bubble gum - its been hard to get my hands on the most sweetest of the sweet bubble gum songs of all time SUGAR SUGAR. so i bit the bullet and bought the greatest hits. or should i say greatest hit? its really pretty bad. the other songs are just not good. which makes the remastering kind of funny. why? anyway...
The Archies sing Sugar, Sugar. - When I was serving my country in South Viet Nam, I would hear this song every morning at about the same time. It would make me smile and think about the one I loved back in the states. I grew to love this song very much and still do. It s a shame that the stations do not play fun music like this on a regular basis.
very grovy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - cool,grovy,great,fantastic this cd is good you can hear the classic song of sugar,sugar,but the others are good too, dont forget jingle jangle,bang shang-a-lang,rock n roll and the other songs
Decent Quality, but... - There are better collections out there but it s good to hear Time For Love on this one. At least until the official release comes out.
A budget collection of the bubblegum hits of the Archies - This budget collection of the Greatest Hits of the Archies only has 10 tracks recorded by faux-group spawned for the Saturday morning cartoon show. This is a decent collection of bubblegum music (bubblegum music was labeled as such because of its childish qualities, mass production values, and instant disposability), but since the Archies put out six albums you might want something with more sticks to get longer lasting flavor. I never watched the cartoon show (and read the comics only when every other comic book in my cousins house had been consumed) so all I really remembered was Sugar, Sugar, which is, of course, the one Archies song that everybody remembers. I vaguely recalled there was another hit from the group, which turned out to be Jingle Jangle (well, gee, that should have been obvious). Anyhow, everything in the Archies oeuvre might not be here, and certainly one has to be in the mood for this distinctive subset of pop music, but this is pretty good bubblegum music: Bang Shang-a-Lang could be your next guilty pleasure song. Most of the songs are written by Len Barry and Andy Kim, and performed by Ron Dante (who co-writes a couple as well). This is not first-rate bubblegum music, which would be Tommy James & the Shondells (and some stuff by the Monkees, but once you get to the second tier this is as good as it gets. Besides, Wilson Pickett did a soul cover of Sugar, Sugar, so there must have been some pink gold here. If you really like bubblegum music than the greatest hits albums by the Archies and Tommy Roe would be the only collections of individual artists in this genre worth having. Everything else worth having, such as Yummy, Yummy, Yummy by the Ohio Express and Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) by Edison Lighthouse, you can pick up on one of the various bubblegum hit collections.