The Archies : Sugar, Honey, Honey

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bgmacaw

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For what it is, it does it very well. I don't think that anyone making "Sugar Sugar" was trying to make a piece of art, it was a song for kids to dance to.

It exists because Don Kirshner thought it was much easier to deal with easily replaceable staff songwriters, studio musicians and cartoon characters.
 

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I was never really a fan of Sugar Sugar, but the Archies full length record it was included on has some cool playing by whoever the studio players were. Really good rhythm tracks, and great sounding pop guitar.
 

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Although I am 66 and 1/2 years old,

my parents once told me I was conceived to this song in 1967.

Why is there such a math crisis in this country??
As they say... anyone can do multiplication.

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I was never really a fan of Sugar Sugar, but the Archies full length record it was included on has some cool playing by whoever the studio players were. Really good rhythm tracks, and great sounding pop guitar.

It was several people, but mainly Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart at the top of their game in the studio. B and H were also key players and songwriters with The Monkees.
 

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Coming up next, "Sugarpie Honeybunch" from the Four Tops. Something about that group always annoyed me, not sure what.
 

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I cut my copy off the back of an Alpha-Bits box. I loved it. :)

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How did that ever get past the AM censor-nazis?

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this song!!! Summer of 1972, memories of my first real girlfriend, if you catch my drift. :cool: God bless her! I didn't see the Mike Douglas video, I didn't know Eric Carmen played guitar on it. I did see a later video, guitarist was playing a Tele? I loved that tone the lead guitarist had!:D

Yeah, at the time I wondered about how it got past the censors, too...:eek:

Off topic: Eric Carmen's Never Gonna Love Again was on Sirius last night (Casey Kasem's AT40 6-12-76), he lifted the melody in the chorus from a movement in Rachmaninoff's Concerto in Cm (or something, I forget which), this is well known, anyhow I played it for my wife, who is Russian and a classically trained pianist, she had never heard the song before and recognized the melody of the chorus and was outraged someone had lifted it. I had a little chuckle at that... after I explained it happens all the time in the music biz and she calmed down. Sheesh.o_O
 

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From wikipedia: Sugar Sugar

Written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim; produced by Jeff Barry

Personnel
The studio musicians on the Archies song are:

Huh well that confirms it ... I always suspected that Archie and Jughead and the gang weren't really real!
 

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The correct name of the song is/was "Sugar, Sugar". That video is misnamed.

Lyrics:

Honey
Ah, sugar, sugar
You are my candy girl
And you got me wanting you
 
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