On paper, the Archies were a cartoon band, made up for the animated Saturday morning series that featured lead singer and guitarist Archie Andrews, bass player Reggie Mantle, keyboardist Veronica ...

In 1969, a song about love as sweet as candy was, as Mary Poppins might say, a spoonful of sugar for millions of listeners, ...

In the late 1960s, the bubblegum pop music genre was in full force, with bands like The Strawberry Alarm Clock, the Lemon Pipers, and The Cufflinks frequently appearing on the Billboard Top 10 charts.

The Archies had one of the best built-in promotional outlets of any band of their era. They appeared on their very own Saturday morning cartoon, meaning that their single “Sugar, Sugar” was guaranteed ...

Ron Dante was often a behind-the-scenes star, and his oft-uncredited voice shifted plenty of records for a long-forgotten band that had a Top 10 hit in 1969.