![]() The single also spent eight weeks at the top of the UK singles chart and peaked at #1 on the South African Singles Chart. It ranked #81 on Billboard's "Hot 100 60th Anniversary" chart. The song was classified by the RIAA as a gold record in August 1969, meaning it had sold one million units (the gold threshold was later lowered to 500,000). It spent a total of 22 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 and was the 1969 US number-one single of the year. Billboard Hot 100 from September 20 through October 11. Reception Īfter topping the RPM 100 national singles chart in Canada on Septem(where it spent three weeks), the single went on to spend four weeks at the top of the U.S. "Sugar, Sugar" is written in the key of D major. In an article published in The Washington Times, lead vocalist Ron Dante recounts that the label was removed from the record, taken to a top radio station (KYA) in San Francisco, where the Program Director was told: "Just play it! It's a mystery group". Upon the song's initial release Kirshner had promotion men play it for radio station personnel without revealing the group's name, as the Archies' previous single, " Feelin' So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y-D.O.O)", had only reached No. The song was also made available, (along with two other Archies singles), on the back of boxes of Super Sugar Crisp cereal. When the song was re-released in mid-July 1969 on the Kirshner label, it attained enormous success nationwide by the late summer/early fall. The song was initially released in late May 1969 on the Calendar label (the same label as with the two previous Archies singles), achieving moderate chart success in the early summer in some radio markets. Together they provided the voices of the Archies using multitracking. Ron Dante's lead vocals were accompanied by those of Toni Wine and songwriter Andy Kim. The album was the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner. Produced by Jeff Barry, the Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" was originally released on the album Everything's Archie. Sexual functionssare also seen and treated asstotally natural, totally wonderful, and totally okay.Ĭhief accountant, and that all the bookkeeping was done at this station.The Archies version Background How can I have compassion on that which I dont understand? How can l~ forgive in another that which I have never experienced in Myself? So we see both the simplicity and the awesome magnitude of the soulssjourney. What do I see in Albuquerque, said Baldy, to the patrons of the bar, but Cherokee all embellished and festooned up like the Czar of Turkey, and lavishin,Ĭhief accountant, and that all the bookkeeping was done at this station. I do not know You might call it far, perhaps But what does that matter? Three hundred yearsago, a French trader turned up to create a safe haven forhis fur business he started making connections andpretty soon Detroit was born. Three thousand years ago, in what today we callRome, Indo-Europeans connected to hunt, survive andgenerally look out for one another. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither wasDetroit. ![]() After all, a communityis the culmination of a lot of connections: commonbeliefs, achievements, values, interests andgeography. ![]() It's a scheme I've been thinking of for nearly a month now, and I've made all the arrangements before I came home but if it doesn't appeal to youwell, there are no bones broken, and I can easily fix it up with Miss J that is, I can make other arrangements.Ĭonnect and Feel SafeConnecting is good for the community. Parent, as soon as he was released, approached her. ![]() The young man, thunderstruck, unclenched his fists and turned toward his mother. So he went and sat in the windowless council-chamber with the other elders and watched the trend of the talk, and said, at the proper time, He, Old Yacob was greatly distressed to find her inconsolable, and, beside-what made it more distressing-he liked Nunez for many things. Gandalf stirred, and looked up What have you to say that you did not say at our last meeting? he asked Or, perhaps, you have things to unsay? ![]()
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