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"Sugar, Sugar" is a pop song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. It was a four-week 1969 number-one hit single by fictional characters The Archies. Produced by Jeff Barry, the song was originally released on the album Everything's Archie. The album is the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner. Ron Dante's lead vocals were accompanied by those of Toni Wine (who sang the line "I'm gonna make your life so sweet"), Andy Kim, and Ellie Greenwich. Together they provided the voices of the various Archies using multitracking. Ray Stevens, the comic singer, provided the hand claps to the song[citation needed]. The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" was the 1969 number-one single of the year. It spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 from September 20, 1969 and eight weeks at the top of the UK singles chart. The song lists at #63 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time.[1] It also peaked at one in the South African Singles Chart.[2] On February 5, 2006, "Sugar, Sugar" was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, as co-writer Andy Kim is originally from Montreal, Quebec. The song was earlier offered to The Monkees, although additional rumors that it was recorded using session musicians with Davy Jones providing all the vocals, but never released, are false. Don Kirshner has said that Mike Nesmith put his fist through the wall of the Beverley Hills hotel refusing to do "Sugar, Sugar."[3] Jones confirmed that Kirshner had offered it to them, but stated they turned it down, and he never recorded it.[4] The band thought it seemed cheesy and at that point they were looking to mature their sound.
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[edit] TriviaOn September 4, 2006, Dante and Wine performed the song together on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. This was the first time they had publicly performed the song together. They performed it again at one of Toni Wine's performances at the Genghis Cohen in West Hollywood. Former President George W. Bush has said "Sugar, Sugar" is one of his favorite songs. The song played in Jenna Bush's wedding party in May, 2008.[6] In the TV Movie Archie: To Riverdale and Back again (VHS reissued title, Return to Riverdale), the now-older Jughead plays the original version of the song to his son; later he uses it to bridge the 'age gap' between them when he finds out his son is shy around girls — the two perform a 'rap' version of the song. The song was featured in the episode That's All There Is in the 1998 HBO Mini-Series From the Earth to the Moon. Astronauts Al Bean and Dick Gordon are seen singing the song in their Command Module during their 4 day trip to the moon on Apollo 12 in November of 1969. Millions upon millions of copies of this record were distributed through an unusual distribution mode. A record of the song was embossed directly onto the backs of Kelloggs breakfast cereal boxes (Sugar Pops & Sugar Smacks) and the cardboard record could be cut out and played on a turntable. [edit] In pop cultureThe song is featured in The Simpsons episodes "Boy-Scoutz N the Hood" and "Sweets and Sour Marge". In the former, Homer has a hallucination about dancing ice cream cones while trapped on a raft; he was listening to the song on Rod Flanders' personal stereo, but as the batteries run down, the song gradually slows down and stops and the ice creams melt, ending his dream. English hard rock band Def Leppard got the idea for their 1987 hit "Pour Some Sugar on Me" from the song.[citation needed] The original recording can be heard in the Dreamworks Film Bee Movie while Barry, played by Jerry Seinfeld, is dreaming. The song was adapted for a TV commercial for Equal brand artificial sweetener in the late '80s -- "Sugar (no no no no no no)/Now there's Equal (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)". The song is adapted for a TV commercial for table sugar product called "Gulaku" in Indonesia. They use many different versions of the song, depending on the storyline that is being depicted in the commercial. It is one of the most expensive advertisements in Indonesia, and the TV commercial reintroduced the song to Indonesian listeners.[7][8] The song was played in the 1996 movie A Very Brady Sequel when Greg saw a beautiful girl coming out of the swimming pool and later saw that it was Marcia. The song was sung by Richie in an episode of Family Matters when he and 3J were trying to win affection of a girl to be their Valentine. 3J thought the song too childish and it hurt Richie's feelings, but the girl decided to pick him over 3J. The gingerbread man in Dreamworks Film Shrek 2 sings the song in the DVD's special feature "Far Far Away Idol".
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