Sugar, Sugar

"Sugar, Sugar"
"Sugar, Sugar"
	A-side label of original 1969 US vinyl release
Single by The Archies
from the album Everything's Archie
B-side	"Melody Hill"
Released	May 24, 1969; July 1969 (re-release);
Recorded	1969
Genre	Bubblegum pop
Length	2:48
Label	Calendar/Kirshner
Songwriter(s)	Jeff Barry; Andy Kim;
Producer(s)	Jeff Barry
The Archies singles chronology
Music video
	"Sugar, Sugar" on YouTube

"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. In mid-1970, R&B/soul singer Wilson Pickett achieved success on both the US soul and pop charts with a cover version.

^ "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.

[1] "Sugar Sugar: The Birth of Bubblegum Pop – Various Artists – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved December 23, 2017.

[2] 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.

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