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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPost your favorite bubble gum song from the 1960's
Mine: 1,2,3 Red Light by the 1910Fruitgum Co.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,884 posts)I could sing like too, but I've have to huff a lot of helium first.
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Mike Nelson
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|mahatmakanejeeves
(56,884 posts)What? People performed that too? Apparently, this is a group composed of David Cassidy impersonators:
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)That is RON DANTE, and don't you forget it.
He was THE go-to studio vocalist for a lot of bubblegum hits of the '60s. He sang all the parts, even the female lead on some Archies songs.
Here he is fronting the Cuff Links (like the Archies, another studio 'band') for their smash hit "Tracy":
Mike Nelson
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|Freddie
(9,231 posts)His son (Gary) singing "This Diamond Ring" keeps playing in my head. Was that bubblegum?
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)The lead singer is a guy called Vince Lovegrove, but the backup singer on the raised section just behind Vince and to his left might raise your interest.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)Is it one of the Gibbs brothers?
BTW, I remember that song. I didn't know Aussies did it.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Not bubblegum, but here's Bon with a group called Fraternity.
Quite good on pipes was our Bon.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)In the 60s, Australian bands went to get great effort to get a hold of new US or UK releases. They'd then record their version. Adelaide band, The Twilights, used to get their relatives in England to send copies of new Beatles albums. Australian fans could hear the new material as performed by The Twilights before the Beatles albums reached Australia.
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)Lunabell
(5,919 posts)Love that song.
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)'"Sugar, Sugar" (by the Archies) was the 1969 number-one single of the year.
Wikipedia calls it "one of the biggest bubblegum hits of all time."
Joe Fields
(11,099 posts)Nt.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,043 posts)orleans
(33,986 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)(written by Neil Diamond)
orleans
(33,986 posts)but i liked it