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"Sugar, Sugar"
Single by The Archies from the album Everything's Archie
Released	1969
Recorded	1969
Genre	Bubblegum Pop
Length	2:48
Writer	Andy Kim Jeff Barry
Producer	Jeff Barry
The Archies singles chronology
"Feelin' So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y.-D.O.O)" (1969) "Sugar, Sugar" (1969) "Jingle Jangle" (1969) Audio sample Info (help·info)

"Sugar, Sugar" was a 1969 number-one hit single, originally released on the album Everything's Archie, supposedly by fictional characters The Archies, actually the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner, after The Monkees rejected it. Produced by Jeff Barry and written by Barry and Andy Kim, "Sugar, Sugar" is considered the canonical example of the bubblegum pop musical genre.

Ron Dante's lead vocals were accompanied by those of Toni Wine (who sang the line "I'm gonna make your life so sweet"), Andy Kim, and Ellie Greenwich. Together, they provided the voices of the various Archies using multitracking. Ray Stevens, the comic singer, provided the hand claps to the song.

"Sugar, Sugar" was the number one single of 1969, according to Billboard, a feat yet to be duplicated by any other fictional band. It spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 from September 20, 1969 and eight weeks at the top of the UK singles chart. The following year, in 1970, singer Wilson Pickett hit the U.S. Top Forty with his own version of the song. (Pickett also had covered the number one single of 1968, "Hey Jude" by The Beatles, with his top-40 version in late 1968.) In the United Kingdom, singer/producer Jonathan King had a top 20 hit with his rock cover of it under the name Sakkarin. Later, it was covered by Tom Jones, Ike & Tina Turner, Bob Marley & the Wailers and The Germs. Studio group Stars on 45 included it in their Beatles-heavy, 1981 "Stars on 45 Medley". Blue Orchids covered the song on their "Mystic Bud" album, released in 2004. Praga Khan covered the song on their Electric Religion album, also released in 2004.

In 1980, co-composer Andy Kim recorded "Sugar, Sugar" under the name Baron Longfellow, as a track on his self-titled LP. On February 5, 2006, "Sugar, Sugar" was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, as Kim is originally from Montreal, Quebec.

On September 4, 2006, Dante and Wine performed the song together on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. This was the first time they had publicly performed the song together. They performed it again at one of Toni Wine's performances at the Genghis Cohen in West Hollywood.

Pop-rap artist Nitty sampled "Sugar, Sugar" for his 2004 single "Nasty Girl".

• The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, fifth edition.
• "Sugar, Sugar" Songfacts.