Coming Up: 'Pour A Little Sugar On It: The Chewy, Chewy Sounds Of American Bubblegum 1966-1971' 3-CD Set

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Four-hour, 3CD, 91 track anthology of late 60s American bubblegum pop. 

Hit singles, cult collectables and obscure album tracks. 

Featuring The Archies, The Monkees, Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Co. , The Lemon Pipers and Crazy Elephant. 

In the late summer of 1966, manufactured pop quartet The Monkees - a Beatles-inspired concept inevitably nicknamed the Prefab Four - made their TV and vinyl debut. Overseen by industry veteran Don Kirshner, whose Brill Building-honed team supplied most of the songs, The Monkees were aimed at the pre-teen market effectively disenfranchised by the increasingly sophisticated nature of mid-60s pop. 

The venture's runaway success encouraged numerous other backroom songwriting/ production teams to step forward, with the New York-based Kasenetz-Katz partnership coining the term "bubblegum" as shorthand for the manufactured pop process. 

Kasenetz-Katz hit big with such names as Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Co. And Crazy Elephant, while Don Kirshner and his favoured producer Jeff Barry - both sidelined when The Monkees rose up against their puppet masters - returned with cartoon pop group The Archies and the biggest-selling single of 1969, 'Sugar, Sugar'. 

'Pour A Little Sugar On It' examines the bubblegum phenomenon in forensic detail, with all of the aforementioned acts joined by hits from The Lemon Pipers, Tommy Roe, Tommy James & The Shondells, The Cuff Links, The Box Tops, Lou Christie, Andy Kim and others as well as numerous cult 45s (The Rasberry Pirates, Cartoon Candy Carnival, The Four Fuller Brothers etc). 

Also featuring some unlikely names who occasionally left their fingerprints in the sticky stuff (The Electric Prunes, The Beach Boys, Sparks, Velvet Underground), 'Pour A Little Sugar On It' is housed in a 3-CD clamshell box that includes a 48-page booklet with rare photos and the stories behind all 91 tracks.

Track listing:

Disc: 1

1 Simon Says - 1910 Fruitgum Co

2 Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express

3 A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You - the Monkees

4 Bang-Shang-A-Lang - the Archies

5 Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon (Album

6 Version) - Paul Revere & the Raiders

7 Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' -Crazy Elephant

8 Cherry, Cherry - Neil Diamond

9 Baby I Love You - Andy Kim

10 Love Is a Word - Everyday Hudson

11 Groupie - the Four Fuller Brothers

12 I'm Gonna Make You Mine - Lou Christie

13 If You're Thinkin' What I'm

14 Thinkin' - Dino Desi & Billy

15 The Joker Went Wild - Brian Hyland

16 Boppa Do Down Down - the Third Rail

17 Tracy - the Cuff Links

18 Alice Long (You're Still My Favorite Girlfriend) - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart

19 Everybody Knows You're Not in Love - the Electric Prunes

20 Fairy Tales Can Come True (Have You Heard About Lucy) -San Francisco Earthquake

21 Let Me Bring You Up - Ron Dante

22 Latin Shake - LT. Garcia's Magic Music Box

23 Marathon Mary - the Globetrotters

24 Loop de Loop - Salt Water Taffy

25 Fly Me to Havana - the Grass Roots

26 Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo

27 I'd Like to Talk to You - Mark Eric

28 Jennifer Tomkins - Street People

29 Looky Looky, My Cookie's

30 Gone - the Rasberry Pirates

31 Billy's Got a Goat - Patty Flabbies' Coughed Engine

32 Feelin' So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y-D.O.O.) - the Archies

Disc: 2

1 I Think We're Alone Now -Tommy James & the Shondells

2 Green Tambourine - the Lemon Pipers

3 The Grooviest Girl in the World - the Fun & Games

4 Who Loves the Sun - Velvet Underground

5 Jingle Jangle - the Archies

6 Double Good Feelin' - Gary Lewis & the Playboys

7 Pepperman - Arnim-Hamilton

8 Fa la Fa Lee - Halfnelson (Sparks)

9 What's Your Name - the Music Explosion

10 Indian Lake - the Cowsills

11 How She Boogalooed It - the Beach Boys

12 She's the Kind of Girl - the Peppermint Trolley Company

13 Chewy Chewy - Ohio Express

14 Cry Like a Baby - the Box Tops

15 Bouncing All Over Theworld - the Globetrotters

16 She Sold Me Magic - Lou Christie

17 Girl on the Subway - the Cherry People

18 Move in a Little Closer, Baby Mama Cass

19 Montego Bay (Album Version) - Bobby Bloom

20 Candy Apple Cotton Candy -Ruthann Friedman (Art Podell & Nick Woods)

21 The March of the Jingle

22 Jangle People - San Francisco Earthquake

23 Valleri - the Pineapple Heard

24 Would You Believe - Mortimer

25 Sunshine Girl - the Parade

26 Banana Man - the Knack

27 Go Lightly - the Goggles

28 How Do You Know - Ron Dante

29 Gingersnap - Jamie

30 Mr. Peacock - Orange Colored Sky

31 Archie's Party - the Archies

32 Jam Up Jelly Tight - Tommy Roe

Disc: 3

1 Shake - Shadows of Knight

2 Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run) - Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus

3 Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Marmalade) - the Lemon Pipers

4 Goody Goody Gumdrops - 1910

5 Fruitgum Co. Things (Goin' Round in My Mind) -Merrell Fankhauser & H. M. S. Bounty Who's Your Baby? - the Archiesjudy in Disguise (With Glasses) -John Fred & His Playboy Band

6 Everything Is Mickey Mouse -Cartoon Candy Carnival

7 How Do You Like Those Apples -South Amboy Port Authority

8 Keep on - Bruce Channel

9 Sophia - San Francisco Earthquake

10 Red Rover, Red Rover - the Puddle (Aka the Bunch)

11 Little Miss Sunshine - the Peppermint Trolley Company

12 Make Your Own Sweet Music -The Golden Gate

13 Brand New Key - Melanie

14 Sunshine, Red Wine - Crazy Elephant

15 Alley Pond Park - Culver Street Playground

16 Let the Good Times in - Thelove Generation

17 Suzanne on a Sunday Morning -Rick Nelson

18 Bubble Gum and Braces - Bobby Sherman

19 Mr. Bus Driver - Neal Dover

20 Wiwwian Wevy - Pastrami Malted

21 Ninny Bop Bop - Bonnie & the Clydes

22 Loving You Makes Everything

23 Alright - the Marshmellow Highway 25 Don't Let Love Pass You By -

24 Ron Dante

25 Cheer Me Up - the Globetrotters

26 Thank You Girl - Street People

27 Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? - the Free

28 Design

29 The Rapper - the Jaggerz

30 Jennifer Rain - the Goggles

31 Sugar, Sugar - the Archies