Your Evening's Internet K-Hole: The Archies' Music Videos

 

 

I don't know what's wrong with me, but lately I've been listening to tons of Bubblegum and feeling like a total badass even though it's the goofiest music imaginable.  It's kinda like that scene in Reservoir Dogs with "Stuck In The Middle With You".  Not saying I'm planning on murdering anybody, but....you know what I mean...right?  You know I'm not actually going to murder somebody...haha....uhhhhh........ummmmmm.......I don't know what you're talking about I never heard of him in my life....go away....I said go away dammit!

There are a ton of excellent videos up on Youtube by the Archies, a fictional band that played songs on the Archies cartoon series.  I wouldn't argue that the song writing quality is up there with Kasenetz-Katz, but it's definitely an addictive internet k-hole more fulfilling than playing Snood for hours.  If you're hankering for more Bubblegum sounds, check out Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Edison Lighthouse, Margo Guryan, The Lemon Pipers, hmmmmm....that's all I can think of off the top of my head.  Oh yeah, and what the fuck is this thing I found in the related videos?  Really?  That happened?  How come I was never told?

Comments

[just john]

I have a 45 single of "Sugar Sugar." It sounds really soulful at 33 1/3 rpm. Try it!

(Another 45 that's great at 33 is Elton John's "Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting." It sounds like ultra-heavy Rolling Stones, if Mick were REALLLLLY drunk.)

[K.]

Alternate title : Lament of the American Voter.

Word on Sugar-Sugar; that song is an amazing bit of psychedelia.

[Fatherflot]

I still think "Indian Giver" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78H-tRFShiY by the 1910 Fruitgum Company is the pinnacle of bubblegum punk. It's an amazing record --- great production, a blueprint from the Ramones, really (and better than their cover). Also, "Quick Joey Small" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAi3TpG1oJY by the Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus, which is really garage, like the Standells for tweens.

[Fatherflot]

Oh, I just found this Gulf-of-Tonkin-era 1910 Fruitgum Company video. Wow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTBpafu_DE8&feature=related

[Chuck E. Jesus]

123 Redlight ftw...

[Murray the Quay]

Oh man, dig the tambourine player -- looks like "Davy Jones"-era Bowie doing white-boy James Brown Moves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXbj4NLWq6A&feature=related

[The Mayor of Simpleton]

Sugar Sugar meets John Daker.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Parkwaymania?feature=mhum

[The Mayor of Simpleton]

Ooops, it should be this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-mvm6-yURA

[dave]

And Tommy Roe. Dizzy was his foray into psychedelia, but Hooray for Hazel is pure bubblegum. Oh, and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.

[nxn]

Best part of being a cartoon band is not needing a guitar cable or an amp! All this talk of "Sugar Sugar" makes me hungry for some Super Sugar Crisp cereal... http://childrensrecordsandmore.blogspot.com/2007/09/sugar-bears-1972-vinyl-lp.html

[stuart]

Maybe the cartoon bands were ahead of their time - they were "wireless" and went directly into the board

[Joe Turner]

While the "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" Beatles cartoon is swell, the "Tomorrow Never Knows" one is way tripper! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmSlwT1xzus

[j]

So weird how music I dismissed as commercial crap back in the early 70's has held up so well.

[Jonas]

loads of kids show stuff from that time is pretty decent, for example
Cattanooga Cats
Lancelot Link
Hardy Boys

[Jim]

Mmmm...The Banana Splits' "I Enjoy Being A Boy In Love With You" is true psych-pop, not the Archies.