"The Archies" sure look different. . . .
Nov. 14th, 2004 02:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shalanna*boggle* I just heard "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies (actually Ron Dante and Andy Kim, song written by Donnie Kirshner and Jeff Barry) on MTV . . . but it wasn't the original. It was a cover, being chanted by a bunch of rappin' idiots over the now-ubiquitous hippity-hoppity beat.
That was the stupidest thing I've ever had occasion to hear.
And my husband had turned purposely to that channel. "Is that new?" I asked. "Been out a while," he said. "Knew it would get to you."
"Who IS that?"
But he'd already turned it to another channel. You know guys--they don't stay on one channel for long. "Wait--go back to the guy juggling mice!" But they're already three channel changes away and can't find it again.
WHY this would happen isn't tough to figure out. Kirshner needs to make a payment on the yacht, somebody asks him if they can cover his old song, he can get royalties and it can be a hit again for a new generation . . . he won't be saying "No."
*mmph*
Expect me to set up some street kids to chant "Jingle Bell Rock" (the old Bobby Helms version) for the coming season. And maybe the flip side (you know, that's another thing I miss--the flip side of 45RPM 7-Inch vinyl versions of hits--they were usually quite obscure, but catchy), "Captain Santy Claus." I'll make a million. Ai-yi-yiii!
That was the stupidest thing I've ever had occasion to hear.
And my husband had turned purposely to that channel. "Is that new?" I asked. "Been out a while," he said. "Knew it would get to you."
"Who IS that?"
But he'd already turned it to another channel. You know guys--they don't stay on one channel for long. "Wait--go back to the guy juggling mice!" But they're already three channel changes away and can't find it again.
WHY this would happen isn't tough to figure out. Kirshner needs to make a payment on the yacht, somebody asks him if they can cover his old song, he can get royalties and it can be a hit again for a new generation . . . he won't be saying "No."
*mmph*
Expect me to set up some street kids to chant "Jingle Bell Rock" (the old Bobby Helms version) for the coming season. And maybe the flip side (you know, that's another thing I miss--the flip side of 45RPM 7-Inch vinyl versions of hits--they were usually quite obscure, but catchy), "Captain Santy Claus." I'll make a million. Ai-yi-yiii!
