This Is Love - ARCHIES CD

This Is Love - ARCHIES CD

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This Is Love - ARCHIES CD

The Archies is a fictional garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of teenage characters of the Archie comic book series, in the context of the animated TV series, the Archie Show. The fictional bands music was recorded by session musicians featuring Ron Dante on vocals and released as a series of singles and albums. Their most successful song, "Sugar, Sugar", became one of the biggest hits of the bubblegum pop genre that flourished from 1968 to 1972. This classic 1971 album, "This Is Love," has been newly remastered.Additional Info: The last of the original Archies albums, 1971's This Is Love is the weakest of the lot. By this point, the principals of the project were more interested in other jobs; Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, who had previously been executive producer Don Kirshner's primary collaborators, had already skived off to focus on Kim's solo career, contributing only "Together We Two," a Ron Dante and Toni Wine duet that sounds like an outtake from one of the earlier albums. Even odder, the characters from the Archies cartoons are nowhere to be seen on the sleeve, nor are they mentioned in the liner notes. However, despite a higher-than-usual ratio of trash to treasure (the first couple of Archies albums are surprisingly strong for the same reason that the first four or five Monkees albums tended to be excellent: they needed a higher number of potential hits to feature in the TV show), This Is Love is not entirely dismissible. The title track is slight but charming, and the countrified "Should Anybody Ask" has the psychedelic cowboy charm of one of Michael Nesmith's more fanciful tunes. Then there's the four-minute throwaway jam "What Goes On," unfortunately not a bubblegum cover of the Velvet Underground's similarly titled classic but co-producer Richie Adams' Vietnam commentary, which is about as interesting and insightful as one might expect. For hardcore bubblegum fans only. ~ Stewart Mason

Specifics

Album: This Is Love
Artist: ARCHIES
Label: ESSENTIAL MEDIA GROUP
Genre: Pop
MPN: 94231 23262

Tracklist

1. This Is Love
Written-By – Ritchie Adams, Robert Levine (2)
Written-By – Ritchie Adams, Robert Levine (2)
2. Don't Need No Bad Girl
Written By – Allen Gordon
Written-By – Ritchie Adams
Written By – Allen Gordon
Written-By – Ritchie Adams
3. Should Anybody Ask
Written-By – Ritchie Adams, Robert Levine (2)
Written-By – Ritchie Adams, Robert Levine (2)
4. Easy Guy
Written-By – Ritchie Adams, Robert Levine (2)
Written-By – Ritchie Adams, Robert Levine (2)
5. Maybe I'm Wrong
Written-By – Ritchie Adams
Written-By – Ritchie Adams
6. What Goes On
Written By – Allen Gordon
Written-By – Ritchie Adams
Written By – Allen Gordon
Written-By – Ritchie Adams
7. Carousel Man
Written-By – Bob Gengo, Ron Dante
Written-By – Bob Gengo, Ron Dante
8. Hold On To Lovin'
Written-By – Gene Allan, Ron Dante
Written-By – Gene Allan, Ron Dante
9. This Is The Night
Written-By – Mark Barkan, Ritchie Adams
Written-By – Mark Barkan, Ritchie Adams
10. Little Green Jacket
Written-By – Mark Barkan, Ritchie Adams
Written-By – Mark Barkan, Ritchie Adams
11. Together We Two
Producer – Jeff Barry
Written-By – Andy Kim, Jeff Barry
Producer – Jeff Barry
Written-By – Andy Kim, Jeff Barry
12. Throw A Little Love My Way
Written-By – Gene Allan, Ron Dante
Written-By – Gene Allan, Ron Dante

GTIN: 894231232626