With summer over, Ron is back to headlining his own shows. "I remembering singing it and remember thinking, 'This is a really cool little song, and the track really is danceable.' I knew I was in the studio with a home run hitter: Jeff Barry was the producer, the executive producer was Don Kirshner, the man behind The Monkees." Jeff and Andy Kim, who had hits on his own as a writer and singer, Jeff and Andy wrote Sugar, Sugar, Ronnie was Archie, and I was Betty and Veronica. Ron Dante says he had a hunch "Sugar Sugar" was going to be huge. It's funny how it's lasted, it gets licensed, and people just like to hear it live when I do my live shows."Īmong Ron's favorite big screen uses of "Sugar Sugar" was when it was in a pivotal scene in Jerry Seinfeld's animated hit Bee Movie. Sugartime The McGuire Sisters Sugar in the mornin’, Sugar in the evenin’, Sugar at suppertime sounds a whole lot like my diet.
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We've had great covers: Tina Turner did a great version of 'Sugar Sugar.' It's unbelievable. I loved the movie Now and Then and this song always makes me think of sweet summer days with friends. It was also 1 on the UK Singles chart in that same year for eight weeks. This version reached 1 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1969 and remained there for four weeks. It was originally recorded by the cartoon band the Archies. Who would have thought 50 years later, people would still be singing my wonderful song. About Sugar, Sugar 'Sugar, Sugar' is a song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim.
Ron Dante talked about the enduring popularity of "Sugar Sugar." Written by: Andy Kim & Jeff Barry Producer: Jeff Barry Weeks at number 1: 8 (25 October-19 December) BEST-SELLING SINGLE OF THE YEAR Births. Radio DJs werent initially told it was a. The cartoon band fronted by Archie Andrews. Ron Dante was a popular New York session vocalist who recorded many of the songs for the Saturday morning Archies cartoons. Joe Renzetti, who arranged the session, believes that the singer might have been Neil Goldberg, an associate of Jeff Barry. TIL The song Sugar, Sugar was originally performed by The Archies. It also was Billboard's number-one song of that entire year. It was a four-week 1969 number-one hit single by. Yet The Archies' "Sugar Sugar" was number one this week in 1969 - and for the three weeks that followed - and has proved to be one of that year's most enduring songs. For the Baby Bash song, see Suga Suga Sugar, Sugar is a pop song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim.
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In 2005, Sugar Sugar made an appearance in the Shrek II DVD and continues to be heard in countless commercials around the world.In the year of such 50th anniversaries as Woodstock, Abbey Road and "Honky Tonk Women," a pop single from an animated TV series might not seem part of the same conversation. Sugar Sugar was used in Oliver Stone’s Heaven and Earth, (also known as Entre ciel et terre) about the American-Vietnam War, its aftermath and reconstruction. The single has also been heard in another popular animated television series, The Simpsons, and on the big screen featuring another manufactured band, The Brady Bunch, in the 1996 film A Very Brady Sequel. Four years earlier, Dante had been a member of the parody group the Detergents, who recorded a novelty song called 'Leader of the Laundromat', although Dante was not on that recording. In 1969, the year of Woodstock, Easy Rider and the Underground Movement, Sugar Sugar not only climbed to the top of the charts, but would go on to become both Song of the Year and Record of the Year eventually selling 13 million copies worldwide. The Archies single 'Sugar, Sugar', written and composed by producer Jeff Barry with Andy Kim, was the number-one selling record of 1969 in the United States. While Kim and Barry had already enjoyed success with previous compositions written for the cartoon series, the pair could not have foreseen the heights to which the song would soar. The animation took the once one-dimensional characters from between the pages of comic books and brought them to life on the small screen with vocalists Ron Dante, Toni Wine and Andy Kim lending their voices to the cartoon band. One of their most successful collaborations, Sugar Sugar, was written for Don Kirshner’s new CBS cartoon television series The Archies that featured a manufactured pop band with the same name.
Kim was later signed to Barry’s new label, Steed Records, and the pair would go on to become an incredible songwriting team. His search led him to the Brill Building and the office of Jeff Barry, the man who penned such hits as Be My Baby, Then He Kissed Me and Chapel of Love. In 1967, at the tender age of 15, Andy Kim left Montreal for New York City with $40 in his pocket and a Billboard Magazine under his arm earmarked to the page listing the addresses of record labels.