Other Top Forty songs recorded by The Archies include "Who's Your Baby?" (U.S. The most famous is " Sugar, Sugar", written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, which went to #1 on the pop chart in 1969 and earned the group a gold record (in fact, in Billboard magazine's Hot 100, it was ranked as the number one song of that year, the only time a fictional band has ever claimed Billboard's annual Hot 100 top-spot). Other Archie Comics bands from this time included The Bingoes and The Madhouse Glads, but neither ever appeared in animated form.Ī set of studio musicians were assembled by Don Kirshner in 1968 to perform various songs.
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One of the more well-known examples is Josie and the Pussycats, which was successful both as an animated series and as a comic book produced by Archie Comics. These animated groups included The Groovie Goolies, The Hardy Boys, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, The Banana Splits, The Cattanooga Cats, The Sugar Bears, The Chan Clan, and The Neptunes, as well as an animated version of The Jackson 5ive. Often, the cartoon characters of such shows were also teenaged detectives, as an attempt to recapture the success of both " The Archie Show" and " Scooby Doo".
Most of these groups played bubblegum pop. The fictional group was so popular that animated musical groups became a fad of the late 1960s and early 1970s. However, because storylines and hobbies/activities in the Archie world change from story to story, these two stories cannot be considered canon. It should be noted that in a mid-90's story, a conversation between Jughead and Betty in the opening panels state Reggie as being the group's bass player, as well as a story edited in more recent issues. In addition, there are six-string bass guitars, and the recordings of the Archies' songs regularly featured a bass player, suggesting that Reggie in fact was the bass player. On the other hand, a number of drawings (including the one above) clearly show the instrument to have four tuning keys, the most common bass design. However, there is some controversy over whether Reggie played bass or not in most drawings, his guitar looks identical to Archie's, making him the band's second (or co-lead) guitarist. The Archies are sometimes jokingly compared to the seminal 60s rock band The Doors, as the Doors also had no bass player. *Betty - Tambourine/Percussion/Guitar (occasional)Įven though the band have soft, pop-like voices in their songs, their actual voices are much different.Īn unusual distribution mode for their music was as cardboard records embossed directly onto the backs of breakfast cereal boxes so that the cardboard record could be cut out and played on a turntable (although it should be noted that their music was also available on standard issue LPs and 45s). *Reggie - Second Guitar (or Bass Guitar see below) The roles the teens play in the fictional band were: Every member sings vocals, with Jughead handling the bass voice on a few tracks. They seem to have a preference for rock and roll, however.īetty Cooper and Veronica Lodge later also joined the group. The Archies play a variety of contemporary popular music, consistent with the era in which the comic is drawn. Title = Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, From the Banana Splits to Britney Spears Their most successful song, " Sugar, Sugar", became one of the biggest hits of the bubblegum pop genre that flourished from 1968 to 1972. The fictional band's music was recorded by session musicians featuring Ron Dante on vocals and released as a series of singles and albums.
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The Archies are a fictional garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie universe, in the context of the animated TV series, " The Archie Show". :"For the self-titled syndicated version of the 1968-1978 animated television franchise of which The Archies were a part, please see The Archie Show."
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