After Bazooka Joe, I thought you might like some more bubblegum.
Here the Archies are: Archie Andrews - guitar; Veronica Lodge - organ; Rggie Mantle - bass; Betty Cooper - tambourine; & Jughead Jones - percussion. (The real lead singer was Ron Dante, joined in the studio most often by Toni Wine, Jeff Barry, & Bobby Bloom. Session musicians played the music: guitarist Dave Appell; bassist Joey Macho; keyboard player Ron Frangipane; & drummer Gary Chester.)
Side 1 -
Archie's Theme (Everything's Archie)
Boys & Girls
Time for Love
You Make Me Wanna Dance
La Dee Doo Down Down
Truck Driver
Side 2 -
Catchin' up on Fun
I'm in Love
Seventeen ain't Young
Ride, Ride, Ride
Hide & Seek
Bang-Shang-a-Lang
Written by Jeff Barry - tracks 1,2,4,5,6,8,9,10---Ritchie Adams & Mark Barkan - tracks 3,7,11. Produced by Jeff Barry & Don Kirshner.
Pop that bubble chum,
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The Archies
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Cool! Thanks Nathan...was wondering who Bobby Bloom was as I got a request at my blog for his funk platter from E.W. and going to rip it this weekend also wanted to put this Archie's thing to bed as I know I have posted one
ReplyDeleteTalk about your guilty pleasures! This certainly is one of mine. I actually had the Bang-Shang-a Lang 45 when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteDon Kirshner had already proven he could produce hit records without a real band per se with The Monkees. The obvious next step was to do that with cartoon characters rather than real live actors.
As long as we’re traveling down this road, we might as well explore the neighborhood with another Saturday morning bubble gum super group of sorts:
The Banana Splits - The Beagles
https://krakenfiles.com/view/5CDfw03gtu/file.html
Funny story a once read about ‘The Splits’: apparently the people inside the costumes felt they deserved better pay due the their belief that it was their talent and creativity that brought the characters to life. The studio didn’t see it that way and responded by firing them all. So much for my dreams of fame and fortune for bringing Drooper to life!
ReplyDeleteNothing guilty about these pleasures. You probably never had reason to look but I've posted We're the Banana Splits here in the past...
https://nathannothinsez.blogspot.com/2015/08/b-is-for-bytes-bits-banana-splits.html
As I sez in one of my comments: "one of my childish flights of fantasy".
"---but on a musical note, The Banana Splits' bubblegum pop was provided by notable studio professionals, including Joey Levine ("I Enjoy Being a Boy", "It's a Good Day for a Parade"); Al Kooper ("You're the Lovin' End"); Barry White ("Doin' the Banana Split"); & Gene Pitney ("Two Ton Tessie"). Also, Jimmy Radcliffe provided the songs ("I'm Gonna Find a Cave", "Soul", "Don't Go Away - Go-Go Girl", "Adam Had 'Em" & "The Show Must Go On")."
---but as far as the folks in the suits, nobody's gone know if ya swap'em out.
Thanks for the link & beware of Danger Island.
I sure didn't see that, but I'm on the way over to that page now. Seeing where the music actually came from says a lot about why is still sounds so good. Well played my friend!
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