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
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.
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.
Yes, I know this was recorded by the Beatles and we’ll come to their version later, but this is about the original recording and, in fact, a very important one for this was the very first Motown hit. That is it was the first Motown song to reach number one in the Billboard charts, which it did in 1961.
This is another song that really represents the 1960s and which received considerable air time both then and since although it was not, it has to be said, the massive hit that people think it was.
I’ve just found a great website to bring you that details the history of bands and music in the Tamworth area in the Midlands in the UK.