
josie & the pussycats - inside, outside, upside down
rock flowers - number wonderful
bugaloos - the senses of our world
crazy elephant - gimme good lovin'
archies -sugar sugar
i ribelli - yummy, yummy, yummy (sung in Italian!)
teenage fanclub - goody goody gumdrops
stereolab - john cage bubblegum
Some of the choices may not be legit (especially the last three), but
it's what I came up with. As mentioned before, I'm pretty new to the
bubblegum factory, so I'm sure I'll be discovering more top ten-worthy
material in the months to come. My favorite
psych comp BTW is Pepperisms Around the Globe, a collection of 60s
bands from around the world trying to sound like the Beatles. Ion
Submitted
by SCOTT S.:
to do), I have compiled my Bubblegum Top Ten. I'll say that this
list could be different depending on the day, but a few of these
would be on the list no matter when I put it together. Having
disclaimed, on with the fun, with a list NOT in order of preference.
10. Aunt Matilda's Double Yummy Blow Your Mind Out Brownies by The
Two Dollar Question - Ron Dante on vocals, Vance and Pockriss writers. Gum
meets trippy psych!
9. Boo On You by Bazooka - The awesome Johnny Cymbal and Austin
Roberts together in an unstoppable juggernaut! Okay, so it's a
ripoff of Yummy Yummy Yummy. So up-tempo! So catchy! The horn
arrangements so nice! Love that out of tune guitar riff!
8. Sweet Magic by Rock Candy Mountain - Vocals by Mr. Joseph Levine.
I tell ya, with enough promotion, this could have been as big as
Sugar Sugar, it's that good. Sad that it remains obscure to most.
7. Snowball by American Machine - Mr. Johnny Cymbal does his best
Joey rip, but succeeds beyond his wildest expectations. The "ball
ball ball" part just killed me and showed that Mr. Cymbal had the
whole bubblegum game DOWN PAT.
6. CONTROVERSY ABOUNDS! My Friend Jack by The Smoke - What's
that you say? Surely a psychedelic song! Well, no. A bubblegum
song with a psychedelic theme I say! Anyone who doubts me, check
out "High In A Room, The Smoke Anthology" for their later
tracks, "Shagalagalu" and "Gimmie Good Loving" (NOT the Crazy
Elephant track) which are very late period gum.
5. Sha La La I Love You - Lancelot Link and The Evolution
Revolution - One of the best examples of the obligatory bubblegum
Key Change Going Up Into The Last Chorus. Classic. My heart soars
every time I hear it (God am I a sap.)
6. Sunshine Bay - East Coast Left - Lyrics about cartoons,
balloons, ice cream parlors and "soft skinned girls in pinnafores"
plus a melody catchier than Typhoid. Shoulda beena hit.
5. Tracy - The Cuff Links - A friend of mine was DJ'ing at an AM
station in Massachusetts where I discovered this song in the mid
1980's. I had never heard it before that, as it never gets played
on oldies stations. Love at first listen. Bliss for years after.
6. "Sausalito" - The Ohio Express - Okay, I know it's basically a
10CC track, but what a track! A delightful bubblegum/flower pop
anthem with that non-stop bubblebeat and transcendently goofy lyrics.
5. Mama Lu - The Super K Generation - a song that proves that
bubblegum is gibberish, and gibberish is rock and roll, therefore
bubblegum IS rock and roll. There's a pinch of gospel soul thrown
in here too, which gives it a unique flavor in K & K's oeuvre.
4. Funny Funny by The Sweet - since The Sweet is about my third
favorite rock band, I had to put them on here. This is them at
their gummiest, and the best "Sugar Sugar" rip-off ever written
to boot.
3. Lay A Little Lovin' On Me by Robin McNamara - Don't ask why,
but this has a high place in my gum pantheon, probably even higher
than any Archies song or almost any Ohio Express number.
2. Tra La La Song (TV Theme version) The Banana Splits - This is
just SO DARN ARCHETYPAL it's imprinted in my DNA by now! The TV
version is only 1:00 long, confirming that in gum as well as
everything else, brevity is the soul of wit and simplicity equals
elegance. Do we have to argue about this at all?
1. Yummy Yummy Yummy Ohio Express - One of the tuffest gum tracks,
Pete Townshend praised it, what more need be said? Arguably the one
that started the avalanche, even though many others paved the
way before it.
Whew! Chew on those, gum fans!
- Scott S.
Submitted
by LAURA P:
2. Tracy - The Cuff Links
3. Be My Baby - Andy Kim
4. Bang Shang a-Lang - The
Archies
5. Tall Paul - Annette Funicello
(OK, so it predates the term 'bubblegum' - in my book, it qualifies ...
just listen to the thing!)
6. Lay a Little Lovin' On Me -
Robin McNamara
7. So Good Together - Andy Kim
(this is borderline gum, but I love the song so it's on the list and stayin' on it)
8. I'm a Believer - The Monkees
9. You Little Angel, You - The Archies (another borderline gum - a fusion between b'gum and doowop.
Let's just call it doo-gum or bubblewop!)
10. Theme from 'Josie and the
Pussycats' (meow!!!)
2. I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family (I know . . . no family acts)
3. Candida/Knock Three Times - Dawn (Yes, I absolutely have a 45 that has
both songs!)
4. Cherish - David Cassidy and the Partridge Family) (Now this is playing on
my stereo)
5. Easy Come, Easy Go - Bobby Sherman
6. 1,2,3 Red Light - 1910 Fruitgum Co. (I'm not bias just 'cause I own 3
copies of the 45?)
7. Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers (better late than never latebloomer)
8. Little Bit O'Soul - Music Explosion
9. Build Me Up Buttercup - Foundations
10 - Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, Yummy - Ohio Express
Submitted
by ANDY BERGEY:
2. I Enjoy Being A Boy (In Love With You) - The Banana Splits
3. Dizzy - Tommy Roe
4. Run Run Billy Porter - The Shadows Of Knight
5. Judy In Disguise - John Fred & His Playboy Band
6. The Rapper - The Jaggerz
7. Snowball - American Machine
8. Elephant Candy - Fun & Games
9. 1910 Cotton Candy Castle - 1910 Fruitgum
Co.
10. Patty Cake - The Yummies
1. Minny Minny - Mouth And MacNeal
2. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - The Marbles
3. Open Up Your Heart - Heaven Bound
4. Heather Honey - Tommy Roe
5. Lucky - The Ohio Express
6. Go Away - 1910 Fruitgum Co.
7. Any Wednesday - Royal Guardsmen
8. My Name Is Jack - Manfred Mann
9. Run Tell The People - Daniel Boone
10. Captain Groovy & His Bubblegum Army - Captain Groovy
Submitted
by ANDY BERGEY:
2. Constantly - The Reivers
3. The Grooviest Girl In The World - The Fun & Games
4. Sh-Sh-Shelia - Portrait
5. Billy's Got A Goat - Patty Flabbies Coughed Engine
6. I'm Gonna Find Me A Cave - The Banana
Splits
7. Voodoo Medicine Man - Jerry & Jeff
8. Dong-Dong-Diki-Di-Ki-Dong - Kasenetz-Katz
Super Cirkus
9. Out & About - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
10. Stir It Up And Serve It - Tommy Roe
10 1/2. Majic Ship - Hummin'
Pickle Juice
Toothie Ruthie
The 101 Delicatessen Sandwich Food Stompers
Candy Lollipop Tree
Cotton Candy Connection
Gumball Express Train
Fruit Of The Loom
Sugar And The Spizes (no, It's purposely misspelled in it's Buddah
psychedelic way)
The Chewin' Tobacco Company
Rice Puddin' Candymix
Fluff-A-Nutters
Marshmellow Fluff And Candy Cane
Gooey Gooey Gumballs
Sota Pop & Schmaltz (Again misspelled on purpose)
Peppah Shaker and The Lion Eyez
P-Nit Buttah And Jelly (Again misspelled on purpose)
The Kurrent Jelly (The Psych spelling of Current which is the correct
spelling)
Apple Sideah
The Pretcel Factory Machine (Again the psych spelling way)
Flowerz and Beadz
The Tooty Fruity Submarine Band
Current Jelly
Clap Erasers
General Din
Sparkling Examples
Nickel Teens
The Gray Matters
Stonehenge
Kash Krops
Spring 2 Action
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