Trivia Question: 1910 Fruit Gum Company what or who was it?

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Gum or Band?
If they were a bad what song did they sing and what era did they come out in?
If it was Gum what was the flavor and what year did they sell it?

[WealthAndDemocracy]

1. Band

Yummy Yummy Yummy I got Love in My Tummy??

OR was it 1 2 3 Red Light?

One of those

[Must_B_Free]

2. both

it was a band you could really sink your teeth into

[AlienGirl]

3. Band!

Fron the 60's, they had a song I liked with the lyrics, "Let me take you to a place where everyone's breed is the same, no reputation to develop, no need to acquire fame. In this place you get what you lacked on Earth, of pleasure, leisure and love, and new rebirth..."

At least, I *think* that was them. I know I had a 1910 Fruit Gum Company record...

Tucker

[Norbert]

4. Band

They recorded what is called bubblegum music or bubblegum rock which was big for about a year or two in the late 1960s. This was music with shallow and simplistic lyrics but were fun to listen to.

Some of the 1910 Fruitgum Companys hits were:

Simon Says
1 2 3 Red Light
Indian Giver
Goody Goody Gumdrops

After about 1970 they had run their course.

[regnaD kciN]

5. Bubblegum music...

...was really aimed at the pre-teen generation of those times, who would have been scared off (or at least their parents would have been!) by the hard-core psychedelia and antisocial attitudes of regular rock, but "needed" a music of their own.

Bubblegum really sprang from The Monkees television series and its popularity among the pre-teen crowd, but added a layer of sanitized psychedelic sound -- enough to be "unusual" and "colorful," but not enough to suggest that it came from minds tripping on LSD. (Some people have noted, though, that much of late-60s bubblegum had some extremely sexual subtexts among the "cute" lyrics -- honestly, what does "Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy" sound like to you? ;-) )

During 1968-1969, much bubblegum music came out on the Buddah label, including the stuff from the 1910 Fruitgum Company, the Strawberry Alarm Clock ("Incense and Peppermints"), Ohio Express ("Yummy Yummy Yummy"), Lemon Pipers ("Green Tambourine"), Lou Christie ("I'm Gonna Make You Mine"), and several other bands whose rather-odd names I have long since forgotten. Of course, away from the Buddah label, there were also the slightly-more-grown-up Tommy James and the Shondells ("Crimson and Clover") and, last but not least, the Archies, a band made up of cartoon characters, whose "Sugar, Sugar" was one of the biggest-selling songs of 1969.

After 1970, the Buddah groups died out, and bubblegum, cleaned up even more of any "hippie" touches, became notable for being the domain of a number of "safe" teen idols from TV, such as Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, and finally Donny Osmond.