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Post your favorite bubble gum song from the 1960's (Original Post) Joe Fields Aug 2017 OP
Yummy, Yummy Yummy (I've got love in my tummy) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2017 #1
Bubblegum is... Mike Nelson Aug 2017 #2
That's two for the Ohio Express. We may have a runaway. For balance, performing live, the Archies: mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2017 #3
That ain't no David Cassidy impersonator. Dave Starsky Aug 2017 #19
Tie it up... Mike Nelson Aug 2017 #4
In light of Jerry Lewis passing Freddie Aug 2017 #5
Australian bubble gum with The Valentines SwissTony Aug 2017 #6
Who is it? Sanity Claws Aug 2017 #7
The title tells you. Bon Scott of (later AC/DC). SwissTony Aug 2017 #9
Just checked. The song was written by Mike d'Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations SwissTony Aug 2017 #10
Needles and Pinz-ah PassingFair Aug 2017 #8
Sugar, sugar Lunabell Aug 2017 #11
I like that song too red dog 1 Aug 2017 #13
Wasn't "Games People Play" by Joe South the Grammy winning song of that year? Joe Fields Aug 2017 #15
Build Me Up Buttercup! TexasBushwhacker Aug 2017 #12
absolutely love love love this song! even now orleans Aug 2017 #16
I'm a Believer - The Monkees red dog 1 Aug 2017 #14
not my "favorite" orleans Aug 2017 #17
I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & The Shondells Rhiannon12866 Aug 2017 #18
I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Boyce and Hart Eugene Aug 2017 #20

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,884 posts)
1. Yummy, Yummy Yummy (I've got love in my tummy)
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:46 PM
Aug 2017

I could sing like too, but I've have to huff a lot of helium first.



The Ohio Express is an American rock band, formed in Mansfield, Ohio in 1967.

Though marketed as a band, it would be more accurate to say that the name "Ohio Express" served as a brand name used by Jerry Kasenetz's and Jeffrey Katz's Super K Productions to release the music of a number of different musicians and acts. The best known songs of Ohio Express (including their best scoring single, "Yummy Yummy Yummy" ) were actually the work of an assemblage of studio musicians working out of New York, including singer/songwriter Joey Levine.

Several other "Ohio Express" hits were the work of other, unrelated musical groups, including the Rare Breed, and an early incarnation of 10cc. In addition, a completely separate touring version of Ohio Express appeared at all live dates, and recorded some of the band's album tracks.


mahatmakanejeeves

(56,884 posts)
3. That's two for the Ohio Express. We may have a runaway. For balance, performing live, the Archies:
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:51 PM
Aug 2017


What? People performed that too? Apparently, this is a group composed of David Cassidy impersonators:

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
19. That ain't no David Cassidy impersonator.
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 06:42 AM
Aug 2017

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":






Freddie

(9,231 posts)
5. In light of Jerry Lewis passing
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:56 PM
Aug 2017

His son (Gary) singing "This Diamond Ring" keeps playing in my head. Was that bubblegum?

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
6. Australian bubble gum with The Valentines
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 02:56 PM
Aug 2017

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.


SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
9. The title tells you. Bon Scott of (later AC/DC).
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 03:04 PM
Aug 2017

Not bubblegum, but here's Bon with a group called Fraternity.



Quite good on pipes was our Bon.

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
10. Just checked. The song was written by Mike d'Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 03:12 PM
Aug 2017

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.

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
13. I like that song too
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 08:14 PM
Aug 2017

'"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."

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