In 1969, a song about love as sweet as candy was, as Mary Poppins might say, a spoonful of sugar for millions of listeners, ...
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 ...
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57 years ago, The Archies' 'Sugar, Sugar' became the first fictional band to top charts
57 years ago today, on September 20, 1969, a new pop song topped the Billboard 100. Even though Rolling Stone called it “as basic as it gets”, the song wouldn’t have been remarkable if it wasn’t for ...
Beloved animated characters may have represented the musicians behind this hit, but the artists' saccharine song went on to dominate the charts in 1969.
Few singers have been as widely heard but remain as little known as Ron Dante, who is now on the San Diego-bound “Happy Together Tour” as the lead singer in The Turtles. Fewer still scored their ...
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