Music Trivia - Archies in the 60's and in the 90's

Here's a little tidbit of trivia~

The worse comic book movie adaptation isn't Steel, Catwoman, Elektra or Jonah Hex... oh no..
It probably is in my eyes Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again!

I haven't even seen the whole thing... yet...
But basically it's about the Archie Comics characters.
You know, that red head guy who can't pick up between those two girls who are always chasing after him. And there's other friends too.. And they have that crazy buffoon pal who's name's Jughead.

I haven't really read Archie Comics (apart from the occasional Sonic comic).
But it's easy to understand the basis.
The series is as old as Batman and Superman, and was created bacn in 1939.
It was adapted as a cartoon on TV in 1968, one year before Scooby-Doo, and used the same kind of animation, stories and dynamic between the characters (there's even a weirdly intelligent sort-of-talking dog around!)

Don't say it rips off Scooby-Doo! It was actually invented before!

Though both series like to reference the other...

So, in the '90s, since Archie comics were having so much success with all their cartoon adaptations...they wanted to try live-action stuff too..
Simply put, it ended in an awful result..something no decent human being should have to lay eyes on...
Bad...bad..huh..just bad!
They would have more success with later live adaptations of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch on tv and Josie and the Pussycats in theatres in the 2000s.

Anyway, now that you had all this introduction, let's just check out this song (yes, the movie reimagine some classic Archies songs, for the 90s kids).
Before anyone ask me, "But, is it really bad?"

This is the movie's Jughead:



°____O

...
Really?!...
*calls the police*

Yeah, it pretty sums up the whole movie.
Just. Plain. Bad.

They re-play another Archies song at some point, the whole movie is quite depressing (as any story of school reunion always is), Archie is engaged to some girl, finds his two ol' loves, people talk about growing up, being responsable and the movie makes no sense, no point and should simply be forgotten.

'Guess you didn't taught something worse than the Catwoman or Elektra movie existed right? XD

And now, since this is a music trivia post, here's the trivia about music.

This song was actually a (horrible) cover of Sugar Sugar by The Archies.
The Archies? It was the name of the fictive music group of Archie & co, who played in episodes of the ol' Archie show of the 60s.
It was produced by future-Monkees Don Kirshner (who also co-wrote/played in/sang sometimes) with lead vocal/songwriter/guitar player Ron Dante as Archie.

And now here's the original song, which sounds less pedo and more family friendly:



And on this note, I'll leave you with this good spirited fun lovin' song and hope you'll forget about the movie I talked about above.

Which version d'you prefer? Sugar Sugar '60s or '90s??

(1968-09-14)