Three CD set. Anthology of late '60s American bubblegum pop. Hit singles, cult collectables and obscure album tracks. Featuring The Archies, The Monkees, Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Co., The Lemon Pipers, and Crazy Elephant. In the late summer of 1966, manufactured pop quartet The Monkees - a Beatles-inspired concept inevitably nicknamed the Prefab Four - made their TV and vinyl debut. Overseen by industry veteran Don Kirshner, whose Brill Building-honed team supplied most of the songs, The Monkees was aimed at the pre-teen market effectively disenfranchised by the increasingly sophisticated nature of mid-60s pop. The venture's runaway success encouraged numerous other backroom songwriting/ production teams to step forward, with the New York-based Kasenetz-Katz partnership coining the term "bubblegum" as shorthand for the manufactured pop process. Kasenetz-Katz hit big with such names as Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Co. And Crazy Elephant, while Don Kirshner and his favored producer Jeff Barry - both sidelined when The Monkees rose up against their puppet masters - returned with cartoon pop group The Archies and the biggest-selling single of 1969, 'Sugar, Sugar'. Pour A Little Sugar On It examines the bubblegum phenomenon in forensic detail, with all of the aforementioned acts joined by hits from The Lemon Pipers, Tommy Roe, Tommy James & The Shondells, The Cuff Links, The Box Tops, Lou Christie, Andy Kim and others as well as numerous cult 45s (The Rasberry Pirates, Cartoon Candy Carnival, The Four Fuller Brothers, etc.). Also featuring some unlikely names who occasionally left their fingerprints in the sticky stuff (The Electric Prunes, The Beach Boys, Sparks, Velvet Underground), 'Pour A Little Sugar On It' is housed in a 3CD clamshell box that includes a 48-page booklet with rare photos and the stories behind all 91 tracks. It's gonna make your life so sweet

Track List

1. Simon Says - 1910 Fruitgum Co
2. Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express
3. A Little Bit Me a Little Bit You - the Monkees
4. Bang-Shang-A-Lang - the Archies
5. Mr. Sun Mr. Moon (Album
6. Version) - Paul Revere ; the Raiders
7. Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' -Crazy Elephant
8. Cherry Cherry - Neil Diamond
9. Baby I Love You - Andy Kim
10. Love Is a Word - Everyday Hudson
11. Groupie - the Four Fuller Brothers
12. I'm Gonna Make You Mine - Lou Christie
13. If You're Thinkin' What I'm
14. Thinkin' - Dino Desi ; Billy
15. The Joker Went Wild - Brian Hyland
16. Boppa Do Down Down - the Third Rail
17. Tracy - the Cuff Links
18. Alice Long (You're Still My Favorite Girlfriend) - Tommy Boyce ; Bobby Hart
19. Everybody Knows You're Not in Love - the Electric Prunes
20. Fairy Tales Can Come True (Have You Heard About Lucy) -San Francisco Earthquake
21. Let Me Bring You Up - Ron Dante
22. Latin Shake - LT. Garcia's Magic Music Box
23. Marathon Mary - the Globetrotters
24. Loop de Loop - Salt Water Taffy
25. Fly Me to Havana - the Grass Roots
26. Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
27. I'd Like to Talk to You - Mark Eric
28. Jennifer Tomkins - Street People
29. Looky Looky My Cookie's
30. Gone - the Rasberry Pirates
31. Billy's Got a Goat - Patty Flabbies' Coughed Engine
32. Feelin' So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y-D.O.O.) - the Archies
33. I Think We're Alone Now -Tommy James ; the Shondells
34. Green Tambourine - the Lemon Pipers
35. The Grooviest Girl in the World - the Fun ; Games
36. Who Loves the Sun - Velvet Underground
37. Jingle Jangle - the Archies
38. Double Good Feelin' - Gary Lewis ; the Playboys
39. Pepperman - Arnim-Hamilton
40. Fa la Fa Lee - Halfnelson (Sparks)
41. What's Your Name - the Music Explosion
42. Indian Lake - the Cowsills
43. How She Boogalooed It - the Beach Boys
44. She's the Kind of Girl - the Peppermint Trolley Company
45. Chewy Chewy - Ohio Express
46. Cry Like a Baby - the Box Tops
47. Bouncing All Over Theworld - the Globetrotters
48. She Sold Me Magic - Lou Christie
49. Girl on the Subway - the Cherry People
50. Move in a Little Closer Baby Mama Cass
51. Montego Bay (Album Version) - Bobby Bloom
52. Candy Apple Cotton Candy -Ruthann Friedman (Art Podell ; Nick Woods)
53. The March of the Jingle
54. Jangle People - San Francisco Earthquake
55. Valleri - the Pineapple Heard
56. Would You Believe - Mortimer
57. Sunshine Girl - the Parade
58. Banana Man - the Knack
59. Go Lightly - the Goggles
60. How Do You Know - Ron Dante
61. Gingersnap - Jamie
62. Mr. Peacock - Orange Colored Sky
63. Archie's Party - the Archies
64. Jam Up Jelly Tight - Tommy Roe
65. Shake - Shadows of Knight
66. Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run) - Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus
67. Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Marmalade) - the Lemon Pipers
68. Goody Goody Gumdrops - 1910
69. Fruitgum Co. Things (Goin' Round in My Mind) -Merrell Fankhauser ; H. M. S. Bounty Who's Your Baby? - the Archiesjudy in Disguise (With Glasses) -John Fred ; His Playboy Band
70. Everything Is Mickey Mouse -Cartoon Candy Carnival
71. How Do You Like Those Apples -South Amboy Port Authority
72. Keep on - Bruce Channel
73. Sophia - San Francisco Earthquake
74. Red Rover Red Rover - the Puddle (Aka the Bunch)
75. Little Miss Sunshine - the Peppermint Trolley Company
76. Make Your Own Sweet Music -The Golden Gate
77. Brand New Key - Melanie
78. Sunshine Red Wine - Crazy Elephant
79. Alley Pond Park - Culver Street Playground
80. Let the Good Times in - Thelove Generation
81. Suzanne on a Sunday Morning -Rick Nelson
82. Bubble Gum and Braces - Bobby Sherman
83. Mr. Bus Driver - Neal Dover
84. Wiwwian Wevy - Pastrami Malted
85. Ninny Bop Bop - Bonnie ; the Clydes
86. Loving You Makes Everything
87. Alright - the Marshmellow Highway 25 Don't Let Love Pass You By -
88. Ron Dante
89. Cheer Me Up - the Globetrotters
90. Thank You Girl - Street People
91. Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? - the Free
92. Design
93. The Rapper - the Jaggerz
94. Jennifer Rain - the Goggles
95. Sugar Sugar - the Archies