1910 Fruitgum Company - Simon Says

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The prototypical bubblegum group, the 1910 Fruitgum Company was the brainchild of Buddah Records house producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz, also the masterminds behind such phenoms as the Ohio Express and the Music Explosion. The Kasenetz-Katz formula was a simple one: they enlisted anonymous studio musicians (in this case, vocalistsMark Gutkowski and Joey Levine -- also the singer in the Ohio Express -- along with guitarists Frank Jeckell, Pat Karwan, and Chuck Travis, horn player Larry Ripley, and drummers Rusty Oppenheimer and Floyd Marcus) and prolifically recorded lightweight, fluffy pop songs which found an eager audience in fans looking for an alternative to the edgier rock music of the late 1960s. With the 1910 Fruitgum Company, the Kasenetz-Katz team scored their first major hit, the 1968 Top Five smash "Simon Says," launching the bubblegum craze; that same year they also scored with the singles "1, 2, 3 Red Light" and "Goody Goody Gumdrops," all three issued as title tracks from the group's first trio of LPs. 1969's "Indian Giver," the title cut from the Fruitgum Company's fourth album, was their last Top Five hit, and after one last LP, Hard Ride, the group was disbanded; some of its members later resurfaced in the Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus.

~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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Education

Tags:

• bubblegum
• pop
• rock

[gigantibyte]

Oh man. Did you use Total Video Converter, or did the video come like that? There are free solutions for almost every format, that don't watermark the video.

A nice follow-up to their 123 Red Light song. They don't make bubblegum music like they used to!

[John1948OneA]

@gigantibyte It already had the watermark when I downloaded it.

[staporinac]

This version is slow, it is actually fanatastic

[TheRealSimpleSimon]

So pay attention to me! LOL

[salchst]

The fruitgum company chews gum! The song's a little too slow.

[DrSlick138]

0;50. OK Kids don't do drugs..LOL. JK. I had this 45 when I was 9

[ignaciolr1]

Oh que días aquellos me gustaba mucho esta música, estos grupos musicales,los esuchaba en radio Éxitos,La Pantera 590,o Radio Capital del df México y ahora en Universal Stereo F.M.