Absolutely The Best (CD)

Not a band in any actual physical sense of the word, the Archies were the musical incarnation of the Saturday morning cartoon/comicbook characters from Riverdale. The brainchild of music impresario Don Kirshner, the act was a studio incarnation that benefited from the likes of crackerjack songwriter and Brill Building vet Jeff Barry. Their biggest hit is the undeniably infectious 1969 single "Sugar Sugar," a song that despite its rigorously manufactured origins is one of the finest pieces of pure pop songwriting ever recorded. Amazingly, traces of the Archies can be found across the pop music landscape, in everything from the anthemic punk of the Ramones and the powerpop of Matthew Sweet to the prefab pop of any number of boy bands and teenage superstars.

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• Release Date: May 22, 2001
• Label: Fuel 2000 Records
• UPC: 030206112023
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106652426
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #54397 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #751 in Oldies (See Top 100 Oldies Bestsellers)
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Personnel includes: Ron Dante (vocals); Ritchie Adams, Jeff Barry, Bobby Bloom, Joey Levine, Donna Marie, Jeannie Thomas, Toni Wine (background vocals).

Producers: Jeff Barry, Ron Dante, Ritchie Adams.

Compilation producer: Bill Pitzonka.

Includes liner notes by David Smay.

Digitally remastered by Jesse Fishman.

That this 2001 collection doesn't begin with "Sugar, Sugar," still the only number-one single of the year (1969) by a fake band, says everything you need to know. As much as is possible for a disc from a cartoon group inspired by a series of comic books, ABSOLUTELY THE BEST gives the Archies the serious treatment, presenting sixteen of their best songs in roughly chronological order. The music blurs past like a sugar rush, which is the point.

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