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Sugar, Sugar

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"Sugar, Sugar" is a pop song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim

Andy Kim

Andy Kim is a Canada pop singer and songwriter....
. It was a four-week 1969 number-one hit single by fictional characters The Archies

The Archies

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 Comics universe, in the context of the animated TV series, The Archie Show....
. Produced by Jeff Barry

Jeff Barry

Jeff Barry is an United States popular music songwriter, singer, and record producer.Barry was born Joel Adelberg in Brooklyn, New York City....
, the song was originally released on the album Everything's Archie. The album is the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner

Don Kirshner

Don Kirshner , known as The Man With the Golden Ear, is an American song publisher and rock producer who is best known for managing songwriting talent as well as successful pop groups such as The Monkees and The Archies....
. Ron Dante

Ron Dante

Ron Dante is an United States singer, songwriter and record producer. Dante is best known as the lead singer for the cartoon musical group, The Archies, from 1968 to 1971....
's lead vocals were accompanied by those of Toni Wine

Toni Wine

Toni Wine is an United States pop music songwriter, who wrote songs for such musician as The Mindbenders , Tony Orlando and Dawn , Elvis Presley, and Checkmates Ltd....
(who sang the line "I'm gonna make your life so sweet"), Andy Kim

Andy Kim

Andy Kim is a Canada pop singer and songwriter....
, and Ellie Greenwich

Ellie Greenwich

Eleanor Louise Greenwich, known as Ellie Greenwich , is an American Popular music singer, songwriter, and record producer, who wrote some of the most recognizable songs of the 1960s....
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Andy Kim

Andy Kim is a Canada pop singer and songwriter....
. It was a four-week 1969 number-one hit single by fictional characters The Archies

The Archies

Jeff Barry

Don Kirshner

Ron Dante

Toni Wine

Andy Kim

Andy Kim is a Canada pop singer and songwriter....
, and Ellie Greenwich

Ellie Greenwich

Eleanor Louise Greenwich, known as Ellie Greenwich , is an American Popular music singer, songwriter, and record producer, who wrote some of the most recognizable songs of the 1960s....
. Together, they provided the voices of the various Archies using multitracking

Multitrack recording

Multitrack recording is a method of sound recording that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources to create a cohesive whole....
. Ray Stevens

Ray Stevens

Ray Stevens is an United States country music and pop music singer-songwriter known for his novelty songs as well as more serious works. He was born in Clarkdale, Georgia, Georgia , a small town west of Atlanta, Georgia....
, the comic singer, provided the hand claps to the song.

The Archie’s "Sugar, Sugar" was the 1969 number one single of the year

Billboard Year-End

Billboard Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in the United States, based upon the Billboard magazine charts during any given chart year....
. According to Billboard magazine, this is a feat yet to be duplicated by any other fictional band. It spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
from September 20, 1969 and eight weeks at the top of the UK singles chart. The song lists at #63 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time.On February 5, 2006, "Sugar, Sugar" was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame is a Canada non-profit organization, founded in 1998 by Frank Davies, that inducts Canada into their Hall of Fame within 3 different categories: songwriters, songs, and those others who have made a significant contribution with respect to music....
, as co-writer Andy Kim is originally from Montreal

Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
.

"Sugar, Sugar" is considered the canonical example of the bubblegum pop

Bubblegum pop

Bubblegum pop is a genre of pop music whose classic period ran from 1967 to 1972. The chief characteristics of the genre are that it is pop music contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens, is produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers, using faceless singers and has an intangible, upbeat "bubblegum" sound....
musical genre. Rumors have circulated that the song was earlier offered to and recorded by The Monkees

The Monkees

The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
with Davy Jones

Davy Jones (actor)

Davy Jones is a Grammy winning, England pop music singer-songwriter and Tony-nominated Primetime Emmy Award-nominated actor best known as a member of The Monkees....
providing all the vocals, but never released. Don Kirshner himself says in an interview on "Popular Song: Soundtrack of the Century episode Modern Pop", that Mike Nesmith put his fist through the wall of the Beverley Hills hotel refusing to do "Sugar, Sugar". However, when asked Jones confirmed that Kirshner had offered it to them, but stated he never recorded it.

Covers

In 1970, singer Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett

Wilson Pickett was an United States rhythm and blues/Rock and Roll and soul music singer and songwriter known for his raw, raspy, passionate vocal delivery....
hit the U.S. Top Forty
Top Forty

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with his own version of the song.
Tom Jones
Tom Jones

Tom Jones may refer to:*Sir Tom Jones , Welsh pop music singer*Tom Jones , lyricist of musical theater*Tom Jones , Australian politician representing Collie-Wellington district...
included the song on his 1970 album "Tom".
In 1980, co-composer Andy Kim recorded "Sugar, Sugar" as a track on his Baron Longfellow LP.
A live punk rock version is included on the 1981 LP Live At The Whisky, First Show Ever
Live at the Whisky, First Show Ever

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by The Germs
The Germs

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Studio group Stars on 45
Stars on 45

Stars on 45 was a The Netherlands novelty pop music act that was briefly very popular in the United Kingdom, throughout Europe, and in the United States in the early 1980s....
included it in their Beatles
The Beatles

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-heavy, 1981 "Stars on 45 Medley
Stars on 45 Medley

"Stars on 45 Medley" was a song issued in 1981 by the studio group Stars on 45. It was originally released as "Stars on 45" by Stars on 45, in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand the band was credited to 'Starsound' and the medley itself was named "Stars on 45"....
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A cover of Sugar, Sugar, performed by Mary Lou Lord
Mary Lou Lord

Mary Lou Lord is an alternative rock musician, busking and recording artist....
with Semisonic
Semisonic

Semisonic is an alternative rock Band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1995 . The band consists of three members: Dan Wilson , John Munson , and Jacob Slichter ....
, is included on the 1995 tribute album
Tribute album

A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist....
Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, produced by Ralph Sall
Ralph Sall

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for MCA Records
MCA Records

MCA Records was an United States-based record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part....
.
In 2001, Bob Marley's
Bob Marley

Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley Jamaican Order of Merit was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers and Bob Marley & the Wailers ....
demo cover of "Sugar, Sugar" was released on the two-disc CD "Natty Rebel".

. A version is included on Big Youth

Big Youth

Manley Augustus Buchanan , better known as Big Youth , is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s....
’s 3-CD-Box-set Natty Universal Dread 1973–1979 released in 2001.

Blue Orchids covered the song on their "Bud" album, released in 2004.
Praga Khan
Praga Khan

Praga Khan is an early techno music musician. His Belgian New Beat style stems back to the 1980s when techno came out of the Belgian underground....
covered the song on their Electric Religion album, also released in 2004.
Pop-rap artist Nitty sampled "Sugar, Sugar" for his 2004 single "Nasty Girl
Nasty Girl (Nitty song)

"Nasty Girl" is a Pop Rap song by US Pop music rapper Nitty . It is the third track on his album Player's Paradise. The chorus of the song is an interpolation of the 1969 hit song Sugar, Sugar by The Archies....
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A version by Skott Francis was used as background music for a TV advert for Head & Shoulders
Head & Shoulders

Head & Shoulders is a brand of anti-dandruff shampoo produced by Procter & Gamble. Head & Shoulders Classic Clean Shampoo is the top selling shampoo in the United States by Dollar Sales....
shampoo in the UK.

Trivia

On September 4, 2006, Dante and Wine performed the song together on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon

Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon

The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon is hosted by actor/comic, Jerry Lewis to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. It has been held annually since 1960....
. This was the first time they had publicly performed the song together. They performed it again at one of Toni Wine's performances at the Genghis Cohen in West Hollywood.

President George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
has said "Sugar, Sugar" is one of his favorite songs. The song played in Jenna Bush

Jenna Bush

Jenna Welch Hager, n?e Bush, , is the American daughter of the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush and former First Lady of the United States Laura Bush, and the grand daughter of the 41st US President George H Bush....
's wedding party in May, 2008.

In pop culture

The song is featured in The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
episodes "Boy-Scoutz N the Hood

Boy-Scoutz N the Hood

"Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons List of The Simpsons episodes#Season 5 . It originally aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States on November 18, 1993....
" and "Sweets and Sour Marge

Sweets and Sour Marge

"Sweets and Sour Marge" is the eighth episode of the thirteenth season of The Simpsons. The title parodies the famousdish "Sweet and sour chicken"....
". In the former, Homer has a hallucination about dancing ice cream cones during a heat wave while listening to the song on Rod Flanders personal stereo

Personal stereo

The personal stereo is the term given to a portable audio player using an Compact audio cassette Cassette deck. This allows the listening of music through headphones while a person is mobile....
, but as the batteries run down, the song gradually slows down and stops and the ice creams melt, ending his dream.

English hard rock band Def Leppard

Def Leppard

Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
got the idea for their 1987 hit "Pour Some Sugar on Me

Pour Some Sugar on Me

"Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a song by United Kingdom hard rock Band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria . It reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100....
" from the song.

The song was used during a TV spot for the Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith

Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter and film director, as well as a script writer, author, and actor. He is also the co-founder, with Scott Mosier, of View Askew Productions and owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic and novelty store in Red Bank, New Jersey, New Jersey....
film, Zack and Miri Make A Porno
Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Zack and Miri Make a Porno is a 2008 in film comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It is Smith's second film not to be set within the View Askewniverse and the first not set or shot in New Jersey....
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