Ron Dante and Toni Wine - "Sugar, Sugar"

[DaveWollenberg]

Thanx for uploadin' it. Wanted to see if for the longest time!

[sixnightsaweek]

No Ron Dante wrote and sang all the parts to it.

[HunterMann]

RIP Don Kirshner

[HigherWaysWoman]

The Sistah & The Brutha can still Rock It..!!! *dances away* sugar sugar...~~~)) ((~~~

[UglySean]

Andy Kim wrote it. Ron Dante and Toni Wine sang it as on this clip. Ever so nostalgic.

[Mindermaniac]

@UglySean Actually, the main songwriter for the Archies was Jeff Barry - Sugar Sugar and another hit Jingle Jangle were CO-written by Andy Kim and Jeff Barry

[atp1962]

Awesome !! Love bubble gum rock

[Knugabug]

I wonder she owns any of her publishing? Chuck Berry sold about everything he owned and toured 150 gigs a year to survive.

[bartleby2007]

Thanks for posting this!

[amesburyroad]

Why didn't they film this recording session back in 1969? Such a loss of history. The Beatles filming everything and this pop song which hangs with anything pop the Beatles put out is just lost to us as just "session singers". Both are and were super photogenic. Would have loved seeing a live video of this song from 1969.

[datzfast]

@amesburyroad its recorded look again

[amesburyroad]

I just love this type of historical stuff! Why oh why did they not film these recordings back in 1969? You have the Beatles filming everything back then giving us a massive historical record and yet, this moment in time of this beautiful pop tune with these two beautiful vocalists is lost forever. Toni Wine is just so special. Love her voice and her songwriting ability.

[drkam6]

Archie and Veronica finally appear live!

[trailboyus66]

HAPPY 40TH Sugar Sugar

on Sep 20,2009 also happy 40th to TRACY by the Cuff Links.

[ravingray13]

They weren't actually "the Archies" ,rather session musicians and singers hired by Don Kirshner (Monkees fame) to record songs for a TV cartoon show and release them without ackowledgement or roaylities. Don hated live musicians/ singers who would back chat and argue with him

[jrdill1929]

WICKED!!!!!!!!

[w9x7cv3vg6]

this is ok cause in no other videos they were able to make,I have not seen toni in any of them,just the band sooo

[dougpryce92]

i prefer this to the original

[w9x7cv3vg6]

I prefer the original but every version is good for collecting purposes

[nickfromCO]

Anyone know what song of The Beatles this song beat out in 1969?

[tyson55]

I think it was either Come together, or Something!

[57highland]

It could have been "Get Back" too. That song got a lot of airplay too.

[nanajanamike]

The current Beatles song out at the time was "The Ballad of John & Yoko" but it only reached #8.That was the only Beatles single on Apple records that didn't go to #1

[vinylsingleman]

That was probably because many stations refused to play "Ballad of John and Yoko" because they thought the line "Christ, you know it ain't easy" was blasphemous.

[CuzinSusie]

Does anyone have Toni Wine singing her song Groovy Kind Of Love?????

[stubbyguy]

They beat out the Beatles and Rolling Stones? WOW !!!

[nanajanamike]

They actually didn't beat out the Stones.They followed "Honky Tonk Women" at #1 with This!

[hairychest7865]

Tony Orlando was referring to them beating the stones for song of the year i believe.

[DennisHarcourt1]

anybody can beat out the stones

[CuzinSusie]

Toni you are so BEAUTIFUL, inside & out!

You make me cry every time you sing Groovy Kind Of Love!! You have some voice!!

I wish I had your skin!!

Love Always

[HenryFussy]

I read that this song was offered to the Beach Boys who described it as "crap" and refused to do it.

[RascalsArchives]

this drummer always overplays everything

[CuzinSusie]

MJ is an AWESOME DRUMMER!!

Anyone have Toni Wine singer her song Groovy Kind Of Love?

[danje10]

Wow. Glad I stumbled on this! Ron Dante has always been one of my heroes. So many hits, yet so little recognition. And Toni Wine! Gene Pitney told me she sang on "It Hurts To Be In Love" with him after they borrowed the track from Neil Sedaka.

So much to comment.. Toni was introduced from audience at Riveria Hotel, Vegas, when Dante & Andy Kim put on great concert, approx 2004. He didn't even SAY she'd made this record with him! We sat spellbound as Ron played hit after hit he'd made.

[54spiritedwill54]

Good job. Nice to see Ron still performing.

[Bogframe]

Anyone still have their copy of this song from the cereal box?

[LaVerne37]

Yeppers...and my 1969 lunchbox...my Archie albums are proudly framed...so many pimply faced memories...in your face Rolling Stones and Beatles...SUGAR SUGAR was a MONSTER HIT!!!

[frkaz911]

I couldn't get the cereal box records to play right even back then. I put a coin on them so they wouldn't slip. And, didn't they play at 16 rpm? How many of those turntables are still around?

[sibphu]

i had "boys and girls" by the archies - back of post alpha-bets box! met ron dante, such a nice guy. my absolute favorite archies song is "jingle jangle". for me, nothing tops it.

[BAMAMARV]

The 2 emcees swaying together in the beginning is hilarious. Typical live TV mix has somebody too loud and/or too low; in this case, Ron is too low & Toni too loud.

[FUDGYPAUL]

Was this an Andy Kim song or a Ron Dante song?

Did Ron write it and Andy perform it or the other way around? Their voices are similar. The "Billboard Book of Number One Hits" credits this to Ron Dante.

[lpintop]

"Sugar, Sugar" was written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, with Jeff producing the track. Ron Dante and Toni Wine provided the vocals. Andy actually did record the song a few years later, under the name Baron Longfellow. Yes - when you hear those early recordings by Andy Kim and compare them with Ron Dante and The Archies, they do sound quite similar. For the longest time, I thought Andy was the voice of The Archies.

[FUDGYPAUL]

Thanks for the feedback.

[LaVerne37]

Ron Dante sang Archie's lead on all 5 Archies albums...

[gunit97]

this would be great, had she not sang along with the beat ("bum bum bum bum bum bum!")

[mxzptlk10]

I like the song, but I think they should have rehearsed more times, with someone directing them. They could bring more harmony if she sang less loud. I would like it more if the instruments made some sounds they are doing with their voices (as in the record)

[mrstaypuft1181]

Toni is my cousin...She is amazing

[fwad23]

I think the range and sweetness of Toni's voice is evident in "Jingle Jangle"

[OofusTwillip]

I saw her in concert with Tony Orlando at Fallsview Casino, a few weeks ago. I loved the way each person in the band got a chance to shine, and she was great! But for me, the neatest thing was finding out that she sang the Meow Mix jingle...and hearing her give us a sample of it. I'm a voice artist (among other things) myself, so that was one of the highlights of my night! The other was getting a kiss from Tony during the show, when I gave him some "yellow ribbon" rhinestoned pasties I'd made!

[alipryce]

Brilliant video, I think this is alot better than the album version

[Mystifier122]

Toni is substituting the keyboard part with that annoying "babababababa" and it doesn't sound right. The keyboard part is crucial to the song. She's good otherwise here. It's cool to see Dante still singing this.

[davesharon5747]

I totally agree! Her singing went downhill too!

[imthatkid752]

toni's a good friend of mine..she's got a crazy set of pipes on her

dont hate and dont judge off this one performance.

my uncle's playing keyboard behind her btw!!

[lpintop]

Wow, that's cool! Yes, Toni has the best pipes in the business. I've heard several of her solo recordings from back in the day. Very soulful voice. She and Ron Dante have known each other for years, from before The Archies. I have a scan of a photo taken of them with Don Kirshner in 1963.

[shinybear]

Both Toni and Ron are beloved and talented performers who we will always love!

[rufus317]

Do any of you guys sound the same way you did in 1969? I don't think so, I mean it was almost 40 years ago. It's still a fun song.

[xXMonteCristoXx]

the lack of keyboard doesnt make this song any less charming

[YouDummy]

Ron sounds great, but Toni is drowning him out with harmonies that just don't work.

[leng21]

I've always enjoyed this song, including the Wilson Pickett version, but the Archies hit single was, for me, the definitive cut. It was really cool seeing the people who performed, behind the cartoon voices, the songs made popular by this studio group.

[jackie60]

where is jughead & reggie???

[myanelli]

Just another comment on this song, this song is the only #1 song that was #1 in the us and number 1 in the world.

[torchkit]

No it's not. There've been plenty of others.

[mcp6453]

What an historic event. This song was the number one song of 1969. Neither artist got the recognition they deserved.

Is this video available anywhere in full quality? DVD?

[evasoledad]

It's a shame that artist don't get the recognition they deserved, this song was very popular in Chile-South America, because the cartoons. I remember everybody liked this song, back then I was a child and I never knew it was a real person who sung this song I thought was Archies the cartoons that sung the song, because I didn't have any information concern the real singer, I new about The Beattles, The Monkees, Elvies Presley and many others artist, but not about Ron Dante.

[whirlyfan]

that was odd is that rellay plp behind cartoon ? im confused

[PANBELLO]

Seriously, lots of people seems to forget that Don Kirshner was instrumental in the creation of the Monkees (1966) and the Archies (1969), both highly manufactured, but hugely successful groups, both on record and on TV. It was the success of the Archies that gave Kirshner enough capital to launch Kirshner Entertainment Corporation. After the Archies ran their course, Kirshner formed Don Kirshner Productions in 1972 to produce "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert".

[popGoesAnthony]

im seeing him in wildwood n.j. this april at the yearly big oldies xtravaganZa show .. yahoo

[midnightlove1957]

andy kim wrote sugar sugar..I love that song...I met Andy kim in person..

[oldieschick6]

NO...it was Toni Wine who wrote Sugar Sugar!

[dominique777]

I LOVE IT!

[theSHAKEnBAKE]

I LOVE this song and Ron sounds great here but her mic is so loud I can barely hear him...she's just annoying me haha

[betsydog]

What?! I'm pretty sure Andy Kim was the singer for the Archies.

[lpintop]

No, Ron Dante was lead vocalist and did many of the backgrounds as well. Andy MAY have sung some backgrounds, and he co-wrote many of the group's songs with Jeff Barry, including "Sugar, Sugar."

[betsydog]

Now I know.

[ElsieGirder]

According to a Ron Dante interview, Andy Kim had written about a half a dozen of The Archies songs, but he never actually sang on any of the records, although he was still a big influence on them(The Archies).

[Cheze4ux]

Love it! Ron Dante & Toni Wine - very nice to see the real Archies actually performing onstage. This is great! Thanks so much for uploading this video!!!

(Q: Was Toni the 'Betty' or 'Veronica' on the Archies songs?)

[thatusernameislame]

Actually, she was both!

[Louie4711]

I think that Toni was mostly supposed to be Veronica. Betty played the tamborine!

[ElsieGirder]

Let's not forget that there was also a second Veronica/Betty...it was Donna Marie, who sang on the Archies hit 'Who's Your Baby?'. Love the Archies!

[copacabana1971]

Ron and Toni sound so great together. So, what's their next song gonna be? **Fingers crossed**

[Heatshield]

Good job. Nice to see Ron still performing.