Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Bum

As all of you oh-so-loyal fans well enough know, one of my all-time favorite superslices is The Archies' Sugar Sugar. It made my all-time Top Fifty Song List, and is scheduled to be played at a crucial time during my comically long funeral celebration ("Also, don't let Dave forget the up and down tease as they lower and raise my casket into the grave to Sugar Sugar). AND, thanks to
RRTHUR (yes, ladies, THAT RRTHUR!!) I got this:

Thats Ron Dante, as in Ron Dante, lead singer of the Archies, bitches!!

ANYhoo, turns out that the songs landed at #1 on the charts 50 years ago, up against some incredible competition:

...who knew that the year that produced songs like "Fortunate Son," "Age Of Aquarius" and "Everyday People" would crown a bubblegum pop tune by a fictional cartoon band as its top song of the year? "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies – yes, from the comics – was named No. 1 on Billboard's Year-End Countdown in 1969. The song first hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Sept. 20 of that year. 

Once radio did start playing it, there was no looking back. "Sugar, Sugar" would spend 22 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100, four of those weeks — Sept. 20 to Oct. 11 — atop the No. 1 spot.
The Archies is not only the first fictitious band to reach No. 1 on the Billboard charts in the U.S., but is also the only group to reach such heights without ever performing the song live onstage.

It was the total apex of all the GREAT bubblegum songs being pumped out of studios by made-up bands (including Creed Bratton's own fantastic Grass Roots).

What. A. Fucking. Perfect. Song.