The Archies - "Sunshine"

[kalikrates71]

Sunshine es una de mis primeras canciones favoritas, yo miraba el programa de los Archies en Mexico desde niño y me trae gratos recuerdos.

[MrLehnerd]

Not bad only thing is showin little kids cheerin was so wrong to me what they see on stage a green screen and all..

[ExtendedRainbow]

This is really... A good song.

[Fpockets]

ummm, somehow this reminds me of Gorillaz.... :\

[iguanamarie]

now this is trippy Ü

[peterossjunior]

If you're a fan of The Archies, you'll probably like the fun and free weekly podcast, Echo Valley, which celebrates the great bubblegum music from the 1960's and 1970's! There's Archies music almost every week! Give it a try!

Just Google "Echo Valley Bubblegum"!

[Chawman]

@peterossjunior I'll check it out. Thanks ;)

[elbudamexicano]

You are my sunshine, I love you! Great song!

[aamrun]

This song is for Betty, who else has sunshine in her hair ? and the focus on Betty in the video proves it.

[Iruka1991]

jajaja es tan agradable y simple como puede haber 25 personas a las que no les guste esto??

[satchfan11]

i grew up on this show best part was alway hearing a song

[KristinHarmony]

OMG, my dreams have come true! The Archie comics have/had a TV show?! So excited!!

[Semphrais]

The archies are so awesome! Best music group EVER!

[SeattleLA]

Amazing...Don Kirshner MADE The Monkees, then they got big egos and fired him. Their music got worse, and Kirshner created Archie's music, which was a big success.

[thehustler24]

i like suger suger better it have way bater beat and theme to it

[bmgfl]

The Jughead beat!

[joninpgh]

I always thought Reggie played a mean bass.

[goldthylacine]

lol their talking voices crack me up XD

[XenOtai]

Psychedelics to the masses.

[electoplater]

my grandson loves it

[momentum27]

That is NOT what I imagined their voices to be like.

[hirightnow]

@momentum27 : I grew up with these cartoons, and I couldn't agree more! Archie's voice actually got WORSE in later years (hard to believe). Filmation had some of the crappiest animation, but , oddly, some good stuff (Tarzan Lord of the Jungle and Star Trek:T.A.S., for example ).

And the eyebrows are hard to take, as well.

[nursegaby]

uv this reminds me when i was a little girl..

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

The Archies were a major hit with kids back in the 1960's and even the '70's.

They are still popular today, but back then, they had hit songs, a hit show, stuff in stores, on cereal boxes and on and on.

Thanks for posting this.

George Vreeland Hill

[atfatw]

@GeorgeVreelandHill

they sucked especially that insane archie's lousy grossly unfunny jokes! they were enjoyable as cartoons in the comic books but really sucked big time on the tv especially sabrina the teenage witch

[SuperCartiel]

@atfatw I actually agrree with you. Filmation really wore out the old jokebooks on this show. There wasn't any real writing on these shows.

[marcsprint]

cool this group of adolescent fictional, I almost never missed a single episode, I still remember the participation of members of the Groovie Goolie Show (here in Brazil was called monsters comrades) was the maximum, and still remember some frames. mind you psychedelia still in vogue in the background, always present and Rock'n'Roll, still inspires me today to this class!

[OffTheCharts365]

Thanks for posting this song!

Listen for great music like this on a new radio station called "OffTheCharts" - featuring 70's (and some 80's) lost hits and chart wonders!

Go to Live365.com, type OFFTHECHARTS in the Search box and click on the station logo. The audio stream should begin. Become a VIP member and listen commercial free!

This song is being featured this week!

[Splitskirts]

Great song, remembering it's only meant to be just a " childrens song ". I saw a documentary once and the song writers originally wrote songs for " The Monkeys " tv show; and a guy stated the idea with " The Archies " was that they could make the song ( using session musicians ) without any " interference " or "answering back " / wanting to " change this - that " as this had happened with " The Monkeys " and it was very frustrating. They said " cartoons don't answer back ". Regards.

[HeavenXxX]

please point me to HQ version... I need this song please

[archie977]

can we stop comercials from forcing us to wach them?

[becariu]

WOW this takes me back, I used to love watching this and would sing and dance in front of the tv all the time to when the Archies sang!

[rockerchic63]

Another great tune!!!

[hayleyt99]

they all sound extremely weird

[EricAutopsy]

The Archies were some trippy guys

[zfightersx]

cool video

[lucia56605]

im 13 and yet i have the whole archies funhouse colection

[atfatw]

the worst cartoon ever produced. the producers should have been shot by firing squad

[FruvousVideos]

@atfatw A True quote from a "Zen buddhist"

[zfightersx]

thanks for all the wonderful memories .....

[ThexSmilexKid]

I luv them

I luv their comic books!!

[muttgang62]

COOL !!!

[alfdhuez]

Archie was a LSD addict, lol, and that was cool!

[starlost1957]

@alfdhuez NOT!

[jackhillty1]

the song was apparently co written by Bobby Bloom who wrote/sang "Montego Bay" - a great song if you've never heard it - here on youtube

[RockLeesBitch]

Haha great song, what atrocious dancing!

[tryithere]

Hey why isn't Jughead in the wide angle view of the band? If he's drumming he should be there. And I think they were lip-synching.

[deanster57]

the archies rule-tori

[cobolsaurus]

My brother had this records... I was 6 years old... I absolutely believed the cartoons recorded the songs..

[tjfreak]

along with John Bonham & Ian Paice, Jughead was a huge influence to me in my early drum playing days,

I wonder what he's up to these days ?

[lukatme2]

I heard he's in celebrity rehab. He had some rough years and got a little strung out, but is really making progress. Dr. Drew thinks he may even be able to get a new band going soon

[lukatme2]

how can Archie go from the horrible speaking voice to a good singing voice?

[jdw5678]

He had a really good voice coach -- some guy named Ron Dante. : )

[caroaya4]

@lukatme2 im agree XD, a was wondering the same

[novice841]

Thank you for posting this bit of nostalgia.

One thing I noticed, even back in the day: at 2:19, Archie and Reggie are shown to be still strumming guitars, despite the fact that all the instruments except the percussion have dropped out of the soundtrack. One would think the show's producers could have caught this error.

[tryithere]

They were just keeping up the tempo. their hands weren't on the the strings but I think they were lip-synching. Milli Vanilli?

[Wehategod]

My Boy Jug head on Drums!!!!!

[dougiedoom14]

sugar suagr is way better :P

[TheWiwi1989]

:D looks like scooby dooh!

[girandzim4]

wow... i like singing voice thingies better XD and also i REALLY like the voices of how i imagined them in my head when reading the comics... not the weird ones now XD

[Diegoshigueokato]

muito bom

[mond8580]

watch?v=CXD9IVqquN0

[HumGuitar]

No, Jugghead did. You can tell by the look on his face.

[revolutionaryluddite]

wow, I had always pictured them having voices that we're like the singing voices.

[hnorky]

The Archies were huge in South Africa with hits that never charted elsewhere. This one entered on 23 October 1970 and reached #16.

We didn't have television in South Africa in those days so I never saw the tv show!

[eyesopenuw]

man this was some of my favorite music when I was a kid.. thanks for posting!

[serebelum]

Hey Si Gadis Yg manja...... again the malays cant come up with their own original song or idea....... shame on u all....

[zafirah12]

i'm sorry, but in the 1970s, it was a trend to use english songs and make malay versions of them. it was its own genre, called lagu-lagu sandoran. if you weren't ignorant you'd know that. all these malay singers came up with malay versions because the english versions were popular, and they wanted their audiences to have another connection, so they'd understand what the original song was about, because a lot of malays at that time did not understand english, and it was the only way for them.

[lymedison]

ohhh really?

hahahahaha i got tnx!

[someUtubeguy]

You know reading archi and jughead as a kid. I never pictured them sounding like that. Since when is Jughead a helium addict? And who knew Archie sounded like a young Gilbert Godfrey?

[sk8rgrl08678]

sarcasm much

[Superstarseven]

Wow, Archie and Jughead sure do have smooth, nice speaking voices.

Nothing annoying about them at all.

[Tidefan324]

You guys do know they're lip-synching this...right? =)

[SWICHone]

lmao

[Rabiddogge]

Another gem from The Archies!

I think this version was adapted for the TV episode; the version I have is somewhat longer.

[PLAVML]

RETRO!!!love it

[digicult449]

Groovy! ^^

[LoveDavidArchuleta21]

rofl this reminds me of scooby doo

[samw6906]

im only 11 and sugar sugar is my faV SONG LOL

[TheFalseOswalds]

Holy take me back, batman!

[SpKennyfan1]

wow so many songs tht i had no clue where they were like sugar sugar

[tjfreak]

You guys had it made,I saw kids like you and envied : )

We didn't get the good cereals very often,if ever.When

my mom brought home the good stuff,the 5 of us polished it off in 5 minutes,So it was Quaker oats,Corn Flakes,puffed rice and some other puffed thing..there weren't toys or records involved..

[mdmphd]

Puffed - what dang scientist thought 'Just puff up some grain - kids'll eat anything.' Someone grim... strict ...and lacking taste buds. I'll bet my grade school teachers would've preferred me eating a lot less sugar. It's a miracle I'm not diabetic for years of that stuff...when they weren't afraid to call it Frosted Sugar Flakes or 'Super Sugar' Crisp. That was my early consumerism demand and I wielded it every grocery trip. To your point, my only Sister is 7 years older so no competition.

[princette]

Marge Simpson liked Bobby Sherman

[mdmphd]

Did she? I missed that reference and I love the Simpsons! My Sister used to have a poster of Olivia Hussey and Leo Whiting in Romeo & Juliet above her bed (it was the farrah poster of her day) and I used to think that was Bobby Sherman.

[Fran789654]

yay

[edalchemyfan06]

haha what year is this

[Pterixa]

1970.

[mdmphd]

So fun to see this again! I was a big Archies fan in the 2nd and 3rd grade and had the albums, cardboard records off the back of Super Sugar Crispsand of course, 45s. This was one of their last big charting hits. Thanks for posting!!

[jam5bryce]

Man...... I totally forgot cutting out the records cereal boxes like Super Sugar Crisp after my mom bought a box! They really played on our record players to.The late 60's and early 70's are greatly missed on Saturday mornings.

[mdmphd]

I choked down SO much cereal for those records - Sugar Pops had 3 Jackson 5 hits, Bobby Sherman was on something like Apple Jacks... I can't remember what the Monkees came on but I had a few of those,too. Then there were the terrible ones - they were crap but you tried them anyways - The Sugar Bears on Super Sugar Crisp and the Halloween record with spooky Disney sounds of creaking footsteps, a door opening during a windstorm, thunder...

[mdmphd]

and the movie scream of some actress followed by moans and groans - the short version of the album you could ALSO buy. Funny how that tied in:> And that doesn't touch the toys, like the Quisp helicopter, Frankenberry pencil erasers and rubber band cars,terrarium with seeds or the mini ant farm where you sent away for ant eggs! SO much more cool than what they can get today.

[jam5bryce]

Yeah..... I chocked on alot of cereal too! Your comments on the other cereal boxes and other prizes brought back great memories. Remember the better little toys that you had to collect and send in dozens of box tops to get!

[mdmphd]

You know, I remember collecting box tops... but not the prizes. I think one was a cheap a*s viewmaster... maybe a little plastic camera that was a squirt gun. Hot wheels? Decoder rings - glow inthe dark stuff, but those were in the box. Do you remember what you ordered?

[jam5bryce]

If I remember correctly my first toy purchased through box tops was a plastic submarine that you put baking soda in, where it would sink and then rise up in the water. I also remember something to do with Ballon Racers!

[Tidefan324]

OMG I had that Sub!!! Lol! I'd forgotten about that toy.

;)

[Tidefan324]

Wow I had forgotten all about the 45s on the cereal boxes! Lol!

[HypnoToad72]

Wow. A shame their talking voices are so horrendous...

[BobbyLankford1983]

Jughead's silhouette is cool. Mad Magazine said once he resembled Prince Charles in silhouette. The video is cool,too.

[guaneh]

There was a band from malaysia called BLACK DOG BONE had convert this song into malay language named 'Gadis Ayu'..pretty nice song though...keyo TAE 1900

[matrixscam]

Thank you for uploading all of these!

I have the funhouse and its awesome even though its alittle wierd

[HYPERspace2012]

isn't there such a thing, or rather was such a thing as suNshiNe acid?

i believe so but my only source is fear n Vegas...

[ManDuMykeINC]

there voices are kind of disturbing, not at all what I'd expect after reading the comics

[RichYan33]

Wow! I didn't remember the voices being that awful!! Archie sounds like Gilbert Gottfried. How did he sing with that voice.

[donniedusk]

Reggie is by far, the greatest bass player on the planet.

[twinklepop82]

background looks like 80's lol!

[castlecait]

more like 60s

[Pterixa]

You're both a little off. This was in the 70s (though the first series started in 1968).

[castlecait]

lol, close enough.

[alvmul]

the archies rock i cant believe the comics are so popular and old

[77pintoboy]

This came out in the summer of 1970.Memories of Old Orchard Beach Maine with my parents..Damn those archies were the coolest back then.

[iketora]

pls dont make them anime like...

the best thing abt the archies is that they represent good ol' american style animation

[gaaralover49]

Was this like a teen's cartoon O.O

They totally need to re-do archie cartoons

make them more,anime-like =3

[born2live]

i do like japanese animation, but this is the original and fantastic anyways 70s anime was kinda ehh...

[appelbeatle613]

I love this!!^^

[showchoirnerd101]

haha oue guys in our show choir are doing this song!! LOL

[VolleeBaller94]

HECK YES THEY ARE!!!

[GaryG660]

My family took a road trip from Texas to L.A. in the summer of '72 with a portable record player and this is one of the singles we took along. (My sister and I would always look at each and giggle when it came to the part "Hey little girl let it show...")

[ashleytisdalefan66]

for some reason, songs back in the 60'd, 70'd and 80's are much better than the music today.

this is funky and catchy!

[tamspeci]

The reason is melody & chord progression,which most of today's music lacks.

[Chawman]

@ashleytisdalefan66 That's because, back then, songs were about love, peace, and fun. Most music (I use the term loosely) today is about shooting each other, self indulgence, and hooking up with whores.

[ekopp1960]

@Chawman Exactly the (if you can call it that) music today is the same irritating beat boom boom boom.growing up in the 1960s was such a happy fun time,not ashamed to say I am now 50 years old!

[peterossjunior]

If you're a fan of The Archies, you'll probably like the fun and free weekly podcast, Echo Valley, which celebrates the great bubblegum music from the 1960's and 1970's! There's Archies music almost every week! Give it a try!

Just Google "Echo Valley Bubblegum"!

[slydog00a1]

@ashleytisdalefan66 Fresh

[Wally1967]

Heh that was a long long long time ago since I last hear this Archie song.

AAh the memories!

[mrmikerotch]

Haha. Ding it.

[jimdevo]

Bubble gum gold.

[96Lima69]

hahaha omg they're fuckin oldschool ; D

[dannydropout]

damn i did not know they made a archie cartoon

[pinkgreenkisser]

omg, the voice for archie and jughead...!!! SO DIFFERENT than I imagined them to be...

But i love this song, brings back childhood memories

[1groovyguy]

Hey - outasight, man! Groovy music video!

[trevor40]

This song is more FUN than any song in 2008!!!!

[Lehnerd57]

jeff barry is doin singin also in this

[seizetheweakened]

killer ass @ 1:31

[BrokenLeggBilly]

hahahahahahaha-right on!

[Cresantstar]

lmao i was laughting at the man at the man at 1:32 that dance was so funny lmao

[emilygclarinet]

This is trippy!

[BobbyLankford83]

Cool 'toon, my sis had that record. Jughead in that black silhouette resembles Prince Charles as Mad Magazine once joked. Jughead's silhouette is cool. They later recycled Jughead on drums and used it on The Brady Kids for when Bobby played the drums,just like other scenes from The Archies and other shows.

[bentchord]

ha! I used to watch this cartoon as a kid, cartoons were fun and happy then, loved the psychedelics too! - no wonder I liked pot when I got a little older! lol

[gwddd]

Wow! The colors !! The Archies were psychedelic... groooovvvyyyyyyy ~~~~

[AprilONeil1984]

that is cool

[nalinsss]

is archie the main singer?

[Pterixa]

Yes.

[Sakura84]

I haven't seen this video before. I love it The Archies are amazing!

[LittleMissAnimation]

I loooooooooooooooe this vedio

[leeyuri1]

luv the archies. happy music. go betty!

[silentalarmactivated]

Anybody else think the White Stripes might have been influenced by this video?

[aligatorthegreat11]

are you talkng about hte back ground to the seven natin army music video? comparied to hte back gound of this song?

cause it reminde me of that

haha

[paultinsel]

i have this 45 weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[anne8747]

wow

[skinnyblinddude]

Groovy!

The best Archies CD out now is 'Absolutely the Best of the Archies' released on Varese Sarabande Records. The sound is warm and detailed. Other labels that have released Archies material have been somewhat timid about opening up the audio equalization for fear you might notice the limitations of the analog recording process common to the era. Embrace the distortion! The aforementioned CD is righteous bubblegum pop at its very best!

[girlDBZfan101]

wow 70's were trippy ^-^

[SoySkittySauce]

No, that was the 60's. 70's were funky xDDD

[girlDBZfan101]

yeah pretty much LOL XDDD

[monkeylad44]

Lol i wish they'd had some other animations for all their songs.They gang's always doing the same few movements.Ah well great song anyway!

[chefstar]

That was trademark of all the early cartoons. To save money they would use the same backgrounds and reuse moves. Watch Speed Buggy, The Flintstones, Josie and the Pussycats - they all did it. If you were a smart kid you kid never figure out how they got the sounds of the song from the simple movements and 4 instruments.

[monkeylad44]

Oh yeah, I have, lol and it kinda sickens me XD.

I don't mind it so much as I wish they coulda

worked around it.

[emilyelewis]

Dilton! He's adorable. <3

[beatlesgirl1980]

I always wanted to be Betty. She could really bang that tamborine!

[coolcoolcoolest]

I like Hot Dog he is funny and Jugghead too they are my favourite character in the Archies comic book and moose is also my favourite character too

[jonvin777]

i remember loving this song and the video when i saw it in Singapore 1970/71, still holds up, it's agreat series of hooks, the verses are even bettre than the chorus - shoulda been a massive hit and needs covering - as does Love Vibrations.

[doobeedoo58]

The Archies just aren't the same since Jughead died!!!

[Martialartfruituser]

Has anyone noticed that Betty and Veronica don't have solos?

[windsorbear]

Edited version of The Archies sixth single and title track of their fourth album.

[ArchieandJughead]

:D :D :D