The Archies are usually regarded as one hit wonders for " Sugar Sugar ", but had three further top 40 entries on the Billboard top 40 (" Who's Your Baby?

The Archies are a garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of fictional adolescent characters of the Archie universe, in the context of the animated TV series, The Archie Show.

The Gothic Archies are a self-described goth-bubblegum band created and largely performed by Stephin Merritt, more famously of The Magnetic Fields.

The main primary schools are Star of the Sea ( girls ) and Edmund Rice Primary School ( boys ), formerly Archies Dam.

Popular Book House, International Book Service, Archies, Venus Traders, Super Shoppe and Sagar Arcade are some of the prime commercial establishments.

Some groups, like The Archies, Gorillaz, Peepall and Alvin and the Chipmunks, are hand-drawn characters, and much of their media use traditional animation and cartooning techniques.

* Archie's Gang: The main characters often crossover with Josie and the Pussycats ( and vice-versa ), sometimes in stories involving the Archies.

Together they provided the voices of the Archies using multitracking.

Reggie is also a bassist for The Archies and occasionally lead guitarist after Archie, and naturally thinks of himself as the most important and talented member of the group — and has gone to great lengths to prove it, such as hiring groupies to scream his name during concerts.

He is also the mascot for The Archies.

One distribution mode for the Archies ' music was cereal boxes: a cardboard record was embossed directly into the back of a box such that the record could be cut out and played on a turntable ( although their music was also available on standard issue LPs and 45s ).

She also appeared on the New Archies cartoon and tie-in comic book series, as well as Archie's Weird Mysteries.

The 6ths is a band created by Stephin Merritt, also the prime mover behind The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes.

The music of Stephin Merritt can also be heard throughout the series, including songs from his projects The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and The Gothic Archies.

She has also done voices for various animated TV series featuring Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Babar, AlfTales, My Pet Monster, Sylvanian Families, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, The Rosey and Buddy Show, Rupert, The New Archies, Little Shop and WildC. A. T. S ..

She's also done voice work on animations including shows such as RoboCop: The Animated Series, Dinosaucers, Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, Stunt Dawgs, Babar, The New Archies, Rupert, Little Shop, Blazing Dragons, Stickin ' Around, The Adventures of Tintin, Ultraforce, Pippi Longstocking, Bob and Margaret, and Little Rosey, and provided the voice of " Skyress " on Bakugan Battle Brawlers.

Wine also sang the female vocals for the cartoon music group The Archies, most notably on their # 1 hit song " Sugar, Sugar " ( singing the line, " I can make your life so sweet.

The family became the first cartoon characters to hit # 1 since The Archies did so in 1969, with " Sugar Sugar ", and the follow-up (" Deep, Deep Trouble ") also did well, peaking at # 7 in April.

A number of other studios produced TV cartoons, such as Filmation ( Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, The Archies ) and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises ( The Pink Panther ), but Hanna-Barbera had developed a virtual lock on Saturday morning cartoons by the 1970s.

May 8th 1990, recording sessions in London for a joint EP-single cover version with The Golden Horde of ' Sugar, Sugar ' by The Archies, and original material, had to be canceled when Johnny experienced ' health problems ' following his performances in Wakefield, UK while on tour.

Vocals for the group were provided by former Archies lead singer Ron Dante, with music supervision by Don Kirshner ( who had supervised the music for The Archie Show ).

The Archies had a real-life # 1 hit single in 1969 with their song, " Sugar, Sugar ", written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim.

Kirshner later had two other record labels, Calendar, which had early hits by The Archies and the Kirshner label, which had later hits by The Archies and Kansas.

When the song was initially released, Kirshner had promotion men play it for radio station execs without telling them the name of the group ( due to the somewhat disappointing chart performance of the Archies ' previous single, " Bang-Shang-a-Lang ", which went to number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts ).

Six-string bass guitars do exist, however, and the Archies ' recordings regularly featured a bass player.

Finally, in the liner notes for 2008's The Archies Christmas Album, Reggie is listed as the bass guitarist.

Musicians on Archies records included guitarist Hugh McCracken, bassists Chuck Rainey and Joey Macho, keyboard player Ron Frangipane, and drummers Buddy Saltzman and Gary Chester.

Other examples of this phenomenon include the records by fictional groups the Archies and Josie & the Pussycats, produced by Don Kirshner and Danny Jansen respectively, who were contracted by TV production companies to produce these records to promote the animated children's TV series of the same name.

Similarly, Jeff Barry and Andy Kim recorded as the Archies.

The Magnetic Fields is essentially a vehicle for Merritt's songwriting, along with various side-projects, such as The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes and The Gothic Archies.

He created and played principal roles in the bands The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes.

Further music was recorded for the audiobook versions of the series and is attributed to The Gothic Archies.

By the 1960s, Betty and Veronica, joined Archie's band, The Archies.

In the late 1960s, the two girls joined Archie's band, a garage band appropriately named The Archies.

In one storyline, a gossip columnist causes mayhem for The Archies when he prints a blind item article about an Archies ' member who secretly plays with a " rival group.

Jughead's hat was recolored in black in the Filmation cartoons and pink in The New Archies.

Jughead is the drummer for The Archies.

Jim even played with The Archies at one of their gigs.

* December 12 – The Archies ' Sugar Sugar Jingle Jangle Christmas Show airs on CBS.

The Archies play a variety of contemporary popular music, consistent with the era in which the comic is drawn.

This dates at least as far back as 1965 with The Beatles, but the Archies helped popularize the concept.

Male vocals for the fictional Archies group were provided by The Cuff Links ' lead singer Ron Dante and female duet vocals were provided by Toni Wine.

The only Archies song not to feature Ron Dante on lead was 1971's " Love Is Living In You ", sung by Richie Adams.