I watched the Archies on TV in the 70s as a kid, and I thought all the songs at the end of the shows were meh.
I had no idea some of them actually charted in the US. Well, actually I so young that I wasn't aware what a singles or album sales chart was at the time.
I guess they tried to repeat the formula with other cartoons from that era with songs at the end of the weekly episodes: Josie & The Pussycats for sure, Scooby Doo(?), Sid & Marty Krofft shows like the Banana Splits, and I'm sure there were others.
The first record I ever owned. Sort of.
It was stamped on the back of a cereal box, complete with a dotted line to cut it out on, and I did, and had it for years.
I had some of those cereal box records, but don't remember which ones.
That record or cereal box is probably a collectors item today.
Edit: Heh, [$19 bucks]
(https://www.ebay.com/itm/185187155061) I found out from a YT short
I watched the Archies on TV in the 70s as a kid, and I thought all the songs at the end of the shows were meh.
I had no idea some of them actually charted in the US. Well, actually I so young that I wasn't aware what a singles or album sales chart was at the time.
I guess they tried to repeat the formula with other cartoons from that era with songs at the end of the weekly episodes: Josie & The Pussycats for sure, Scooby Doo(?), Sid & Marty Krofft shows like the Banana Splits, and I'm sure there were others.
Yeah - none of the later ones really caught on.
Speaking of the Banana Splits though...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=flMS2gHFOH0
I know the video you've linked... Without clicking
One of my all-time favorite bands.
I had no idea this song was from the Archies TV show.
I was only familiar with it as the first sample(?) from the 1981 medley Stars On 45
Funny that they're mostly Beatles songs.
The same producers even made a Beatles-only medley.
It was an easy formula to string together hit songs for a medley, but I'm not sure what royalties the original artists got from the producers.