Best song from the bubblegum era?

[mac56]

Poll question: Best song from the bubblegum era?

Yes. Bubblegum. Often maligned, but a guilty pleasure for many of us. (Lester Bangs, for example.) Hey, not everybody was ready for the Grateful Dead or Moby Grape in 1968.

Any other fans of the gummy stuff?

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

1. this is before my time....

...sort of.

Are we talking about the Archies?

[mac56]

2. My poll choices all vanished.

Trying to tell me something?

[Faygo Kid]

3. Proud to vote: They all sucked. Yummy, yummy, yummy.

All were bad, and I suspect George W. Bush liked and listened to them all, which may explain a lot. Meanwhile, Cheney was a Black Sabbath fan; the combination of the two explains a lot more, even.

[mac56]

4. These were the choices:

Choice 1 - "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" - Ohio Express
Choice 2 - "Sugar, Sugar" - The Archies
Choice 3 - "Smile A Little Smile For Me" - The Flying Machine
Choice 4 - "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" - Edison Lighthouse
Choice 5 - "1,2,3, Red Light" - 1910 Fruitgum Company
Choice 6 - "Beautiful Sunday" - Daniel Boone
Choice 7 - "Nice To Be With You" - Gallery
Choice 8 - "Green Tambourine" - Lemon Pipers
Choice 9 - "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" - Crazy Elephant
Choice 10 - other (specify)

[Faygo Kid]

7. Where's the poll, then? What, no Cowsills?

Methinks you needst edit your poll, oh gummy one. Tis a good poll; deserves its day in the sun.

[mac56]

8. There! This time it clicked.

No Cowsills, though.

[Faygo Kid]

15. Great poll, though. Bad music, but great poll.

What was it by the Cowsills - "The Wind, the Rain, and Other Things?" ("Suddenly the sun broke through - see the sun - and in her eyes I was gone. . ." Something like that). Oh well, to bed, and tomorrow is another day ("Sunday will never be the same.")

[NightTrain]

5. Would the Music Explosion's "Little Bit O' Soul" qualify as bubblegum?

If so, that's my choice. If not, then it all sucked!

[mac56]

6. Absolutely.

Part of the stable that became Buddah Records.

[NightTrain]

9. Of your choices, I picked Crazy Elephant.

Never thought of most of those tunes as bubblegum, though. :shrug:

[Kat45]

10. I never thought of "Green Tambourine" as bubblegum.

I liked that song; might even have the 45, I'm not sure. The rest of the group, I've always hated.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Clinte Holmes -Playground in my Mind

My name is Michael I got a nickel

[mac56]

12. Clint should stay away from the playground.

That's what restraining orders are for.

[1monster]

13. Leslie Gore and Little Peggy March and recording artists of that ilk

were Bubblegum. About the only songs you have up there that qualify as bubblegum are Sugar, Sugar and Yummy, Yummy, Yummy.

The others were considered pop or soft rock.

I know. I was there...

(signed by Older than I look ;) )

[mac56]

14. Everyone has their own defintion, I guess.

One person's soft rock is another person's bubblegum.

I was there too.

add on definition: Maybe if I like it, it's soft rock; if I don't, it's bubblegum. Or as my wife often tells me on cleanup day: my stuff; your crap!

[1monster]

22. Perhaps, but I was going by what the D.J.s of the day called it.

It was mostly very young artists... young enough to still be considered the Bubblegum set.

And I liked Bubblegum music. Still do for that matter. It was for fun and not to be taken seriously.

[Gildor Inglorion]

16. "Judy In Disguise" ?

Surely would qualify...right period, right kind of song. I loved it. Of your choices, I voted for "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy." I liked that one, too. Also "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock. It was a playful era, and oh, man, did we ever PLAY!

[tigereye]

17. sugar sugar - bubblegum supremo

boy I feel a bit old

[FloridaJudy]

18. You missed "We've Only Just Begun"

The one that spared bulemics from having to stick a finger down their throats.

[Red State Rebel]

19. Build me up Buttercup!

[ironflange]

20. Lollipop, lollipop,

Ooo lolli lolli lolli,
Lollipop, lollipop,
Ooo lolli lolli lolli,
Lollipop, lollipop,
Ooo lolli lolli lolli, lollipop!
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Ba-dum-dum-dum
Lollipop, lollipop, etc.

[kid shelleen]

21. Bubblegum is great, subversive stuff

And don't let anybody tell ya different. The Philistines!

Here's a few that didn't make the list: (not K&K i realize)

Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

Paul Revere & the Raiders - It's Happening

Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

Tommy James & the Shondells - Hanky Panky

The Music Explosion - Sunshine Games

Generation X - Ready Steady Go

Annnnd if you really dig the Gum, check out 'Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth'. Another fine Feral House publication.