The Archies Jingle Jangle with original intro

Originally broadcast on "The Archie Comedy Hour" in 1969 on CBS on Saturday mornings, this music segment would later be shown in the 1970 CBS prime time special "The Archie Sugar, Sugar / Jingle Jangle Show". It was also broadcast on the Ed Sullivan show, January 4, 1970, minus the intro from "Hot Dog" and Archie.
I was 8 years old when this was first released, and even as a kid, I was disappointed in how cheap the animation looked as compared to the Warner Bros, Disney and MGM cartoons we all grew up with. You will notice that characters are often behind things..this means they only have to animate someone from the shoulders up. The band shots were used over and over again....less than 25 feet of animation and they used it a million times. Filmation was so damn cheap!

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[lindsey2021]

HA!

any relation to Josey and the Pussycats? Im looking at the scene where they all are dancing with the drums.

love cartoons.

[CineGraphic]

Absolutely the same crap, with limited repeated motions. The backgrounds don't move, they just change colors. No artistry at all..just cranking out episodes as quickly as they could.

These toons make Hannah & Barbera look like DaVinci

[MrCoolRadioVoiceGuy]

@CineGraphic Yep - pretty pathetic animation by today's standards. But for those of us growing up during this time, it was just the greatest! TV was still magical and we had nothing better to compare it to. Some of us didn't even see a color TV set until our teenage years. For most of my childhood, it was black & white via antenna signal. No cable. And that meant lots of static and "snow" when the weather was bad.

[CineGraphic]

@MrCoolRadioVoiceGuy

I too grew-up with b&w. You had to wait for the set to warm up before you could see/hear anything. Those babies were LOADED with tubes, and repairmen made house-calls. When you turned the TV off, the picture shrank down all the way to a tiny dot in the center of the tube, until it finally faded away.

Televisions were pieces of furniture back then.

We switched to color in 64 or 65.

[SoloPilot6]

CBS was only willing to pay about 10 cents per frame for 18 frames per second and 20 minutes of payload. That had to pay for A), rights to the characters, B), music and singers, C), voice actors, D) production overhead, E), writers, F), everydamnthing else, and, last but not least, G), artists, animators, inbetweeners, inkers, painters, etc.

If you were willing to pay the 85 cents per frame at 24 frames per second that Disney quality cost, you could get Disney quality.

Live with it.

[simwrangler]

@lindsey2021 Actually, Josie & the Pussy Cats orginally came from the Archie's comics. So in a way, yes they are related.

[MONGOOSE1ful]

In response to your views on Filmation's animation,,please understand that this

studio,in its short 25 years of its service,later on to achive an improvement,seldomly

seen or noticed by most first impressions,as exampled in its later history,when the

studio went on to do "FLASH GORDON",and its last series,"BRAVESTARR" in

1987. when THE ARCHIES ran on CBS in the late 60s and 70s,it was done with

the "limited animation" format-and although many were displeased-this series

went on to Higher Success

[Addiskrilla]

MY GOD!!!!!!  what the hell!!? the reception

IS FUCKED UP!! i would expect this in a

30's cartoon black snow sqiggling lines

Popin and that line on the right that keeps

Moving left and right and big black spots!!

COME ON!!! what IS that line I keep seein!?

[K7DFA]

@MrCoolRadioVoiceGuy

I remember the B&W and poor reception, too!

Those were the days!

[57highland]

@nidiaaw -- You're right. "Bubble-gum" music, when composed and performd with some skill and integrity, can actually be pretty entertaining. And you're right, again, about the bass line; it jumps right out.

[nidiaaw]

Ok, ok! So I'm the guy that grew up lovng the likes of Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, ELton John, Led Zep and Earth Wind and Fire ......but I LOVE this perfect example of bubble gum pop confection! And to be honest the bassline is pretty cool! Verdine White would be pleased.