
After it had finally fallen from the top spot, the cartoon clip finally became available, and their frustration definitely shows as they were made to present it once again, this time the "official" video. 11, 1969A year after posting this and over a million views, this was blocked because of song 6 I let run 2 or 3 seconds too long :( If you wan. The Archies band was featured in media concerning the Archie comics. Host David Steinberg shows his obvious contempt for the song each time he has to introduce the visualization they cooked up for the show, including one clip I found on YouTube, which would definitely not pass muster these days. The other fact that makes this so remarkable is that The Archies was a fictional band.

The song was originally released on The Archies second album 'Everything's Archie'Archie's here. The band, formed by the main characters of the various 'Archie'-related comics, includes lead singer and guitarist Archie Andrews, bassist Reggie Mantle, tambourinist Betty Cooper, keyboardist Veronica Lodge, and drummer Jughead Jones. The band’s musical gatekeeper, the one most preoccupied with the TV-generated combo being allowed to write its own songs and play on its own records, Nesmith famously rejected Sugar, Sugar.
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The Archies were an animated garage rock band in the Saturday morning TV cartoon, The Archie Show. The Archies are a fictitious rock band created for various Archie Comics publications. Well, "Sugar Sugar" was number one for about the first four weeks of the show, and apparently the above video wasn't available yet. the + archies + sugar + sugar 1 3.Sugar and Spice 2 5.Sugar Sugar 3 1.Kissin 4 1.Life Is A Rock(But The Radio Rolled Me) 5 31.Sugar Sugar(Originally. The music video for The Archies number 1 hit 'Sugar, Sugar'. The one-hit wonder Sugar, Sugar has an interesting origin.

Bassist and backing vocalist Reggie Mantle never got. Many of the episodes were released on DVD, and when watching them you get the sense that the producers and cast tried to make a show presenting some of the best music of the era (CSNY, James Brown, Sly, Merle Haggard, etc), but the network (I assume) stipulated that they also had to feature the number one song each week. The Archies were not a real band they were simply Archie and his cartoon friends making music together.
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ABC-TV once aired a series called The Music Scene, which was directed by the great Stan Harris between his stints with The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Midnight Special.
