| "Sugar, Sugar" | ||||
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 A-side label of original 1969 US vinyl release | ||||
| Single by The Archies | ||||
| from the album Everything's Archie | ||||
| B-side | "Melody Hill" | |||
| Released |
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| Recorded | 1969 | |||
| Genre | Bubblegum pop[1][2] | |||
| Length | 2:48 | |||
| Label | Calendar/Kirshner | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Jeff Barry | |||
| The Archies singles chronology | ||||
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"Sugar, Sugar" is a song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, produced by Barry and recorded by The Archies, a fictional bubblegum pop band from Archie Comics. It was released as the group's third single on the Calendar Records label on May 24, 1969, rereleased on the Kirshner Records label in July 1969, and included on their second album, Everything's Archie. In the autumn of 1969, it topped both Billboard's Hot 100 (for four weeks) and the UK Singles Chart (for eight weeks), ranking number one for the year in both America and the UK. It is the most successful bubblegum pop single of all time, and is widely regarded as the apotheosis of the late-1960s/early-1970s bubblegum music genre.
- ^ "Sugar Sugar: The Birth of Bubblegum Pop – Various Artists – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
- ^ Read, Maddy (August 22, 2021). "Bubblegum pop: 'Commercialized, computerized and easy to sing to'". The Crimson White. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
Tracks that cemented their places in history as a part of the first wave of bubblegum pop include 'Saturday Night' by Bay City Rollers, 'Sugar Sugar' by the Archies and 'Indian Lake' by the Cowsills.