The parent album Right On reached number 197 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. It also reached number 4 on the R&B chart. Wilson Pickett's cover of "Sugar, Sugar" peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The track was released by Atlantic Records as the second single from his tenth studio album Right On. Pickett's rendition of the song was produced by Dave Crawford, Jerry Wexler, Rick Hall, and Tom Dowd. In 1970, American singer Wilson Pickett recorded a cover version of "Sugar, Sugar" in his Criteria Studios sessions. The studio musicians on the Archies song are:ĭave Crawford, Jerry Wexler, Rick Hall, Tom Dowd "Sugar, Sugar" was also featured in the 1995 movie Now and Then, the 2005 movie The Sandlot 2, and in Jerry Seinfeld's 2007 film Bee Movie. The song was featured The Wonder Years episode "Double Double Date", and was later used in a fantasy sequence in The Simpsons episode Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood, where Homer is dancing alongside giant ice cream cones and lollipops on a desert island. Nevertheless, following the introduction of music downloads in 2004, "Sugar, Sugar" passed the one-million sales mark. The awards relied on record companies correctly compiling and supplying sales information, and "Sugar, Sugar" was erroneously awarded a gold disc in January 1970 having sold approximately 945,000 copies RCA Records informed Disc that one million copies had been shipped, however not all were sold. Īlthough official music recording sales certifications were not introduced in the United Kingdom until the British Phonographic Industry was formed in 1973, Disc introduced an initiative in 1959 to present a gold record to singles that sold over one million units. On February 5, 2006, "Sugar, Sugar" was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame co-writer Andy Kim is originally from Montreal, Quebec. It also spent eight weeks at the top of the UK singles chart and peaked at #1 in the South African Singles Chart. It is ranked at number 81 on HOT 100 60TH ANNIVERSARY. It was classified by the RIAA as a gold record in August 1969, meaning it sold 1 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. ReceptionĪ week after topping the RPM 100 national singles chart in Canada on Septem(where it spent three weeks), it went on to spend four weeks at the top of the U.S. Several sources have stated the song had originally been offered to The Monkees, although songwriters Barry and Kim deny this. Only after most of the DJs liked the song were they told that it was performed by a cartoon group. Upon its initial release, Kirshner had promotion men play it for radio station executives without telling them the name of the group (due to the disappointing chart performance of the Archies' previous single, "Feelin' So Good (S.k.o.o.b.y-D.o.o.)", which only went to number 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts). The song was initially released in late May 1969, on the Calendar label (the same label as the two previous Archies singles), achieving moderate chart success in the early summer in some radio markets, and was re-released mid-July 1969, on the Kirshner label, when it then attained massive success nationwide by late summer/early fall. Together they provided the voices of the Archies using multitracking. Ron Dante's lead vocals were accompanied by those of Toni Wine and Andy Kim. The album is the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner. "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies was produced by Jeff Barry, and the song was originally released on the album Everything's Archie.
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