In summer 1969 was invited to my then best friend's 8th birthday party,one of his gifts was this album;we must have played it 3 or 4 times back to back-A great memory. . . !
Well for cartoon perspective maybe Jughead may sing but that low come on is done by Jeff Barry vocal he same did On others...as for betty is but toni wine is singer but sound close to Verconia lodge voice just singers are really doin singin not the folks who did there voices!....ask windsorbear same he tell u also
@MrLehnerd Right, but from the cartoon's perspective, Betty is the lead singer, Archie sings the choir and certain verses, while Jughead sings the low "come on" =)
@kittyprydekissme Ron Dante provided the main vocals in falsetto. But Toni Wine is there with the chorus (Sing me, sing me..... sing the Jingle Jangle song.... sing me, sing me baby.")
@wfarrar69 Nope... they had two top 10 hits, 4 top 40 hits, and several more hits that hit the charts, but didn't crack the Top 40. A total of 11 singles in all, and 6 LPs.
this brings back memories of my youth. the days as a growing youngster watching saturday morning cartoons in chicago. wheres the time machine? i want to go back.
@MrLehnerd Thanks buddy. My version was the version included in the "Archie's Funhouse" DVD boxset. It came from the Ed Sullivan estate, as this clip was shown on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in 1970. I contacted them to see if the clip was available, and then gave the people that were making the DVD boxset the information.
@MrLehnerd The guy that has the other "Jingle Jangle" clip "found" it on a film clip that he purchased that featured another band (or singer... I don't remember which). It was on the same piece of film, but at the end. His version has the ORIGINAL Hot Dog introduction that was featured on "The Archie Comedy Hour."
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Thank you, Windsorbear. I remember singing along to "Bang-Shang-A-Lang" and "Sugar, Sugar" on the radio (had the lyrics memorized) and also hearing "Jingle Jangle" played over and over. Can't recall hearing "Who's Your Baby?" on the radio, though. It must not have stayed on the Top 40 list for any appreciable amount of time. But it still was great music produced by great talent at a memorable time in our young lives.
@wainoco318 Bang-Shang-A-Lang hit #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in Dec. 1968; Sugar, Sugar hit #1 and stayed there for 4 weeks in late summer 1969; Jingle Jangle hit #10 in January 1970; Who's Your Baby? hit #40 in March, 1970.
i may not have even been born when it was released but my family played it after i was born and i still love it! love s k oo b y doo as well as sugar sugar too!
Interestingly, there's a version of "Jingle Jangle" on the Kirshner label... both the album and the single... I'm going to check into that a little.. interesting. I know that labels in the past had subsidary contracts (i.e. Beatles Capitol from Parlophone) to release, but it's interesting that two different labels were in circulation simlultaneously. I know songs have been re-relleased on different labels but at different times. I didn't realize you could pick this up under 2 labels in 69-70!
@mikeaustin1 Jingle Jangle was issued in the USA on the Kirshner label, which was marketed and distributed by RCA. If you have a copy on the RCA label, it will most likely either be a UK or Canadian pressing. Both UK and Canadian pressings were sold at some stores in the USA. I think the catalog number for the UK 45 pressing is 1870, or something close to it. The catalog number for the USA pressing on Kirshner (formerly Calendar) is 63-5002.
@windsorbear You could also get the song on the back of one of the cereal boxes. I can't remember the brand, but I remember cutting out the "record" and playing it on a turntable.
Revisiting this, still very glad it's here. Jingle Jangle was my favorite Archies song, so I remember it well. I got the "real" record (not cereal box!); I distinctly remember the RCA 45 jacket with the plastic red and yellow "linking" baubles Jingle Jangle was released in early December 1969 and topped out at #10 on the Billboard U.S. Charts in late January 1970, after 10 weeks on the charts.
Jingle Jangle closely followed Sugar, Sugar, entering Nov. 22, 1969; Sugar was still on the chart!
@mikeaustin1 Yep, the Archies were a hot property at that time... multiple singles on the charts at the same time... top-rated TV show (was actually getting higher ratings than prime-time series), tons of merchandise tie-ins, comic books sales through the roof. I don't think the kids from Riverdale will ever see a time when they were more popular than the late 60's / early 70's.
@mikeaustin1 ...... RCA Label? you must have the UK release because here in America it was on Calendar Records & Kirshner Records a subsidary of RCA Victor....
A couple minutes after hearing Jingle Jangle the song that came to mind was the Stephen Stills/csny song 'Faith In Me' (from the Looking Forward album)... Similar beat and main melody lines. Doubt there's any direct influence... at least that Stills would admit to. :)
I'm sure I heard and saw this as a kid. Doesn't bring back any memories though. All's I recall's the style. I DO recall as a kid thinking that they seemed to use the same footage of the band playing over and over/ song after song.
Looking online: "Jingle Jangle" reached #10. ...the lead vocal is actually a male singer singing in falsetto... one of 4 top 40 Archies' hits. The Archie Show only aired for one season, 68-69 on CBS. 17 episodes, later syndicated.
@marmas58ink Not only did "Jingle Jangle" reach #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, it became The Archies 2nd gold single. Ron Dante was the lead singer of the group, and he was singing in falsetto. Toni Wine sang the chorus and background vocals. "The Archie Show" was from 1968/69. This song was from "The Archie Comedy Hour" from 1969/70. The following year, 1970/71, was "Archie's Funhouse", which was the last year the ORIGINAL Archies group provided music for the shows.
@marmas58ink Yes, Archie / Sabrina cartoons were shown on CBS-TV from 1968 thru 1976. In 1977, the Archie franchise moved over to NBC-TV, but did not last long there. The original Archies music group supplied music for the shows up through 1971. There was no Archies music in "Archie's TV Funnies" which aired on CBS in 1971, 1972 and 1973. "Everything's Archie" aired in 1973, but was only reruns of material from the shows of 68 thru 71. "The U.S. of Archie" aired in 1974 thru 1976.
@sneezyize - You obviously don't know the FACTS about that monster, or 'Mr. Kirshner', as you call him. The only 'break' he gave those kids was breaking their will and claiming all of their ideas as his own! Any competent Archies follower knows that 'Jingle Jangle' was inferior to Jughead's brilliant composition 'Bang Shang a Lang', which Kirshner refused to release as the followup single to 'Sugar Sugar' because he couldn't take the songwriting credit. Check the facts before praising Kirshner!
@Nooz2Me Cute & amusing meltdown... only flaw... "Bang-Shang-A-Lang" was the Archies first single, released in 1968 and included on their first LP. Reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
@windsorbear D'Oh!! You busted me on that one, I truly don't remember "Bang-Shang-" coming first, but that "Sugar, Sugar" was the only song of theirs I didn't like much. I LOVED "Get On The Line" and even at 11 yrs old I was impressed by the excellent female vocals- and cracked up laughing whenever I imagined them coming from the 'actual' Betty or Veronica! However, Ron Dante is by far the most perfect & believable 'Archie' singing voice I could have imagined. Loved reading all the info, thanx!
@Nooz2Me I was surprised that Kirshner chose "Feelin' So Good" to be their second single, especially since the song was NOT given to Filmation to animate so there was no TV-show tie-in to promote the song. Guess that is why that single didn't crack the Top 40. I was also surprised that "Get On The Line" was not released as a single; I think it would have done very well on the charts.
@deloy56 The time period between 1968 and 1972 will probably forever be the best time that Archie Comic Publications had for media and merchandising. The TV show and music group brought the characters out to people that hadn't even read an Archie comic before. And while the show lasted beyond 1972, the demise of the original Archies music group did have a negative impact. The shows weren't the same without the music of the original group.
@deloy56 The time period between 1968 and 1972 will probably forever be the best time that Archie Comic Publications had for media and merchandising. The TV show and music group brought the characters out to people that hadn't even read an Archie comic before. And while the show lasted beyond 1972, the demise of the original Archies music group did have a negative impact. The shows weren't the same without the music of the original group.
@markxxx21 The "black girl" singing in the background is actually Toni Wine, who is Caucasian. And while it has never been put into stone, it is usually thought that she was providing the voice of Veronica. But some say it was Betty. Since Filmation did not provide lip movements for either Betty or Veronica during the music segments, it can be whichever one you want it to be.
Like to many posters in this forum, I, too, had the records that came off the back of Post cereals! LOL! But I had no damn luck in getting them off in tact and actually playing them once or twice. Granted, I was maybe five or six years old...but still! (Btw, giving my age when this song came out actually makes me feel like one of the younger people in this forum! No small feat for me on the internet!)
@arkady714 Let's see... Jingle Jangle came out in 1970, so I was about 10 years old then.... so yes... that makes you younger than me -=grin=-. And I hear you about the cardboard records... the only pair of scissors that we had in the house at the time was pinking shears... so all my cardboard records had notch cuts all around them. Weird.
Windsorbear. That's quite a wonderful bit of investigation you did for all the "Archie Nuts". It's sad they throw stuff out that really should be kept. Many a great film has been hacked to pieces and the trimmings burned. Criminal in my opinion. I think there must be some saving grace though. I see a few of the music spots right here in YouTube. "Candy Kisses", "Somebody Likes You", "Get On The Line" to name a few. I had the "Jingle Jangle" album (I think that was the name) when I was a child.
@desoto1961 Glad you like it. Someone else has posted another version of it on here that actually has the original Hot Dog intro. Said it was on the same film that he purchased for a different singer. Amazing how these old clips pop up sometime.
@Redbeard5858 If you decide to get an Archies CD to relive a few memories, I recommend getting "Sugar, Sugar... The Archies" on the Repertoire label, catalog number REP 4804-WG. It was issued in 1999, and contains "Justine", along with 23 other great hits from the group. Very well remastered and excellent selection of songs from all of the LPs.
@outofthebo Song lyrics.... "It's my true heart I'm showing, or my nose would be growing, you know that it gets longer when I lie." The animation is just going along with the lyrics.
@Gerry50ify I dunno about that - here's the Wikipedia on it:
"Contrary to popular belief, although the verses of Jingle Jangle are supposedly sung by either Betty or Veronica (the only two female members of the fictional group), in reality, it was not performed by any female vocalist, rather it was Ron Dante using a falsetto voice [5] as evidenced by the lyrics "It's my true heart I'm showin'/or my nose would be growin'/you know that it gets longer when I lie".
@SarahRachel59 Toni supplied the vocals in the intro, and in between verses. They mainly consisted of the lyrics... "Sing me, sing me, sing me; sing the Jingle Jangle song." She also did the "Hey, hey, hey"s in the song "Nursery Rhyme", and a lot of background vocals for "Get On The Line."
Acid-drenched as a lot of the "kiddie shows" were back then, this actually isn't a bad song... I think an "Archie's Greatest Hits" cd belongs in everyone's collection. It's representative of a time long gone....
The Archies are back on the air on RTV (Retro Television) Its free over the air with an antenna. It may not be on cable in your area, use your antenna. You can check the RTV website. It has a list of stations that carry the network. It will most likely be on a digital subchannel. A newer TV or one with a converter box and antenna will be needed.
"Retro Television" i saw in Utah on my aunt & Uncles tv set, station would be on for 15 minutes, then 5 minutes of no signal, repeat from beginning...
I've got it, but not at the correct speed and pitch. I've been trying to find a copy that is correct, but if I can't, I'll post the one that is sped up.... just to have the video segment on YouTube. Look for it soon.
The sad thing about this Filmation closed several years ago and the original archie film masters were aquired by Halmark Cards who transfered the shows to PAL (european) videotape (not HD) and some idiot threw away the original master film prints. so all we can see is crappy standard definiton PAL video tape. making true HDTV broadcast and DVD impossible. read about it on wikipedia. They also butcherd the shows and took out some of the music when it played in reruns.
Actually, Filmation butchered "The Archie Comedy Hour" while they still owned the property. From everything I've researched, it seems the music segments from that show were missing long before Filmation's properties saw their first change of hands. Nobody seems to know where the music segments wound up, or why they were removed from the syndication package in the first place.
No. Parts of "Comedy Hour" are shown under the DVD extras as extra episodes of "Archie's Funhouse" (which they WEREN'T) simply because they were the Funhouse portion of "Comedy Hour". The song segments are still missing from those episodes, and have been missing since the shows went into syndication in 1976. The last time I remember seeing them on TV was in 1973 on CBS as segments on the "Everything's Archie" show (not to be confused with "The Archie Show" from 1968.)
It's refreshing to hear a song like this. Nowadays, we hear rap crap talking about killing cops and raping women on the subway. I'll take the old days and "bands" like The Archies and The Monkees any day.
I bet some you had the cardboard cut-out record that was on the back of a cereal box. The just don't make great bubblegum tunes like they did when we were kids. R.I.P saturday morning cartoons. Great time to be a kid. I miss those days.
Was that Betty or veronica on Lead vocals. I think its Veronica. but they didnt even try to sync the voice to the cartoon. The true first Milli Vanilli., even before "the partridge family"
@DJofDESTRUCTION yeah that always bummed me out - always thought Veronica deserved her own close up ( i figured it was Veronica 'cause she sounded a little black/southern). despite all this i really do have a life.
Filmation did not animate lip movements for Betty or Veronica in the song segments. Only Archie and Reggie were given lip movements for the songs (a budget issue).
Filmation put out some good stuff, but they were VERY CONSERVATIVE with their animation. LOTS of stuff was reused and modified as necessary for reuse. I will never forget the first time I saw The Brady Kids. I couldn't believe how much Archie animation they reused... and Archie was still on the air on CBS. Just because Brady Kids was on ABC... did they really think we wouldn't notice the animation was reused? Sheesh!!!!
@windsorbear Filmation kept all their animation in-house as long as they lasted, and US wages being higher than overseas wages, that meant they had to use a lot of a stock footage and library work to bring shows in under budget.
born in 54 I remember this, my second fav archies thing, wasn't too big into this style of going on, but did like the music of the era there, I was Beatles, later to evolve into a metal head banger. Looking back now, still like the era and music, and will always remember it as a treasure of memories. Still love the musics of the past, and still bang my head to the metal I know. Archie comics I did read and was not a radical or conformist either way. Fell prey to Me Gen and do your own thing.
Believe it or not.....this "song" hit #10 on the Billboard charts on Feb. 7, 1970.....I guess people were really wanting a break from the turbulence going on in the world at that time.......but, give me a break, #10?!
Pretty much - it was a knee-jerk reaction to the politicization of the Vietnam ( and protest ) era. I noticed that the teenagers who were born in say, 1955 and later, were as anti-radical as the ones who were born immediately earlier. The whole Vietnam thing hit them when they were 8 - 10 and it scared them. They became super-conformists, the first materialistic "keep-your-nose-clean" Yuppies while in college in the mid 70's.
@JCJasion -- Partly correct, maybe. I was born a little later than 1955 and was not anti-radical. I didn't have political viewpoints at age 12, and Vietnam didn't scare me. I just assumed that the people in power knew how to fight a war and that we were "right" in being there, so we'd probably win. I didn't become a super-conformist, materialistic, or a yuppie; didn't even go to college but somehow survived.
@57highland - I had an unusual father, a "left-wing" analog to Archie Bunker - ( He'd start arguments with neighbors and relatives about how we were going to get stuck in Vietnam - back in 1963 - I was 12 then so I assumed that the other kids were as aware as I was of political things. Dad was a character. He'd quote from Republican Senator Everett Dirkson's (a hawk) inane filibuster speeches the way a Fundamentalist Christian quotes from the Bible! LOL
@JCJasion -- Sorry for pre-judging. I must have been lucky in having parents with only vague interest in & knowledge of foreign affairs. Maybe ignorance WAS bliss for both parents & kids in the '60s. We weren't touched by the war; the closest we came was in meeting a family who had lost a son, but that was 18 months after the fact, and then they moved away. Also, I'm a little younger than you, so Vietnam was on the downside by the time I became even vaguely interested in it. Your dad was right.
I'm sure they were. The various Archie series went into syndication in 1976/77 and played for several years. In Fall of 1977, Filmation produced a new hour long Archie/Sabrina series for NBC TV that was NOT part of the syndication package. It did not last very long, and shows up now as the "Archie & Sabrina Surprise Package." Interestingly, this series has been released as a DVD boxset in Australia, but not the USA.
"The Archie Show" - CBS 1968/69; "The Archie Comedy Hour" - CBS 1969/70; "Archie's Funhouse" - CBS 1970/71; "Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies" - CBS 1970/71; "Archie's TV Funnies - CBS 1971/72/73; "Everything's Archie" (rerun of Comedy Hour stuff) - CBS 1973; Sabrina The Teenage Witch (rerun of Comedy Hour stuff) - CBS 1974; U.S of Archie - CBS 1974-75-76; "The Archies" - Syndication; 1976/77; "New Archie / Sabrina Hour" - NBC 1977 (later divided into two separate shows).
Billboard stated that this song was never originally released on the RCA label. At least not in their top 40 book that came out in 1982. Well, I had the original on 45 on the RCA label. The Archies cartoon never did stay on the air very long.
I got this record on the back of a cereal box, despite the fact that it was made out of cardboard, it played on my "record player", sounded good to me.
Check the label for me and give me the catalog number. Some UK RCA Victor singles of The Archies were sold in USA department stores. It may be the UK pressing. USA pressing should be on the orange Kirshner label, unless it is an RCA Gold Standard repressing.
Yes, it was a orange and had Kirshner's name in fine print at the mid section or at the botton of the label (I don't have the record anymore so I can't say for sure) . But RCA was in big bold print as you have seen so many of that time period. The number was either 1918 or 1916 on it. The paper cover was green, white and orange with the RCA logo on it. It definitely was not a re-issue. That I'm sure of.
In summer 1969 was invited to my then best friend's 8th birthday party,one of his gifts was this album;we must have played it 3 or 4 times back to back-A great memory. . . !
bikebeerrun1960 1 week ago
I guess the forteen who Hated never had it JIngle Jangled before,.....
MrLehnerd 2 weeks ago
Well for cartoon perspective maybe Jughead may sing but that low come on is done by Jeff Barry vocal he same did On others...as for betty is but toni wine is singer but sound close to Verconia lodge voice just singers are really doin singin not the folks who did there voices!....ask windsorbear same he tell u also
MrLehnerd 2 weeks ago
Betty sings this one.
drkam6 2 weeks ago
@drkam6 Well no the sing me sing me baby is done by Toni wine and jeff barry as vocals alonge with Ron Dante...
MrLehnerd 2 weeks ago
@MrLehnerd Right, but from the cartoon's perspective, Betty is the lead singer, Archie sings the choir and certain verses, while Jughead sings the low "come on" =)
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MrLehnerd 3 weeks ago
I like how they made the Characters dance, so much rythom, it must be hard to figure out how they move when doing the art for the cartoon.
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@1BlubeTube Yep... back in the day when everything was drawn by hand.... no CGI or anything. It took a lot of talent and timing back then.
windsorbear 3 weeks ago
@windsorbear Only Electro, Magnetic, Pulse could cure that.
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MrLehnerd 3 weeks ago
@MrLehnerd It wasn't to you.... it was to the other fellow.
windsorbear 3 weeks ago
Hot Dogs nose getting bigger. Hmmmm...
calfan4life 4 weeks ago
I love that guitar sound.
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So much talent in this group.
1BlubeTube 1 month ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Archies
This is a damn good song.
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MrLehnerd 2 months ago
What the fuck is this? Cuz it's dam show not what it needs to be. Fallout NV
LuBu20008 2 months ago
For kittyprydekissme and murphylives the vocals were jeff barry Ron dante n toni wine did vocals of songs i hope that helps u
MrLehnerd 2 months ago
I read that the lead vocal is actually Ron Dante, just like the other songs they did. He just used a more feminine voice this time.
kittyprydekissme 2 months ago
@kittyprydekissme Ron Dante provided the main vocals in falsetto. But Toni Wine is there with the chorus (Sing me, sing me..... sing the Jingle Jangle song.... sing me, sing me baby.")
windsorbear 3 weeks ago
I think the lead singer is veronica 'cause she had a blacker voice
jackhillty1 3 months ago
What a true blast from the past! Love it, love it, love it in all its original glory!
murphylives 3 months ago
#10pop,1970.shows that 'sugar sugar' was not their only top 10 hit
wfarrar69 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Archies
@wfarrar69 Nope... they had two top 10 hits, 4 top 40 hits, and several more hits that hit the charts, but didn't crack the Top 40. A total of 11 singles in all, and 6 LPs.
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MrLehnerd 4 months ago
yahoooOoo
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MrLehnerd 4 months ago
this brings back memories of my youth. the days as a growing youngster watching saturday morning cartoons in chicago. wheres the time machine? i want to go back.
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I rather see this video the way was back in 1969.....nice other fellow redid look clear but u put it out before n u get pick always
MrLehnerd 4 months ago
@MrLehnerd awwwww... THANKS buddy!
windsorbear 4 months ago
@MrLehnerd Thanks buddy. My version was the version included in the "Archie's Funhouse" DVD boxset. It came from the Ed Sullivan estate, as this clip was shown on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in 1970. I contacted them to see if the clip was available, and then gave the people that were making the DVD boxset the information.
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MrLehnerd 5 months ago
00:23 he was jerking it lol
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MrLehnerd 6 months ago
the song is nice,, the cartoon is conservative redneck hillbillie bullshit
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MrLehnerd 6 months ago
@MrLehnerd As a redneck hillbilly..... your point is....????
windsorbear 3 weeks ago
Very catchy.
phil1958uk 6 months ago in playlist Archies Josie
I remember cutting this record off behind a cereal box in the late 60's. Takes me back to my boyhood. THX FOR TAKING BACK!!!
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MrLehnerd 6 months ago
It''s a beautiful song and a pretty video, I like it son much I love it.
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MrLehnerd 7 months ago
@MrLehnerd The guy that has the other "Jingle Jangle" clip "found" it on a film clip that he purchased that featured another band (or singer... I don't remember which). It was on the same piece of film, but at the end. His version has the ORIGINAL Hot Dog introduction that was featured on "The Archie Comedy Hour."
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MrLehnerd 7 months ago
1969 the best year period. Some much happened that year, more than any other year in history.
ScorpioBornIn69 8 months ago
@ScorpioBornIn69 Yes, except for Altamont
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RobthemanFly 8 months ago
This has nothing to do with celibate cowboys, but it is relaxing nevertheless. :)
giantpandafication 8 months ago
Thank you, Windsorbear. I remember singing along to "Bang-Shang-A-Lang" and "Sugar, Sugar" on the radio (had the lyrics memorized) and also hearing "Jingle Jangle" played over and over. Can't recall hearing "Who's Your Baby?" on the radio, though. It must not have stayed on the Top 40 list for any appreciable amount of time. But it still was great music produced by great talent at a memorable time in our young lives.
wainoco318 8 months ago
Great song..brings back get memories. Question...which songs of the original Archies group made the top 40's chart?
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@wainoco318 Bang-Shang-A-Lang hit #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in Dec. 1968; Sugar, Sugar hit #1 and stayed there for 4 weeks in late summer 1969; Jingle Jangle hit #10 in January 1970; Who's Your Baby? hit #40 in March, 1970.
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Check out the phallic symbolism at 0:40.
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I have this on a 45.
Reindeer1976 9 months ago
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I have this on a 45.
Reindeer1976 9 months ago
i may not have even been born when it was released but my family played it after i was born and i still love it! love s k oo b y doo as well as sugar sugar too!
emma060809 10 months ago
Sacramento memories.
Capt777harris 10 months ago
Archie has got some serious falsetto going on there.
tjsbigidea 11 months ago
@tjsbigidea Yes, Ron Dante did a great falsetto on this song. And Toni Wine's voice in the intro and chorus is fantastic as well.
windsorbear 11 months ago 2
Interestingly, there's a version of "Jingle Jangle" on the Kirshner label... both the album and the single... I'm going to check into that a little.. interesting. I know that labels in the past had subsidary contracts (i.e. Beatles Capitol from Parlophone) to release, but it's interesting that two different labels were in circulation simlultaneously. I know songs have been re-relleased on different labels but at different times. I didn't realize you could pick this up under 2 labels in 69-70!
mikeaustin1 11 months ago
@mikeaustin1 Jingle Jangle was issued in the USA on the Kirshner label, which was marketed and distributed by RCA. If you have a copy on the RCA label, it will most likely either be a UK or Canadian pressing. Both UK and Canadian pressings were sold at some stores in the USA. I think the catalog number for the UK 45 pressing is 1870, or something close to it. The catalog number for the USA pressing on Kirshner (formerly Calendar) is 63-5002.
windsorbear 11 months ago
@windsorbear You could also get the song on the back of one of the cereal boxes. I can't remember the brand, but I remember cutting out the "record" and playing it on a turntable.
The late 60s/early 70s were so very weird.
Aquaria 10 months ago
I looked it up and found the cereal that had Jingle Jangle: Honey Comb.
Just Google Honey Comb + Archies, and look at the images. There's a picture of one of the old boxes listed.
Aquaria 10 months ago
Revisiting this, still very glad it's here. Jingle Jangle was my favorite Archies song, so I remember it well. I got the "real" record (not cereal box!); I distinctly remember the RCA 45 jacket with the plastic red and yellow "linking" baubles Jingle Jangle was released in early December 1969 and topped out at #10 on the Billboard U.S. Charts in late January 1970, after 10 weeks on the charts.
Jingle Jangle closely followed Sugar, Sugar, entering Nov. 22, 1969; Sugar was still on the chart!
mikeaustin1 11 months ago
@mikeaustin1 Yep, the Archies were a hot property at that time... multiple singles on the charts at the same time... top-rated TV show (was actually getting higher ratings than prime-time series), tons of merchandise tie-ins, comic books sales through the roof. I don't think the kids from Riverdale will ever see a time when they were more popular than the late 60's / early 70's.
windsorbear 11 months ago
@mikeaustin1 ...... RCA Label? you must have the UK release because here in America it was on Calendar Records & Kirshner Records a subsidary of RCA Victor....
SEVFEST 4 weeks ago
The lovely Ms. Toni Wine on vocals.
scdevon 11 months ago
Ithink this was better than Sugar Sugar!!!
justincat333 11 months ago
10 people were probably born in the late 20th century or the 21st century XD
flashbakgamer4 1 year ago
A couple minutes after hearing Jingle Jangle the song that came to mind was the Stephen Stills/csny song 'Faith In Me' (from the Looking Forward album)... Similar beat and main melody lines. Doubt there's any direct influence... at least that Stills would admit to. :)
"Have some faith in me
'Cos we really do know better
And we do belong together..."
marmas58ink 1 year ago
I'm sure I heard and saw this as a kid. Doesn't bring back any memories though. All's I recall's the style. I DO recall as a kid thinking that they seemed to use the same footage of the band playing over and over/ song after song.
Looking online: "Jingle Jangle" reached #10. ...the lead vocal is actually a male singer singing in falsetto... one of 4 top 40 Archies' hits. The Archie Show only aired for one season, 68-69 on CBS. 17 episodes, later syndicated.
marmas58ink 1 year ago
@marmas58ink Not only did "Jingle Jangle" reach #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, it became The Archies 2nd gold single. Ron Dante was the lead singer of the group, and he was singing in falsetto. Toni Wine sang the chorus and background vocals. "The Archie Show" was from 1968/69. This song was from "The Archie Comedy Hour" from 1969/70. The following year, 1970/71, was "Archie's Funhouse", which was the last year the ORIGINAL Archies group provided music for the shows.
windsorbear 1 year ago
@windsorbear Oh so they DID make more cartoons after the 68/69 season... Thanks for the info.
marmas58ink 1 year ago
@marmas58ink Yes, Archie / Sabrina cartoons were shown on CBS-TV from 1968 thru 1976. In 1977, the Archie franchise moved over to NBC-TV, but did not last long there. The original Archies music group supplied music for the shows up through 1971. There was no Archies music in "Archie's TV Funnies" which aired on CBS in 1971, 1972 and 1973. "Everything's Archie" aired in 1973, but was only reruns of material from the shows of 68 thru 71. "The U.S. of Archie" aired in 1974 thru 1976.
windsorbear 11 months ago
Innocent and meaningful music...where is music today?
pelicaned1 1 year ago 2
aww why cant they make the cartoons again and give it on cartoon network or disney instead of the crap of cartoons cartoon network has now?
MsDominicana04 1 year ago
Rest In Peace Don Kirshner (April 17, 1934 – January 17, 2011),
SEVFEST 1 year ago 17
@SEVFEST Don Kirshner will be missed. He was definitely "the man with the golden ear."
windsorbear 1 year ago
@SEVFEST Mr. Kirshner was so nice to give those kids in The Archies such a big break.
sneezyize 7 months ago 2
@sneezyize - You obviously don't know the FACTS about that monster, or 'Mr. Kirshner', as you call him. The only 'break' he gave those kids was breaking their will and claiming all of their ideas as his own! Any competent Archies follower knows that 'Jingle Jangle' was inferior to Jughead's brilliant composition 'Bang Shang a Lang', which Kirshner refused to release as the followup single to 'Sugar Sugar' because he couldn't take the songwriting credit. Check the facts before praising Kirshner!
Nooz2Me 6 months ago
@Nooz2Me Okay, I've been forewarned. -:)
sneezyize 6 months ago
@Nooz2Me Cute & amusing meltdown... only flaw... "Bang-Shang-A-Lang" was the Archies first single, released in 1968 and included on their first LP. Reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
windsorbear 6 months ago
@windsorbear D'Oh!! You busted me on that one, I truly don't remember "Bang-Shang-" coming first, but that "Sugar, Sugar" was the only song of theirs I didn't like much. I LOVED "Get On The Line" and even at 11 yrs old I was impressed by the excellent female vocals- and cracked up laughing whenever I imagined them coming from the 'actual' Betty or Veronica! However, Ron Dante is by far the most perfect & believable 'Archie' singing voice I could have imagined. Loved reading all the info, thanx!
Nooz2Me 6 months ago
@Nooz2Me I was surprised that Kirshner chose "Feelin' So Good" to be their second single, especially since the song was NOT given to Filmation to animate so there was no TV-show tie-in to promote the song. Guess that is why that single didn't crack the Top 40. I was also surprised that "Get On The Line" was not released as a single; I think it would have done very well on the charts.
windsorbear 6 months ago
@SEVFEST Thats pretty easy. Sugar Sugar of course.
calfan4life 4 weeks ago
I got the spurrs that jingle jangle jingle
beckwithpj 1 year ago
I can beat you all in age. I was 11 when I first heard this song ... because I found the CD of it in a store.
ForeverKokiri 1 year ago
I still have my Post Cereal Box records as well. I was 14 when the Archies came on television but, I had read the comics for years by then.
deloy56 1 year ago 2
@deloy56 The time period between 1968 and 1972 will probably forever be the best time that Archie Comic Publications had for media and merchandising. The TV show and music group brought the characters out to people that hadn't even read an Archie comic before. And while the show lasted beyond 1972, the demise of the original Archies music group did have a negative impact. The shows weren't the same without the music of the original group.
windsorbear 1 year ago
@deloy56 The time period between 1968 and 1972 will probably forever be the best time that Archie Comic Publications had for media and merchandising. The TV show and music group brought the characters out to people that hadn't even read an Archie comic before. And while the show lasted beyond 1972, the demise of the original Archies music group did have a negative impact. The shows weren't the same without the music of the original group.
windsorbear 1 year ago
Is Veronica or Betty the black girl singing in the background? :)
Well if his nose isn't growing, what is? And who goes creeping down the hall. Still a catchy, if not perverted song :)
markxxx21 1 year ago
@markxxx21 The "black girl" singing in the background is actually Toni Wine, who is Caucasian. And while it has never been put into stone, it is usually thought that she was providing the voice of Veronica. But some say it was Betty. Since Filmation did not provide lip movements for either Betty or Veronica during the music segments, it can be whichever one you want it to be.
windsorbear 1 year ago
@windsorbear ...and neither of the characters (Veronica or Betty) is Black, so what the hell was he asking?
PatrioticPirate 1 year ago
Like to many posters in this forum, I, too, had the records that came off the back of Post cereals! LOL! But I had no damn luck in getting them off in tact and actually playing them once or twice. Granted, I was maybe five or six years old...but still! (Btw, giving my age when this song came out actually makes me feel like one of the younger people in this forum! No small feat for me on the internet!)
arkady714 1 year ago
@arkady714 Let's see... Jingle Jangle came out in 1970, so I was about 10 years old then.... so yes... that makes you younger than me -=grin=-. And I hear you about the cardboard records... the only pair of scissors that we had in the house at the time was pinking shears... so all my cardboard records had notch cuts all around them. Weird.
windsorbear 1 year ago
I remember this song.
I may even still have the record of it that was on the back of a cereal box.
Thanks for posting this.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 1 year ago
@GeorgeVreelandHill Glad you enjoyed it.
windsorbear 1 year ago
i ♥ archie comics
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hotmessize 1 year ago
Windsorbear. That's quite a wonderful bit of investigation you did for all the "Archie Nuts". It's sad they throw stuff out that really should be kept. Many a great film has been hacked to pieces and the trimmings burned. Criminal in my opinion. I think there must be some saving grace though. I see a few of the music spots right here in YouTube. "Candy Kisses", "Somebody Likes You", "Get On The Line" to name a few. I had the "Jingle Jangle" album (I think that was the name) when I was a child.
broot4u 1 year ago
I remember this so well Bob !! Great post and so many hits !!
desoto1961 1 year ago
@desoto1961 Glad you like it. Someone else has posted another version of it on here that actually has the original Hot Dog intro. Said it was on the same film that he purchased for a different singer. Amazing how these old clips pop up sometime.
windsorbear 1 year ago
I've loved the Archies ever since I watched the cartoons on Saturday mornings. Wish I still had the albums. I LOVED Justine!!!
Redbeard5858 1 year ago
@Redbeard5858 If you decide to get an Archies CD to relive a few memories, I recommend getting "Sugar, Sugar... The Archies" on the Repertoire label, catalog number REP 4804-WG. It was issued in 1999, and contains "Justine", along with 23 other great hits from the group. Very well remastered and excellent selection of songs from all of the LPs.
windsorbear 1 year ago 2
wow, havent heard this since 69, thanks!
lickss 1 year ago
classic keep it on
justincat333 1 year ago
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outofthebo 1 year ago
@outofthebo Song lyrics.... "It's my true heart I'm showing, or my nose would be growing, you know that it gets longer when I lie." The animation is just going along with the lyrics.
windsorbear 1 year ago
Sounds like Toni Wine is really out front here. Nice! And she'd co-write The Checkmates' "Black Pearl" in 1969, too.
Gerry50ify 1 year ago
@Gerry50ify I dunno about that - here's the Wikipedia on it:
"Contrary to popular belief, although the verses of Jingle Jangle are supposedly sung by either Betty or Veronica (the only two female members of the fictional group), in reality, it was not performed by any female vocalist, rather it was Ron Dante using a falsetto voice [5] as evidenced by the lyrics "It's my true heart I'm showin'/or my nose would be growin'/you know that it gets longer when I lie".
SarahRachel59 1 year ago
@SarahRachel59 Toni supplied the vocals in the intro, and in between verses. They mainly consisted of the lyrics... "Sing me, sing me, sing me; sing the Jingle Jangle song." She also did the "Hey, hey, hey"s in the song "Nursery Rhyme", and a lot of background vocals for "Get On The Line."
windsorbear 1 year ago
@windsorbear Thanks!
SarahRachel59 1 year ago
Sweet dog. Sweet cartoon.
manfredicomposer 1 year ago
The
The Archies were my absolute FAVORITE group! Yeah Toni Wine and Ron Dante!!
BeezerTwo 1 year ago
Awww this was so cute and sweet!
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bongobeardy 1 year ago
Acid-drenched as a lot of the "kiddie shows" were back then, this actually isn't a bad song... I think an "Archie's Greatest Hits" cd belongs in everyone's collection. It's representative of a time long gone....
JoshuaTaylor 1 year ago
Was the applause at the end dubbed in, or did they, like, preview this before a live audience?
luridplanet 1 year ago
I had a cool childhood.
bijeto 1 year ago 10
BRADY KIDS even had a dog...
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
@TEMPmichaelhansen Yeah, and if I remember correctly, he looked like a tan version of Hot Dog from The Archies.
windsorbear 1 year ago
@windsorbear Yes, MOPTOP... Marlon the magic mynah bird and Ping & Pong the twin pandas who only spoke Chinese ???
dh1173 1 year ago
The Archies are back on the air on RTV (Retro Television) Its free over the air with an antenna. It may not be on cable in your area, use your antenna. You can check the RTV website. It has a list of stations that carry the network. It will most likely be on a digital subchannel. A newer TV or one with a converter box and antenna will be needed.
patrick9648 1 year ago
@patrick9648
"Retro Television" i saw in Utah on my aunt & Uncles tv set, station would be on for 15 minutes, then 5 minutes of no signal, repeat from beginning...
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
I've got it, but not at the correct speed and pitch. I've been trying to find a copy that is correct, but if I can't, I'll post the one that is sped up.... just to have the video segment on YouTube. Look for it soon.
windsorbear 1 year ago
The sad thing about this Filmation closed several years ago and the original archie film masters were aquired by Halmark Cards who transfered the shows to PAL (european) videotape (not HD) and some idiot threw away the original master film prints. so all we can see is crappy standard definiton PAL video tape. making true HDTV broadcast and DVD impossible. read about it on wikipedia. They also butcherd the shows and took out some of the music when it played in reruns.
patrick9648 1 year ago
Actually, Filmation butchered "The Archie Comedy Hour" while they still owned the property. From everything I've researched, it seems the music segments from that show were missing long before Filmation's properties saw their first change of hands. Nobody seems to know where the music segments wound up, or why they were removed from the syndication package in the first place.
windsorbear 1 year ago
@windsorbear
now on DVD
are the songs there???
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
@TEMPmichaelhansen
No. Parts of "Comedy Hour" are shown under the DVD extras as extra episodes of "Archie's Funhouse" (which they WEREN'T) simply because they were the Funhouse portion of "Comedy Hour". The song segments are still missing from those episodes, and have been missing since the shows went into syndication in 1976. The last time I remember seeing them on TV was in 1973 on CBS as segments on the "Everything's Archie" show (not to be confused with "The Archie Show" from 1968.)
windsorbear 1 year ago
It's refreshing to hear a song like this. Nowadays, we hear rap crap talking about killing cops and raping women on the subway. I'll take the old days and "bands" like The Archies and The Monkees any day.
loverofthemilf 1 year ago 2
This song was in the top 10 in the world charts in 1970
LittleSweety 1 year ago
Groovy..
carlcs2 1 year ago
I still have this on cardboard from a cereal box!
popmartzoo 1 year ago
jughead is the best!!
punx2204 1 year ago
this is gayer than joe biden and justin bebier
awsomeness113 1 year ago
wayyyyyyyy better than sugar sugar!
michpackfan 1 year ago
I bet some you had the cardboard cut-out record that was on the back of a cereal box. The just don't make great bubblegum tunes like they did when we were kids. R.I.P saturday morning cartoons. Great time to be a kid. I miss those days.
patrick9648 1 year ago 2
The cutout single I had was Bang-Shang-A-Lang. I'm sure this one probably made it to the back of a cereal box too though.
lobo81865 1 year ago
the vocals are ron dante n jeff barry n Toni wine......doin the sing it baby n sing sing me baby n jingle jangle u hear
Lehnerd57 1 year ago
Was that Betty or veronica on Lead vocals. I think its Veronica. but they didnt even try to sync the voice to the cartoon. The true first Milli Vanilli., even before "the partridge family"
DJofDESTRUCTION 1 year ago
@DJofDESTRUCTION yeah that always bummed me out - always thought Veronica deserved her own close up ( i figured it was Veronica 'cause she sounded a little black/southern). despite all this i really do have a life.
jackhillty1 1 year ago
Filmation did not animate lip movements for Betty or Veronica in the song segments. Only Archie and Reggie were given lip movements for the songs (a budget issue).
windsorbear 1 year ago
@windsorbear you know I never noticed that, but do notice that Cartoon Brady bunch Marcia / Jan look exactly like the cartoon betty /veronica
DJofDESTRUCTION 1 year ago
Filmation put out some good stuff, but they were VERY CONSERVATIVE with their animation. LOTS of stuff was reused and modified as necessary for reuse. I will never forget the first time I saw The Brady Kids. I couldn't believe how much Archie animation they reused... and Archie was still on the air on CBS. Just because Brady Kids was on ABC... did they really think we wouldn't notice the animation was reused? Sheesh!!!!
windsorbear 1 year ago
@windsorbear That's a big problem. Many producers don't know how expensive being cheap can be.
crispycritterz 1 year ago
@windsorbear Filmation kept all their animation in-house as long as they lasted, and US wages being higher than overseas wages, that meant they had to use a lot of a stock footage and library work to bring shows in under budget.
LadyDeirdre 1 year ago
i love ' sugar' & this song !!!!♥
TheEsther123 1 year ago
One of the best Archies song ever! I actually prefer it to SUGAR SUGAR. Who's Your Baby is my all time fav by the Archies!
BeezerTwo 1 year ago
born in 54 I remember this, my second fav archies thing, wasn't too big into this style of going on, but did like the music of the era there, I was Beatles, later to evolve into a metal head banger. Looking back now, still like the era and music, and will always remember it as a treasure of memories. Still love the musics of the past, and still bang my head to the metal I know. Archie comics I did read and was not a radical or conformist either way. Fell prey to Me Gen and do your own thing.
jeffspirit11 1 year ago
having lived through that era (brn 1954) wasn't scared, wasn't striving to find solice with something simple...the damn song was just catchy....
evensout 1 year ago 3
This song was 40 years ago no. 9 in the world charts
LittleSweety 1 year ago 6
Believe it or not.....this "song" hit #10 on the Billboard charts on Feb. 7, 1970.....I guess people were really wanting a break from the turbulence going on in the world at that time.......but, give me a break, #10?!
ccagg65 1 year ago
Pretty much - it was a knee-jerk reaction to the politicization of the Vietnam ( and protest ) era. I noticed that the teenagers who were born in say, 1955 and later, were as anti-radical as the ones who were born immediately earlier. The whole Vietnam thing hit them when they were 8 - 10 and it scared them. They became super-conformists, the first materialistic "keep-your-nose-clean" Yuppies while in college in the mid 70's.
JCJasion 1 year ago
@JCJasion -- Partly correct, maybe. I was born a little later than 1955 and was not anti-radical. I didn't have political viewpoints at age 12, and Vietnam didn't scare me. I just assumed that the people in power knew how to fight a war and that we were "right" in being there, so we'd probably win. I didn't become a super-conformist, materialistic, or a yuppie; didn't even go to college but somehow survived.
57highland 1 year ago
@57highland - I had an unusual father, a "left-wing" analog to Archie Bunker - ( He'd start arguments with neighbors and relatives about how we were going to get stuck in Vietnam - back in 1963 - I was 12 then so I assumed that the other kids were as aware as I was of political things. Dad was a character. He'd quote from Republican Senator Everett Dirkson's (a hawk) inane filibuster speeches the way a Fundamentalist Christian quotes from the Bible! LOL
JCJasion 1 year ago
@JCJasion -- Sorry for pre-judging. I must have been lucky in having parents with only vague interest in & knowledge of foreign affairs. Maybe ignorance WAS bliss for both parents & kids in the '60s. We weren't touched by the war; the closest we came was in meeting a family who had lost a son, but that was 18 months after the fact, and then they moved away. Also, I'm a little younger than you, so Vietnam was on the downside by the time I became even vaguely interested in it. Your dad was right.
57highland 1 year ago
they are great especially their comic books-tori
deanster57 1 year ago
41 years ago,I remember like it was 3 months and 4 days ago
Syzygy60 1 year ago 7
this record came on a ceral box we had to cut it off
Syzygy60 1 year ago 2
Good bass riff
norm58 2 years ago
So wage erinnere ich mich. War wohl nicht der Supersong.
warumlachstdu 2 years ago
Are you sure they weren't reruns?
streetrace442 2 years ago
I'm sure they were. The various Archie series went into syndication in 1976/77 and played for several years. In Fall of 1977, Filmation produced a new hour long Archie/Sabrina series for NBC TV that was NOT part of the syndication package. It did not last very long, and shows up now as the "Archie & Sabrina Surprise Package." Interestingly, this series has been released as a DVD boxset in Australia, but not the USA.
windsorbear 2 years ago
OK. I guess I just missed out on them back then. Thanks.
streetrace442 2 years ago
To 1979? Are you sure about that? Seems to me that the US of Archies only lasted until '74 at the very lastest.
streetrace442 2 years ago
"The Archie Show" - CBS 1968/69; "The Archie Comedy Hour" - CBS 1969/70; "Archie's Funhouse" - CBS 1970/71; "Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies" - CBS 1970/71; "Archie's TV Funnies - CBS 1971/72/73; "Everything's Archie" (rerun of Comedy Hour stuff) - CBS 1973; Sabrina The Teenage Witch (rerun of Comedy Hour stuff) - CBS 1974; U.S of Archie - CBS 1974-75-76; "The Archies" - Syndication; 1976/77; "New Archie / Sabrina Hour" - NBC 1977 (later divided into two separate shows).
windsorbear 2 years ago
I remember the "Sabrina Hour" by then but not the Archies.
streetrace442 2 years ago
I thought Josie and Pussycats did this too?
blairzel 2 years ago
Nope, Pussycats didn't do this song. You may be thinking of "Inside, Outside, Upside Down" which was the most played Pussycats song on the TV series.
windsorbear 2 years ago
Billboard stated that this song was never originally released on the RCA label. At least not in their top 40 book that came out in 1982. Well, I had the original on 45 on the RCA label. The Archies cartoon never did stay on the air very long.
streetrace442 2 years ago
I got this record on the back of a cereal box, despite the fact that it was made out of cardboard, it played on my "record player", sounded good to me.
Mgarguemare 2 years ago
Back when the song came out? I have seen others songs that have came out like that during the '70's. But to last this long!!??...
streetrace442 2 years ago
Check the label for me and give me the catalog number. Some UK RCA Victor singles of The Archies were sold in USA department stores. It may be the UK pressing. USA pressing should be on the orange Kirshner label, unless it is an RCA Gold Standard repressing.
windsorbear 2 years ago
Yes, it was a orange and had Kirshner's name in fine print at the mid section or at the botton of the label (I don't have the record anymore so I can't say for sure) . But RCA was in big bold print as you have seen so many of that time period. The number was either 1918 or 1916 on it. The paper cover was green, white and orange with the RCA logo on it. It definitely was not a re-issue. That I'm sure of.
streetrace442 2 years ago
That was definitely the UK pressing. I recognize it from the catalog number you gave.
windsorbear 2 years ago
@windsorbear Wasn't the dog's name Hot Dog?
meowfit 1 year ago