Sugar, Sugar was a pop song by The Archies that I heard the other day and realised that I had not heard it since the 1960s.
The song was one of those strange songs that you never thought would be a hit since it was not recorded by the proper pop group. Like the Monkees, the Archies were a manufactured pop group and the track was produced, in fact, by unknown musicians in the studio. The song was written in 1969 and recorded in the same year and, as is often the case with unusual records, it caught the public imagination and was released all over the world
In our occasional series highlighting vintage shops we like to feature some Etsy shops if we can as these are usually good value and seem to contain some of the things other shops miss. Aside from that, both Avril and I enjoy looking and buying online and my experience with Etsy shops has always been a positive one.
This is the ‘Hot town, summer in the city, Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty’ song that is a classic now and which still seems to crop up on the radio once or twice a month in the summer.
One of the most exciting songs of the 1960s, the Beatles with ‘I Saw Her Standing There’. It’s a simple song but a good one and one that sounds much better performed live.
One of the most recognisable and remembered songs of the 1960s that still sends Goosebumps up my spine when I hear (or play) those opening notes.
A great song from 1965 written by the famous and prolific American songwriters Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell and recorded by ‘The Toys’ in 1965.
The first ever time the Beatles walked into a BBC recording studio was at the Playhouse Theatre in Manchester, England on Wednesday, 7th March 1962 before a live audience to perform on ‘Teenager’s Turn’, a regular radio pop music show.