tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215989782024-03-07T19:05:49.950-05:00P O P C U L T U R E C A N T I N ASTUFFED ANIMAL: "EVERYBODY EXPERIENCES THE GREAT AMERICAN SONG BOOK IN THEIR OWN WAY. THIS IS MY WAY: WITH BELOVED CARTOON CHARACTERS CREATED OVER EIGHTY YEARS AGO, AND A STRONG EMPHASIS ON LATIN-FLAVORED ROCK + SOUL MUSIC. ¡VEN, AMIGOS, A MI POP CULTURE CANTINA!"DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comBlogger211125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-16414325213110888422023-09-04T03:04:00.003-04:002024-01-18T15:11:04.742-05:00Starring REGGIE MANTLE: THE BIG HURT (Chapter Six)<span id="docs-internal-guid-eb9f16bf-7fff-fb8a-e9fa-01cde46a47bf" style="font-family: verdana;"><b><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SABRINA THE SORCERESS:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WORLD WAR I! THEY CALLED IT “THE GREAT WAR”. EUROPE WAS HURLED INTO A MAELSTROM OF BOMBING AND BLOODLETTING! BUT ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA, A GLITTERING SHOW PALACE SERVED AS A REFUGE FOR THE LEISURE CLASSES. THERE THEY DROWNED FEARS ABOUT THE WAR WITH COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF FOOD, DRINK, DANCING, NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT AND DISPLAYS OF BARE FLESH - BOTH FEMALE AND MALE! AGAINST THIS CONTRASTING BACKDROP OF CARNAGE AND REVELRY, A GREAT ROMANCE IS NEARING ITS TRAGIC END . . .</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53015647383/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="THE BIG HURT INTRO"><img alt="THE BIG HURT INTRO" height="376" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53015647383_c56ecc8027.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE BIG HURT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A SEQUEL TO “THE FREAKING OUT </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OF GERALDINE GRUNDY”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CONCLUSION:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“LA MORT ROUGE”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE TIME: OCTOBER 1917</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE PLACE: CÔTE D’AZUR, FRANCE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE NARRATOR: EL NINJA </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ALTHOUGH BORN IN </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MÜNICH</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, TOBY MAXX DID NOT AGREE WITH HIS NATIVE COUNTRY’S DECISION TO WAGE WAR. HE FELT THAT AN ALLIED VICTORY WAS IN EUROPE’S BEST INTEREST, AND SO DID NOT OPPOSE BEING CONSCRIPTED. MY </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">QUERIDO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WAS PROMPTLY SHIPPED OFF TO BELGIUM, WHERE THE BATTLE WAS @ ITS VERY DEADLIEST! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SO WE HAD TO OPEN OUR CLUB WITHOUT GEMINI, ITS STAR ATTRACTION; BUT THAT WAS SECONDARY IN MY MIND. MY TOBY,</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> MI TESORO, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WAS IN DANGER .</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> . . ¡AY, DIÓS MÍO! </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I FEARED WELCOMING HIM HOME IN A PINE BOX! JOY FILLED MY HEART WHENEVER GARCY TOLD US ABOUT RECEIVING ONE OF HIS LETTERS FROM THE FRONT; INVARIABLY, IT WOULD INCLUDE AN INQUIRY ABOUT ME.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IN THE MEANTIME, LIFE HAD TO GO ON. I WED CLEO, AND SHE SOON HAD TO FOREGO PERFORMING; SHE BECAME PREGNANT WITH OUR CHILD. GARCY STEPPED IN TO REPLACE HER. DANTE STRUCK AN AGREEMENT WITH HORNYTOAD TO SHARE OWNERSHIP OF CABARET ISABELLE, AND </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MONSIEUR </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BROUGHT MOST OF HIS ACTS OVER FROM SPAIN. RAM SHARMA CREATED A NEW VERSION OF SHARMANTE, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SANS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DONNA AND HIMSELF, TO ACCOMPANY ME IN A NEW SOLO SHOW. FOR MY GUITARIST, I HIRED MY OLD FRIEND CÓRTEZ QUINTANILLA. THE <i>MAESTRO </i>WASN'T CHEAP, BUT HIS FINE MUSICIANSHIP WAS WELL WORTH WHAT I PAID HIM!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I DON’T WANT TO BOAST, BUT I PERFORMED THE BEST I EVER HAD @ CABARET ISABELLE. HOW COULD I NOT? RAM SHARMA REHEARSED ME UNTIL MY FEET BLED AND MY THROAT WAS RAW! AND IN ADDITION TO HIS COACHING I HAD GREAT NEW MATERIAL TO PERFORM: <i>“MUJER EN EL ESPEJO (GINNY IN THE MIRROR)”, “CONQUISTADOR (CONQUER)”,</i> AN ITALIAN NUMBER CALLED <i>“LASCIAMI (WALK AWAY)” </i>AND <i>“EXTRAÑO A ISABELA (SISTER ISABELLE)”. </i>THE LATTER WAS A FANTASTIC THEME SONG COMPOSED ESPECIALLY FOR OUR CLUB LAUNCH. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">RAM + DONNA WROTE THESE SONGS AS DUETS, BUT WE ADAPTED THEM AS SOLO NUMBERS FOR ME. AS FOR DONNA DANTE, HER SINGING CAREER TOOK FLIGHT @ MY CLUB. SHE GOT STANDING OVATIONS PERFORMING HER OWN FRENCH COMPOSITION “FAUSSES PROMESSES (BROKEN PROMISES)”. IT BECAME </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HIT BALLAD OF THE SUMMER OF 1918! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OUR REVISED SHOW MADE THE OPENING OF CABARET ISABELLE A SMASHING SUCCESS. GOING FORWARD, WE WERE ONE OF THE TOP </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CÔTE D’AZUR</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> ATTRACTIONS; BUT RAM, DANTE, GARCY, DONNA, HORNYTOAD + I ALL KNEW THAT THE PRESENCE OF TOBY MAXX WOULD’VE MADE IT EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL. I MISSED HIM SO VERY MUCH!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53015647328/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="BookScanCenter"><img alt="BookScanCenter" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53015647328_5e3eb9481d.jpg" width="375" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE LAUNCH OF CABARET ISABELLE.</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE ALMOST LOST TOBY IN THE FALL OF 2018. WORD CAME THAT HE’D BEEN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED BY SHRAPNEL, AND HAD A 50/50 CHANCE OF SURVIVAL! AS DEVASTATING AS THAT NEWS WAS, I ALSO AGONIZED OVER MY WIFE’S HEALTH: AS AN OLDER WOMAN, SHE HAD COMPLICATIONS DURING THE LAST MONTHS OF HER PREGNANCY. IT WAS A VERY STRESSFUL TIME!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANTE PERFORMED SHAMAN RITUALS THAT STRENGTHENED LOVED ONES IN TIMES OF ADVERSITY, AND THEY HAD THE DESIRED EFFECT: CLEO PULLED THROUGH AND GAVE BIRTH TO A DAZZLINGLY BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL! WE NAMED HER DONNA MARIE. DONNA DANTE AND RAM SHARMA WERE HER PROUD GODPARENTS. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE DAY OF HER CHRISTENING WAS A JOYFUL ONE, MADE EVEN MORE SO BY NEWS THAT TOBY HAD RECOVERED FROM HIS INJURIES. HE WAS BEING HONORABLY DISCHARGED BY THE FRENCH MILITARY. <i>TOTO WAS COMING HOME!</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANTE, RAM + I MET HIS BOAT WHEN IT DOCKED IN NICE @ PORT LYMPIA. OF COURSE, GARCY WAS THERE, TOO, AND SHE RAN TO EMBRACE HIM AS HE CAME DOWN THE GANGPLANK. TOBY WAS THE PICTURE OF FRENCH MILITARY STRENGTH STANDING THERE IN HIS UNIFORM, WITH MEDALS HANGING PROMINENTLY; BUT HIS GAUNT FRAME AND HAGGARD EYES REVEALED THE WEAKNESS LEFT BY HIS MEDICAL ORDEAL. NO DOUBT THE TRAUMA OF COMBAT HAD ALTERED HIS PSYCHE, TOO. WAS ANYTHING LEFT OF THE MAN I LOVED?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I STOOD BEHIND </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MI AMADO</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> ON THE DOCK AND WAITED FOR HIM TO TURN TOWARD ME. WHEN HE DID, HIS BLUE EYES LOOKED DIRECTLY INTO MINE. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">¡GRACIAS A DIÓS!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> THERE WAS STILL THAT FIRE THAT I KNEW SO WELL! AND THEN HE SMILED, AND MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT AS ALWAYS. WE DARED A BRIEF KISS ON THE LIPS AND HELD EACH OTHER, OH, SO VERY TIGHTLY! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AS WE MOTORED BACK TO THE CLUB, TOBY RECLINED IN THE BACKSEAT OF HORNYTOAD’S ROADSTER. GARCY BRISEÑO AND I SAT ON EITHER SIDE OF HIM. THE MOTOR WAS LOUD, SO I DIDN’T HEAR HIS MARRIAGE PROPOSAL TO HER; BUT NOTHING COULD HAVE DROWNED OUT GARCY'S SQUEAL OF DELIGHT! EVERYBODY HEARD IT, AND DANTE WHO WAS SITTING IN THE PASSENGER SEAT <i>FELT </i>IT. OVERCOME WITH EMOTION, GARCY LEANED FORWARD AND THREW HER ARMS AROUND HIS NECK. <i>¡COÑO!</i> SHE DAMN NEAR SQUEEZED MY LITTLE BROTHER SENSELESS!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LITTLE DID GARCY SUSPECT WHAT HER BETROTHED HAD ON HIS MIND </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IN ADDITION </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TO WEDDING PLANS: TURNING TO ME AS SHE SOBBED TEARS OF GRATITUDE, TOBY WHISPERED IN MY EAR HOW VERY BADLY HE WANTED TO MAKE LOVE. CERTAINLY NO MORE THAN I DID! THE TWO OF US SUFFERED SILENTLY UNTIL WE COULD BE ALONE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IT FINALLY HAPPENED TWO DAYS LATER. MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME, WE WORSHIPED, POSSESSED AND PLEASED EACH OTHER’S BODY FROM HEAD TO TOE! </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MADRECITA MÍA . . . </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OUR CLIMAXES WERE SO EARTH-SHATTERING, I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE OF SHEER ECSTASY! AFTERWARDS, WE LAY SWEATY IN EACH OTHER’S ARMS, SPENT AND CONTENT. “</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BUENO,”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> TOBY ASKED, NUZZLING MY NECK, “WHEN DO WE COUPLE ON STAGE AGAIN? I AM CRAVING TO DANCE WITH YOU!”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53079577434/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="GYPSY WOMAN"><img alt="GYPSY WOMAN" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53079577434_36a6f9194f.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOTO + NINJA DANCE A TRIBUTE </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TO THE LOVE OF GYPSY WOMEN.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE ALL FEARED THAT HIS BODY WAS TOO WEAK FOR SUCH STRENUOUS ACTIVITY. HIS DOCTOR ADVISED AGAINST IT; BUT TOBY WAS ADAMANT! “I KNOW THAT I CAN NO LONGER PURSUE DANCE AS A CAREER,” HE GRUDGINGLY ADMITTED, “BUT I </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MUST </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANCE AGAIN ONE MORE TIME. CABARET ISABELLE WAS MEANT AS A SHOWCASE FOR THE GEMINI DANCE TEAM AND WE HAVE YET TO BE SEEN ON ITS STAGE! NINJA AND I MUST FULFILL THAT PROMISE.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">GINGERLY, I BEGAN REHEARSING WITH HIM. WE STARTED WITH LESS TAXING ROUTINES AND THEN TRIED FOR MORE. TOBY SEEMED TO GET STRONGER THE MORE WE REHEARSED! SOON, IT BECAME APPARENT THAT WE COULD PRESENT OUR LONG-DELAYED </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DÉBUT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ALMOST EXACTLY AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED! AND </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE FIRST AND ONLY PERFORMANCE OF GEMINI </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SUR LA CÔTE D'AZUR</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> HAD TO BE A VERY SPECIAL OCCASION. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE DECIDED TO THROW A COSTUME BALL GALA ON THE EVENING OF WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1918. PATRONS WOULD COME DRESSED AS STORYBOOK CHARACTERS AND FANTASY FIGURES! THERE’D BE LAVISH DECORATIONS, ELABORATE STAGING, A BIG BAND IMPORTED FROM PARIS AND FOOD PREPARED BY SOME OF THE BEST CHEFS IN FRANCE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ON THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT, ONE OF THE GUESTS CAUSED A STIR IN THE CROWD. HE WAS DRESSED IN CRIMSON RED WITH A GHASTLY SKULL MASK, AND HE SEEMED TO CAST AN AIR OF GENUINE MENACE! TOBY SAW HIM FROM BACKSTAGE AND REMARKED ON HIS STRANGE APPEARANCE. I SAW HIM SHUDDER! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“¿AY, QUÉ TE PASA, MI TÍO?”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I ASKED, PLAYFULLY SLAPPING HIS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NALGAS.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> “ARE YOU AFRAID THAT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA MORT ROUGE</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> WILL UPSTAGE US? MEPHISTO HIMSELF COULDN'T ACCOMPLISH SUCH A FEAT. NOT TONIGHT! YOU WILL BE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MAGNIFICO</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, <i>CARIÑO</i>, AND SO WILL I!”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SURE ENOUGH, OUR PERFORMANCE HELD THE CROWD SPELLBOUND. WE DID RADICALLY RE-IMAGINED VERSIONS OF TRADITIONAL CHEROKEE, GERMAN AND JAPANESE DANCES. OUR ROUTINES WERE PERFORMED TO THE MUSIC OF FOUR FABULOUS NEW SONGS: <i>“ALZATI IN ALTO (STAND UP)”, “ESTOY TAN FELÍZ (OH, HOW HAPPY)”, “FUGITIVA (RUNAWAY)”, </i>AND A GRAND FINALE SUNG IN ENGLISH, “THE MUSIC PLAYS ON”. WE REPEATED THE CHORUS OVER AND OVER UNTIL THE AUDIENCE WAS DELIRIOUS WITH EMOTION!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE WITHDREW TO THE WINGS AMID THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE AND THEN, JUST BEFORE THE ENCORE, OUR </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CÔTE D’AZUR </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DIVA DONNA DANTE TOOK THE STAGE. THE WOMAN DAMN NEAR UPSTAGED US SINGING A SHOW-STOPPING RENDITION OF HER SIGNATURE TUNE, “BROKEN PROMISES”. THERE WASN’T A DRY EYE IN THE PLACE! THEN WE RETURNED TO THE STAGE FOR OUR LAST SONG TOGETHER. IT WAS CALLED <i>“ME DESINTEGRO (I GO TO PIECES)”, </i>WITH LYRICS THAT CAPTURED THE GENUINE DISTRESS TOBY + I FELT WHEN WE WERE APART.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE SHOW LASTED FOR NEARLY TWO HOURS, BUT IT WAS OVER MUCH TOO SOON. I EMBRACED TOBY WITH TEARS STREAMING DOWN MY FACE! TO RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE AND GARLANDS OF FLOWERS FLUNG @ OUR FEET, GEMINI TOOK ITS FINAL BOWS. UNEXPECTEDLY, HORNYTOAD RAN OUT ON STAGE. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I HAVE AN URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MES AMIS,” </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HE BOOMED. “ARMISTICE HAS BEEN CALLED! </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE GREAT WAR IS OVER!” </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE CROWD ERUPTED IN WILD, EXULTANT CHEERING THE LIKES OF WHICH I’D NEVER HEARD BEFORE! </span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THAT DEAFENING ROAR WAS RINGING IN MY EARS AS I SUDDENLY FELT A SHARP, BURNING PAIN IN MY CHEST. CONFUSED, I LOOKED AROUND ME BUT COULDN’T MAKE OUT ANYTHING! I SEEMED TO BE BLINDED BY A CURTAIN OF CRIMSON RED. THEN I SAW ARMS REACHING OUT FOR ME. WERE THEY TOBY’S ARMS? CLEO’S ARMS? THOSE OF MY BROTHER DANTE? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NO . . . THEY WERE</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> HERS! </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MY FIRST LOVE . . . MY SWEET GUARDIAN ANGEL. I CRIED OUT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“ISABELLE!” </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AND COLLAPSED TO THE FLOOR.</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52925595595/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="AND THE MUSIC PLAYS ON"><img alt="AND THE MUSIC PLAYS ON" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52925595595_8e6f040d31.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE DEATH OF EL NINJA!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">EPILOGUE:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SABRINA THE SORCERESS</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">EL NINJA WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO DIE THAT NOVEMBER DAY! THE STILETTO THAT LODGED IN HIS HEART WAS MEANT FOR TOBY MAXWELL. THE KILLER BLAMED TOTO FOR SABOTAGING HER MUSIC CAREER; BUT THIS WAS ONE OF THE FEW TIMES THAT LA CUCHILLA’S AIM WAS LESS THAN TRUE. YES, SHE WAS THE ONE WHO ATTENDED CABARET ISABELLE’S COSTUME BALL DRESSED AS</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA MORT ROUGE</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (THE RED DEATH)! </span></span></span></p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">REALIZING HER MISTAKE, CARMEN SERNA FLED IN PANIC FROM THE SCENE OF HER CRIME. INTO THE WINGS OF THE CABARET SHE RAN, DASHING HERE AND THERE, LOOKING FOR THE WAY OUT! THEN SHE OPENED A DOOR TO THE ROOM WHERE THE <i>IMPRESARIO </i>HORNYTOAD KEPT HIS PERFORMING BEAR, NEGROSO. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE NORMALLY DOCILE BEAST SUDDENLY WENT WILD, ATTACKING AND MAULING HER! CARMEN'S PITIFUL SCREAMS ECHOED THROUGH THE NIGHTCLUB, CHILLING THE BLOOD OF ALL WHO HEARD THEM! BOTH HER LIFE AND THAT OF RITCHIE “EL NINJA” FONSECA WOULD SURELY HAVE ENDED THAT DAY . . . HAD </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NOT INTERVENED. </span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">UNDER MY POWER, “EL NINJA”, “LA CUCHILLA”, “TOTO”, “DANTE”, “CLEO”, “SHARMANTE”, “HORNYTOAD” AND ALL OF THEIR ASSOCIATES WILL RETURN TO HONOLULU IN THE YEAR 2029 AND RESUME THEIR TRUE IDENTITIES. REGGIE MANTLE (NINJA) WILL HAVE NO MEMORY OF BEING STABBED! HIS WIFE OLGUITA (NINJA’S WIFE CLEO) AND KEVIN KELLER (TOTO) WILL DISCOVER HIM LYING NAKED AND BARELY CONSCIOUS ON WAIMANALO BEACH, VICTIM OF A SUPPOSED NEAR-DROWNING INCIDENT.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53078810762/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="VINTAGE TOTO + NINJA"><img alt="VINTAGE TOTO + NINJA" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53078810762_701fdfeb00.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">VINTAGE 78 RPM RECORDINGS BY TOTO + NINJA.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WHAT HAPPENED TO REGGIE IS NOT A DREAM. HE ACTUALLY DID LIVE FOR SEVERAL YEARS IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY,</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> 50 YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE, REGGIE AND MEMBERS OF THE ARCHIES WERE HURLED BACK TO THE PROGRESSIVE ERA. THERE THEY ASSUMED THE IDENTITIES OF THE NEW ARCHIES, A SEXTET THAT WILL FORM IN THE YEAR 2037 AS THEIR SUCCESSOR GROUP. </span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SIMULTANEOUSLY, MEMBERS OF THE NEW ARCHIES WERE SENT FROM THE YEAR 2039 BACK TO THE 1960s, WHERE THEY ASSUMED THE IDENTITIES OF THEIR PREDECESSORS - THE ARCHIES! THIS BIZARRE GAME OF TURNABOUT ALSO INCLUDED CLOSE FRIENDS OF BOTH BANDS, INCLUDING ME!</span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE TIME INVERSION WON’T BE ACCIDENTAL. IT WILL BE ENGINEERED BY AN INSANE VOODOO PRIESTESS, PART OF HER WILD SCHEME TO MURDER ME AND MY MUSICAL </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">PROTÉGÉS. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ESSENTIALLY, SHE FORCES THE ARCHIES TO SWITCH IDENTITIES WITH THE NEW ARCHIES, BRAINWASHES THEM INTO ADOPTING THEIR NEW ROLES, AND THEN DISPATCHES THEM TO SEPARATE TIME PERIODS. THIS DEADLY PLOT PLAYS OUT OVER FIVE CHRONOLOGICAL YEARS, BUT IT ULTIMATELY FAILS. </span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE NEW ARCHIES + ME WERE THE REAL TARGETS OF THIS EVIL WOMAN. THE ARCHIES WERE BUT MERE CASUALTIES; BUT THAT DIDN’T MAKE THE LOSS OF FAWN “BIG ETHEL” MASON ANY EASIER TO COPE WITH. IN THE 1910s, ETHEL WAS SISTER ISABELLE, INDIAN SCHOOL TEACHER AND BENEFACTOR TO RITCHIE “EL NINJA” FONSECA. I WAS UNABLE TO SAVE HER; IT TOOK TOO LONG FOR ME TO SHAKE OFF THE BRAINWASHING EFFECTS OF THE VOODOO SPELL.</span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FORTUNATELY, I RECLAIMED MY MEMORY IN TIME TO SAVE REGGIE/EL NINJA FROM IMMINENT DEMISE. I ALSO SAVED SOUND ENGINEER BELLA BEAZLEY FROM DEATH BY MAULING; SHE ASSUMED THE ROLE OF CARMEN SERNA, PROSTITUTE AND STILETTO KILLER! AS CAN HAPPEN, TIME TRAVEL BRINGS LATENT PERSONALITY TRAITS TO THE SURFACE. IN JUGHEAD’S CASE, A CRUEL STREAK MANIFESTED; IN BELLA’S CASE, HOMICIDAL TENDENCIES! </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I RE-SUBMERGED THOSE TRAITS AND WIPED THEIR MEMORIES CLEAN: JUGGY WON’T REMEMBER FATHER FRANKLIN’S TRANSGRESSIONS @ THE ANADARKO INDIAN SCHOOL, AND BELLA WON’T RECALL CARMEN KNIFING THE GYPSY WITCH THAT SHE PAID TO HEX EL NINJA! ACTUALLY, BELLA </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DID NOT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">COMMIT THAT CRIME: BETHEL THE GYPSY WAS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ME </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IN DISGUISE, AND HER KILLING WAS AN ILLUSION GENERATED BY MY SORCERY. </span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IN THE 1960S, I HAD BEEN MADE TO BELIEVE I WAS GERALDINE GRUNDY; DEANIE AND I WERE INTENDED TO SWITCH PLACES. IN THE 1910s, SHE WAS MEANT TO ASSUME THE IDENTITY OF BETHEL LESLIE - ACTUALLY, MY TWO MIDDLE NAMES - AND SHE SURELY WOULD HAVE BEEN MURDERED IF SHE HAD. I CREATED A DIFFERENT IDENTITY FOR HER: AS “MAMA SHELLY” MS. GRUNDY WAS SAFE FROM HARM - ALTHOUGH MAMA’S LAX MORALS WOULD NEVER</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HAVE MET WITH HER APPROVAL! THE WHITE-ROBED IMAGE OF SISTER ISABELLE THAT PERIODICALLY APPEARED TO EL NINJA WAS ALSO MY CREATION. </span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AS SOON AS I BROKE FREE OF THE VOODOO SPELL AND SAW THE NEW ARCHIES SAFELY BACK TO THEIR PROPER TIME PERIOD, I TRACED THE ARCHIES TO WHERE THEY’D BEEN DEPOSITED IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. ONCE THERE, I TOOK CONTROL OF THE TOTO + NINJA NARRATIVE; BUT I HAD TO LET IT PLAY OUT ALMOST TO THE END. FORCING OPEN TIME PORTALS EITHER TOO SOON OR TOO LATE CAN RESULT IN CATASTROPHE! AND OUR TRIP BACK TO THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY HAD PERILS OF ITS OWN. </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE SAFEST TIME TO INITIATE TIME TRAVEL IS @ A POINT OF GREAT EMOTIONAL RELEASE! THE MOMENT OF CLIMAX DURING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE IS A VERY RELIABLE INITIATION POINT, SO I TOOK ADVANTAGE OF TOTO + NINJA’S COUPLING. ON THE DAY RITCHIE FONSECA WAS STABBED, HE AND TOBIAS MAXWELL MADE LOVE FOR THE LAST TIME. THEY ACHIEVED A TREMENDOUS CLIMAX TOGETHER, BUT @ THAT MOMENT, THE CHRONAL CURRENTS WERE MUCH TOO TURBULENT TO RISK. I HAD TO WAIT UNTIL I HAD ONLY SECONDS TO SPARE! </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">JUST AS LA CUCHILLA’S BLADE LODGED IN EL NINJA’S HEART, I REVERSED TIME BACK SEVERAL HOURS, TO THE VERY END OF THAT SEXUAL ENCOUNTER. THIS IS THE MOST DIFFICULT KIND OF SORCERY, AND IT NEARLY TAXED MY POWERS TO THEIR LIMIT; BUT @ THE EXACT INSTANT THEIR DOUBLE EJACULATION OCCURRED, I BLASTED THE PORTAL <i>WIDE OPEN!</i></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOTO + NINJA (REGGIE + KEVIN) THE SHARMANTE QUARTET (ARCHIE, BETTY, VERONICA + KEVIN’S HUSBAND CLAY), HORNYTOAD (MUSIC DIRECTOR KEVIN BOYLE), MAMA SHELLY (GERALDINE GRUNDY), DANTE FONSECA (DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO), LA CUCHILLA (BELLA BEAZLEY), FATHER FRANKLIN (JUGHEAD) AND CÓRTEZ QUINTANILLA (ROD MACK) ALL PLUNGED BACK INTO THE SAME SWIRLING SEA OF TIME THAT HAD SWEPT THEM INTO THE PAST. IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, THEY WERE RESTORED TO THEIR PROPER TIME PERIOD AND TRUE IDENTITIES! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52903938659/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="DO YOU WANNA DANCE?"><img alt="DO YOU WANNA DANCE?" height="371" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52903938659_3e2ecc041b.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BACK THROUGH THE TIME PORTAL!</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SADLY, UPON THEIR RETURN TO THE HONOLULU OF EARLY 2029, TRAGIC NEWS AWAITS THE ARCHIES: THEY’LL LEARN OF BIG ETHEL’S DEATH FROM CANCER. </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">ONLY WEEKS EARLIER, SHE WILL HAVE BEEN IN THE STUDIO WITH THEM, CONTRIBUTING EXCELLENT GOSPEL-TINGED BACKGROUND VOCALS TO THEIR SONG ARCHIVE PROJECT. </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">WHEN A TIME TRAVELER DIES IN THE PAST, IT ERASES THEIR FUTURE EXISTENCE; HOWEVER, I USED MY SORCERY TO PRESERVE THE MEMORY OF FAWN ETHEL MASON'S LONG AND EVENTFUL LIFE IN MUSIC; IT WAS THE LEAST I COULD DO!</span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AS BIG ETHEL’S DEMISE DEMONSTRATES, INJURIES SUSTAINED DURING TIME TRAVEL ARE GENUINE. MAGIC CAN ACCELERATE HEALING, BUT IT CAN’T UNDO SERIOUS DAMAGE! BOTH REGGIE MANTLE AND KEVIN KELLER SUFFERED GRAVE WOUNDS, AND THE HEALTH OF BOTH MEN WILL BE AFFECTED GOING FORWARD. THOUGH INJURED BY BATTLE IN BOTH THE IRAQ WAR AND (UNBEKNOWNST TO HIM) WORLD WAR I, KELLY WILL STILL LIVE TO A RIPE OLD AGE! </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HOWEVER, CARMEN’S KNIFE BREACHED ONE OF EL NINJA’S HEART CHAMBERS, LEAVING REGGIE WEAKENED. FOLLOWING A DECADE OF CORONARY ISSUES, HE WILL DIE OF HEART FAILURE IN THE YEAR 2042. ALTHOUGH OLGUITA'S PASSING WILL LEAVE HIM A WIDOWER IN 2034, REGGIE WILL ENJOY A FULL LIFE UNTIL THE END. UNDER THE NAME </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">GINO EL HUAPANGERO,</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> HE’LL CONTINUE PURSUING A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SOLO CAREER IN </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MÉXICO</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">; AND AS A SPECIAL GUEST, GINO WILL TAKE PART IN THE ARCHIES’ FAREWELL CONCERT TOUR OF 2032. </span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SO YOU MAY ASK . . . </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WHO </span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>WAS THE VILLAIN VOODOO PRIESTESS? I FIRST BELIEVED THAT TARA NATION FAWS, A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF MINE WHO DABBLED IN BLACK MAGIC, WAS THE CULPRIT BEHIND THIS MANIACAL SCHEME. HOWEVER, THERE WAS A METHOD TO TARA’S MADNESS THAT POINTED TO HER BEING THE PAWN OF SOMEONE ELSE - SOMEONE FAR MORE DANGEROUS! MY SHAPE-SHIFTING FRIEND SALEM "DA KATT" TOLD ME AS MUCH.</span> </span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BELLA BEAZLEY SWITCHED PLACES WITH CARMEN SERNA IN THE 1910s. IT NEVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED IF CARMEN WERE DEAD. THIS MEANS THAT MY ARCH-ENEMY IS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>STILL ALIVE! </span></span></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">SOMEHOW, SHE WILL SURVIVE CERTAIN DEATH ATOP MOUNT SINAI IN THE YEAR 2057. HER SUPPOSED DEMISE @ THAT TIME RESULTS FROM ANOTHER DEADLY ATTACK ON THE NEW ARCHIES + ME!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ALL MY EFFORTS ARE NOW FOCUSED ON DETERMINING CARMEN SERNA’S CURRENT WHEREABOUTS; I SWEAR BY THE DESOLATING SACRILEGE THAT I SHALL PUT AN END TO HER HOMICIDAL VENGEANCE CAMPAIGN! AND I SHALL TAKE MY </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OWN </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">REVENGE FOR THE LOSS OF BIG ETHEL AND REGGIE'S SHORTENED LIFESPAN . . .</span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FOLLOWING THEIR EXTENDED SOJOURN IN THE 1960s, THE NEW ARCHIES - MALACHI HIPP, DONNA DANTE, GARCY BRISEÑO, RITCHIE “NINJA” FONSECA, TOBIAS “TOTO” MAXWELL, SVETLANA “LANA” SUZUKI, FRANKIE FUJIYAMA AND RAM SHARMA - WILL ENJOY SUCCESSFUL CAREERS, BOTH COLLECTIVELY AND INDIVIDUALLY. </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AS FOR THE ARCHIES, THEY’LL WEATHER UPS AND DOWNS DURING THEIR FINAL YEARS AS A ROCK BAND. I WON’T REVEAL THEIR ULTIMATE FATE HERE, BUT I WILL PREDICT GREAT SUCCESS FOR THEIR 2029 MUSIC PROJECT. THEY’LL START RECORDING IT IN HAWAII AND COMPLETE IT TWO YEARS LATER IN COLOMBIA. EVENTUALLY RELEASED AS BOTH A TWO-RECORD SET CALLED </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">20 ROCK</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">AND A QUADRUPLE-LENGTH VINYL LP </span><span style="color: #f1c232;">(</span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">40 ROCK</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">)</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">, IT WILL TOP THE INTERNATIONAL CHARTS AND BECOME THEIR MOST CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED ALBUM!</span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THIS FUTURE ALBUM’S STAR VOCALISTS WILL BE NONE OTHER THAN REGGIE MANTLE AND KEVIN KELLER. FORMING A “TRIAD” RELATIONSHIP WITH KELLY AND HIS HUSBAND CLAYBOURNE WALKER, REGGIE IS DESTINED TO BECOME A HUSBAND TO BOTH MEN. IT’S NO LESS THAN A REALIZATION OF THE ABORTED </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MÉNAGE À TROIS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THAT "TOTO", "EL NINJA" + "RAM SHARMA" HAD ATTEMPTED OVER A CENTURY AGO!</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">POP </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CULTURE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CANTINA </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">presents</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A MARVELOUS LIE PRODUCTION</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53119592675/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="20 ROCK ALBUM DESIGN"><img alt="20 ROCK ALBUM DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53119592675_c10c98f20e.jpg" width="371" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE BIG HURT</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CAST OF CHARACTERS:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ARCHIE ANDREWS as MALACHI HIPP</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BIG ETHEL as SVETLANA “SISTER ISABELLE”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO as DANTE FONSECA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BETTY COOPER as DONNA DANTE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">GERALDINE GRUNDY as MAMA SHELLY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">JUGHEAD as FATHER FRANKLIN</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">KEVIN KELLER as TOBIAS MAXWELL</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">VERONICA LODGE-ANDREWS as GARCY BRISEÑO</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">REGGIE MANTLE as RICARDO “EL NINJA” FONSECA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OLGA SAN QUENTÍN as CLEO</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CLAYBOURNE WALKER as RAM SHARMA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">featuring </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">KEVIN BOYLE as “HORNYTOAD”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">introducing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BELLA BEAZLEY as CARMEN SERNA “LA CUCHILLA”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and starring</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SABRINA THE SORCERESS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">as BETHEL THE GYPSY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Special guest appearance by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">ROD MACK as CÓRTEZ QUINTANILLA</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">cartoon cameo appearances by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">KRISTIN GORRIE and SONSERI KENNEDY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">as themselves </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DEDICATED TO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">R</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">O</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">N </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANTE </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 78th BIRTHDAY!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CONCEPT + TEXT BY HAMPTON JACOBS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">COSTUMES BY HENRIETTA la del BARRIO</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ART BY STUFFED ANIMAL</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53110663487/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="NOW IT BEGINS PROMO 2"><img alt="NOW IT BEGINS PROMO 2" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53110663487_43d044051b.jpg" width="374" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DEL SHANNON </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">EXCEPT FOR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“THE BIG HURT” BY WAYNE SHANKLIN</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“YOU NEVER TALKED ABOUT ME” + “GINNY IN THE MIRROR”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BY DOC POMUS + MORT SHUMAN</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“TELL HER NO” BY ROD ARGENT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“DO YOU WANNA DANCE?” BY BOBBY FREEMAN</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“OH, HOW HAPPY” BY EDWIN STARR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #6aa84f; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;">"THE BIG HURT" IS A SEQUEL TO POP CULTURE CANTINA'S </span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><i style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">2019 MOCK SCREENPLAY</span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>"THE FREAKING OUT OF GERALDINE GRUNDY"</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2016/01/prequel-to-oedipus-ram-new-archies-saga.html">CLICK HERE TO READ THE PRELUDE</a></i></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMguW_cJFaJc6onnoYH6SBvfIRubtYcHM" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Listen to songs from the imaginary </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Archies album</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMguW_cJFaJc6onnoYH6SBvfIRubtYcHM" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">40 ROCK!</span></a></p></b></span>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-33589343849160864342023-09-04T02:22:00.003-04:002024-01-18T15:09:56.933-05:00Starring REGGIE MANTLE: THE BIG HURT (Chapter Five)<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>SABRINA THE SORCERESS:</b></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-eb9f16bf-7fff-fb8a-e9fa-01cde46a47bf" style="font-family: verdana;"><b><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED!” IT’S AN OLD SEXIST TROPE; YET THERE ARE WOMEN WHO MAKE THE CLAIM CREDIBLE. I KNOW BECAUSE, DEEP DOWN, I <i>AM </i>SUCH A WOMAN: ONE FOR WHOM OTHER HUMAN BEINGS CAN BE MERE MEANS TO AN END! WHEN A VIXEN FAILS TO GET HER WAY, THOSE WHO REFUSE TO DO HER BIDDING MUST BEWARE! SHE WILL SURELY RETALIATE, AND DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH POWER IS @ HER COMMAND, HER VENGEANCE WILL EITHER FALTER LIKE A BROKEN GRENADE TRIGGER, OR IT WILL SET OFF A MASSIVE EXPLOSION THAT RESULTS IN . . .</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53015647383/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="THE BIG HURT INTRO"><img alt="THE BIG HURT INTRO" height="376" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53015647383_c56ecc8027.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE BIG HURT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A SEQUEL TO “THE FREAKING OUT </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OF GERALDINE GRUNDY”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CHAPTER FIVE:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“GEMINI”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE TIME: SEPTEMBER 1916</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE PLACE: BARCELONA, SPAIN</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE NARRATOR: EL NINJA </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SINCE TOBY MAXX WAS OF PRUSSIAN HERITAGE, CARMEN SERNA EXPECTED HIM TO RECOIL FROM A NATIVE AMERICAN IN DISGUST! MANY GERMANS IN THAT ERA HARBORED RACIAL PREJUDICE, BUT I’M PROUD TO SAY THAT HE WASN’T ONE OF THEM. HER REVELATION ABOUT MY CHEROKEE BLOOD DIDN’T AFFECT MY PARTNER THE WAY SHE THOUGHT IT WOULD; ON THE CONTRARY, HE COULD BARELY CONTAIN HIS RAGE! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“DO YOU THINK I CARE WHAT A MAN’S BACKGROUND IS?,” HE GROWLED. “WHAT A DISGUSTING LITTLE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">PERRA </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">YOU ARE. GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!” WITH A CRY OF FURY, LA CUCHILLA LEAPT @ HIM, CLAWING @ HIS FACE! HER PIMP RESTRAINED HER, BUT NOT BEFORE SHE SHOOK HER FIST @ US AND SCREAMED:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> “HIJOS DE LA PUTA GRANDÍSIMA! </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“YOU’LL BE SORRY!” SECURITY GUARDS PROMPTLY USHERED CARMEN FROM THE BACKSTAGE AREA.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">JUST AS SHE’D HAD ME BLACKBALLED IN 1915, SHE MADE GOOD ON HER SECOND THREAT. GOSSIP TRAVELS FAST IN SPAIN, AND EVEN IN THE 1910s, THERE WERE SCANDAL SHEETS. THEY RENAMED ME “GERONIMO” AND RAN CRUDE CARICATURES THAT DEPICTED A TOMAHAWK-THROWING “INDIAN” RAIDER COVERED IN WAR PAINT. I BECAME A REGULAR TARGET OF PUBLIC RIDICULE! RAM SHARMA WAS SO ANGRY @ MALACHI HIPP FOR DIVULGING MY SECRET, HE FIRED MAL FROM THE SHARMANTE QUARTET. IN MY OPINION, HE SHOULD HAVE DONE IT LONG AGO! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WHEN TOTO + NINJA SECURED AN ENGAGEMENT @ THE FAMOUS TEATRO DE LA CRUZ, WE FOUND THAT THE RUMORS HAD FOLLOWED US ALL THE WAY TO MADRID. THERE WERE HECKLERS IN THE AUDIENCE WITH FEATHERS IN THEIR HAIR! A BIG FAT MAN PUFFED ON A LONG <i>CIGARRO </i>AND LOUDLY PROCLAIMED THAT HE WAS MAKING "INDIAN SMOKE SIGNALS"! THE SITUATION WAS SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL, AND I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANTE URGED ME TO TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS! “THIS IS SPAIN, NOT THE UNITED STATES,” HE REMINDED ME. “THE CONDITIONS FOR PEOPLE LIKE US AREN’T PERFECT, BUT IT’S MUCH BETTER HERE. BE SMART AND USE BEING CHEROKEE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE! CONTINUING TO HIDE THE TRUTH DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE NOW." I HAD TO AGREE: MY LITTLE BROTHER WAS WISE BEYOND HIS YEARS!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AFTER TALKING IT OVER WITH TOBY, HE AND I RESOLVED TO DO SOMETHING UNUSUAL @ OUR NEXT TEATRO PERFORMANCE. WE DIDN’T TELL THE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">COMPÈRE</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> WHAT WE HAD PLANNED! AFTER OUR FIRST NUMBER, WHICH HECKLERS CONSTANTLY INTERRUPTED, TOBY + NINJA STOPPED THE SHOW AND HELD WHAT AMOUNTED TO A PRESS CONFERENCE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE CONFIRMED THAT THE RUMORS WERE TRUE, BUT DEBUNKED THE NOTION THAT I WAS A SAVAGE. TOBY TOOK THE LEAD ON THIS. “NINJA IS FAR MORE CIVILIZED THAN THE BRATS I ATTENDED BOARDING SCHOOL WITH IN LINDENBERG!”, HE WISECRACKED. THIS BROUGHT PEALS OF LAUGHTER, WHICH LIGHTENED THE MOOD. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THEN I STEPPED FORWARD AND APOLOGIZED FOR DECEIVING MY FANS. BARING MY SOUL TO THEM, I EXPLAINED WHY I FEARED OSTRACISM: "IT'S VERY HARD BEING A STRANGER IN A NEW LAND. YOU DESPERATELY WANT TO FIT IN! WANTING SO MUCH TO BECOME ONE OF YOU - <i>LA BELLA GENTE CASTELLANA -</i> I WENT TOO FAR. PLEASE FORGIVE ME."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SUDDENLY THE MUSIC SWELLED, AND WE DANCED BALLETIC <i>FLAMENCO </i>TO A LANGOROUS <i>CANCIÓN </i>CALLED <i>"TODO LO QUE POSEO (THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING)".</i> THE HYPNOTIC <i>DÉCIMAS </i>OF THIS SPANISH BALLAD ENRAPTURED THE CROWD! THEN WE KNEW IT WAS TIME FOR THE SECOND PART OF OUR "PRESS CONFERENCE". I ANNOUNCED THAT WE WERE CHANGING THE NAME OF OUR ACT. “WE WILL BE CALLED ‘GEMINI’,” I DECLARED, “BECAUSE TOTO + I ARE LIKE TWIN BROTHERS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT I AM DARK AND HE IS LIGHT.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOBY CLASPED MY HANDS IN BOTH OF HIS AND SAID: “GOING FORWARD, WE WILL USE OUR PERFORMANCES TO EMPHASIZE THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN! IT’S WHAT WE ALL NEED REMINDING OF DURING THIS TIME OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT. WE’LL PERFORM IN COSTUMES THAT CELEBRATE OUR PERSONAL HERITAGES AS WELL AS ETHNICITIES AROUND THE WORLD.” HIS HEARTFELT WORDS WERE GREETED WITH HEARTY APPLAUSE! THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF OUR TRANSFORMATION INTO A FOLKLORIC DANCE DUO.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53015647388/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="YOU NEVER TALKED ABOUT ME"><img alt="YOU NEVER TALKED ABOUT ME" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53015647388_174ee7240a.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">GEMINI PERFORMS A SHARMANTE SONG </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">@ TEATRO DE LA CRUZ.</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANTE WAS THE ONE WHO HAD THE VISION OF WHAT GEMINI COULD BE. UNDER HIS SUPERVISION, WE REVAMPED OUR ACT WITH DANCES AND COSTUMES INSPIRED BY MANY CULTURES: JAPANESE, THAI, GERMAN, WEST AFRICAN AND NATIVE-AMERICAN, AMONG OTHERS. ALTHOUGH WE RESEARCHED THESE CULTURES, OUR PRESENTATIONS WERE NOT NECESSARILY AUTHENTIC. THE SONGS AND DANCES HAD TO BE PROVOCATIVE AND THE COSTUMES, REVEALING. IF THEY WEREN’T, THEN WE <i>MADE </i>THEM SO! OUR MUSCULAR BODIES WERE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF OUR APPEAL.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HOWEVER, WE KEPT OUR BASIC BLEND OF </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FLAMENCO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AND WRESTLING THAT WE WERE FAMOUS FOR, AND WE CONTINUED PERFORMING TO MUSIC PROVIDED BY SHARMANTE. TWO SPECIALTY NUMBERS THAT THEY COMPOSED FOR US, <i>“HASTA LA VISTA (SO LONG, BABY)” </i>- PRIVATELY DEDICATED TO CARMEN SERNA - AND <i>“DEBES SER TÚ (BABY, IT’S YOU)”</i> WENT DOWN A STORM WITH AUDIENCES! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">RE-INVENTING OURSELVES WAS JUST WHAT WE NEEDED TO TAKE OUR SUCCESS TO THE NEXT LEVEL. NATURALLY, DANTE BECAME OUR OWN PERSONAL <i>IMPRESARIO</i>; FIRST AS MY VALET AND THEN MY MANAGER, HE DIDN'T HESITATE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THINGS. WHAT'S MORE, HE WAS A NATURAL @ DEVISING NEW WAYS TO GENERATE EXCITEMENT ON STAGE; AND WHEN I PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED HIM AS MY BROTHER, HE BEAMED WITH PRIDE! WE BECAME CLOSER THAN EVER. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOBY MAXX AND I GREW CLOSER, TOO; CARMEN’S ATTEMPT TO SEPARATE US FAILED COMPLETELY! ON OUR LAST NIGHT PERFORMING @ THE TEATRO DE LA CRUZ, WE MADE LOVE FOR THE FIRST TIME. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ACTUALLY, WE HAD A DRUNKEN </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MÉNAGE À TROIS</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> WITH RAM SHARMA, BUT WE BARELY PAID ATTENTION TO HIM! HE ROSE FROM THE BED IN FRUSTRATION AND SAID: </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“SEÑORES, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THIS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">PLAZA DE TOROS</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> HAS TOO MANY BULLS IN IT. I BID YOU </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ADIÓS!”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> AFTER HE WAS GONE, WE ABSOLUTELY DEVOURED EACH OTHER. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">¡DIOS MÍO!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> IT WAS FANTASTIC!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOBY + I FELL DEEPLY IN LOVE, BUT NOBODY KNEW EXCEPT RAM AND MY BROTHER. IN EUROPE, MALE ROMANTIC PAIRS WEREN’T UNHEARD OF IN 1916, BUT THEY WERE SHUNNED - BY THE CHURCH, THE FAMILY AND ESPECIALLY LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES. HOMOSEXUAL INTIMACY WAS CRIMINALIZED IN PARTS OF THE CONTINENT, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">INCLUDING </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SPAIN. NEITHER OF US WOULD HAVE DREAMED OF PUBLICIZING OUR TRUE RELATIONSHIP, SO WE DID WHAT “NORMAL” MEN DID AND COURTED WOMEN. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BOTH OF US WERE CAPABLE OF LOVING BOTH SEXES, SO THE ATTRACTION WAS NEVER FAKE. TOBY HAD A LONGTIME AFFAIR GOING WITH GARCY, OF COURSE, AND I MET AN ENCHANTING GYPSY DANCER WHO CALLED HERSELF CLEO. ALTHOUGH SHE WAS MUCH OLDER THAN ME, CLEO AWAKENED FEELINGS I HADN’T KNOWN SINCE MY BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH SVETLANA. I TRULY LOVED HER, EVEN THOUGH MY PASSION FOR TOBY WAS MUCH STRONGER.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52904225913/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="WALK AWAY"><img alt="WALK AWAY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52904225913_99f1a36618.jpg" width="372" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOTO + NINJA'S LOVE SUPREME.</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I PROPOSED MARRIAGE TO CLEO, BUT BEFORE WE WED I FELT STRONGLY THAT I HAD TO CONTACT SISTER ISABELLE. I STILL DREAMT ABOUT HER PERIODICALLY, AND I LONGED TO HAVE HER BLESS MY NUPTIALS IN WRITING. I SENT NUMEROUS INQUIRIES ABOUT SVETLANA BACK TO OKLAHOMA. FINALLY IN EARLY 1917, I RECEIVED SHOCKING NEWS: SHE HAD ACCIDENTALLY FALLEN FROM HER HAYLOFT AND BROKEN HER NECK! DEATH HAD COME JUST A FEW HOURS LATER. IT HAPPENED MERE WEEKS AFTER I LEFT ON MY JOURNEY TO THE EAST COAST!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE NIGHT I FOUND OUT ABOUT SISTER ISABELLE’S DEATH, I CRIED MYSELF TO SLEEP; BUT AS IT HAD SO OFTEN BEFORE, HER SPIRIT CAME TO ME IN MY SLUMBERS. SVETLANA TOLD ME NOT TO GRIEVE BECAUSE NOW SHE WAS “HAPPY WITH THE LORD”. THEN SHE PREDICTED A TRIP ACROSS THE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">PYRENÉES </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MOUNTAINS FOR ME, AND MUCH SUCCESS IN FRANCE!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HOWEVER, SHE ALSO WARNED OF DANGER AND IMPENDING TRAGEDY. “YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN PUNISHED FOR DEFILING A BRIDE OF CHRIST,” SHE DECLARED. “PUNISHMENT WILL SOON COME! EVEN YOUR LOVED ONES MAY BE HARMED; BEWARE OF A HOODED STRANGER.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE NEXT DAY, TOBY CAME TO ME IN AN AGITATED STATE: A CLOAKED FIGURE HAD CORNERED HIM IN AN ALLEY AND TRIED TO SLIT HIS THROAT! HIS LIMBER, DANCE-TRAINED BODY HAD FACILITATED HIS ESCAPE FROM A GRISLY DEATH. AS IF TO PROTECT HIM AFTER THE FACT, I FLUNG A <i>SERAPE </i>AROUND TOTO AND HELD HIM IN MY ARMS; MY WHOLE BODY TREMBLED WITH DREAD! COULD THIS BE MORE OF LA CUCHILLA’S MURDEROUS HANDIWORK?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THAT INCIDENT AND MY GUARDIAN ANGEL’S WARNING DECIDED ME ON A COURSE OF ACTION; DANTE, TOBY + I HAD BEEN DISCUSSING IT SINCE THE END OF 1916. WE PLANNED TO OPEN A NIGHTCLUB OF OUR OWN! IT WAS TO BE LOCATED ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA, AND @ MY INSISTENCE, WE WOULD CALL IT “CABARET ISABELLE”. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NATURALLY, THE CLUB WOULD FEATURE TOTO + NINJA AS THE STAR ATTRACTION ALONG WITH MY SOON-TO-BE WIFE CLEO AND A SOLO DONNA DANTE. AFTER FIRING MALACHI HIPP, RAM SHARMA HAD DISSOLVED THE SHARMANTE QUARTET IN ORDER TO FOCUS ON PROMOTING DONNA AS A SINGER. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ALL DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 1917, WE COMMUTED BETWEEN SPAIN AND FRANCE’S BLUE COAST; POOLING OUR SAVINGS, WE SECURED AN ABANDONED SHAMBLE OF A CHURCH THAT WAS SITUATED NEAR THE BEACH. DANTE KNEW WHAT I WANTED, AND HE SUPERVISED THE RENOVATION. WE BROKE THE EXCITING NEWS TO OUR FANS @ A SHOW IN JULY. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOBY, GARCY, RAM, DONNA + I HAD ALREADY APPLIED FOR FRENCH CITIZENSHIP, AND WE ALL EMIGRATED THAT AUGUST. WE COULD NEVER HAVE ANTICIPATED WHAT HAPPENED AFTER TOBY’S APPLICATION WAS APPROVED: HE WAS DRAFTED INTO THE FRENCH ARMY! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52843462461/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="40 ROCK SLIPCASE DESIGN"><img alt="40 ROCK SLIPCASE DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52843462461_3f89a741bc.jpg" width="373" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">END OF CHAPTER FIVE</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/09/starring-reggie-mantle-big-hurt-chapter_89.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR THE CONCLUSION:</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">"LA MORT ROUGE"</span></i></span></p></b></span>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-45207322482239378402023-09-03T22:34:00.002-04:002024-01-18T15:08:34.184-05:00Starring REGGIE MANTLE: THE BIG HURT (Chapter Four)<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>SABRINA THE SORCERESS:</b></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-eb9f16bf-7fff-fb8a-e9fa-01cde46a47bf" style="font-family: verdana;"><b><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">EXCITING </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TABLAOS FLAMENCO,</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> SPINNING FIERY VOCALS AND RHYTHM AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF WORLD WAR I! THEY FORM PART OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MEMORIES OF REGGIE MANTLE - A MAN WHO WAS BORN FIFTY YEARS LATER! WHAT IS THE TRUTH BEHIND THIS ANOMALY? WHO IS THE SPANISH DANCER KNOWN AS "EL NINJA"? AND WHEN HIS TRUE IDENTITY IS REVEALED, HOW WILL IT BE POSSIBLE FOR REGGIE TO AVOID . . .</span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53015647383/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="THE BIG HURT INTRO"><img alt="THE BIG HURT INTRO" height="376" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53015647383_c56ecc8027.jpg" width="500" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE BIG HURT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A SEQUEL TO “THE FREAKING OUT </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OF GERALDINE GRUNDY”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CHAPTER FOUR:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“LA GROSSE BITE”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE TIME: AUGUST 1915</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE PLACE: BARCELONA, SPAIN</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE NARRATOR: EL NINJA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IN AUGUST OF 1915, I LEARNED THAT I WASN’T THE ONLY SINGER WHO HAD BENEFITED FROM SHARMANTE’S </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LARGESSE.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> THERE’D BEEN A HANDFUL OF OTHER MEN, SOME OF WHOM HAD BEEN LOVERS OF DONNA DANTE; THEY HAD ALSO EXCHANGED SEX FOR SONGS! HOWEVER, NONE OF THEM HAD THE TALENT TO MAKE MUCH OF AN IMPRESSION; NONE EXCEPT FOR ME AND ONE OTHER PERFORMER: A MAN NAMED TOBIAS MAXWELL. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">KNOWN PROFESSIONALLY AS TOBY MAXX, HE WAS A FORMER WRESTLER LIKE I WAS. IN FACT, I RECALLED CROSSING PATHS WITH HIM IN GERMANY, ALTHOUGH WE NEVER HAD A BOUT. @ THAT TIME, HE’D WORN A MASK IN THE RING SO I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE. TOBY PRECEDED ME TO SPAIN AND WAS NOW HOLDING FORTH @ A SEEDY CLUB IN </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA CALLE MONTERA;</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> THAT WAS WHAT YOU’D CALL THE “TENDERLOIN” DISTRICT OF BARCELONA. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOBY WAS ANOTHER ONE OF RAM’S EX-LOVERS, BUT GARCY BRISEÑO HAD DEVELOPED A YEN FOR HIM. <i>“SÍ, </i>HE’S MY </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NOVIO</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">,” SHE TOLD ME, “AND HE’S VERY GOOD. MAYBE BETTER THAN YOU! DO YOU DOUBT ME? </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BUENO.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> LET’S GO SEE HIS ACT TOMORROW NIGHT.” DANTE AND I ACCOMPANIED GARCY TO A PLACE WITH THE SHOCKING NAME OF </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA GROSSE BITE</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (IT MEANS “BIG PENIS” IN FRENCH)! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SHE DIDN’T LIE ABOUT TOBY MAXX. THE MAN WAS MORE THAN VERY GOOD; I FOUND HIM MESMERIZING! EVEN THOUGH HE WAS PERFORMING AN </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">APACHE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANCE WITH SOMEONE I WAS MOST UNHAPPY TO SEE AGAIN: </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA CUCHILLA!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> MY OLD DANCE PARTNER CARMEN SERNA! BUT SOON I BARELY NOTICED HER, BECAUSE TOBY’S PRESENCE WAS SO DOMINANT: SHIRTLESS, WITH BLUE EYES FLASHING, MUSCLES RIPPLING AND LONG BLOND HAIR WHIPPING BACK AND FORTH, HE WAS AS LITHE AS A PANTHER WHEN HE DANCED! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BUT THEN HE SANG. TOBY BELTED OUT A </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TANGO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NUMBER CALLED <i>“ELLA (SHE)” </i>THAT I IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED AS A SHARMANTE TUNE. THE ANGER IN THE LYRICS MATCHED THE FURY WITH WHICH HE FLUNG CARMEN ACROSS THE FLOOR! I TOOK NOTICE OF HIS UNUSUAL TENOR VOICE: SMOOTH AND SHARP-EDGED @ THE SAME TIME. IT WAS AN ANDROGYNOUS VOICE, NOT WHAT YOU’D EXPECT FROM SOMEONE WHO LOOKED SO VIRILE AND MASCULINE.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CARMEN RECOGNIZED ME, OF COURSE, AND AFTER THEIR PERFORMANCE SHE SAUNTERED OVER TO SAY SOMETHING. NERVOUSLY, I BACKED AWAY. I DIDN’T WANT HER NEAR ME AFTER WHAT HAD HAPPENED THE LAST TIME WE MET! AND @ THAT POINT, NOBODY WAS GOING TO DISTRACT MY ATTENTION WHEN I WANTED SO BADLY TO MEET TOBY MAXX. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MY HEART POUNDED AS GARCY BRISEÑO LED DANTE AND I UPSTAIRS TO HIS DRESSING ROOM AND INTRODUCED US. TOWELING THE SWEAT OFF OF HIS MAGNIFICENT BODY, HE GRINNED AND INVITED US TO SIT DOWN. HIS SMILE WAS LIKE THE SUN COMING FROM BEHIND A BANK OF CLOUDS. I WAS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SMITTEN!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53014577132/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="SHE"><img alt="SHE" height="378" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53014577132_d2632f917c.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOBY MAXX AND LA CUCHILLA </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DO THEIR </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">APACHE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ROUTINE.</span></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AND I BLUSHED WITH PLEASURE WHEN HE SAID HE’D HEARD GOOD THINGS ABOUT MY ACT @ CUATRO GATOS. TOBY WANTED TO SEE ME PERFORM IN PERSON AND ASKED IF I WOULD GIVE HIM A PREVIEW. WE ALL WENT OUT BEHIND THE <i>BISTRO;</i> FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE, I SAW CARMEN TRAILING BEHIND. GARCY + I BEGAN SINGING THE RAM SHARMA COMPOSITION <i>“DE MI PARA TÍ (FROM ME TO YOU)”</i> AND DANCING </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FLAMENCO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IN SHARMANTE’S SINGULAR STYLE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HALFWAY THROUGH THE SONG, TOBY JOINED IN. WITHIN MINUTES HE HAD PICKED UP OUR ROUTINE AND WAS DOING IT BETTER THAN EITHER OF US! HALF-JOKING AND HALF-SERIOUS, I BLURTED: </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“¡COÑO!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">¡SEÑOR! </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">YOU’RE STEALING OUR MOVES!” TOBY GAVE OUT WITH A RAUCOUS LAUGH AND ADMITTED AS MUCH: “THEY’RE TOO GOOD FOR ME NOT TO TRY, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AMIGO!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> YOU’LL JUST HAVE TO STEAL SOME OF MINE.” I WONDERED ALOUD IF THAT WAS HIS INVITATION FOR ME TO COME BACK ANOTHER NIGHT? TOBY SMILED THAT DAZZLING SMILE AGAIN AND WINKED AN EYE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I SAW CARMEN’S FACE FLUSH WITH ANGER. “I’M AFRAID THAT WE MUST GO NOW,” I QUICKLY SAID. “IT’S BEEN A LONG NIGHT, AND I’VE GOT AN EARLY-MORNING REHEARSAL.” DANTE + I LEFT TOBY WITH GARCY + CARMEN, WHO WAS VISIBLY BESIDE HERSELF WITH RAGE! IF LOOKS COULD KILL, TOBY WOULD’VE DROPPED DEAD ON THE SPOT FROM HER GLARE. HE LATER TOLD ME SHE WAS SO INCENSED, SHE REFUSED TO SPEAK TO HIM FOR TWO WHOLE DAYS!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BUT NOTHING COULD KEEP ME FROM GOING BACK, AND I DID - ALONE, AND OFTEN. I SENSED THAT TOBY LIKED ME, AND I HOPED FOR MORE THAN JUST LIKING! I ALSO CRAVED THE THRILL OF DANCING WITH HIM, AND HE NEEDED SOMEONE TO REHEARSE WITH. CARMEN HAD NEVER REHEARSED WITH ME, AND IT CAME AS NO SURPRISE THAT SHE HADN’T CHANGED HER LAZY HABITS; SO WHENEVER I HAD FREE TIME, I’D GET TOGETHER WITH TOBY IN THE CELLAR OF </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA GROSSE BITE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HE HAD A MAKESHIFT ATHLETIC ROOM SET UP DOWN THERE. WE’D IMPROVISE ON </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">APACHE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANCE MOVES. QUITE NATURALLY WITH THAT KIND OF ROUTINE, DANCING TURNED INTO WRESTLING, AND VICE-VERSA. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“¡COÑO!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> LA CUCHILLA HAD BETTER WATCH OUT,” HE JOKED, “OR I’LL REPLACE HER WITH </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">YOU!” </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I RUFFLED HIS SHAGGY BLONDE MANE AND SCOLDED HIM: </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“ESTÁS LOCO, HOMBRE!”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53047254847/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="FROM ME TO YOU"><img alt="FROM ME TO YOU" height="369" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53047254847_cecb66d6a7.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOBY MAXX AND RITCHIE FONSECA REHEARSE!</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BUT THE ONLY PERSON IN OUR LIVES WHO WAS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LOCO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WAS CARMEN SERNA. THAT <i>PUTA </i>BECAME DETERMINED TO SABOTAGE ME! ONE EVENING AFTER A SHOW, THIS OLD GYPSY LADY SELLING ROSES CALLED TO ME AS I LEFT CUATRO GATOS. I PURCHASED A FLOWER AND NOTICED THAT SHE WAS CRYING. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SHE TOLD ME HER NAME WAS BETHEL LESLIE, AND THAT SHE’D RECENTLY LOST HER SON IN THE WAR. “YOU LOOK SO MUCH LIKE HIM, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MIJO”, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SHE SOBBED. “EVEN YOUR LONG HAIR.” BY THEN, @ TOBY’S SUGGESTION, I HAD GROWN IT OUT. “WOULD YOU LET ME HAVE A LOCK OF IT?</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> POR FAVOR.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LIKE A DAMN FOOL, I ALLOWED HER TO SNIP OFF A CURL. AS SOON AS I GOT HOME, I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG; MY BODY BEGAN HURTING ALL OVER! IN THE MORNING, I COULD NOT RISE FROM MY BED. I WAS PARTIALLY PARALYZED! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THOUGH STILL A YOUNG BOY, MY BROTHER DANTE HAD APPRENTICED WITH OUR TRIBE’S SHAMAN BEFORE HE WAS SENT AWAY TO INDIAN SCHOOL. HE RECOGNIZED THE SIGNS OF WITCHCRAFT! AS SOON AS I TOLD HIM ABOUT BETHEL THE GYPSY, HE KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED. “DON’T YOU SEE? SHE WAS A </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BRUJA</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, AND SHE CAST A SPELL ON YOU,” HE SAID GRIMLY. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE OLD WOMAN WAS INDEED A WITCH THAT LA CUCHILLA HAD PAID TO HEX ME! DANTE BELIEVED HE KNEW HOW TO BREAK HER SPELL, BUT IT WOULD TAKE TIME; HE HAD TO ASSEMBLE CERTAIN HERBS WHICH WEREN'T EASY TO FIND IN SPAIN. IN THE MEANTIME, I WAS TOO SICK TO WORK, AND MY BOSS HORNYTOAD WAS APOPLECTIC! HE SENT WORD THAT HE’D REPLACE ME IF I DIDN’T RETURN TO CUATROS GATOS BY THE END OF THE WEEK. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THROUGH GARCY BRISEÑO, WE REACHED OUT TO TOBY MAXX. AS IT HAPPENED, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA GROSSE BITE</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> WAS TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS; HE + CARMEN WERE PICKING UP JOBS HERE AND THERE. GARCY INQUIRED: WOULD HE SUBSTITUTE FOR ME IF, DURING MY ABSENCE, I PROMISED TO PAY HIM MY FULL SALARY? TOBY AGREED TO DO SO FOR </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HALF </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THAT! HE WAS SO ANXIOUS TO LEAVE CARMEN BEHIND, HE MIGHT EVEN HAVE DONE IT FOR FREE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">RAM SHARMA TAUGHT HIM SOME OF MY SONGS, BUT TOBY ALSO BROUGHT HIS OWN REPERTOIRE. HIS BIG SHOW-STOPPER @ CUARTRO GATOS WAS <i>“GITANA (GYPSY WOMAN)”,</i> WHICH HE SANG TO GARCY. AS HE DELIVERED THE LAST VERSE, SHE WOULD FLING HERSELF INTO HIS ARMS! THEN HE WOULD LOOSEN HER LONG, CASCADING BLACK HAIR, BEND HER BACKWARDS AND KISS HER PASSIONATELY. ALL THE WOMEN IN THE AUDIENCE SIGHED AND SWOONED! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOBY WAS A SMASH WITH BOTH MALE AND FEMALE PATRONS, SOME OF WHOM CAME OVER FROM </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA BITE</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> TO SEE HIM. DANTE TOLD ME ALL ABOUT IT, AND I WAS SO HAPPY FOR HIM. I KNEW HE WOULD BE A HIT, BUT I DIDN’T ANTICIPATE JUST </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HOW </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BIG. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANTE’S POTIONS FINALLY BROKE THE WITCH’S SPELL, AND I WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO WORK. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOO LATE!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> HORNYTOAD BROKE THE BAD NEWS: HE WANTED TOBY MAXX TO REPLACE ME PERMANENTLY! “MAYBE YOU CAN TAKE HIS PLACE @ </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA GROSSE BITE, NON?” </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HE SMIRKED.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I WAS LIVID, BUT HOW COULD I BLAME TOBY? HE HAD ONLY DONE WHAT I’D ASKED HIM TO DO. FORTUNATELY, GARCY WITNESSED THIS EXCHANGE, AND BY THEN SHE WAS FIRMLY ON MY SIDE. SHE OFFERED A SUGGESTION. “YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM DANCE TOGETHER, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MONSIEUR</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">,” HE SAID. “TAKE MY WORD FOR IT: THEY ARE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MAGNIFICO!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> WHY NOT FEATURE FONSECA + MAXWELL AS A TEAM, FOR THE SAME MONEY THAT ONE DANCER WOULD BE PAID?” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE CHEAPSKATE <i>IMPRESARIO </i>WAS WILLING TO TRY IT BUT BOTH TOBY + I TOOK SOME CONVINCING! VANITY AND PRIDE KICKED IN, BUT OUR FRIENDSHIP PROVED STRONGER. IT WAS DANTE WHO ULTIMATELY DECIDED US. HE PREDICTED THAT WE’D BECOME SO POPULAR, WE’D BE ABLE TO RE-NEGOTIATE TERMS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY; AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE PRESENTED OURSELVES AS A SONG-AND-DANCE TEAM.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE DIDN’T REALLY CREATE A NEW ACT. WE JUST BROUGHT OUR REHEARSALS TO THE STAGE, COMBINING DANCE STEPS WITH WRESTLING HOLDS. ME + TOBY ALWAYS REHEARSED SHIRTLESS, SO WE PERFORMED THAT WAY, TOO. THE CROWD WENT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TREMENDO LOCO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FOR OUR </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">APACHE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ROUTINE ADAPTED FOR TWO MEN. NOTHING LIKE THAT HAD EVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">RAM + DONNA TAILORED NEW SONGS FOR US, AND WE GREW INTO A SENSATION BIGGER THAN ANYTHING HORNYTOAD HAD EVER PRESENTED. GRUDGINGLY, HE AGREED TO PAY US MORE, BUT ONLY ON CONDITION THAT HE COULD RENAME US. “FONSECA + MAXWELL, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NON!”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> HE DECLARED. “UP ON THE MARQUEE, IT HAS NO MAGIC. FROM NOW ON, YOU WILL BE CALLED ‘TOTO + NINJA’.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW NEGATIVELY A HE-MAN LIKE TOBY MAXX REACTED TO BEING CALLED “TOTO” - A TOY DOG FROM A CHILDREN’S BOOK! AND </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MONSIEUR </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HAD TO EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT A “NINJA” WAS. THEN I WANTED TO KNOW: “WHY NAME ME AFTER A JAPANESE ASSASSIN?” BUT HORNYTOAD WAVED OFF OUR OBJECTIONS. IN HIS DEFENSE, I MUST SAY: THE NEW NAME CAUGHT ON QUICKLY. SOON, ALL BARCELONA WAS BUZZING ABOUT US!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53059922960/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="SO LONG, BABY/BABY, IT'S YOU"><img alt="SO LONG, BABY/BABY, IT'S YOU" height="372" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53059922960_b28fb06eaa.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A BRAND NEW SPANISH SENSATION: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOTO + NINJA!</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NATURALLY, TOBY BROKE UP WITH CARMEN SERNA ONCE AND FOR ALL, AND SHE WAS FURIOUS! I LATER LEARNED THAT SHE RETURNED TO BETHEL THE GYPSY. LA CUCHILLA DEMANDED THAT SHE CAST A SPELL ON <i>BOTH </i>OF US! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HOW DID I LEARN THIS? IN A MANNER MOST SHOCKING. THE DAY AFTER </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">EL DÍA DE LOS SANTOS, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY, THE NEWSPAPER REPORTED THAT A GYPSY </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BRUJA </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WAS FOUND IN A BACK ALLEY, SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS! WITH HER DYING BREATHS, BETHEL LESLIE CONFESSED TO HAVING RECENTLY CAST AN EVIL SPELL ON ME, EL NINJA! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SHE WAS PAID TO DO SO BY A </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">PELIRROJA </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- A RED-HEADED WOMAN. THIS WOMAN THEN RETURNED TO COMMISSION ANOTHER HEX, THIS TIME ON MYSELF AND ANOTHER PERSON; BUT SHE WAS UNABLE TO PAY THE LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY BETHEL LESLIE INSISTED ON. THE OLD WOMAN DIED BEFORE SHE COULD SPEAK HER KILLER’S NAME; BUT I KNEW WHO IT WAS. THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT IN MY MIND! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BUT BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I WAS TOO CAUGHT UP IN A WHIRLWIND OF FAME TO WORRY ABOUT CARMEN FOR VERY LONG. TOTO + NINJA BECAME SO INCREDIBLY POPULAR THAT HORNYTOAD COULD NOT AFFORD US! WE LEFT BOTH CUATRO GATOS AND SHARMANTE BEHIND FOR A LUCRATIVE ENGAGEMENT @ BARCELONA’S VERSION OF THE MOULIN ROUGE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE HAD ORCHESTRAL ACCOMPANIMENT THERE, BUT FOR A PORTION OF OUR FEE, RAM + DONNA CONTINUED WRITING SONGS FOR US. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MONSIEUR</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> WASN’T HAPPY ABOUT THIS, BUT RAM SHARMA WOULD NOT BE DICTATED TO! HE TOLD HORNYTOAD: <i>“¡YA BASTA!</i> YOU PAY FOR MY SERVICES, BUT YOU DO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NOT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OWN <i>MIS </i></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CANCIONES!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I GIVE THEM TO WHOMEVER I PLEASE.” THE <i>IMPRESARIO </i>BACKED OFF, WARY OF LOSING HIS ONLY OTHER STAR ATTRACTION!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BY MID-1916, TOTO + NINJA HAD BECOME THE TOAST OF SPAIN. WE WERE WINED, DINED AND CELEBRATED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY! IN PARTS OF SWITZERLAND, PORTUGAL, BELGIUM, FRANCE AND ITALY, TOO. TOBY + I APPEARED @ ALL THE TOP CABARETS, BUT OUR “HOME BASE” BECAME THE MOULIN ROUGE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THAT’S WHERE CARMEN SERNA SUDDENLY REAPPEARED; SHE SNEAKED BACKSTAGE ONE NIGHT WITH A MAN SHE CALLED HER MANAGER; I RECOGNIZED HIM AS A PIMP! NEITHER OF US HAD SEEN HER IN NEARLY A YEAR, AND WE CERTAINLY WERE NOT PLEASED TO MAKE HER ACQUAINTANCE AGAIN. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA CUCHILLA LOOKED HARD AND CHEAP! SHE’D MADE NUMEROUS UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO RETURN TO PERFORMING, SOMETIMES WITH PARTNERS BUT MORE OFTEN WITHOUT. “I NEED MEN WITH ME IN ORDER TO CONJURE THE MAGIC MY FANS WANT TO SEE,” SHE CONFESSED, "BUT NOT JUST ANY MEN. I WANT <i>YOU! </i>WITH YOUR SPLENDID VOICES AND GLISTENING BODIES. JUST IMAGINE WHAT THE THREE OF US COULD DO . . . </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TOGETHER!” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TO OUR HORROR, SHE PROPOSED JOINING OUR ACT. CARMEN WANTED TO CHANGE OUR NAME TO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BELLEZA Y FUERZA </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(“BEAUTY AND BRAWN”)! HER “MANAGER” PREDICTED THAT WE’D ALL THREE REACH UNCHARTED HEIGHTS OF FAME. WITH HIM POCKETING A HEFTY COMMISSION, OF COURSE!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BOTH TOBY + I DISSOLVED IN FITS OF LAUGHTER! </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“¡MUJER!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS?” I BLURTED BETWEEN GUFFAWS. OH, BUT SHE WAS. CARMEN WAS PLAYING A HIGH-STAKES GAME WITH US, AND NOW SHE BRANDISHED HER TRUMP CARD: </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MY SECRET! </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">UNBEKNOWNST TO ME, SHE HAD INGRATIATED HERSELF WITH A MEMBER OF SHARMANTE: MALACHI HIPP, WHO WAS JEALOUS OF US BOTH. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MAL HAD EYES FOR HIS DANCE PARTNER (AND TOBY’S LOVER) GARCY BRISEÑO, AND HE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">STILL </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">RESENTED MY SOLO SUCCESS! HE’D REVEALED TO CARMEN THAT I WAS CHEROKEE PASSING MYSELF OFF AS WHITE. TOBY DENOUNCED HER ACCUSATION: "IT'S A DAMN LIE!" I HAD NEVER TOLD HIM ABOUT MY HERITAGE; I CONSIDERED DOING SO SEVERAL TIMES BUT ALWAYS BACKED DOWN. I GUESS I FEARED THAT HE WOULDN'T LIKE ME AS MUCH AS I WANTED HIM TO!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>“ES LA VERDAD,"</i> CARMEN HISSED @ ME THROUGH CLENCHED TEETH. "YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE! YOU’RE NOTHING BUT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">UN SALVAJE BÁRBARO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(A BLOODY SAVAGE)! RECONSIDER MY OFFER, OR I SWEAR BY MY <i>COÑO</i> THAT I’LL RUIN YOU BOTH! INSTEAD OF ‘TOTO + NINJA’, THEY’LL START CALLING YOU <i>TOTO AND THE TAR BABY!” </i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52843462461/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="40 ROCK SLIPCASE DESIGN"><img alt="40 ROCK SLIPCASE DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52843462461_3f89a741bc.jpg" width="373" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">END OF CHAPTER FOUR</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/09/starring-reggie-mantle-big-hurt-chapter_4.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR CHAPTER FIVE:</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #93c47d; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"GEMINI"</span></p></b></span>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-43818306768628704332023-09-03T18:57:00.008-04:002024-01-18T15:07:08.117-05:00Starring REGGIE MANTLE: THE BIG HURT (Chapter Three)<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><i>SABRINA THE SORCERESS:</i></b></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-eb9f16bf-7fff-fb8a-e9fa-01cde46a47bf" style="font-family: verdana;"><b><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TIME IS LIKE A ROOM WITH A SERIES OF LOCKED DOORS. UNLOCK ONE OF THEM, AND YOUR CHILDHOOD IS LAID OUT BEFORE YOU. UNLOCK ANOTHER, AND EXPERIENCE THE ANGUISH OF ADOLESCENCE! THE NEXT OPEN DOOR PRESENTS THE CHALLENGES OF EARLY ADULTHOOD. STRESSES OF MIDDLE AND OLD AGE AWAIT YOU BEHIND SUBSEQUENT PORTALS; AND THEN THERE’S THE VERY LAST ONE. “THE LADY OR THE TIGER?” DO YOU <i>DARE </i>UNLOCK </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THAT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DOOR? REGGIE MANTLE DARED, AND WHAT HE FOUND WAS . . . </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53015647383/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="THE BIG HURT INTRO"><img alt="THE BIG HURT INTRO" height="376" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53015647383_c56ecc8027.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE BIG HURT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A SEQUEL TO “THE FREAKING OUT </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OF GERALDINE GRUNDY”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CHAPTER THREE:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“CUATRO GATOS”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE TIME: AUGUST 1914</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE PLACE: BERLIN, GERMANY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE NARRATOR: EL NINJA</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE MANAGERS OF THAT BEER GARDEN IN WIESBADEN PAIRED ME WITH SEVERAL FEMALE DANCE PARTNERS. ONE OF THE WOMEN WAS VERY GOOD @ DOING THE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TANGO.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> AFTER TWO MONTHS, WE SPLIT OFF FROM THE DANCE TROUPE AND PUT TOGETHER A DUO. AS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DIE TANGO-KINDER,</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> WE GOT POPULAR PERFORMING ON THE MUSIC HALL CIRCUIT. I HOPED THAT OUR ACT MIGHT BE MY TICKET TO STARDOM; THAT IS, UNTIL EARLY AUGUST OF 1914! THAT’S WHEN GERMAN AGGRESSION AGAINST RUSSIA AND FRANCE STARTED, GREAT BRITAIN CAME TO THEIR AID, AND WORLD WAR I BROKE OUT IN EUROPE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SUDDENLY, NATIONALISM WAS ALL ANYONE GERMAN WANTED TO TALK ABOUT! DISDAIN FOR FOREIGNERS WAS ALWAYS A REALITY FOR IMMIGRANTS IN BERLIN, BUT IT INTENSIFIED DURING THE WAR; NATIONALIST BERLINERS ESPECIALLY HATED </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SCHWARZEN </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(DARK SKINS)! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TERRIFIED OF BEING FOUND OUT, I STARTED WEARING BROAD-BRIMMED HATS TO AVOID SUN-TANNING. EVEN THEN, I JUST DIDN’T FEEL SAFE IN GERMANY ANYMORE. I WANTED TO LEAVE BUT MY PARTNER DIDN’T, SO WE BROKE UP. I'D KEPT IN TOUCH WITH <i>MAESTRO </i>CÓRTEZ QUINTANILLA AND HE SUGGESTED THAT I EMIGRATE TO SPAIN, WHICH WAS </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">HIS FATHER'S ANCESTRAL HOME.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MY OWN FATHER WAS PART MEXICAN, AND HE TAUGHT ME A BIT OF SPANISH; BUT CATALONIAN AND THE OTHER SPANISH DIALECTS PROVED TOUGH TO LEARN! IT WAS A REAL STRUGGLE TRYING TO GET A FOOTHOLD IN SPAIN, BUT ENCOURAGEMENT CAME BY WAY OF DREAMS. WEARING A SNOW-WHITE HABIT, SISTER ISABELLE APPEARED TO ME IN MY SLEEP! THAT BEAUTIFUL ANGEL URGED ME NOT TO GIVE UP, AND I DIDN'T. I FINALLY HIRED ON @ A DANCE SCHOOL, BECOMING A </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TANGO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TEACHER. THE MONEY WASN'T BAD; MY STUDENTS CAME MOSTLY FROM THE UPPER CLASSES, BUT A FEW WERE FROM THE DEMIMONDE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ONE OF THE LEAST TALENTED WAS A </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CORTESANA </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(PROSTITUTE) NAMED CARMEN SERNA. SHE KEPT STILETTO BLADES HIDDEN IN HER HAIR, AND FOR THAT SHE WAS KNOWN AS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA CUCHILLA!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> THAT WOMAN COULD THROW KNIVES WITH DEADLY ACCURACY, BUT SHE COULDN’T DANCE TO SAVE HER LIFE! </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">@ FIRST, I TRIED TO PASS CARMEN OFF TO ANOTHER TEACHER, BUT SHE INSISTED ON ME BEING HER INSTRUCTOR; SO I WORKED OUT A SERIES OF POSES TO CAMOUFLAGE HER COMPLETE LACK OF DANCE SKILLS. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">I KNEW THAT LA CUCHILLA WAS HOT-TEMPERED AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS, BUT SHE WAS ALSO BEAUTIFUL. SHE AND I BECAME FRIENDS AND, OCCASIONALLY, LOVERS! WITH HER AMPLE PHYSICAL CHARMS, CARMEN LURED ME INTO GOING ON STAGE WITH HER AS A PROFESSIONAL DANCE DUO.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53015328374/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="THAT'S THE WAY LOVE IS"><img alt="THAT'S THE WAY LOVE IS" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53015328374_62b5255d8a.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TANGO AND LUST: RITCHIE FONSECA </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANCES WITH LA CUCHILLA!</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE FIRST DANCED TOGETHER FOR AN AUDIENCE @ A PARTY THROWN BY ONE OF HER WELL-TO-DO “JOHNS”. SOON, THANKS TO WORD-OF-MOUTH, WE WERE APPEARING @ SIMILAR PRIVATE AFFAIRS ALL OVER BARCELONA. IT WAS LUCRATIVE WORK, BUT WE WEREN’T GETTING HIRED FOR OUR DANCING! @ THE END OF THE EVENING, CARMEN + I WERE ALWAYS SOLD OFF TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR SEXUAL SERVICES - SOMETIMES SEPARATELY AND SOMETIMES TOGETHER. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE WERE EVEN ENCOURAGED TO SEXUALIZE OUR ROUTINES SO THAT OUR CLIENTELE WOULD KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED WHAT THESE GIGS TURNED INTO; I KNEW WHAT CARMEN DID FOR A LIVING! OF COURSE, SELLING MY BODY WAS NOTHING NEW - I'D DONE IT OFF AND ON SINCE I ESCAPED FROM INDIAN SCHOOL IN OKLAHOMA - BUT DOING SO IN <i>THAT </i>WAY DISGUSTED ME. THE MONEY DIDN’T MEAN ANYTHING; I WANTED WORK AS A <i>DANCER!</i> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FINALLY, ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH: I TOLD CARMEN I WAS ALL DONE WITH BEING A DANCING RENT BOY. I COULDN’T STAND FOR ANOTHER OLD WOMAN (OR MAN) TO SLOBBER OVER ME! I WAS EAGER TO BREAK FREE FROM </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HER </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CLUTCHES, TOO; EVEN THOUGH I NEVER LED CARMEN TO BELIEVE THAT I LOVED HER, SHE’D BEGUN TO THINK OTHERWISE. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> LA CUCHILLA WAS BECOMING POSSESSIVE AND JEALOUS OF ANY PRETTY GIRL I SLEPT WITH! SHE EVEN THREATENED TO KNIFE ONE OF THEM. I KNEW HER TEMPER WAS VOLATILE BUT I WASN’T PREPARED FOR HER REACTION: WHEN I TOLD HER MY DECISON, SHE FLEW INTO A FLAMING RAGE!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT TEACHING </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TANGO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IF YOU QUIT ME,” SHE WARNED. “I CAN BLACKBALL YOU, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CABRÓN!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I’VE FUCKED MANY OF BARCELONA’S RICHEST MEN, AND I’VE GOT THEM WRAPPED AROUND MY LITTLE FINGER. I CAN PERSUADE THOSE <i>RABOS VERDES</i> (HORNY BASTARDS) TO DO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ANYTHING </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I WANT!” I TOLD CARMEN TO DO HER WORST AND TURNED TO GO. SUDDENLY, A STILETTO WHIZZED BY MY HEAD AND LODGED IN THE DOOR FRAME! </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">LA CUCHILLA </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DIDN’T COME BY HER NICKNAME BY CHANCE! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FEARING FOR MY LIFE, I RAN OUT OF HER APARTMENT BUILDING AND DOWN THE STREET. FOR PART OF MY FLIGHT, SHE WAS HOT ON MY HEELS, SCREAMING AND CURSING: </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I WILL SLIT YOUR FUCKING THROAT! TONIGHT YOUR BLOOD WILL RUN IN THE GUTTERS!” </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I DIDN’T THINK I WOULD EVER SHAKE HER OFF, BUT I FINALLY DID!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">RETURNING TO MY RENTED ROOM BY A CIRCULAR ROUTE, I FELL EXHAUSTED ON MY BED. MY HEART WAS BEATING A MILE-A-MINUTE! ALL THE SAME, I FELT A THAT HUGE WEIGHT HAD LIFTED OFF MY SHOULDERS. GETTING MIXED UP WITH AN UNPREDICTABLE WOMAN LIKE THAT HAD BEEN A BAD IDEA; BREAKING UP WAS WELL WORTH WHATEVER CONSEQUENCES I MIGHT SUFFER. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I SUFFERED THEM SOON ENOUGH: CARMEN MADE GOOD ON HER THREAT TO DISPARAGE ME TO HER CLIENTELE! MY ROSTER OF PRIVATE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TANGO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">STUDENTS DWINDLED AWAY TO ALMOST NOTHING. THOUGH I TRIED HARD, I COULDN'T ENGAGE ANY NEW STUDENTS, EITHER! A FEW WEEKS LATER, THE DANCE SCHOOL FIRED ME. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I STARTED AUDITIONING AGAIN, BUT OPPORTUNITIES TO PRESENT MYSELF AS A LEGITIMATE DANCER IN SPAIN WERE FEW AND FAR-BETWEEN. THERE WAS LOTS OF STIFF COMPETITION! I BECAME VERY DEPRESSED DURING THIS TIME BUT AGAIN, SISTER ISABELLE’S PRESENCE SWEETENED MY DREAMS! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I HEARD HER SOFT, SOOTHING VOICE URGING ME TO STAY THE COURSE. SHE SEEMED TO SAY THAT ANOTHER DANCE COLLABORATION LAY IN MY FUTURE: ONE THAT WOULD BE BOTH JOYFUL AND BLESSED WITH SUCCESS! SO I SOUGHT OUT POPULAR DANCE VENUES, HOPING AND PRAYING THAT I'D FIND AN OPPORTUNITY TO JUMP INTO THE SPOTLIGHT AND SHOW WHAT I COULD DO. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE HOTTEST <i>CABARET </i>IN BARCELONA WAS CALLED CUATRO GATOS. IT WAS LARGER THAN AVERAGE, AS BIG AS A CHURCH! AND ITS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HABITUÉS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WERE AS DEVOTED AS PARISHIONERS WOULD’VE BEEN. EVERY WEEKEND, I WOULD ATTEND THE FLOOR SHOW; IT WAS<i> FABULOSO!</i> JUST LIKE A MINIATURE CIRCUS, BUT FOR ADULTS ONLY: THERE WERE TOPLESS GIRLS, ACROBATIC DANCERS, KNIFE-THROWERS, JUGGLERS, CLOWNS, TORCH SINGERS, AND EVEN A DANCING BEAR! ALSO, HOT DIXIELAND JAZZ, SOMETHING BRAND NEW IMPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I VERY MUCH WANTED TO DANCE THERE, BUT I COULDN’T EVEN GET AN AUDITION! THE IMPRESARIO WAS AN ARROGANT FRENCHMAN KNOWN AS “HORNYTOAD”. IT WAS AN AMERICAN NICKNAME, AND BACK THEN THOSE WERE POPULAR AMONG EUROPEAN SHOW PEOPLE. EVERYBODY CALLED HIM THAT OR </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MONSIEUR</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> - NOBODY KNEW HIS REAL NAME. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HIS STAR ATTRACTION @ CUATROS GATOS, @ LEAST IN MY MIND, WERE SHARMANTE: A QUARTET OF GYPSY ENTERTAINERS WITH THREE ROTATING SINGERS - GARCY BRISEÑO, MALACHI HIPP, AND PRIMARY LEAD VOCALIST DONNA DANTE. THEY HAD A MAJESTIC PRESENCE ABOUT THEM, AND THEY CAPTIVATED PATRONS WITH PERFORMANCES THAT WERE EQUALLY STYLISH, MELODIC AND PERCUSSIVE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THEIR SOUND WAS AN EXCITING BLEND OF GYPSY </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FLAMENCO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WITH AFRICAN FOLK MUSIC AND AMERICAN BLUES. I’D NEVER SEEN DANCERS BRING SUCH STYLE AND PRECISION TO THEIR STEPS, AND I’D NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THE ORIGINAL SONGS THAT DONNA WROTE WITH HER HUSBAND AND DANCE PARTNER, RAM SHARMA.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52903207012/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="ABSENCE OF ISABELLE"><img alt="ABSENCE OF ISABELLE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52903207012_4788c88883.jpg" width="370" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SHARMANTE PERFORMS </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>¡FLAMENCO BIEN SABROSO!</i></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A HALF-PUNJABI/HALF-NIGERIAN IMMIGRANT FROM SOUTH AFRICA, RAM WAS THE GROUP’S LEADER AND THE ONLY NON-GYPSY MEMBER (ALTHOUGH HE ONLY SHARED THAT INFORMATION WITH <i>CERTAIN </i>PEOPLE). THE MORE I LISTENED TO HIS MUSIC, THE MORE I LONGED TO SING IT MYSELF! IT WAS THE MISSING INGREDIENT THAT I NEEDED TO MAKE MY PERFORMANCES STAND OUT. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">RAM SHARMA WAS NOT EASY TO APPROACH, BUT I EVENTUALLY CORNERED HIM AND ASKED IF HE WOULD CREATE SOME SONGS JUST FOR ME. @ FIRST, HE LAUGHED ME OFF, BUT I KEPT AFTER HIM. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FINALLY, HE PROPOSED AN EXCHANGE: </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“BUENO, AMIGO</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. I WILL GIVE YOU A SONG IF YOU GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WANT!” WHAT DID HE WANT? </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“UN POQUITO DE TU NALGA, MIJO.” </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A PIECE OF MY <i>ASS! </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FUCKING IN ORDER TO GET AHEAD: MUCH TO MY ANNOYANCE, THAT HAD BECOME A RECURRING THEME IN MY LIFE! BUT I WON’T LIE TO YOU: BY THEN, I WAS A RANK OPPORTUNIST. MAYBE I DIDN’T LIKE USING SEX TO ADVANCE MY CAREER, BUT I NEVER SWORE IT OFF. WHENEVER A PRIZE RACING <i>CABALLO </i>PRESENTED ITSELF TO ME, THIS <i>CABALLERO </i>WAS ALWAYS READY TO RIDE!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“OPEN MARRIAGE” WAS SOMETHING THAT EUROPEANS PRACTICED LONG BEFORE IT WAS FASHIONABLE IN THE UNITED STATES. BOTH DONNA DANTE + RAM SHARMA TOOK LOVERS ON THE SIDE, AND RAM LIKED BOTH WOMEN AND MEN. SO DO I, BUT OTHER THAN A HANDFUL OF WILLING HOMOSEXUAL ENCOUNTERS IN GERMANY - I FOUND LOTS OF MAN-LOVING MEN THERE - I WASN’T VERY EXPERIENCED WITH WHAT THE SPANISH CALL </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CHIQUITIANDO. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ALL THE SAME, I THINK I HANDLED THE TASK WELL. WORKING AS A RENT BOY HAD GIVEN ME PLENTY OF PRACTICE, AND RAM DEFINITELY APPRECIATED WHAT I HAD TO OFFER! MAYBE THAT’S BECAUSE I OFFERED HIM MORE THAN JUST MY </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NALGA</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">: EVEN WHILE I SATISFIED HIS LUST, I MADE SURE THAT HE KNEW I COULD BE A GOOD VEHICLE FOR HIS SONGS. <i>ÓYEME . . . </i>I WOULD SING TO HIM IN BED! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SEVERAL SWEATY ENCOUNTERS LATER, RAM SHARMA WROTE A SONG FOR ME WITH HIS WIFE CALLED <i>“CONSERJE (HANDY MAN).” </i> I SANG IT SO WELL THAT THEY GAVE ME MORE! THEY ALSO COACHED ME IN THEIR UNIQUE STYLE OF DANCING. RAM SUPPORTED MY AMBITIONS, AND I’M SURE IT WASN’T BECAUSE OF OUR BEDROOM ACTIVITIES; HE SAW THAT I HAD REAL TALENT, AND SO DID DONNA! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I URGED THEM TO SET UP AN AUDITION FOR ME WITH THE VERY RETICENT HORNYTOAD, AND @ LONG LAST I MET WITH HIM. DONNA DANTE WAS THERE WHEN I PERFORMED “HANDY MAN”, <i>“MUÉSTRAME (SHOW ME)”</i> AND <i>“¿BAILARAS (DO YOU WANNA DANCE)?”</i> IN HIS UPSTAIRS OFFICE. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I SANG AND ALSO DANCED - RAM HAD HELPED ME HONE A COMPLICATED </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FLAMENCO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ROUTINE - AND I COULD TELL THAT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MONSIEUR </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WAS IMPRESSED. STILL, HE CLAIMED THAT HE HAD ENOUGH PEOPLE ON HIS PAYROLL AND DIDN’T WANT ANY MORE. THAT’S WHEN DONNA DANTE INTERVENED. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“UN MOMENTO, MONSIEUR,”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> SHE SAID. “YOU NEED SOMEONE TO DANCE WITH NEGROSO, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">N’EST-CE PAS?”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> NEGROSO WAS HORNYTOAD’S TRAINED DANCING BEAR. “YOU ASKED ME TO DO IT, BUT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL I LET THAT BEAST COME NEAR ME! WHAT ABOUT FONSECA HERE? YOU CAN DO IT, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">QUE NO, RICO?</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CLARO QUE SÍ. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WHY DON'T YOU GIVE HIM A CHANCE?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IT WASN’T WHAT I’D HAVE PREFERRED, BUT I LEAPT THROUGH THE DOOR THAT DONNA OPENED FOR ME! CHEROKEES VIEW WILD ANIMALS AS THEIR NEIGHBORS; I RESPECTED NEGROSO BUT DIDN’T FEAR HIM. WE ACTUALLY WORKED WELL TOGETHER AND BECAME A FEATURED ATTRACTION. HOWEVER, AS A CONDITION OF WORKING WITH THE BEAR, I EXTRACTED FROM HORNYTOAD THE PROMISE TO GIVE ME OCCASIONAL SOLO APPEARANCES!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52903206982/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="SHOW ME"><img alt="SHOW ME" height="370" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52903206982_4cc30144f6.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FONSECA AND NEGROSO THE BEAR </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">GO INTO THEIR DANCE.</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FOR THOSE SHOWCASES, I WAS BACKED BY SHARMANTE. WE MADE A BIG IMPRESSION ON AUDIENCES! OUR SPECIALTY WAS THIS NUMBER CALLED <i>“ROMPIENDO (BREAK UP)”,</i> A SONG I PERFORMED TO AN EXCITING CIRCLE DANCE. @ ITS CLIMAX, GARCY + DONNA WOULD RUN UP FROM BEHIND, KNOCK ME TO THE FLOOR AND RIP MY SHIRT OFF. THE CROWD ATE US UP EVERY SINGLE TIME! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">EVEN A STUBBORN MAN LIKE HORNYTOAD COULD SEE THAT A HOT NEW ACT HAD BEEN BORN. BEFORE LONG, HE KNEW THAT HE NEEDED TO GET SOMEBODY ELSE FOR THE DANCING BEAR SEGMENT! AND THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED AFTER I’D BEEN PERFORMING @ CUATRO GATOS FOR SIX MONTHS. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I WON’T PRETEND THAT ALL THE MEMBERS OF SHARMANTE WERE THRILLED TO SHARE A STAGE WITH ME. MALACHI HIPP AND GARCY BRISEÑO WERE ACTUALLY QUITE UPSET ABOUT IT! <i>ESPECIALLY </i>MAL, THE RED-HEADED GYPSY. “I’M A MUCH BETTER </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SINGER </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THAN HE IS,” HE FUMED. “WHY PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON HIM? WHY NOT </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ME?” </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HOWEVER, RAM SHARMA LED THE GROUP WITH A STRONG HAND, AND THEY DID WHAT HE WANTED. EVEN THOUGH MY FLING WITH HIM EVOLVED INTO SOMETHING THAT WAS ON-AGAIN-OFF-AGAIN, RAM REMAINED FIRMLY IN MY CORNER; HE EVEN LET DONNA AND I SING DUETS. I FELT LIKE I’D HITCHED A RIDE ON A STAR; MY DREAMS WERE <i>FINALLY </i>COMING TRUE!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">RIGHT AFTER I BECAME A HEADLINER @ CUATRO GATOS, SISTER ISABELLE APPEARED TO ME IN A NEW DREAM. SHE TOLD ME THAT MY LITTLE BROTHER DANTE HAD RUN AWAY FROM THE INDIAN SCHOOL @ ANADARKO AND WAS STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE! SHE ALSO REVEALED WHERE HE WAS: IN NEW YORK CITY, WHERE HE’D GONE TO LOOK FOR ME. NEVER ONCE DID I DOUBT THE VERACITY OF THIS VISION.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I STILL HAD FRIENDS IN NEW YORK, AND I WROTE TO THEM: “HAVE YOU SEEN MY BROTHER? CAN YOU FIND HIM FOR ME?” THEY HAD AND THEY DID, AND TWO MONTHS LATER THEY PUT US IN TOUCH. I WAS OVERJOYED! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">@ LAST, WE COULD BE REUNITED. I IMMEDIATELY SENT DANTE MONEY AND A ONE-WAY TICKET TO BARCELONA. IT SEEMED THAT YEARS PASSED BEFORE I FINALLY MET HIS BOAT @ PORT VELL. WE CRIED AND HUGGED EACH OTHER FOR THE LONGEST TIME! I URGED HIM TO SMILE, BECAUSE THE HARD TIMES WERE FINALLY OVER. “I’M GOING TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU, <i>CONEJO</i>,” I ASSURED HIM; BUT RIDING BACK INTO THE CITY, I SUDDENLY REALIZED THAT HIS PRESENCE COULD CAUSE A PROBLEM FOR ME. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DANTE WAS SO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">VERY </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DARK-SKINNED, THERE WAS JUST NO WAY HE COULD EVER PASS FOR WHITE! COULD I RISK HAVING IT KNOWN THAT HE WAS MY BROTHER? NO . . .</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> ¡JAMAS!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> I WASN’T ABOUT TO THREATEN THE SUCCESS I’D JUST ACHIEVED.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THERE WAS NO LEGAL SEGREGATION IN EUROPE, BUT THAT DIDN’T MEAN STEREOTYPING AND RACIAL HOSTILITY DIDN’T PUT LIMITS ON PEOPLE OF COLOR. IF YOU WERE AMBITIOUS, LIKE ALL OF US @ CUATRO GATOS WERE, YOU OPTED NOT TO PUBLICIZE YOUR DIFFERENCE; IT WAS THE SAFEST THING TO DO, AND BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I INSISTED THAT DANTE PRETEND TO BE MY<i> VALET.</i> QUITE UNDERSTANDABLY, HE WASN’T HAPPY! SHARMANTE DIDN’T LIKE IT EITHER WHEN I CONFIDED IN THEM. RAM SHARMA ACCUSED ME OF BEING ASHAMED OF MY CHEROKEE BLOOD, BUT WHO WAS </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TO TALK? HE KEPT HIS HALF-BREED BACKGROUND UNDER COVER AND LET PEOPLE THINK THAT HE WAS A DARKER-SKINNED GYPSY. @ ANY RATE, THE GROUP PROMISED TO KEEP MY SECRET AND THAT PROMISE WAS KEPT . . . FOR A WHILE.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52843462461/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="40 ROCK SLIPCASE DESIGN"><img alt="40 ROCK SLIPCASE DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52843462461_3f89a741bc.jpg" width="373" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">END OF CHAPTER THREE</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/09/starring-reggie-mantle-big-hurt-chapter_85.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR CHAPTER FOUR:</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"LA GROSSE BITE"</span></p></b></span>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-44571322802821681632023-09-03T18:27:00.003-04:002024-01-18T15:05:39.775-05:00Starring REGGIE MANTLE: THE BIG HURT (Chapter Two)<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>SABRINA THE SORCERESS:</b></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-eb9f16bf-7fff-fb8a-e9fa-01cde46a47bf" style="font-family: verdana;"><b><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DEEP IN THE SUBCONSCIOUS OF REGGIE MANTLE LIES A STORY TOO FANTASTIC TO BELIEVE; BUT YOU </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MUST </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BELIEVE IT, BECAUSE IT REALLY DID HAPPEN! MY NAME IS SABRINA. SOME PEOPLE KNOW ME AS A FAMOUS MUSIC PRODUCER. OTHERS KNOW ME AS THE ALL-POWERFUL WITCH QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSAL REALM! I KNOW ALL THAT IS, ALL THAT WAS, AND ALL THAT WILL BE ABOUT THE ARCHIES AND THEIR FRIENDS. GAZE DEEPLY INTO MY CRYSTAL BALL, IF YOU <i>DARE.</i> SCENES OF BRILLIANT SPECTACLE AND GLAMOROUS ELEGANCE AWAIT YOUR CURIOUS EYES; BUT BE WARNED! SO DOES . . .</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53015647383/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="THE BIG HURT INTRO"><img alt="THE BIG HURT INTRO" height="376" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53015647383_c56ecc8027.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE BIG HURT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A SEQUEL TO “THE FREAKING OUT </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OF GERALDINE GRUNDY”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CHAPTER TWO:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“SOPHISTICATED BRAWN”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE TIME: SEPTEMBER 1913</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE PLACE: NEW YORK CITY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE NARRATOR: EL NINJA</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">RESOLVING TO FOLLOW SISTER ISABELLE’S ADVICE, I WALKED, HITCH-HIKED, STOWED AWAY AND BARTERED MY WAY FROM OKLAHOMA TO THE EAST COAST. SIX MONTHS LATER, I WAS A SCARED BUT DETERMINED CHEROKEE BOY, SCUFFLING TO SURVIVE IN NEW YORK CITY! THERE WERE NO CHILD LABOR LAWS THEN, SO I GOT A JOB WORKING AS A (BARELY) TEENAGE LABORER IN THE GARMENT DISTRICT. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I SAVED THE SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY I MADE AND ONE DAY, I PAID TO GO SEE A VAUDEVILLE SHOW. THERE WERE NOVELTY ACTS, JOKES AND SINGING AND DANCING; BUT I COULDN’T ENJOY THE PERFORMANCES. FOR ONE THING, I WAS STILL WORRIED ABOUT MY BROTHER DANTE. FOR ANOTHER, I WAS TOO BUSY THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH I WANTED TO BE UP THERE ON STAGE, TOO! I WENT BACK SEVERAL TIMES, AND KEPT MY EYES AND EARS OPEN. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">EVENTUALLY, I FOUND OUT WHERE AND WHEN THE PRODUCERS HELD AUDITIONS. I WASN’T SCARED; I WOULD DANCE FOR ANYBODY @ THE DROP OF A HAT! I MARCHED RIGHT INTO THEIR OFFICE, BOLD AS YOU PLEASE! AND I IGNORED SISTER ISABELLE’S WARNING: I PROUDLY TOLD THEM THAT I WAS NATIVE-AMERICAN. IN FACT, I PERFORMED AUTHENTIC NATIVE DANCES @ MY AUDITION. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THEY LIKED ME, BUT THEY DIDN’T WANT AUTHENTICITY. THEY DIRECTED ME TO DO FAKE “INDIAN” STEPS, HOPPING AROUND AND MAKING IDIOTIC NOISES THROUGH CUPPED HANDS. I RESISTED, BUT THEY WOULDN’T HIRE ME UNLESS I DANCED THE WAY THEY WANTED! </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SO I WAS @ THEIR MERCY. THEY PUT ME IN A “WILD WEST” ENSEMBLE WITH A BUNCH OF WHITE GUYS DRESSED AS COWBOYS AND GUNFIGHTERS. I HAD TO WEAR BUCKSKINS AND A CHIEF’S FULL HEADDRESS; I FELT LIKE A FOOL AND A FRAUD! WHITE AUDIENCES GUFFAWED @ ME, AND I REBELLED: I STARTED DOING REAL CHEROKEE DANCES ON STAGE, BUT THEY STOPPED LAUGHING AND STARTED BOOING. SOON AFTERWARD, I GOT FIRED!</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DEJECTED AND ANGRY, TOO, I WAS HEADED BACK TO THE GARMENT DISTRICT. AS I WAS LEAVING THE THEATER, THE MANAGER OF ANOTHER ACT IN THE SHOW APPROACHED ME. HER NAME WAS MRS. SUZUKI, BUT EVERYBODY CALLED HER “MAMA SHELLY”. SHE HAD A GROUP OF EXHIBITION WRESTLERS, AND ONE OF THEM HAD JUST QUIT DUE TO AN INJURY. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“YOU’RE BUILT SOLID,” MAMA TOLD ME, FEELING MY MUSCLES. “COME INTO MY TROUPE, RED MAN! WE’LL TEACH YOU HOW TO WRESTLE, AND YOU WON’T HAVE TO DO THOSE SILLY DANCES ANYMORE.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NO, BUT I </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WOULD </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HAVE TO DARKEN MY SKIN WITH SOME KIND OF MUDDY MAKE-UP SHE’D CONCOCTED! STILL, I AGREED; IT HAD TO BE BETTER THAN PLAYING COWBOYS AND INDIANS FOR SLAPSTICK! BESIDES, I REMEMBERED HOW MUCH I LOVED WATCHING NATIVE WRESTLERS AS A LITTLE BOY. THAT’S WHEN I BEGAN TO KNOW I WAS ATTRACTED TO BOTH SEXES!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MAMA’S TRAINING WAS ROUGH, BUT I DIDN’T MIND GETTING KNOCKED AROUND; I GAVE BACK AS GOOD AS I GOT! SHE LET ME DESIGN AN AUTHENTIC CHEROKEE COSTUME TO WRESTLE IN, AND BEFORE I KNEW IT, I’D BECOME THE STAR OF HER SHOW! MY LOINCLOTH WAS PRETTY DARING FOR THOSE DAYS, AND I ALWAYS APPROACHED WRESTLING WITH A DANCER’S SENSIBILITY. I WAS VERY CONSCIOUS OF HOW I LOOKED WHEN I MOVED IN THE RING. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BUT THAT’S WHEN EVERYTHING TURNED SOUR: THE OTHER WRESTLERS GOT JEALOUS, AND THEY STARTED CALLING ME RACIST NAMES ON STAGE: “BUFFALO JOCKEY”, “FEATHERHEAD,” “PRAIRIE NIGGER”. THIS ENCOURAGED THE AUDIENCE TO DO THE SAME, AND EVERY SHOW BECAME A NIGHTMARE! TOO LATE, I REALIZED THAT SISTER ISABELLE WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE NEED TO HIDE MY HERITAGE.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52964250311/in/album-72177720309329169/" style="font-size: large; text-align: left;" title="MOVE IT ON OVER"><img alt="MOVE IT ON OVER" height="377" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52964250311_ae2841edc8.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MAMA SHELLY’S TEENAGE WRESTLING SAVAGE!</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ALL THE SAME, OUR WRESTLING SHOW WAS THE TOP VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTION. IN FACT, IT BECAME <i>SO </i>POPULAR, MAMA SHELLY DECIDED TO LEAVE THE TOUR. <i>“SHIT! </i>WHY SHOULD I SETTLE FOR A FRACTION OF PROFIT? WE CAN MAKE MORE MONEY GOING OUT ON OUR OWN,” SHE PREDICTED. SHE WAS RIGHT, AND IN UNEXPECTED WAYS! </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE SAILED TO EUROPE, WHERE MAMA REVAMPED OUR SHOW. WE STARTED WEARING MORE STAGE MAKE-UP, OUR COSTUMES GOT FANCIER, AND WE WRESTLED TO GUITAR AND VIOLIN ACCOMPANIMENT; OUR MUSIC DIRECTOR WAS CÓRTEZ QUINTANILLA, A BRILLIANT <i>MAESTRO </i>FROM THE CANARY ISLANDS. WE CULTIVATED UPPER-CLASS AUDIENCES, AND MAMA ADVERTISED US AS “SOPHISTICATED BRAWN”. BOOKINGS INCREASED, WE BECAME FAMOUS, AND THE MONEY STARTED ROLLING IN!</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> IT WAS IN LONDON, ENGLAND WHERE WE MEN WERE FIRST APPROACHED BY WEALTHY FEMALE “PATRONS”. I HAD NEVER BEFORE MET WOMEN WHO BEHAVED SO SCANDALOUSLY; SOME OF THEM WALKED RIGHT UP AND GRABBED US IN THE ASS AND IN THE CROTCH! OTHERS WERE LESS BRAZEN, BUT THEY ALL WANTED THE SAME THING:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> SEX!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> AND THEY WERE WILLING TO PAY FOR IT!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MONEY TALKS, AS THEY SAY, AND THESE LADIES HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO START SOME, SHALL WE SAY, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DEEP </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CONVERSATIONS? I’D LIKE TO SAY I WAS INCORRUPTIBLE, BUT I WASN’T. NONE OF US WERE! WE WERE ARROGANT, YOUNG, HORNY AND FULL OF PISS AND VINEGAR; AND IN THE BEGINNING @ LEAST, HIGH-CLASS WHORING WAS A BALM TO OUR MASCULINE EGOS. PROSTITUTION REALLY DOESN’T HOLD THE SAME STIGMA FOR MEN AS IT DOES FOR WOMEN; WE AREN’T TURNED INTO PARIAHS THE WAY THEY ARE. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SO BETWEEN EXHIBITIONS, WE EARNED A REPUTATION AS AMERICAN <i>GIGOLOS </i>- THAT’S THE POLITE WAY TO SAY IT! MAMA SHELLY DIDN’T MIND AS LONG AS SHE GOT HER “CUT”. I BECAME DISENCHANTED FAIRLY QUICKLY, THOUGH; GETTING TREATED LIKE A PIECE OF RAW MEAT FEELS DEMEANING, REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH YOU GET PAID! BUT SOMETHING GOOD CAME OUT OF SELLING MY BODY: I WAS ABLE TO SAVE A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY. I WAS DETERMINED TO LEAVE THE TROUPE @ SOME POINT, AND I DIDN’T WANT TO BE BROKE WHEN I DID!</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53014577142/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="ROD MACK EP PROMO"><img alt="ROD MACK EP PROMO" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53014577142_22af6dfd9f.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;">A "DESCENDANT" OF <i>MAESTRO </i>CÓRTEZ </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">QUINTANILLA: JAZZ </span><span style="color: #f1c232;">AND FUNK </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">GUITARIST </span><span style="color: #f1c232;">ROD MACK!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WOMEN WENT ABSOLUTELY WILD FOR US IN GERMANY. A BERLIN DOWAGER REQUESTED MY “SERVICES” AND I SUBSEQUENTLY GOT PASSED AROUND BY HER RICH LADY FRIENDS. I LEARNED A VERY SOPHISTICATED FORM OF GERMAN THAT WAY (AS WELL AS SOME GUTTER SEXUAL SLANG PICKED UP “ON THE JOB”)! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MOST OF THESE LADIES WERE SEXUAL RACISTS TO A GREATER OR LESSER EXTENT. ONE OF THEM HAD A RECURRING FANTASY ABOUT BEING BRUTALIZED IN BED BY A “SAVAGE” INDIAN! SHE HAD ME ACTING OUT A SCENE WHERE I GAVE HER A DEVIL'S CHOICE: <i>MEIN SCHWANZ </i>(MY PENIS) SHOVED DOWN HER THROAT, OR A TOMAHAWK LODGED IN HER HEAD! DESPITE THE NEST EGG I WAS BUILDING UP, IT WAS A VERY UNPLEASANT WAY TO EARN MONEY.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BUT CLOUDS DO SOMETIMES HAVE SILVER LININGS: THAT RAPE VICTIM ROLE-PLAYER TOOK A SHINE TO ME! AFTER SEEING ME SIMULATE A WAR DANCE IN THE WRESTLER'S RING, SHE PAID FOR ME TO TAKE FORMAL DANCING LESSONS. BACK THEN, THE </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TANGO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WAS A BIG CRAZE AMONG THE WEALTHY SET, AND I PICKED IT UP VERY QUICKLY. I LEARNED FROM RECORDS IMPORTED FROM ARGENTINA WHERE <i>TANGO </i>WAS BORN, AND I STARTED SINGING ALONG IN SPANISH AS I DANCED. OVERHEARING ME VOCALIZE, MY “PATRON” DECIDED THAT I SHOULD GET SINGING LESSONS, TOO.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS OF INSTRUCTION BY A VERY GOOD VOICE TEACHER, SHE ASKED ME TO SING FOR HER. I PERFORMED AN ARGENTINE SONG THAT I LIKED CALLED<i> “EL GRAN DOLOR (THE BIG HURT)”.</i> THE LYRICS HAD A MASOCHISTIC TONE, AND NATURALLY THAT DELIGHTED HER! </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“LIEBCHEN,</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO ON THE STAGE,” SHE TOLD ME. “BUT WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, WHEN YOU ARE ALREADY A STAR WRESTLER? AND A CHAMPION STUD BESIDES? YOUR SINGING AND DANCING ARE JUST FOR </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MY </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AMUSEMENT.” HA! I HAD </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OTHER </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IDEAS.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SECRETLY, I STARTED AUDITIONING FOR SHOWS @ BERLIN MUSIC HALLS AND CABARETS. ONE DAY, MUCH TO MAMA SHELLY’S SURPRISE, I UP AND QUIT HER TROUPE COLD! I SWITCHED FROM BEING AN EXHIBITION WRESTLER TO AN EXHIBITION DANCER IN A BEER GARDEN. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TRUE, I WASN’T MAKING MUCH MONEY, BUT I COULD LIVE OFF MY SAVINGS FOR A WHILE. I WAS ELATED TO BE FREE OF THAT “WRESTLING SAVAGE” CHARACTER SHE CREATED! I WIPED OFF HER ”REDSKIN” MAKE-UP AND COMMENCED LIVING IN GERMANY AS A WHITE MAN. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br a="" data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52843462461/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="40 ROCK SLIPCASE DESIGN" /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="40 ROCK SLIPCASE DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52843462461_3f89a741bc.jpg" width="373" /></div></span></b></span><div><b><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></b><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i><b>END OF CHAPTER TWO</b></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><i><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/09/starring-reggie-mantle-big-hurt-chapter_95.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR CHAPTER THREE:</a></i></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><i>"CUATRO GATOS"</i></b></span></span></p></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-74485156911038798812023-09-03T18:14:00.006-04:002024-01-18T15:04:20.640-05:00Starring REGGIE MANTLE: THE BIG HURT (Chapter One)<p style="text-align: center;"><b> <img alt="FUCK THE ARCHIES" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53111744358_db7cc3db9f.jpg" width="472" /></b></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-eb9f16bf-7fff-fb8a-e9fa-01cde46a47bf"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FROM THE MEMOIRS OF REGGIE MANTLE, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">AFTER SPENDING YEARS EXTRACTING MYSELF FROM THE ARCHIES IN ORDER TO LAUNCH MY SOLO CAREER, I FOUND MYSELF WORKING WITH THEM AGAIN. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IN THE SPRING OF 2028, VERONICA LODGE-ANDREWS INVITED MY WIFE OLGA AND I TO WORK ON AN EP TRIBUTE TO SONGWRITER NEIL SEDAKA. SHE AND CHUCK CLAYTON (MY REPLACEMENT IN THE BAND) WERE UNABLE TO ATTEND THE RECORDING SESSION IN NEW YORK CITY, SO WE STOOD IN FOR THEM. THAT DATE PRODUCED<i> </i></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>SEDAKA JUNCTION</i></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>, </i>THE GROUP’S ONLY HIT THAT YEAR. </span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THEN A FEW MONTHS LATER, THE ARCHIES WERE EMBROILED IN A CONTROVERSY THAT DERAILED THEIR CAREER! A TAKEN-OUT-OF-CONTEXT CELLPHONE VIDEO, SUPPOSEDLY DEPICTING THE MEMBERS IN BLACKFACE WENT VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA. IT RESULTED IN THE BAND BEING ACCUSED OF RACISM! AMID THE SUBSEQUENT FURORE, A SOUL MUSIC ALBUM THAT THEY’D JUST RELEASED - ONE OF THEIR BEST RECORDS EVER - GOT TAINTED BY ACCUSATIONS OF “APPROPRIATION”! THAT’S A FANCY TERM THAT MEANS STEALING CULTURE, IN THIS CASE FROM BLACK PEOPLE. </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MEDIA APPEARANCES AND CONCERT DATES DRIED UP, POP CULTURE CELEBRITIES DENOUNCED THEM, ATLANTIC RECORDS TERMINATED THEIR RECORD DEAL “FOR CAUSE” AND SOME MUSIC OUTLETS ACTUALLY BANNED THEIR ALBUM! IT WAS A BUBBLING HOT MESS LIKE I’D NEVER SEEN BEFORE: CANCEL CULTURE ON STEROIDS!</span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">YOU MIGHT THINK I’D APPRECIATE NOT BEING PART OF THE ARCHIES DURING THIS PERIOD, BUT THE OPPOSITE WAS TRUE: I FELT AS MUCH ANGUISH AS IF I WERE STILL AN ACTIVE MEMBER! EVEN WITHOUT KNOWING THE DETAILS, I NEVER DOUBTED THAT THOSE RACISM CHARGES WERE FALSE. MANY IF NOT MOST PEOPLE IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY KNEW IT, TOO! ALL THE SAME, THE ARCHIES BECAME</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> PERSONAE NON GRATA</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> IN MUCH OF THE WESTERN WORLD; AND DURING THAT TIME, IT LOOKED LIKE THE END OF THE ROAD FOR THE GROUP. </span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BOTH OLGUITA + I WANTED TO BE AS HELPFUL AS POSSIBLE. THAT’S WHY, INSTEAD OF CUTTING A SOLO ALBUM THAT I HAD SCHEDULED, WE FOUND OURSELVES VISITING THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS DURING THE WINTER AND EARLY SPRING OF 2029. ARCHIE + VERONICA HAD ASKED US TO PARTICIPATE IN A SPECIAL PROJECT - ONE THEY HAD EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE WOULD BE THE LAST ONE THAT THE ARCHIES WOULD EVER UNDERTAKE!</span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE GROUP’S NAME HAD BECOME POISON: THE PUBLIC DIDN’T WANT TO KNOW FROM THEM. THERE WAS NO MARKET FOR NEW ARCHIES RECORDINGS, BUT THEY . . . </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. . . HAD PROVEN OURSELVES DEFINITIVE INTERPRETERS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SONGBOOK. BEFORE THROWING IN THE TOWEL, ARCHIE WANTED US TO PUT OUR STAMP ON SOME CLASSIC ROCK OLDIES THAT WE HADN’T RECORDED BEFORE. OBVIOUSLY, THE MASTERS WEREN’T GOING TO BE MARKETED; HE INTENDED TO PLACE THEM IN HIS ARCHIVES FOR RELEASE @ SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE. </span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE BAND HAD SPLINTERED, AND NOBODY REALLY KNEW WHAT THEIR STATUS WAS. RECORDING OUR PARTS INDIVIDUALLY MADE MORE SENSE THAN GETTING EVERYBODY TOGETHER. HOWEVER, REMOTE RECORDING WASN'T AN OPTION: ARCH + RONI INSISTED ON US ALL USING THE SAME AUDIO FACILITIES. @ STAGGERED INTERVALS, WE FLEW TO HAWAII, WHERE THEY HAD SET UP RECORDING SESSIONS. WE DIDN’T WANT TO ASSEMBLE AS A GROUP IN ANY EVENT; THAT WOULD'VE ATTRACTED TOO MUCH ATTENTION! PRESS FOR THE ARCHIES WAS ABSOLUTELY VICIOUS DURING THAT TIME. IT COULDN’T HAVE BEEN WORSE IF WE'D BEEN DENOUNCED AS CANNIBALS OR DEVIL WORSHIPERS!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53135580176/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="ARCHIES IN MEDELLIN 2031"><img alt="ARCHIES IN MEDELLIN 2031" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53135580176_b6474c9534.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE ARCHIES IN BETTER TIMES, </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CUTTING NEW TRACKS IN </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MY PRODUCER, TONY BRISEÑO, AND OUR OLD FRIENDS BIG ETHEL (NOW A TOP GOSPEL SINGER UNDER HER GIVEN NAME, FAWN MASON) AND ROD MACK FLEW IN TO HELP US WITH THIS PROJECT, BUT THEY COULD ONLY STAY FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. BETTY COOPER FLEW IN FOR A WEEK, BUT HER EX-HUSBAND JUGHEAD COULDN’T MAKE IT @ ALL; HE STAYED IN RIVERDALE. DUDE WAS STRUGGLING TO SALVAGE HIS RESTAURANT CHAIN, WHICH WAS SUFFERING DUE TO THE RACISM SCANDAL! HE EVENTUALLY CLOSED IT DOWN AND WENT INTO BUSINESS WITH HIS SON, CELEBRITY CHEF MONTANA JONES - BUT THAT WAS A FEW MONTHS AWAY. </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TREVOR SMITH DIDN’T MAKE THE TRIP, EITHER. HE WOULDN’T RETURN ARCHIE’S CALLS OR TEXT MESSAGES FOR THE LONGEST TIME! WHEN HE FINALLY DID, DUDE BEGGED OFF. TREV HAD BECOME A FULL-TIME MUSIC PUBLISHER SINCE WE LAST SAW HIM, AND WAS NOW STRICTLY IN BUSINESS MODE. HE THOUGHT IT BEST TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM WHAT HE CALLED THE GROUP’S “MARKETPLACE TOXICITY”! ARCH + RONI UNDERSTOOD HIS REASONING; I’M NOT SURE I WOULD HAVE IN THEIR PLACE! </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I WASN’T THE ONLY ONE WHO ARRIVED WITH A SPOUSE: KEVIN KELLER BROUGHT HIS HUSBAND, DR. CLAYBORNE WALKER. BY THEN, CLAY WAS RETIRED FROM MEDICAL PRACTICE. HE WAS NEVER A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN, BUT KELLY HAD TAUGHT HIM HOW TO PLAY PERCUSSION AND HE WAS MORE THAN COMPETENT; @ THESE ARCHIVAL RECORDING SESSIONS, WE HAD HIM PLAYING TRAP DRUMS AND VIBES, TOO! I REALLY ENJOYED CUTTING TRACKS WITH CLAY + KELLY; OLGUITA + I WORKED ON THE PROJECT WITH THEM AFTER ARCH, RONI, BETTY + ROD HAD COME AND GONE.</span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CHUCK CLAYTON HAD QUIT THE GROUP FOLLOWING A BITTER FIGHT WITH ARCHIE; THE TWO OF THEM STILL WEREN’T ON SPEAKING TERMS! THROUGH HIS LIFE PARTNER, GERALDINE GRUNDY, CHUCKII DECLINED TO PARTICIPATE; BUT ALONG WITH HIS WRITTEN REFUSAL AND APOLOGY, DEANIE SENT ALONG AN AWESOME ARRANGEMENT FOR THE SONG “RUNAWAY”. I HAD THE PLEASURE OF SINGING LEAD ON IT!</span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THOSE HAWAIIAN DATES WERE SUPERVISED BY D’ANGELO WONG, OUR FORMER EUROPEAN PRODUCER. HE AND HIS WIFE SONSERI HAD RELOCATED TO MAUI FROM MILAN, ITALY A FEW YEARS EARLIER. “DANDY” HAD A HOME STUDIO THERE BUT VERONICA FOUND IT A LITTLE TOO STATE-OF-THE-ART FOR HER TASTE. “THERE’S NOT ENOUGH NATURAL REVERB,” SHE COMPLAINED. “THE ROOM SOUNDS DEAD! WE CAN'T WORK THERE.” INSTEAD, WE TRACKED @ BABY GRAND STUDIOS AND PLANET MUSIC IN HONOLULU AS WELL AS AUDIO SHANGRI-LA OVER ON THE BIG ISLAND. I VAGUELY REMEMBER US WORKING @ BABY GRAND BACK DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE ARCHIE RECORDS ERA! </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ONE OF OUR SOUND ENGINEERS WAS AN OLD HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND: BELLA BEAZLEY WAS THE DAUGHTER OF “MS. BERNICE”, SUPERVISOR OF RIVERDALE HIGH’S SCHOOL CAFETERIA! BACK THEN, BELLA USED TO GO AROUND WITH A BIG BOOM BOX ON HER SHOULDER; NOW HER PLAYBACKS WERE ONES THAT SHE RECORDED HERSELF! IT MADE SENSE THAT SHE’D END UP BEHIND A STUDIO CONSOLE. OUR CHIEF ENGINEER WAS KRISTIN GORRIE, THE BEST AUDIO JOCKEY IN THE ISLANDS! </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IT’S A GOOD THING I GOT INVOLVED, BECAUSE ARCHIE DIDN’T HAVE THE RIGHT CONCEPT FOR THE MUSIC. HE’D RANDOMLY CHOSEN A BUNCH OF STALE ‘50s ROCK STANDARDS - THE KIND OF THING YOU HEAR ON SECOND-RATE OLDIES RADIO! HIS SHORTLIST OF DOO-WOP TITLES JUST LEFT ME COLD. ARCHIE DIDN’T LIKE HAVING HIS CREATIVE VISION CHALLENGED, BUT I’VE NEVER BEEN AFRAID TO GO HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH THE GINGERBREAD MAN! I WANTED TO PUT SOME SOLID ROCKERS ON TAPE: FAMILIAR SONGS, BUT ALSO RARITIES! THAT’S THE FORMULA THAT HAD ALWAYS WORKED FOR US IN THE PAST. </span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IT WAS OLGUITA, GOD REST HER BEAUTIFUL SOUL, WHO SUGGESTED THAT WE CONSIDER THE CATALOG OF DEL SHANNON. THERE’S A WEALTH OF GREAT ROCKERS THERE, AS WELL AS SOME FINE COVER VERSIONS OF EARLY R & B FAVORITES. DEL’S MUSIC WAS THE PERFECT COMPROMISE BETWEEN ARCHIE + ME: HE COULD HAVE HIS GOLDEN OLDIES CAKE, AND I COULD EAT MY HARD ROCK CANDY, TOO! </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AND ONCE WE GOT INTO THIS PROJECT, WE DIDN’T WANT TO STOP. BEFORE WE KNEW IT, THREE MONTHS HAD PASSED, AND WE’D COVERED OVER </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FORTY </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DEL SHANNON RECORDS. THE VAST MAJORITY OF THEM WERE DEL’S OWN COMPOSITIONS.</span></span></p><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #d9ead3; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> BUT, IT'S THE STRANGEST THING: THERE'S A PORTION OF THAT TIME IN HAWAII THAT I JUST DON'T REMEMBER @ ALL. IN FACT, ALL OF US WHO WERE THERE HAVE GAPS IN OUR MEMORIES THAT WE CAN'T EXPLAIN!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53015647383/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="THE BIG HURT INTRO"><img alt="THE BIG HURT INTRO" height="376" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53015647383_c56ecc8027.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Now It Begins!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE BIG HURT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A SEQUEL TO “THE FREAKING OUT </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">OF GERALDINE GRUNDY”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CHAPTER ONE:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“ANADARKO”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE TIME: NOVEMBER 1918</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE PLACE: CÔTE D’AZUR, FRANCE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THE NARRATOR: EL NINJA</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>BUENAS NOCHES. </i>MY NAME IS RICARDO ESTEBAN FONSECA. THEY CALL ME “EL NINJA”. I’M A DANCER. I ALSO SING. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I BEGAN MY CAREER IN THE MUSIC HALLS OF GERMANY AND THEN FOUND STARDOM IN SPANISH CABARETS. @ THE HEIGHT OF MY FAME, I OPENED A FABULOUS NIGHTCLUB CALLED ISABELLE, NEAR THE BEACH ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA. IT IS MY VERY OWN PERFORMANCE SPACE, AND I AM INCREDIBLY PROUD OF IT! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BUT NOW, I’M LYING ON THE STAGE OF MY SHOW PALACE, AND A MAN IS CRADLING ME IN HIS ARMS. THE MAN IS MY PARTNER, THE LOVE OF MY LIFE. BLOOD IS GUSHING FROM A DEEP KNIFE WOUND IN MY CHEST . . .<i> ¡AY, DIÓS MÍO!</i> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I AM DYING. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AS CONSCIOUSNESS SLOWLY EBBS AWAY, MY MIND CAREENS BACK ACROSS THE YEARS; SCENES FROM THE RECENT PAST RECALL HOW I CAME TO BE HERE. IT WAS A LONG AND DIFFICULT JOURNEY FROM THE UNITED STATES . . .</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I AM CHEROKEE, AND I WAS BORN IN CHEROKEE NATION, NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA. I’M NOT AN ORPHAN BUT I ONLY LIVED WITH MY PARENTS FOR A SHORT TIME. THAT’S BECAUSE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PLACED ME AND MY LITTLE BROTHER IN A BOARDING SCHOOL FOR “INDIANS”. DANTE WAS SO YOUNG, HE CAN’T EVEN REMEMBER MAMA + PAPA! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WE WERE LOADED INTO A HORSE-DRAWN WAGON AND DRIVEN TO THE NOTORIOUS ANADARKO INDIAN SCHOOL. IT WAS RUN BY A RELIGIOUS ORDER; OUR TEACHERS AND CARETAKERS WERE PRIESTS AND NUNS. THE HEADMASTER, FATHER FRANKLIN, RULED OVER HIS STAFF AND STUDENTS LIKE A CRUEL DESPOT! HE HAD OUR LONG HAIR SHORN OFF, STRIPPED US OF OUR NATIVE CLOTHING, FORBAD US TO SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE, AND FORCED US TO CONVERT TO THE CATHOLIC RELIGION. THE RULES HE IMPOSED ON US WERE DRACONIAN, AND HIS PRIESTS WOULD BEAT US SEVERELY FOR THE SLIGHTEST INFRACTION! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I REMEMBER HOW MUCH I HATED THOSE PRIESTS. THE NUNS WERE MEAN TO US, BUT THE “MEN OF GOD” WERE FAR WORSE! THEY CALLED US “HEATHEN” AND TRIED TO MAKE US FEEL ASHAMED OF BEING CHEROKEE, BUT I <i>NEVER </i>WAS. I CAME FROM A PROUD FAMILY OF DANCERS, AND TRADITIONAL DANCES CAME NATURALLY TO ME; DURING RECESS, I WOULD PERFORM AND THE KIDS WOULD GATHER AROUND TO WATCH. NEVER DID I FAIL TO GET PUNISHED FOR THIS!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53119675288/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="SISTER ISABELLE"><img alt="SISTER ISABELLE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53119675288_2fe7394c78.jpg" width="374" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">PUNISHMENT TIME FOR RITCHIE FONSECA!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I WAS MADE TO GO WITHOUT SUPPER AND I GOT LOCKED INSIDE CLOSETS FOR HOURS AND HOURS. IT WAS AWFUL, BUT I PREFERRED THAT TREATMENT TO THE BEATINGS. THE PRIESTS WOULD PUMMEL ME WITH TREE BRANCHES AND LASH MY BACK AND LEGS WITH WHIPS! THEN THEY’D MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS AND SAY THINGS LIKE, “YOUR PUNISHMENT HURT US MORE THAN IT HURT YOU” BUT THEY WERE LYING! JUST LOOKING @ THEIR FACES, I COULD TELL THAT THOSE BASTARDS <i>ENJOYED </i>ASSAULTING ME. WITH EVERY BLOW, THEY WOULD QUOTE THE BIBLE; IT WAS TWISTED AND SICK!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FATHER FRANKLIN AND HIS PRIESTS WERE SADISTIC BRUTES, AND THE NUNS WERE COLD, HATEFUL OLD BAGS; BUT NOT ALL OF THEM WERE BAD - OR OLD. WHEN I WAS ABOUT FOURTEEN, A NEW TEACHER CAME TO THE SCHOOL; SISTER ISABELLE WAS THE YOUNGEST OF THE NUNS. SHE TREATED US KINDLY, AND WAS SECRETLY FASCINATED BY NATIVE-AMERICAN CULTURE. SOMETIMES, INSTEAD OF TEACHING US, SHE WOULD LET US TEACH </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">HER</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">; WE’D TELL HER ALL ABOUT OUR TRADITIONS. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ONE DAY, SHE WONDERED ALOUD WHAT A HARVEST DANCE WAS. I OFFERED TO PERFORM ONE FOR HER. SHE LOVED IT, BUT GOT IN BIG TROUBLE FOR ENCOURAGING ME! FATHER FRANKLIN’S SPIES HAD BEEN WATCHING SISTER ISABELLE; HE DIDN’T APPROVE OF HOW THE CHILDREN RESPONDED TO HER SO WARMLY. TO HIM, THAT WAS EVIDENCE OF “LAX DISCIPLINE!” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THEY PUNISHED THE SISTER BY PULLING HER OUT OF THE SCHOOL. LATER, I LEARNED THAT SHE WAS DEFROCKED AND EXPELLED FROM HER NUN’S ORDER! IT WAS RUMORED THAT SHE HAD DARED TO CRITICIZE THE WAY WE KIDS WERE TREATED. WHEN SHE LEFT, IT WAS LIKE DARK CLOUDS HAD BLOCKED OUT THE SUN; I BECAME MISERABLE! I STARTED REBELLING, ACTING OUT; AND MY WHIPPINGS BECAME MORE FREQUENT. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">FOR SOME REASON, IT SEEMED LIKE I ALWAYS HAD TO BE NAKED WHEN THEY BEAT ME! THE LAST TIME IT HAPPENED, A PRIEST TRIED TO PENETRATE MY ASS WITH HIS FINGERS. I YELLED AS LOUD AS I COULD AND STARTED FIGHTING HIM! ANOTHER STAFFER CAME AND HELD ME DOWN. TOGETHER THEY TIED ME UP, AND THEN THAT PRIEST LASHED ME UNTIL I PASSED OUT. WHEN I REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS, I HAD WHIP MARKS ALL OVER MY BODY, AND MY BOTTOM WAS BLEEDING! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I MADE UP MY MIND TO RUN AWAY, AND LESS THAN A WEEK LATER, I DID! THERE WAS NO QUESTION OF TAKING MY LITTLE BROTHER ALONG; HE COULDN’T RUN AS FAST AS ME, AND I KNEW HE’D HOLD ME BACK. DANTE CRIED PITIFULLY, BEGGING ME NOT TO LEAVE! I SWORE THAT I’D COME BACK AND RESCUE HIM, BUT I REALLY DIDN’T KNOW HOW I’D KEEP THAT PROMISE. ALL I KNEW IS THAT I COULDN’T STAY ANY LONGER - IF THAT PERVERTED PRIEST TRIED TO TOUCH ME AGAIN, ONE OF US WAS GOING TO </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DIE!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I DON’T REMEMBER HOW, BUT I FOUND OUT WHERE SISTER ISABELLE WAS. HER GIVEN NAME WAS SVETLANA, AND SHE WAS ROOMING WITH A MAN AND HIS WIFE ON A FARM JUST OUTSIDE ANADARKO. I FOUND IT, BUT THE FARMER BECAME ENRAGED WHEN HE SAW ME. HE CALLED ME A “GODLESS DEVIL REDSKIN” AND TRIED TO RUN ME OFF WITH A SHOTGUN! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ISABELLE, THAT IS, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SVETLANA </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SAW US FROM A DISTANCE. SHE RAN TO THE FARMER AND STOPPED HIM JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO SHOOT ME. “LEAVE HIM BE,” SHE BEGGED. “RITCHIE WAS ONE OF MY STUDENTS! HE’S BEEN BAPTIZED.” EVENTUALLY, SHE PERSUADED HIM TO LET HER TAKE ME UP TO THE HAYLOFT WHERE SHE HAD A MAKESHIFT ROOM. WE TALKED FOR A LONG TIME.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SVETLANA STILL HAD CONTACTS @ ANADARKO. I TOLD HER ABOUT THE PRIEST WHO RAPED ME, AND TO MY GREAT RELIEF, SHE SAID HE WOULD SOON BE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER INDIAN SCHOOL. THERE’D BEEN MANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT HIM, GOING BACK SEVERAL YEARS! WHILE I HATED TO THINK ABOUT THAT MONSTER STILL HAVING ACCESS TO KIDS, @ LEAST DANTE WOULD BE SAFE FROM HIM. I HAD WORRIED MYSELF SICK OVER THAT!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">EVEN THOUGH I WAS NOW HOMELESS AND IN DESPERATE STRAITS, I FELT SORRY FOR SVETLANA; SHE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW THAT THE CHURCH HAD CAST HER OUT! “INSIDE, I STILL FEEL THAT I’M A BRIDE OF CHRIST”, SHE TOLD ME. “BUT THE BISHOP SAID I WAS WORSE THAN A JEZEBEL. HIS WORDS WERE LIKE A DAGGER IN MY HEART! OH, WHAT WILL BECOME OF ME NOW? AND OF YOU?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">WITHOUT HER NUN’S HABIT, SVETLANA LOOKED VERY BEAUTIFUL; HER WAVY DARK HAIR HUNG DOWN OVER HER HAZEL EYES. SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY SHE BRUSHED HER CURLS ASIDE FASCINATED ME; I SUDDENLY REALIZED THAT I LOVED HER! AN IRRESISTIBLE URGE TO KISS HER LIPS CAME OVER ME, AND I DID; SHE DIDN’T RESIST. MINUTES LATER, WE WERE MAKING LOVE ON HER HAYBED!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">IT WAS MY VERY FIRST TIME WITH A WOMAN. I FELT OVERWHELMED WITH JOY; BUT SVETLANA STARTED TO CRY. IN CONFUSION, I RELEASED HER FROM MY EMBRACE. “WHY ARE YOU SOBBING?” I ASKED. “DID I HURT YOU? PLEASE FORGIVE ME; I DIDN’T MEAN TO.” SORROWFULLY, SHE SHOOK HER HEAD. “WE’VE COMMITTED <i>SACRILEGE!”</i> SHE WAILED. “I AM A BRIDE OF CHRIST! GOD WILL SURELY PUNISH BOTH OF US!”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">JUST THEN, THE FARMER BECAME SUSPICIOUS. HE CAME TO THE BARN DOOR, LOUDLY ACCUSING US OF EXACTLY WHAT WE WERE DOING! HE DEMANDED THAT I LEAVE, AND I HEARD HIM RATCHET HIS SHOTGUN. HURRIEDLY, WE BUTTONED UP OUR CLOTHES!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BEFORE I CLIMBED DOWN FROM THE HAYLOFT, SVETLANA GAVE ME SOME MONEY SHE HAD HIDDEN UNDER HER PILLOW. SHE TOLD ME TO LEAVE OKLAHOMA! “I SENSE THAT YOU HAVE A FUTURE ON STAGE WITH YOUR TALENT FOR DANCE,” SHE SAID, “BUT YOU WOULD NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL HERE. YOU MUST GO EAST!” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AND SHE ADDED, “YOU MUST NEVER LET ANYONE KNOW THAT YOU ARE AN INDIAN! IF YOU AVOID THE SUN, YOUR SKIN WILL LOOK LIGHT ENOUGH SO THAT YOU CAN GO AS A WHITE BOY.” SHE LAY HER HAND ATOP MY HEAD, SAID A QUICK PRAYER AND THEN HURRIED ME ON MY WAY. DESPITE WHAT WE’D DONE, I KNEW THAT I COULD NEVER THINK OF HER AS THE GIRL WHO TOOK MY VIRGINITY. TO ME, SHE WOULD ALWAYS BE . . . <i>SISTER ISABELLE!</i></span></p><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52843462461/in/album-72177720309329169/" title="40 ROCK SLIPCASE DESIGN"><img alt="40 ROCK SLIPCASE DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52843462461_3f89a741bc.jpg" width="373" /></a></div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">END OF CHAPTER ONE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/09/starring-reggie-mantle-big-hurt-chapter_3.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR CHAPTER TWO:</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>"SOPHISTICATED BRAWN"</i></span></span></p></span></b></span>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-3245969066551747722023-03-21T10:29:00.009-04:002023-12-05T00:02:36.911-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2015<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36566157002/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="ARCHIE'S CHICANO OLDIES"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="ARCHIE'S CHICANO OLDIES" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4411/36566157002_17b53c881f.jpg" width="500" /></span></b></a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presents</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;">A Journey Through</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE GREAT AMERICAN</span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL </span><span style="font-size: large;">SONG BOOK</span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: x-large;"><i>FROM ROD MACK'S ORAL HISTORY </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: x-large;"><i>OF ARCHIE RECORDS</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>IT WAS MID-SEPTEMBER OF 2014. I WAS REHEARSING FOR MY USUAL WEEKEND GIG @ LONDON'S SCOTCH OF SAINT-JAMES CLUB. THE BARTENDER TOLD ME I HAD A LONG-DISTANCE CALL. IT WAS VERONICA LODGE-ANDREWS, TELEPHONING FROM GERMANY WHERE THE ARCHIES HAD BEEN CUTTING A NEW ALBUM SINCE AUGUST.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>DURING THAT CALL, I LEARNED ABOUT THE IMPENDING SALE OF ARCHIE RECORDS TO BILLIONAIRE JASON BLOSSOM; I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT IT. THE ARCHIES HADN'T EVEN BEEN TOLD YET, AND MAN! AFTER THEY WERE, THE SHIT WAS JUMPING OFF! </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>BUT RONI WASN'T THINKING ABOUT HOW HER BANDMATES MIGHT REACT: TO HER, THE SALE WAS GOOD NEWS. IT PROVIDED THE SEED MONEY TO FOUND AN ÉLITE MUSIC SCHOOL IN RIVERDALE, SOMETHING SHE + ARCHIE HAD BEEN PLANNING TO DO FOR YEARS.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>TELLING ME ABOUT THAT WASN'T HER MAIN PURPOSE FOR CALLING ME, THOUGH. SINCE @ LEAST 2005, ARCH + RONI HAD WANTED TO BRING ME ON BOARD. THEY'D OFFERED ME A RECORDING CONTRACT AND A COUPLE OF ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS, TOO. I TURNED THEM DOWN; I WAS SATISFIED BEING A VERY WELL-PAID STUDIO SIDEMAN! </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>I LIKED HAVING MY FREEDOM,TOO; BUT RONI HAD NEGOTIATED SOME FANTASTIC PERKS FOR ARCHIE RECORDS STAFF UNDER THE NEW RÉGIME, AND SHE WANTED ME TO BENEFIT FROM THEM. SHE OFFERED ME THE POSITION OF BRANCH A&R CHIEF FOR THE UK. I WAS TO BE IN CHARGE OF ALL RECORDING ACTIVITIES THAT TOOK PLACE OVER THERE.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/23767879238/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ONLY IN AMERICA TRACK LIST"><img alt="ONLY IN AMERICA TRACK LIST" height="389" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4478/23767879238_b12d53ac48.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>AN ARCHIES BOX SET </span>PRODUCED FOR</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARMED FORCES RADIO WAS ONE</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">OF THE PROJECTS SHORTLISTED</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BY ROD MACK WHILE HE WAS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIE RECORDS A + R CHIEF.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;">IT WAS A LUCRATIVE OFFER, AND I WAS EVEN GOING TO HAVE MY OWN OFFICE INSIDE ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS! I WANTED VERY MUCH TO PRODUCE MASTERS, AND I'VE ALWAYS APPRECIATED BIG PAYCHECKS; BUT I DON'T KNOW . . . I GUESS I JUST FELT LIKE </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">“SHOWING MY </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">C</span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">O</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">L</span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">O</span><span style="color: #fff2cc;">R</span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">”</span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"> THAT DAY!!! </span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>THEY SAY YOU SHOULD NEVER LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH, BUT IF I WAS GOING TO GIVE UP MY FREEDOM AS A SESSION PLAYER, I NEEDED MORE TO MAKE IT WORTH MY WHILE. I TOLD HER SO! SHE ASKED ME FLAT-OUT WHAT I WANTED. I SAID: "I WANT TO BE A&R CHIEF FOR</i> ALL<i> OF ARCHIE'S RECORDING ACTIVITIES; IN EUROPE, NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA, ASIA AND EVERYWHERE ELSE!"</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>WELL, I DIDN'T GET THE ABBEY ROAD OFFICE, BUT I GOT THE POSITION I ASKED FOR! ONE WEEK AFTER TAKING THAT CALL, I WENT INTO THE STUDIO TO OVERDUB A FORTHCOMING SINGLE BY THE VIXENS. I LOGGED IN UNDER MY BRAND NEW JOB TITLE: SUPERVISOR OF ARTISTS + REPERTOIRE! </i>FUCK,YEAH!<i> IN JANUARY OF 2015, I WAS SCHEDULED TO CO-PRODUCE THE VIXENS' FIRST ALBUM WITH CHUCK CLAYTON. AFTER THAT, I ANTICIPATED SUPERVISING SESSIONS ON MY OWN.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>I FELT SO ELATED! AND I'D HIT THE GROUND RUNNING, TOO: IN ADDITION TO THAT VIXENS RECORD, I WAS PUTTING TOGETHER A DUET FOR TONI TOPAZ + KEVIN KELLER; I HAD A VARIOUS ARTISTS PROJECT AND A NEW ARCHIES ALBUM ON THE DRAWING BOARD; AND I WAS PREPARING TO CHART A RADICAL NEW DIRECTION FOR THE LABEL. </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT "THE BEST LAID PLANS OF MICE AND MEN", RIGHT? THEY "OFTEN GO AWRY." I DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT MICE, BUT MY PLANS SURE GOT SHOT ALL TO HELL!</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">THE FINAL MONTHS: 2015</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"EVERYBODY"</b></span></div></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: MUCH TO JASON BLOSSOM'S DISPLEASURE, PROCEEDS FROM THE POP-ART-CHIE CONCERT TOUR WERE DONATED TO LOCAL ARTS COUNCILS. HE DENOUNCED IT AS “BAD BUSINESS PRACTICE”, BUT ARCHIE + VERONICA KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING! ARCHIE RECORDS MAY HAVE LOST MONEY MOUNTING THE TOUR, BUT THE LABEL GAINED INVALUABLE PROMOTION AND GOODWILL THAT JASON BENEFITED FROM.</span></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">EVEN SO, HE WAS IMPATIENT TO PROFIT FROM THIS VENTURE. JASON COMMISSIONED A TONI TOPAZ SINGLE AND THREE EPS FEATURING AUDIO FROM THE HOLOGRAPHIC CONCERTS; ONE EACH WAS DEVOTED TO KEVIN KELLER, JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS AND THE ARCHIES. ALL WERE ISSUED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN FEBRUARY OF 2015.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52422283907/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE FINAL ARCHIE EPs"><img alt="THE FINAL ARCHIE EPs" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52422283907_761c9a1d7a.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>THE BOBBY FULLER SONGBOOKS</i> FEATURED</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIE RECORDS ARTISTS PERFOMING</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">VINTAGE HITS FROM A SIXTIES</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CULT HERO.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"BOBBY FULLER SONGBOOKS"</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JANUARY 4 - 7, 9 - 18, 2015</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MACK DADDY STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BIRMINGHAM, UK</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LOVE'S MADE A FOOL OF YOU </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archies Sing Bobby Fuller EP*</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Holly, Montgomery)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">ANOTHER SAD AND LONELY NIGHT </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archies Sing Bobby Fuller EP*</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Bobby Fuller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">SHE'S MY GIRL</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archies Sing Bobby Fuller EP*</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Bobby Fuller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">JULIE</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archies Sing Bobby Fuller EP*</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Chip Taylor)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">TAKE MY WORD</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Destination Sugartown LP**</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Bobby Fuller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">I FOUGHT THE LAW</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Josie + The Pussy Cats Sing Bobby Fuller EP***</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Sonny Curtis)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LET HER DANCE</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Josie + The Pussy Cats Sing Bobby Fuller EP***</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Bobby Fuller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">THE PHANTOM DRAGSTER </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Josie + The Pussy Cats Sing Bobby Fuller EP***</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Bobby Fuller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">KING OF THE WHEELS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Josie + The Pussy Cats Sing Bobby Fuller EP***</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Bobby Fuller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">DON'T EVER LET ME KNOW </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- unreleased****</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Fuller, Stone)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">BABY MY HEART</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Kevin Keller Sings Bobby Fuller EP*****</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Sonny Curtis)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LUCKY GUY </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Kevin Keller Sings Bobby Fuller EP*****</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Bloodworth, Brown, Nader)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">SATURDAY NIGHT </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Kevin Keller Sings Bobby Fuller EP*****</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Bobby Fuller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">YOU KISS ME</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Kevin Keller Sings Bobby Fuller EP*****</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Fuller, Stone)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">A NEW SHADE OF BLUE </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Destination Sugartown LP******</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Fuller, Stone)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LOVE, COME WHAT MAY </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- unreleased#</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Fuller, Stone)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">MY TRUE LOVE</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Destination Sugartown LP##</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Fuller, Stone)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">THE MAGIC TOUCH </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- single###</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Ted Daryll)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE SUGARTOWN REVUE:</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>*THE ARCHIES, **REGINALD, </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>***JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS,</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>****BIG ETHEL,</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>*****KEVIN KELLER,</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>******BLUE-EYED SOUL,</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>#THE VIXENS, ##SAVOY SOUND,</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> ###TONI TOPAZ</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND, ROD MACK,</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>BREE SPELLMAN, DEANIE GRUNDY,</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Music Director:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Remix Producer: ROD MACK</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Remix Engineer: </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>KRISTIN GORRIE</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Salem da Katt: Rod Mack constructed these tracks from hologram audio, pre-recorded for Archie Records’ Pop-Art-Chie concert tour from 2012 to 2014. Since he wasn't an Archie artist, Harris Gardner's excellent performances were not available for remixing. Rod regretted not having them to work on, but it was just as well that he didn't; dude got himself in enough trouble!</span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>When Jason found out that Rod had gotten an advance on his salary from Veronica, dude fucking had a cow! As if Roni Lodge-Andrews needed </i>anybody's <i>permission to do what she wanted! Jason actually tried to make Rod give the money back, but it was too late: He'd used it to open his own UK tracking facility. </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Bel Canto Studios had closed at the end of 2014, and Archie Records needed a new alternative to the frequently overbooked Abbey Road. Remixing tracks for the BOBBY FULLER SONGBOOK EPs was </span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;">the first project undertaken @ Mack Daddy Studios in Birmingham. N</span></i></span><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ot yet told about the group's decision to go on hiatus, Rod planned to cut an Archies album there, too.</span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Jason was also livid when he learned that audio from Big Ethel, The Vixens, Savoy Sound, Blue-Eyed Soul + Gino Mantle had also been remixed! He'd only told Rod to prepare Archies, Pussy Cats and Kevin Keller EPs for release. Disobeying Jason's directions always had unpleasant consequences, and Archie Records' new A + R Chief would suffer them soon enough!</span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52762236292/in/dateposted/" title="AWESOME VENUE SHOW PROMO: BOB CREWE"><img alt="AWESOME VENUE SHOW PROMO: BOB CREWE" height="371" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52762236292_60660e9677.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">@ THEIR LAST LIVE SHOW FOR OVER A DECADE,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES TOOK THE STAGE OF RIVERDALE'S</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">AWESOME VENUE TO CELEBRATE THE SONGS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">OF BOB CREWE.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: THE TONI TOPAZ AND JOSIE RECORDS SOARED INTO THE TOP TEN, AND KEVIN KELLER'S EP SOLD WELL, TOO; BUT SURPRISINGLY, THE ARCHIES DISC DIDN’T EVEN MAKE TOP FORTY! IT GOT A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF AIRPLAY BUT PROVED TO BE JUST A "TURNTABLE HIT". JASON BLOSSOM WAS ENRAGED! I’M CONVINCED THAT THE LACKLUSTER SHOWING OF <i>ARCHIE SINGS BOBBY FULLER</i> INFLUENCED HOW HE TREATED THE ARCHIES CATALOG GOING FORWARD.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">FOLLOW-UP HOLOGRAPHIC TOURS WERE PLANNED, BUT THOSE PLANS FELL APART WHEN THE PARK BROTHERS FELL OUT WITH EACH OTHER! ICHI SUED KOO FOR OWNERSHIP OF THE COPYRIGHT, INSISTING THAT THEIR IMAGING PROCESS WAS HIS INVENTION ALONE. THE TECHNOLOGY WAS TIED UP IN LITIGATION FOR MANY YEARS, DURING WHICH TIME BOTH ARCHIE RECORDS AND THE ARCHIES CEASED TO BE!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>HOWEVER, THE FUTURE OF THE LABEL WAS TIED UP WITH ITCHYKOO HOLOGRAPHICS, THE COMPANY THAT THE PARK BROTHERS FOUNDED. MY CRYSTAL BALL TELLS THE STORY: IN THE YEAR 2045, ITCHYKOO WILL MERGE WITH A MEDIA </span><span>CONGLOMERATE BASED IN BANGALORE, INDIA AND CHANGE ITS NAME. TEN YEARS LATER, VOX SOUND + IMAGE WILL PURCHASE THE RECORD DIVISION OF REPUBLIC USA! WHEN IT DOES SO, THE ARCHIE RECORDS CATALOG WILL BE ONE OF ITS MAJOR ASSETS. </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52422283877/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE POP-ART-CHIE TOUR"><img alt="THE POP-ART-CHIE TOUR" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52422283877_6ac3c7528d.jpg" width="372" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE POP-ART-CHIE TOUR WAS ARCHIE</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RECORDS' FUTURISTIC VERSION</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">OF A MOTORTOWN REVUE.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CHERRY VAGINA RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"DESTINATION LOVE"</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FEBRUARY 17 - 24, 2015</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">WITCH QUEEN RECORDING STUDIO,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BOSSA NOVA BABY</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Leiber, Stoller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">PEARL'S A SINGER</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Dino, Leiber, Sembello, Stoller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IS THAT ALL THERE IS?</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Leiber, Stoller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">NEIGHBORHOOD</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Dino, Leiber, Sembello, Stoller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DESTINATION LOVE</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Leiber, Stoller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I’M A WOMAN</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Leiber, Stoller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MY BOY JOHN</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Leiber, Stoller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">STAND BY ME (OVERDUB)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(King, Leiber, Stoller)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>ARCHIE + VERONICA</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE BETTYS</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/THE GROOVIE GHOULIES</span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Arranger/Producer:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>BREE SPELLMAN</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>NADIA CERVANTES</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: To friends, Archie constantly bragged about a “fantastic” duet album he was recording with his wife; but when they asked how soon it would be finished, dude could never name a date. “You’ll hear it soon,” he’d always promise. “Soon” ended up being January of 2015, right after he + Veronica sold their indie label to media mogul Jason Blossom.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>As you know from reading this saga, the Lodge-Andrews marriage had plenty of volatile moments! Angry words were exchanged in the aftermath of that controversial sale: Archie had regrets, and Roni didn't! However, the couple never had an argument that they couldn’t patch up. As a peace offering, Roni finally agreed to finish DESTINATION LOVE, Archie’s long-delayed duet album project.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>@ Sabrina’s demo studio in Boston (Witch Queen had yet to open as a full-fledged commercial facility), they taped their last few duets. “Is That All There Is?” a new solo performance by Roni was also tracked. They were backed by The Bettys, and to everybody who was there (including me, in my feline form), the collaboration felt symbolic of a renewed friendship bond between Betty, Veronica + Archie. These selections completed their tribute to songwriters Jerry Leiber + Mike Stoller, originally conceived in 2007.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>A release date on the long-dormant Cherry Vagina subsidiary seemed imminent; then abruptly, Jason Blossom informed the couple that there wouldn't be one! “Your album just isn’t </i>urban <i>enough,” he told them. “Why don’t you do it over as a Rap album?” That suggestion was definitely a non-starter, so yet again, this album fell through the cracks.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Veronica’s tragic death in the year 2054 will raise the possibility of a posthumous release for DESTINATION LOVE, but Archie will find that prospect too painful to consider. After that, the album master will go back in the tape vaults . . . </i>for seven fucking decades!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Fast forward to 2125, one year after The Walt Disney Company acquires the Archie Records masters from Vox Sound + Image. Archie's now-elderly son Elijah (fathered long after Roni dies) brings the forgotten album master to Disney's attention. DESTINATION LOVE finally sees light of day in the year 2128 . . . far too late for Archie + Veronica to bask in the wealth of critical praise it earns.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35926386983/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="CHICANO OLDIES GATEFOLD"><img alt="CHICANO OLDIES GATEFOLD" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4384/35926386983_f066919448.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SPANISH-SPEAKING FANS WILL </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>EMBRACE </span><i>ARCHIE'S CHICANO </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>OLDIES</i><span> ALMOST AS </span><span>STRONGLY AS </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>THEY EMBRACED THE </span><i>ÉXITOS EN </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ESPAÑOL ALBUM!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ARCHIE'S CHICANO OLDIES"</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH 8-15, 2015</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">THE CONGA ROOM,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MÈXICO CITY, MÈXICO</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">MY PLEDGE OF LOVE </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Joe Stafford, Jr)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">GIRL WATCHER </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Killette, Pittman)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">BANDALALA </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Farrell, Singleton)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">STEPHANNY </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Henning, Klein, Price)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LOVE MAKES A WOMAN </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Davis, Record, Sanders, Sims)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Garrett, Hardaway, Wonder, Wright)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Phillip Mitchell)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">EXPRESSWAY 2 YOUR HEART </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Gamble, Huff)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">STONED LOVE </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Thomas, Wilson)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">KILLER JOE </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Berns, Kahan, Medley)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">THE RAPPER </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Dominic Ierace)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">HERE COMES MY BABY </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Cat Stevens)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">CARRIE ANN </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Clarke, Hicks, Nash)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">TIME WON'T LET ME </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie's Chicano Oldies LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Kelley, King)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LAST-MINUTE MIRACLE </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Chicano Oldies, Deluxe Edition</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Harris, Kerr)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">I AM A ROCK - lost</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Paul Simon)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE VIXENS</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/REY COCHINO</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/ROD MACK</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: JIMMY WISNER</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Producer: RON DANTE</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Remix Conductor: </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>NICHOLAS FREUND</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Remix Producers:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>BABALÚ + VERONICA</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Executive Producer:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>ROD MACK</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Remix Engineer: STYNG RAYE</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: Don Kirshner had refused to release the last album that The Archies recorded for his label. When Archie Records purchased the band's back catalog in 2005, Archie was primarily interested in this particular master tape: A collection of Pop/Soul covers cut in April of 1992. It was his hands-down favorite Archies LP!</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>With their scheduled album for 2014 (ABBA-NORMALITY) stuck in legal limbo and the band unexpectedly sidelined, he planned to substitute this rarity. Veronica + Porfirio "Babalù" Torres gave it a Latin Rock remix after Rod Mack, Rey Cochino + The Vixens added instrumental and vocal overdubs. </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Archie wanted to call the untitled album STONED LOVE, but Roni had a more provocative title in mind: ARCHIE'S CHICANO OLDIES! “This is another record like ARCHIE @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL,” she insisted. “I think it’s tailor-made for our Latino fan base.” Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't; but </i></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>they never got the chance to find out! </i></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span><i>Jason Blossom nixed a final Archies </i></span><i>release in no uncertain terms: "Dude," he told Archie, "Your label is deader than Hugh Hefner's dick @ a Gay men's orgy! Besides, you can't be serious, bringing me this 'Chicano' shit? I'm after the Black music market; that's where the big money is!" Archie was hella pissed, but there was nothing he could do. Exactly one month later, on Tax Day 2015, Jason officially discontinued the Archie Records imprint.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52491722040/in/dateposted/" title="DILTON, THE ARCHIES + DON KIRSHNER"><img alt="DILTON, THE ARCHIES + DON KIRSHNER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52491722040_bfda3c4564.jpg" width="377" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><i style="font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">A RARE PHOTO OF DILTON DOILEY</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BRISEÑO w/THE ARCHIES, JUST</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BEFORE DON KIRSHNER FORCED</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">HIM OUT OF THE BAND!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FALCON RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSIONS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"FLASHDANCE EN ESPAÑOL"</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">APRIL 9 - 15, 2015</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FALCON STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EL PASO, TEXAS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FLASHDANCE en Español </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Flashdance en Español EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Briseño, Cara, Forsey, Moroder)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">AUGUANTA EL SUEÑO/THE DREAM</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Flashdance en Español EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Bellotte, Briseño, Cara, Moroder)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">TALK TOO MUCH</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Flashdance en Español EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Cara, Forsey, Moroder)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ANYONE CAN SEE</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Flashdance en Español EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Cara, Roberts)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">¡YO NO!/WHY ME?</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Flashdance en Español EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Briseño, Cara, Forsey, Moroder)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">KEEP ON</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Flashdance en Español EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barrow, Cara, Forsey, Zito)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">BEAU JACQUES</span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span>Producer:</span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span><i>Sound Engineer:</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span><i>HUSSEIN HABAKKUK</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: It's been rumored for years that The Archies cut a version of the Disco smash "Flashdance (What A Feelin')." No trace of an Archies recording will ever be found, because they didn't! It was actually recorded by a former member of The Archies: Tony Briseño. His Spanish-language cover version was intended for a bilingual album tribute to actress, singer and songwriter Irene Cara. Judging from the high quality of the six tracks produced at his solo session, it's a shame he never finished it!</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Jason Blossom damn sure was no Disco fan, but dude had a soft spot for "Flashdance." The movie was one of his favorites as a young man; he was so obsessed with it, for several years he would only date girls who were dancers! This remake was guaranteed to please him: It had a stoned Hip-Hop groove. So did the other songs Tony cut, and half of them were in English. Dude knew what he had to do to get a record released under the new </i>régime!</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i>FLASHDANCE EN ESPAÑOL was marketed under a pseudonym. Unlike Archie + Veronica, Tony chose not to join the staff of Republic Records. When he found out, Jason decided to release his EP under the name "Tony Wetback!" That's right - the old slur used to insult Mexican immigrants! Can you imagine what kind of shitstorm that would've stirred up? </i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i>Fortunately, Roni intervened and convinced him to use the name of her pet alligator: Beau Jacques. Jason had a racist sense of humor, and that's putting it mildly! </i></b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>You've got to give dude credit, though: He knew how to get records played, and he gave this Falcon release a hard push. Yet the song that got the most airplay was "Anyone Can See," a cover of the hit single Irene Cara had just prior to "Flashdance." </i></b></span></div><div><b style="color: #f4cccc;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b style="color: #f4cccc;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">An old-school power ballad despite the urban arrangement, "Anyone" broke out on the Gulf Coast and ended up charting Top Ten R + B! It went on to be a popular wedding song in Latino communities, despite not being sung in Spanish. This best-seller previewed by 17 years Tony's future success singing lead with the Latin Pop studio group Mantequilla. </span></i></b></div><div><b style="color: #f4cccc;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b style="color: #f4cccc;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Funny, though, how it turned out: Both the first and the last releases from the Archie label were Hip-Hop records! But the company was always better @ marketing straight-ahead Pop songs . . . right to the end.</span></i></b></div><div><b style="color: #f4cccc;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52500136773/in/dateposted/" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" title="DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN ALBUM COVER"><img alt="DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN ALBUM COVER" height="371" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52500136773_5f6fa9eeff.jpg" width="500" /></a><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></span></b></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: 400;"><b>THE BELATED SOUNDTRACK ALBUM<br />FOR ARCHIE RECORDS' 2014-15</b></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: 400;"><b>HOLOGRAM TOUR WILL BE ISSUED</b></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: 400;"><b>IN THE YEAR 2033.</b></span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SABRINA: I'VE ALWAYS CONSIDERED TONY BRISEÑO </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED THE ARCHIES! HE WAS </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THEIR FIRST MUSIC DIRECTOR; HE WAS ALSO THE FIRST PERSON TO CAPTURE THEM ON TAPE. THE ECLECTIC MIX OF SONGS THAT HE ADDED TO THEIR STAGE SHOW SHARPENED THEIR MUSIC SKILLS AND GAVE THEM A DISTINCTIVE SOUND! </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THAT SOUND IS WHAT BROUGHT THEM TO THE </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ATTENTION OF ROCK IMPRESARIO DON KIRSHNER.</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>TONY DIDN'T GET ALONG WITH </span><span>KIRSHNER, AND HE GOT PUSHED OUT OF THE BAND; BUT TONY STAYED IN THE PICTURE, FIRST AS A STUDIO SIDEMAN</span><span>, THEN AS AN ARRANGER/PRODUCER, AND FINALLY </span><span>AS ARCHIE'S BUSINESS PARTNER AFTER MERGING HIS </span><span>FALCON LABEL WITH ARCHIE RECORDS. </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>HE WAS NEVER </span><span>SIGNED AS A FALCON ARTIST, BUT AS AN EXECUTIVE </span><span>HE HAD THE OPTION OF CUTTING MASTERS IF HE WANTED TO. TONY COULD SENSE WHAT WAS COMING; HE KNEW THAT IF HE WAS GOING TO CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING TO THE CATALOG, THIS WAS HIS LAST CHANCE! </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>GIVEN HIS IMPORTANCE TO BOTH THE ARCHIES AND ARCHIE RECORDS, </span><span>I THINK IT'S FITTING THAT "BEAU JACQUES" WAS THE LAST SINGER </span><span>TO BOOK AN ARCHIE TRACKING SESSION, AND THE LAST ONE TO SCORE A HIT ON THE LABEL.</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24559436610/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="UNRELEASED GOLDEN SUGAR ALBUM COVERS"><img alt="UNRELEASED GOLDEN SUGAR ALBUM COVERS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1470/24559436610_e98d393c0d.jpg" width="382" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><i style="font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WHEN <i>GOLDEN SUGAR </i>IS FINALLY RELEASED</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">IN THE YEAR 2025, IT WILL BE MARKETED</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WITH AN ALBUM COVER THAT DIFFERS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FROM THIS ORIGINAL DESIGN.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"GOLDEN SUGAR"</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">APRIL 2015</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LADY JANE - Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(James, King)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">GOOD LOVIN'- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP*</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Clark, Resnick)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LET'S GET IT ON TODAY! </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Adams, Dante)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">JET AIRLINER, SINGLE VERSION</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Paul Peña)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LONELY QUEEN - Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(McCarthy, Strange)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LONELY WEEKENDS </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Charlie Rich)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">HAPPY! - Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Jagger, Richards)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LOVE HER! - Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Mann, Weil)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">GOOD DEAL, LUCILLE </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Miller, Theriot)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">EVERYBODY - Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Tommy Roe)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">HE AIN'T NO ANGEL </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Barry, Greenwich)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">BIG CITY MISS RUTH ANN </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Tom Lazoros)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">NOBODY BUT YOU - Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Barry, Greenwich)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">TUMBLING DICE - Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Jagger, Richards)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Hurley, Wilkins)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">HIP SHAKER - Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">JACKIE DANIELS AND YOU </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Greenfield, Sedaka)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">GLITTER AND GOLD - Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Mann, Weil)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">SOUL DEEP SKA - Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Wayne Carson Thompson)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">I DON'T WANNA LOVE YOU </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Mann, Weil)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">SUGAR, SUGAR en Español </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Barry, Kim, Milstein)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES</span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;">*w/KEVIN KELLER</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>A & R Coordinator:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>NERO THE DOG</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Remix Producer/Engineer:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span><i>Salem da Katt: Whoever coined the term "motherfucker" must've had Jason Blossom in mind! Dude callously fired Rod Mack by telegram, and then he used an email blast to terminate the rest of the label’s staff. That asshole also put the </i><span>kibosh </span><i>on GOLDEN SUGAR, an Archies hits compilation that Rod had scheduled for Christmas. In its May 23rd issue, </i>Billboard <i>reported this news: "Archie Records is closing after fourteen years of operation. </i></span><i>The Sugartown Express has reached its final destination." That's because the fucking train was derailed!</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i> The few catalogue reissues that Jason marketed came out on his Republic International label, on affiliated labels in Asia, Australia or Europe, or on bootleg imprints that he secretly funded. Dude stubbornly refused to reissue ANY Archies masters; he kept them off the market for ten long years! Jason claimed to be holding them back so their value would increase, but that was bullshit. Here's the real 411: When The Archies refused to work under his supervision, he took revenge on them. That’s the kind of vindictive bastard he was!</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36426472554/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="JASON BLOSSOM STOPS THE MUSIC"><img alt="JASON BLOSSOM STOPS THE MUSIC" height="387" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4339/36426472554_f77fa5f4be.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JASON BLOSSOM BROUGHT ABOUT THE </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>DEMISE </span><span>OF ARCHIE RECORDS AND </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">NEARLY DESTROYED THE</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIES, TOO!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>I spoke to Sabrina shortly after news of the label’s demise broke. “I knew this was going to happen,” babe told me with a grim smile. “Selling out to Jason was one of the few decisions Veronica made that I disagreed with; but it was her call. @ least she + Archie will make excellent use of the money they got from him. Unfortunately, they’ll have to spend a lot more of it than they expect to! Mark my words, Salem: They’re going to end up in court with Jason and stay there for a long time. </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>"But that doesn’t matter," she continued. "Their musical legacy is secure. If they'd only sold releases by The Archies, they still would've made history. Archie + Roni did for Rock 'n' Roll what Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Mel Tormé, Nat "King" Cole + Frank Sinatra did for the Pop music of their era: They created a canon of standards. Neither Jason Blossom nor anybody else can take that away from them!”</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>For sure, JB destroyed Archie Records but he can't destroy The Archies! The band's gonna reunite one final time, and although their final years will be rocky, they'll go out as superstars. Their Farewell World Tour will break records, and with new recruits Chuck Clayton, Kevin Keller + Toni Topaz, they'll cut several more excellent albums. One of them, RIDE, RIDE, BABY, will be their most critically successful release; and their last LP will chase their next-to-last up the charts to Number One! Both of those puppies will be vinyl three-record sets. Ka-CHING!</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span><i>As for Jason, the insatiable appetite that led to him becoming a mega-billionaire will also be his big downfall.</i></span><i> After divorcing his first wife Bridget to marry Middle Eastern film star Benazir Bhooty, dude will creep on her with a Gay lover - and guess who it is? None other than Kevin Keller's ex-boyfriend, porn star Devon Sweetbottom! </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>When she finds out, Benazir will knife his fat lard ass, Alfred Hitchcock-style, in a fit of insane rage! </i><i>I mean to tell you, that shit's gonna be scandalous</i><span><i>: Jason Blossom bites the big one </i></span><i>in a sleazy hotel bathroom! It happens right after </i><i>dude will have triumphed over The Archies in court. T</i><i>he victor won't live long to enjoy his victory! </i>Tough titty!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51881560206/in/dateposted/" title="COLOR RETRO BOX SET PROMO"><img alt="COLOR RETRO BOX SET PROMO" height="322" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51881560206_24462cb588.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">A CAREER BOX SET DEVOTED TO</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"> THE ARCHIES WILL BE RELEASED</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">IN THE YEAR 2075.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: LET'S NOT CLOSE OUT THE ARCHIE RECORDS SAGA IN SUCH A GRUESOME WAY. IT ACTUALLY HAS A HAPPY ENDING! MY POWERS OF PROGNOSTICATION REVEAL ITS ULTIMATE END, WHICH TAKES PLACE IN THE 22nd CENTURY. COME AND GAZE DEEP INTO MY CRYSTAL BALL . . .</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">WHEN THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY PURCHASES THE ARCHIE RECORDS CATALOG FROM VOX IN THE YEAR 2124, IT INHERITS A NUMBER OF UNRELEASED MASTER TAPES. AMONG THEM IS <i>MOTOWN FOREVER,</i> THE ABORTED 2005 ALBUM BY THE CANDYHEARTS. FILED ALONGSIDE THAT MASTER IS A COMPILATION TAPE OF UNRELEASED TRACKS: VARIOUS UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO REPLACE THE ORIGINAL <i>MOTOWN FOREVER</i> VOCALS! YOU'LL REMEMBER THAT THEY WERE ERASED BY A VOODOO SPELL</span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;">.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SINGERS LISTED ON THE LABEL INCLUDE MAJOR STARS JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS, KEVIN KELLER, TONI TOPAZ + AUSTRALIAN SUPERSTAR DEB DELMAN. ALSO, LESSER-KNOWNS CHUCK CLAYTON, DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO, NICHOLAS FREUND + THE ARCHIES’ TOURING BACKGROUND VOCALISTS, THE COCHINADA BROTHERS. BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS, WHO ACTUALLY SANG ON PART OF THE ORIGINAL ALBUM, ARE AMONG THE REJECTS, TOO.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">THIRTY YEARS PASS BEFORE DISNEY ENGINEERS GET AROUND TO PLAYING THIS TAPE FROM BEGINNING TO END! WHEN THEY FINALLY DO, THEY’RE SURPRISED TO FIND <i>ANOTHER </i>ALBUM, CREATED BY RODERICK GREGORY MACK, ARCHIE’S LAST A + R CHIEF. IT COMBINES THOSE INCOMPLETE VOICE TRACKS INTO A MONSTER MEGA MIX!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52324798553/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE'S SUGAR MOTOWN MASH-UP"><img alt="ARCHIE'S SUGAR MOTOWN MASH-UP" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52324798553_c0bb79d3f1.jpg" width="390" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR ARCHIE'S <i>SUGAR MOTOWN</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>MASH-UP,</i> A BLOCKBUSTER ALBUM</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">TO BE RELEASED IN THE 22nd</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CENTURY.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">MOST OF THIS MIX FEATURES UNRELEASED DEMOS SUNG BY FORMER FOLK SINGER GERALDINE GRUNDY. ALTHOUGH SHE TRACKED THESE PERFORMANCES IN HER EARLY SEVENTIES, HER SINGING IS AWESOME! DEANIE'S SOULFULNESS ARGUABLY SURPASSED THAT OF FLAME EVANGELISTA, THE ORIGINAL VOCALIST ON <i>MOTOWN FOREVER.</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>WHAT ROD MACK CONSIDERED A FAILED EXPERIMENT WILL SOUND LIKE AN EXCITING FIND TO DISNEY’S CATALOG A + R STAFF. AFTER REMIXING WITH 22nd CENTURY TECHNOLOGY, <i>THE SUGAR MOTOWN MASH-UP</i> IS BELATEDLY RELEASED TO DANCE CLUBS IN THE YEAR 2159; AND </span><span>WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT IT SCORES A BIGGER HIT THAN <i>ANY </i>OF ARCHIE RECORDS’ ORIGINAL RELEASES? </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BREAKING FOR A STONED SMASH A YEAR LATER, THIS ALBUM TOPS DANCE LISTINGS ALL OVER THE WORLD! THE AMAZING FEAT IS REPEATED WHEN IT CROSSES OVER TO URBAN, LATIN, POP AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GENRES. THIS UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS FROM A DEFUNCT RECORD LABEL SENDS THE MUSIC INDUSTRY SPINNING! AND IN ITS WAKE, VINTAGE MUSIC </span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FROM THE ARCHIE CATALOG FILLS 22nd CENTURY AIRWAVES. </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><i>THE SUGAR MOTOWN MASH-UP </i>STAYS ON THE CHARTS FOR NEARLY FIVE YEARS! EXCERPTED FROM THE MIX, THE SONG “FOREVER CAME TODAY” IS DOWNLOADED MILLIONS OF TIMES; FORMER ARCHIE STAFFER CHUCK CLAYTON FEATURES ON LEAD VOCALS. @ ONE POINT, DIFFERENT REMIXES OF THIS SONG WILL OCCUPY EVERY SLOT OF THE PAN-AMERICAN TOP TEN!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/27509799095/in/album-72157719486934828/" title="INSIDE CHERRY VAGINA INTRO"><img alt="INSIDE CHERRY VAGINA INTRO" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/7310/27509799095_b97cbef7e3.jpg" width="388" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CHUCK CLAYTON APPEARS ON THE</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">COVER OF THE 2015 CHORDBOOK</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FOR CHERRY VAGINA MUSIC.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">ELIJAH BAUMGARTER ANDREWS, ARCHIE'S YOUNGEST SON WILL BE CONTACTED FOR COMMENT ABOUT THIS BELATED TRIUMPH. "MY FATHER ONCE CALLED CHUCK CLAYTON THE STATION MASTER OF HIS SUGARTOWN EXPRESS," HE'LL SAY SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH AT AGE 85. "WHEN CHUCK DIED, THE TWO OF THEM WERE ESTRANGED, BUT MY FATHER ALWAYS CONSIDERED HIM A DEAR FRIEND. ARCHIE WAS ALSO IN AWE OF HIS MANY MUSICAL GIFTS! CHUCK CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO THE LABEL; HE WORKED WITH EVERY ACT! SO IT'S FITTING THAT HE FINALLY GETS HIS DUE ON THIS POSTHUMOUS RECORDING. JUST AS OVERDUE IS THE ACCLAIM FOR TONY BRISEÑO, BIG NIPSY FREUND, ROD MACK + THE AMAZING DEANIE GRUNDY; THEY TRULY WERE THE BACKBONE OF ARCHIE RECORDS!"</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">WELL, NOT TO BRAG, BUT <i>I </i>DID MY PART, TOO! AS DID ALL OF THE EXCELLENT STUDIO MUSICIANS WE USED. OF COURSE, THE LION’S SHARE OF CREDIT MUST ALWAYS GO TO ARCHIE + VERONICA LODGE-ANDREWS. NOMINALLY, HE WAS THE HEAD AND SHE WAS THE HEART OF THE LABEL, BUT THEY ENDED UP SHARING THOSE ROLES. ARCH + RONI NEVER HAD BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN, BUT THEY STILL PRODUCED ONE BEAUTIFUL BABY! ITS NAME IS "THE GREAT AMERICAN ROCK 'N' ROLL SONGBOOK" . . . AND IT WILL LIVE FOREVER.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52323676177/in/album-72157666935495609/" style="font-size: medium;" title="ARCHIE + VERONICA"><img alt="ARCHIE + VERONICA" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323676177_fe11ea386a.jpg" width="392" /></a></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIE + VERONICA'S MUSICAL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>PARTNERSHIP </span><span>WILL GO DOWN </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>IN ROCK 'N' ROLL </span><span>HISTORY!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>EPILOGUE:</i></span></div></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: x-large;">THE GREAT AMERICAN</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ROCK + ROLL</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: x-large;">SONGBOOK!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">Back in the 1960s and '70s, you'd often hear people declare: <i>Rock 'n' Roll will never die!</i> It was easy to believe back then, but not so much today. Rock 'n' Roll's blood supply is in serious danger of being cut off! Many if not most of today's young Rock musicians are sorely deprived. No, not depraved (though some are that, too), but DEPRIVED. They lack the proper grounding in Pop and Rock history.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">The music that inspires their craft usually dates back no more than 25 years, if that. A great deal of it is electronic. They've had little or no exposure to the sounds of the early and middle 20th century, most of which feature traditional instrumentation. What a sad state of affairs! </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">If you don't know Rock in its golden era; if you haven’t learned to appreciate the blend of real bass, real drums, pianos, organs, guitars, horns and percussion; and if you're unfamiliar with the Blues, Country, Gospel and Latin roots from which Rock grew - music upon which Punk, Alt-Rock, Reggaetón, Hip Hop/Rap, Electronica and all the other popular genres of today are based -then you really don't know Rock at all.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52562742232/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIES CHORDBOOK"><img alt="ARCHIES CHORDBOOK" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52562742232_d8a1530db9.jpg" width="372" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIE'S "GOLDEN SUGAR" CHORDBOOK,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">MARKETED IN THE SPRING OF 2015</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">Before his death in 2003, the great Johnny Cash passed on to his daughter Rosanne a very special list of vintage songs. On that list were essential compositions that he wanted kept in her performance repertoire. They weren't just Country tunes; there were also Folk, Gospel and Blues numbers. Johnny firmly believed that, without access to its roots, true Country music would wither and die! </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">It took a while, but Rosanne Cash eventually came to share her daddy's point of view. "You can't imagine (America) without these songs," she told National Public Radio's Terry Gross. "They are <i>so</i> important to us! You know, it would be a tragedy if they were just . . . archived somewhere, if they weren't still being performed."</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">Here @ Pop Culture Cantina, we feel the same way as Johnny + Rosanne. In 2017, we decided to compile a similar list. It was drawn from the classic Rock 'n' Roll canon, but more specifically, from the vast record collection once owned by our blog master, DC Hampton Jacobs. Now we’ve updated it in this sixteen-part saga.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">By no means is our list definitive! Most Rock historians and critics would probably take strong exception to it. Ironically, that's what makes it so essential: These titles aren’t weighted down by intellectual snobbery, songwriter bias, major artist bias, genre exclusivity or concern about a "coolness" factor. They're just solid roots Rock + Soul tunes, with most displaying the strong Latin rhythm foundation that we consider ESSENTIAL to authentic Rock 'n' Roll. Each one was chosen to fit a specific part of our “Pop-Art-Chie” narrative.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52471744157/in/album-72157666935495609/" style="font-size: medium;" title="ARCHIES À GO-GO"><img alt="ARCHIES À GO-GO" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52471744157_7b903aacd6.jpg" width="374" /></a></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>ARCHIES </i></span><span style="text-align: left;"><b><i>À GO-GO:</i> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; text-align: left;"><b>THE FIRST ARCHIES ALBUM BOX</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">SET, AND THE ONLY ONE</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">PRODUCED BY ARCHIE </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">RECORDS!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">That narrative gives you access to this fabulous reference source. One-hundred songs? Get real. That's just a drop in the bucket! What about <i>over a thousand? </i>Our list is HUGE! We don't expect you to digest it all @ once. You can sample it @ your own pace. You're reading Part Fifteen right now, and for the rest of the titles, just scroll back through the fourteen previous blog posts. Don't miss the prologue, either, which summarizes the early history of The Archies.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">So, from Pop Culture Cantina to you, with much love: Our new and improved 2023 version of the Great American Rock 'n Roll Songbook! Starring our <i>krazy kewl </i>version of The Archies; and really, what stars could be more appropriate for a cartoon studio log? No, we haven't provided links to song downloads, and that was done on purpose. Half the fun is researching these musical treasures for your DAMN self!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52357701603/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="DESTINATION SUGARTOWN CODA"><img alt="DESTINATION SUGARTOWN CODA" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52357701603_5a30bc9863.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;">CONCEPT BY HAMPTON JACOBS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">TEXT BY TARQUIN GARRISON + HAMPTON JACOBS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">COSTUMES BY HENRIETTA la del BARRIO</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ILLUSTRATIONS RENDERED IN LIVING</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: x-large;">p </span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">a </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;">t </span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: x-large;">t </span><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: x-large;">y </span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: x-large;">c </span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: x-large;">o </span><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-size: x-large;">l </span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: x-large;">o </span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">r</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">BY STUFFED ANIMAL</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">The majority of illustrations in this online book were created especially for its presentation. However, a few were </span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">completed earlier between the years 2014 and 2017. All of the </span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">artwork was conceived and executed in New England, </span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">sometimes in </span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">homeless shelters. Don't miss the sequel to DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN: </span></span><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-great-american-rock-n-roll-songbook.html?zx=ce1c054f28ea2b7" target="_blank">ARCHIE IN THE THIRTIES</a><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"> documents the final recording sessions </span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">of The Archies.</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span><div style="font-size: large;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52543522378/in/dateposted/" title="IRENE CARA"><img alt="IRENE CARA" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52543522378_3af193fb7b.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><i><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;">THIS ONLINE BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF</span></i></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>A GREAT ACTRESS, SINGER AND SONGWRITER:</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: x-large;"><i>I R E N E C A R A</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>KEEP ON</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>Believing in our world.</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>Together and with hope</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>There's nothing we can't build!</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>KEEP ON</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>Knowing that we're right.</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>Sharing with each other</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>We can see the light shine!*</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><i>*Words + Music by Arthur Barrow, Irene Cara, Keith Forsey + Ritchie Zito, </i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><i>copyright 1983 UniTunes/WC Music/Budde Songs (ASCAP/BMI)</i></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-size: medium;" /></div><div style="font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">SUGARTOWN TRAIN STOPS:</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-2001.html" target="_blank">2001: THAT'S THE WAY WE GET BY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-2002.html" target="_blank">2002: STANDING IN THE NEED OF LOVE</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-2003.html" target="_blank">2003: I JUST CAN'T HELP IT</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-year-2004.html" target="_blank">2004: BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-year-2005.html" target="_blank">2005: LITTLE WILLY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2006.html" target="_blank">2006: TEAR DROP CITY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2007.html" target="_blank">2007: YOU CAN'T GO HALFWAY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2008.html" target="_blank">2008: CAT TALK</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2009.html" target="_blank">2009: KING CREOLE</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2010.html" target="_blank">2010: DANCING WITH MYSELF</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2011.html" target="_blank">2011: FABULOUS</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2012.html" target="_blank">2012: KISSIN' COUSINS</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2013.html" target="_blank">2013: THE CHICKEN AND THE HAWK</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2014.html" target="_blank">2014: 11:59</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2015.html" target="_blank">2015: EVERYBODY</a></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div></span></div></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">THE SUGARTOWN SAGA FEATURES CELEBRITY CAMEO APPEARANCES BY</span></div></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">DEBBIE ALLEN, RICK ASTLEY, BURT BACHARACH,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JEFF BARRY, PAT BENATAR, GARTH BROOKS,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">HARRY CONNICK, JR, LAVERNE COX, RON DANTE, </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">SHEILA E, </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">BILLY GIBBONS, MICK JAGGER, </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>SIR ELTON JOHN, </span>SIR TOM JONES, </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CAROLE KING, JOHN LEGEND,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>DARLENE LOVE, </span>YO YO MA, RAÚL MALO, </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BARRY MANN, WYNTON MARSALIS, </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RICKY MARTIN, SIR PAUL McCARTNEY, </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ALISON MOYET, DOLLY PARTON, </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JK ROWLING, PAUL SABU,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CARLOS SANTANA, MIKE STOLLER,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BJÖRN ULVAEUS, CYNTHIA WEIL,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JANN WENNER, TONI WINE,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">TRISHA YEARWOOD +</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">DWIGHT YOAKAM</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">SPECIAL THANKS TO</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;">KEVIN BOYLE, DEBORAH DELMAN, BRUCE FREY, </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;">HARRIS GARDNER, KRISTIN GORRIE,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;">SONSERI KENNEDY, TOM MOURGOS, </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">EVA NAMAZZI, </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">JUDY PARISELLA, </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LAURA PINTO, </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;">MICHAEL V. SKEEN, JON TROUTEN </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;">+ NERO THE DOG (R.I.P.)</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE RIDE!</span></i></div></span>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-34622873003635163962023-03-20T18:46:00.028-04:002024-01-20T13:06:17.317-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2014<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/26346145300/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="ABBA-NORMALITY LP COVERS"><b><img alt="ABBA-NORMALITY LP COVERS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1655/26346145300_cc31043bee.jpg" width="392" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><b style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presents</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;">A Journey Through</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE GREAT AMERICAN </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SONG BOOK</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b>SABRINA: IN JANUARY OF 2014, ARCHIE RECORDS TOOK ONE LAST STAB @ PENETRATING THE STUBBORN FRENCH MARKET. ARCHIE COMMISSIONED A BOX SET OF FIVE BEST-SELLING ARCHIES LPs: <i>ARCHIE COUNTRY, RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY, HITS OF THE SIXTIES, HITS OF THE SIXTIES, VOLUME TWO </i>(A REPACKAGING OF <i>JEFF + ELLIE SONGBOOK</i>) </b><b>AND THE VERY POPULAR AFC ALBUM <i>THE SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES.</i> </b><b>IN ORDER TO DISTINGUISH THEM FROM THE ORIGINAL RELEASES, TONY BRISEÑO REMASTERED THEM ALL IN PRISTINE MONAURAL SOUND. "I'LL MAKE THESE RETRO MUSIC COLLECTIONS SOUND LIKE THEY WERE ACTUALLY RECORDED IN THE 1950s AND '60s!" HE PROMISED.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><br /></b></span></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52724565880/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIES A GO GO BOOK FRONT COVER"><img alt="ARCHIES A GO GO BOOK FRONT COVER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52724565880_1414ef8a12.jpg" width="373" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PHOTOS OF JUGHEAD, ARCHIE, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA + </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>CHUCK </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">CLAYTON </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">AS THEY APPEARED ON </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">FRONT </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">COVER OF THE </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><i>ARCHIES </i></span></b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>À</i></b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><i> </i></span></b><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;"><i>GO-GO</i> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">INSERT BOOKLET.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">TONY WAS AS GOOD AS HIS WORD, TOO. THERE'S SUCH A THING AS "FOLDED-DOWN" MONO, CREATED </span></span></b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">BY COMPRESSING A STEREO RECORDING. IT SOUNDS GOD-AWFUL, BUT THAT ISN'T WHAT HE DID: TONY WENT </span></span></b><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">BACK TO THE ORIGINAL SESSION TAPES AND CREATED AUTHENTIC </span></span></b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">MONO MIXES, USING VINTAGE ROCK 'N' ROLL RECORDINGS AS A GUIDE. </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">IN MY OPINION, <i>ARCHIES </i></span></span></b><span style="color: #d9ead3; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>À GO-GO</i> WAS THE BEST-SOUNDING BOX SET EVER COMPILED FROM ARCHIE MASTERS; BUT YET AGAIN, FRENCH AUDIENCES WERE INDIFFERENT! </b></span></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">THE PACKAGE NEITHER TURNED A PROFIT NOR LOST MONEY, BUT IT SOLD FAR MORE COPIES OUTSIDE </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">OF FRANCE THAN INSIDE. NOT UNTIL THEY NO LONGER CARE ABOUT FRENCH SALES FIGURES WILL THE ARCHIES </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">FINALLY SCORE A SMASH HIT THERE!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><i>THE FOURTEENTH YEAR: 2014 </i></span></div></b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"11:59"</b></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">DISQUES PATHÉ</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ARCHIES À GO-GO"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JANUARY 11 - 26, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">ARCHIE COUNTRY 2LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie À Go-Go box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY 2LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie À Go-Go box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">HITS OF THE SIXTIES 2LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie À Go-Go box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">HITS OF THE SIXTIES, VOLUME TWO 2LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie À Go-Go box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">THE SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Archie À Go-Go box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Producer:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Production Consultant:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>NERO THE DOG</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Engineer:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Executive Producer:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>D'ANGELO WONG</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>There'll be many Archies box sets, but</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ARCHIE À GO-GO is the most collectible</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>of them all. It contained five vinyl albums,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but was actually a nine record box since four</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>of the LPs were two-record sets. JEFF</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>+ ELLIE SONGBOOK will henceforth be known</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>as the second volume of HITS OF THE SIXTIES;</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Veronica never liked the original title!</i><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>When questioned </i><i>about Nero the Dog's </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>production credit, both </i><i>Dilton and </i><i>Spanish </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Eddie always insisted that it </i><i>was valid!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Jonniemae's wonder poodle also </i><i>had a </i><i>lot to </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>do </i><i>with </i><i>another </i><i>Archies </i><i>compilation, </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>commissioned </i><i>a little </i><i>over a </i><i>year later.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SABRINA: IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH OF 2014, THE ARCHIES HELPED BIG ETHEL LAUNCH A GOSPEL SINGING CAREER. SHE PERMANENTLY RETIRED HER RAPPER HANDLE AND RECLAIMED HER GIVEN NAME: “FAWN ETHEL MASON.” HER EXCELLENT <i>DÉBUT </i>ALBUM, <i>BOSOM OF ABRAHAM,</i> FEATURED A GOSPEL CHOIR ARRANGED AND CONDUCTED BY REVEREND DARLING LOVEJOY; SHE WAS A TENNESSEE </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">EVANGELIST WHOM THE ARCHIES FIRST MET IN MEMPHIS IN 2005.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35806658551/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FAN CLUB ALBUMS"><img alt="FAN CLUB ALBUMS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4322/35806658551_0d97affb0f.jpg" width="378" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BIG ETHEL'S LEGACY @ ARCHIE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>RECORDS: </span><span>THE HIGHLY-COLLECTIBLE </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>ARCHIES </span><span>FAN CLUB ALBUM </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CATALOGUE!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"BOSOM OF ABRAHAM"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FEBRUARY 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SUN STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JESUS, TAKE THE WHEEL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(James, Lindsey, Sampson)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DIDN'T IT RAIN? - Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(traditional)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(traditional)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IT IS NO SECRET (WHAT GOD CAN DO)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Stuart Hamblen)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Rice, Webber)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">OPERATOR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(William Spivery)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>FAWN MASON</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>w/SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT SINGERS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>REV. DARLING LOVEJOY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>CHUCK CLAYTON, ALAN MAYBERRY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, CINDY ST. JOSEPHS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>When The Archies backed up Chuck Clayton</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>on his AFC album, their involvement was</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>kept secret, but it was a different story</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>this time: Fawn Mason started talking about her</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>superstar backing musicians long before the</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>sessions ended (much to the consternation of</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Veronica)! But her boasting proved to</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>be ill-timed.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52763028034/in/dateposted/" title="40 ROCK PROMO"><img alt="40 ROCK PROMO" height="368" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52763028034_4eb21f2fc4.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JUST WEEKS BEFORE HER DEATH FROM</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CANCER IN THE YEAR 2029, BIG ETHEL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WILL CONTRIBUTE BACKGROUND VOCALS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">TO AN ARCHIES SESSION IN HAWAII. THEY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">WILL BELATEDLY BE HEARD ON <i>40 </i></span><i style="color: #fce5cd;">ROCK,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">A 2164 ARCHIES COMPILATION.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH 14 - 18, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SUN STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY - Retro box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Dorsey + Johnny Burnette)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">FIVE O'CLOCK WORLD - Retro box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Allen Reynolds)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LAST-MINUTE MIRACLE - Retro box set*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Harris, Kerr)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">KARATE/MONKEY - Retro box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Jackson, Virtuoso)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>DEAN CHRISTOPHER, *JIMMY WISNER</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>JEFF BARRY, *RON DANTE</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Producer: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>These four selections hail from the Kirshner Records</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>archives. They date from The Archies' earliest studio </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>sessions in 1988 to their final Kirshner sides in 1992. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Fawn Mason remixed them, intending to release a fifth</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and final RARE MASTERS EP; but before completing </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>production, she resigned her position as president of </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Archies Fan Club Records! Subsequently, the Fan Club </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>fell dormant and its 2015 Christmas release was </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>cancelled. An earlier, live version of "Believe What </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>You Say" appears on the 2010 AFC album</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>THE SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35372915151/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FAWN MASON IN THE BOSOM OF ABRAHAM"><img alt="FAWN MASON IN THE BOSOM OF ABRAHAM" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4209/35372915151_702889383d.jpg" width="391" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FAWN MASON aka BIG ETHEL IS ONE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">OF ONLY FOUR RECORDING ARTISTS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WHOSE ALBUMS FEATURE MUSICAL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BACKING BY THE ARCHIES.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"BOSOM OF ABRAHAM"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SUN STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ROCK-A MY SOUL </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single, Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(traditional)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BLESSINGS BY THE DAY </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jones, Mason)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Gene McLellan)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">EZEKIEL SAW THE WHEEL </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(traditional)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">OH, HAPPY DAY! - Bosom of Abraham LP*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Doddridge, Hawkins, Rimbault)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">PEACE IN THE VALLEY </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Bosom of Abraham LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Thomas Dorsey)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>FAWN MASON</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>w/SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT SINGERS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>*w/ROD MACK</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>REV. DARLING LOVEJOY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>CHUCK CLAYTON, ALAN MAYBERRY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, CINDY ST. JOSEPHS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Choir Mistress Darling Lovejoy was so</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>inspired by the performances taped </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>@ these March sessions, she preached</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>an impromptu Gospel sermon inside</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>legendary Sun Studios! Back in 2010, </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Fawn Mason was a guest star on</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Rod Mack’s Christian Rock extravaganza</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>MACK DADDY BOOGALOO; here she</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>returned the favor. Their duet on "Oh,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Happy Day" will belatedly top the Gospel </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>charts in December of 2022.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Salem da Katt: Gangsta Rap-loving Jason Blossom, initially </span></i><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>unaware that Fawn Mason and former Gangsta rapper Big Ethel were one and the same, withheld her </i>début <i>album from release when he purchased </i></span></span><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Archie Records. Her much-anticipated recording career stalled and didn’t regain momentum for years! </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">After she became one of Gospel's fastest rising stars, Jason sold the album master to Capitol Records. By then he knew her background and, maliciously hoping to torpedo the Capitol release, the rat bastard reissued Fawn’s profanity-laden Rap single from 2001. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Lurid promo ads for “Bitch Better Bring My Pizza” labeled Fawn Mason a “Christian Gangsta Hoe!” Babe was horrified, but she needn’t have worried: Her evangelist husband Algernon "Big Moose" Mason strongly defended her from his pulpit: "Like</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">the Prodigal Son, my wife returned to her holy Father after </span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;">years spent wandering in the wilderness. Should we treat her with </span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;">less compassion than He would?"</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Long story short: Jason’s sabotage ploy failed! The belatedly-</span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;">issued BOSOM OF ABRAHAM LP went Top Ten Gospel in the year 2021 and bagged a Grammy nomination to boot!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51245374253/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="LAS VEGAS TURNAROUND SLEEVE DESIGN"><img alt="LAS VEGAS TURNAROUND SLEEVE DESIGN" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51245374253_4e605cd2e7.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">A DAMAGED ACETATE WILL BE REPAIRED</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WITH 22nd CENTURY TECHNOLOGY, MAKING</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">POSSIBLE THE RELEASE OF A "LOST"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIES ALBUM.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ARCHIE IN ISRAEL"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A BAMBI MUSIC MIX</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">APRIL 2 - 7, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">GETHSEMANE SOUND STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JERUSALEM, ISRL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GOOD LOVIN'</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">in English and Hebrew</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Golden Sugar LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Clark, Kind, Resnick)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">CALL ME HIS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">in English and Hebrew - lost</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Diamond, Kind)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">NO LOVE AT ALL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">in Hebrew - lost</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Christopher, Kind, Thompson)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">RAINING IN MY SUNSHINE in Hebrew</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Archie Around The World CD</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante, Kind)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">incomplete</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">incomplete</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/DEANIE GRUNDY</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger/Music Director:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>DEANIE GRUNDY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producer: </i><i>QUEEN BAMBI</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>TALMUD + JULISSA KIND</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>While making a series of appearances in the Holy</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Land, The </i><i>Archies cut tracks for an extended-play</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>disc sung in Hebrew (Jughead </i><i>and Betty, both </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>partially of Jewish heritage, took lead vocals on</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>these selections). Then the band commenced work on</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>a new English-language single. Due to worsening conflict</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>in Gaza, </i><i>safety was a concern: </i><i>One day a bomb detonated,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and the explosion was near enough to shake the studio!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Clearly, it was unwise to </i><i>spend much more time recording </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>in Israel, so t</i><i>hese dates @ Gethsemane Sound only </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>produced basic tracks: Keyboards, percussion, bass</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and "scratch" vocals. Overdubs were scheduled</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to be cut in New Orleans @ Spanish Eddie's but</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>those sessions were cancelled and so was</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>the novel EP concept. The intended Archies</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>single was "Mandolay" b/w "Lover's Holiday", </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>a Latin</i><i> Rock floor-shaker which would have</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>featured Trevor Smith on both sides. Unfortunately, </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>it </i><i>won't be completed until the 22nd century,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>when advanced AI technology is brought to bear</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>on the session tape. Reggie Mantle first covered </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Mandolay" for a 2001 solo album.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;">SABRINA: AFTER WRAPPING UP FAWN MASON’S SESSIONS @ SUN STUDIOS, THE ARCHIES EMBARKED ON A BRIEF TOUR OF THE MIDDLE EAST. CHUCK CLAYTON SERVED AS MUSIC DIRECTOR (REPRISING A ROLE HE'D PLAYED ON EARLY ARCHIES TOURS) AND DEANIE GRUNDY SAT IN ON KEYBOARDS. THEN THE BAND RETURNED TO MAMARONECK AND DEMO’D A PROPOSED ALBUM TRIBUTE TO DARYL HALL + JOHN OATES. STILL LACKING A REPLACEMENT FOR REGGIE, THEY ASKED KEVIN KELLER TO SUB; FORTUNATELY, HE WAS IN TOWN AND AVAILABLE.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">INSTEAD OF INDIVIDUAL SONG DEMOS, THE ARCHIES CUT SPONTANEOUS PERFORMANCES ONTO AN ALBUM-LENGTH ACETATE. IT WAS COMPLETED IN A SINGLE ALL-NIGHT SESSION THAT CHUCK CLAYTON SUPERVISED. I’M A HUGE HALL + OATES FAN, AND I WOULD’VE LIKED TO HAVE PRODUCED THAT DEMO; BUT WHAT I HEARD ON IT WAS SO AWESOME, I COULDN’T POSSIBLY HAVE DONE ANY BETTER THAN CHUCK DID!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">UNFORTUNATELY, THAT WAS YET ANOTHER ARCHIES PROJECT THAT DIDN'T GO FORWARD. AN OVERZEALOUS MANAGER REFUSED TO LET DARYL + JOHN EVEN <i>HEAR </i>THE ACETATE! IN FACT, HE MALICIOUSLY SNAPPED IT IN HALF AND RETURNED IT TO ARCHIE. THAT UNIQUE DEMO BECAME A MUCH-COVETED COLLECTOR’S ITEM! IN THE 22nd CENTURY, IT WILL BE RESTORED AND DIGITIZED. THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY WILL RELEASE THIS “LOST ARCHIES ALBUM" WITH THE TITLE </span><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LAS VEGAS TURNAROUND</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53476106853/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIES CHRISTMAS POSTER"><img alt="ARCHIES CHRISTMAS POSTER" height="370" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53476106853_f2ca6373ec.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">LIMITED-EDITION POSTER INSERT FROM</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>ARCHIE @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"THE JEFF BARRY SONGBOOK"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A JEFF BARRY INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">APRIL 16 - 20, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CHAPEL OF ROCK,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WHEN YOUR BABY SAYS GOODBYE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Songbook EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LOVE, LOVE AND AFFECTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Songbook EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LOVE, LOVE, GO AWAY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Songbook EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WE GOT A THING GOIN’, BABY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Songbook EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I’VE NEVER GOTTEN OVER YOU</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Songbook EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JOHNNY ANDER</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">Songbook EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jeff Barry)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>TONI TOPAZ</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>NICHOLAS FREUND</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producer: JEFF BARRY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Salem da Katt: Having established herself as a top choreographer and occasional video director, Toni Topaz made a spectacular transition to acting in 2012: Babe originated the role of Darlene Love in the smash hit jukebox musical SOUL + INSPIRATION!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">The show was on a clear trajectory to Broadway; but when The Great White Way finally beckoned, it saw fit to shun the show’s stars: Jughead + Kevin Keller! Their roles were re-cast, and Hollywood actors barely out of their teens portrayed Bill Medley + Bobby Hatfield.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Toni was asked to continue in her role but out of loyalty to Juggy + Kelly, she refused. Archie, the show’s music arranger, liked her attitude and liked her singing even more! Babe became the last artist to sign an Archie Records recording contract. Veronica was delighted: “Being the label's only female solo star gets lonely! It’s high time I had some company.”</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Toni’s star was destined to eclipse Roni’s, and its rocket rise kicked off with this EP date. Produced by the legendary Jeff Barry with Juggy, Kelly, Big Nipsy + Toni herself providing the musical backing, it wasted no time hitting the Pop Top Twenty upon release.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SABRINA: THE FORMER STARS OF <i>SOUL + INSPIRATION </i>ALL DID WELL FOR THEMSELVES: </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">KEVIN KELLER HAD HIS SUCCESSFUL SOLO CAREER, OF COURSE, AND TONI'S WAS PRIMED TO TAKE OFF. RALFI CHINGAS ALSO LEFT THE SHOW; HE TOOK AN EXECUTIVE POSITION WITH DISCOS FUENTES. THAT MEANT MOVING DOWN TO MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA, WHICH HE DID IN THE FALL OF 2014. HIS HUSBAND-TO-BE EDDIE ROXCHILD WOULD JOIN HIM THERE AFTER CLOSING SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL A </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FEW YEARS LATER.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;">JUGGY TOOK ON A NEW ROLE: MANAGER OF MONTANA JONES,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HIS TEENAGE SON WITH BETTY. MONTY WAS MUSICALLY </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GIFTED LIKE HIS PARENTS - THAT CHILD COULD SET A PAIR OF </span><i style="color: #d9ead3;">BONGÓ </i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DRUMS ON FIRE - BUT BURNING IN THE KITCHEN WAS WHAT HE REALLY </span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">EXCELLED @! AS A CHILD, HE TOOK TO GOURMET COOKING LIKE AN OLD PRO. BY 2013, HE WAS WINNING COMPETITIVE </span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">CHEF TOURNAMENTS. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT JUGGY WAS THERE, PROUDLY COACHING HIS </span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">CULINARY STAR FROM THE SIDELINES! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span>COOKING TROPHIES </span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LAUNCHED MONTANA JONES ON A CAREER THAT WILL </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LEAD TO HIS OWN TOP-RATED STREAMING SHOW AND A CHAIN </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">OF KOSHER JAPANESE GRILLS BEARING HIS </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">NAME! IN THE YEAR 2032, MONTY WILL CATER THE ARCHIES' </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FAREWELL CONCERT TOUR.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52357778474/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="TONI TOPAZ PROMO"><img alt="TONI TOPAZ PROMO" height="389" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52357778474_70ae490b46.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">TONI TOPAZ ARRIVES!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"THE TONI TOPAZ ALBUM"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAY 1 - 15, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CHAPEL OF ROCK,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HE COMES AND GOES - Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Neil Diamond)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LOVE YOU MORE THAN YESTERDAY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Gormann, Michaels, Morton)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SOMEDAY - Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Roberta Day)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YOU TOLD ME - Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Chandler, DeVorzon)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I’M NOBODY’S BABY NOW</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jeff Barry)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LADY OF THE NIGHT - Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Bellotte, Moroder)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">TONIGHT, YOU’RE GONNA FALL IN LOVE WITH ME</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Kornfeld, Wine)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DID YOU EVER LOVE A GUY? - Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Steve Duboff)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GOTTA MAKE YOU LOVE ME!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Burton, Sawyer)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Greenwich, Powers)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IF YOU WERE A MAN - Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jerry Riopelle)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ALL OVER AGAIN - Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Paul Hampton)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WHY DID YOU GO? - Toni Topaz LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Brown, Robbins)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THE THRILL IS GONE - unreleased</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jerry Riopell)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>TONI TOPAZ</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE BETTYS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>w/THE VIXENS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: Although Toni sang Blues-oriented material on stage in SOUL + INSPIRATION, her </i>début <i>album is not in that style. Babe didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an R & B singer. “I’m from the Caribbean,” she reminded Archie, “which is a cornucopia of all kinds of music. I can sing Rock, Disco, Latin, anything you want! And Reggae, too, of course.”</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Ralfi Chingas, who produced the musical’s double-Platinum cast album, was tagged to helm Toni’s first LP. Ralfi decided to place her in a </i>retro<i>, Sixties Girl Group setting; hence a track lineup featuring vintage songs from the pens of Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Toni Wine, Pam Sawyer + George “Shadow” Morton. @ Toni’s request, her favorite tune from Gino Mantle's 2009 Neil Diamond tribute ("He Comes And Goes") was included, and a Donna Summer rarity with a </i>retro <i>feel (“Lady Of The Night”) was added for variety.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>These sessions were bursting with female talent: Not only The Vixens but also The Bettys, the re-formed version of a Riverdale High School group led by Betty Jones (</i>née <i>Cooper). The other members were Bree Spellman, Midge Mercury + Jonniemae. Slowly but surely, Betty was transitioning away from The Archies as well as her marriage! Jughead's affair with Veronica in 2005</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">had opened a rift that would never heal. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">“Gotta Make You Love Me” would later be a smash-hit Latin record when covered by Mantequilla (a studio group led by Tony Briseño), and New Archies member Ramsay Khalid Sharma will cover “Tonight, You’re Gonna Fall In Love With Me.” When Ralfi lay these bitchin’ playbacks on Archie, dude was ready to set a release date ASAP; but as in all things business-related, Boss Lady Veronica had to have her say before that could happen!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36372247204/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES IN SEOUL"><img alt="ARCHIES IN SEOUL" height="388" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4332/36372247204_f9fd2365a2.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RARE PHOTO OF THE ARCHIES + KEVIN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">KELLER PERFORMING @ THE 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WORLD DEEJAY FESTIVAL.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span>SABRINA: ON THE LAST DAY OF MAY 2014, THE ARCHIES MADE A SURPRISE APPEARANCE @ THE WORLD DEEJAY FESTIVAL IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA. I WROTE HALF OF THE SONG ARRANGEMENTS FOR THAT SHOW; EVEN THOUGH I WASN'T AN ARCHIE RECORDS EMPLOYEE ANYMORE, I WAS ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP OUT ARCHIE + RONI IF THEY ASKED ME TO. KEVIN KELLER MADE A SURPRISE GUEST APPEARANCE! HE PLAYED KEYBOARDS AND SANG TWO DUETS WITH JUGHEAD. NOBODY KNEW IT, BUT THIS WOULD BE ONE OF THE ARCHIES' FINAL PUBLIC </span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">APPEARANCES FOR A LONG TIME.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORD</span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">S</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">OVERDUB SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"FILET OF SEOUL"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ISLAND PACIFIC PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JUNE 2 - 5, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">GLITTER AND GOLD in Japanese</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Jones, Mann, Weil)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">TRAPPED IN THE PRISON OF LOVE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">in Korean</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download, Korea Pops! CD</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Coulter, Martin, Park)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">MY MARÍA*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Moore, Stevenson)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">IT'S A HAPPENING WORLD in Korean</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Mann, Mung, Weil)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">LAND OF MILK AND HONEY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Hurley, Wilkins)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">ROCK THE TASTE FROM YOUR MOUTH</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Andrews, Briseño, Clark, Spellman)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span> CHICO'S GIRL in Japanese</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Jones, Mann, Weil)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">LOOKING AT TOMORROW</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Archie Around The World CD</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Mann, Weil)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">BLACK IS BLACK in Korean</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Grainger, Hayes, Park, Wadey)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">JIM DANDY in Korean</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download, Korea Pops! CD***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Chase, Park)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">PRECIOUS AND FEW in Japanese</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Jones, Nims, Takeshi)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">LADY JANE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(James, King)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">LOVE HER!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">Archie Around The World CD</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Mann, Weil)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">JET AIRLINER</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Paul Peña)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">RIVER-DEEP, MOUNTAIN-HIGH</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Filet of Seoul download*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">SUGAR, SUGAR </span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">in Japanese + Korean</span></div></b><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Barry, Jones, Kim, Park)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">-Filet of Seoul download*</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/SASHIMI SISTERS</span></i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>KEVIN KELLER</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>BREE SPELLMAN, *RALFI CHINGAS,</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>**JUSTIN STRICKLAND, ***BLUE-EYED SOUL,</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>****THE ARCHIES w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Music Directors: </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>BLUE-EYED SOUL </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>EDDIE ROXCHILD, VERONICA</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Remix Engineers:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>EDDIE ROXCHILD, QUINCY ZEN</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Executive Producer:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>BARCLAY SINGH</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Spanish Eddie was a featured disc spinner @ the 2014</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>World Deejay Festival. As a favor to him, The Archies</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>made a special guest appearance. They performed an </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>album's worth of songs, eight partially sung in Korean </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>or Japanese; Truvee Park, niece of the Korean Park Brothers, </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>translated several numbers, and Jughead wrote some new</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Japanese lyrics. When Veronica announced from the festival</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>stage that they'd just made a live recording, the crowd</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>went wild! A studio version of "It's A Happening World"</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>in Korean had scored a modest hit in South Asia the</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>the previous year, so Archie decided to tailor an </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><i>album for the Korean market.</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: THE FESTIVAL SHOW WAS RECORDED AND RELEASED AS A LIVE ALBUM IN ASIA. SOME ARCHIES FANS REGARD <i>FILET OF SOUL</i> AS </b><b>THE REALIZATION OF ARCHIE'S ABORTED <i>FIFTY SHADES OF </i></b><b><i>SOUL </i>ALBUM! IT ISN'T, BUT THE MUSIC DIRECTION BY </b><b>JUGGY + KELLY WOULD CERTAINLY </b><b>MAKE YOU THINK SO. THAT RECORD WAS ONLY ISSUED AS A DIGITAL </b><b>DOWNLOAD, BUT IT ACHIEVED TOP TEN STATUS IN BOTH KOREA </b><b>AND JAPAN. TWO BIG SOUTH ASIAN HITS, "JIM DANDY" AND "TRAPPED </b><b>IN THE PRISON OF LOVE" EMERGED FROM IT, BOTH SUNG TO PERFECTION BY BETTY JONES IN FLAWLESS KOREAN! NEITHER </b><b>SELECTION WAS OFFICIALLY RELEASED AS A SINGLE. THE LATTER TUNE ALSO APPEARED ON A CHART-TOPPING AMERICAN COMPILATION CALLED <i>KOREA POPS!</i></b></span></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/37019097316/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SEOUL SET LIST"><img alt="SEOUL SET LIST" height="389" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4403/37019097316_30a583d880.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES CONTRIBUTED TO ONE</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">OF THE FIRST SMASH HIT "K-POP"</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">COMPILATIONS!</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSIONS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"FEEL LIKE DANCING"</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A KOOLTYME PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">in association with</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SUGARTOWN PRODUCTIONS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JUNE 2014</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">THE CONGA ROOM,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MÈXICO CITY, MÈXICO</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THE HEART 2 BREAK THE HEART </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Feel Like Dancing EP*</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tony Green)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">COME 2 ME </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Feel Like Dancing EP*</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tony Green)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">TOUCH - Feel Like Dancing EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tony Green)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DON'T STOP DANCING - unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tony Green)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WALKIN' INTO A HEARTACHE </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Feel Like Dancing EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Melissa Lundgren)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GONNA GET OVER YOU! </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Feel Like Dancing EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(William Anderson)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FEEL LIKE DANCING </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Feel Like Dancing EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tony Green)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ATTITUDE - Feel Like Dancing EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Karp, La Bounty)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">NASTY LOVE - unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Fairweather, Page)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LOVE'S ON FIRE! </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Feel Like Dancing EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Batteau, Freeman, Giancaterino)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE VIXENS</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE KOOLTYME KATTS</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>*w/JUGHEAD</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: JUGHEAD</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Producer: ALEXANDRA</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Recording Engineer: </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>STYNG RAYE</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">By now, The Vixens were official Archie Records artists; </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">here they belatedly fulfilled a promise to Big Ethel </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">to cut an EP for AFC Records. The lineup that sang on </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">this date was Pamela "Pippa" Tagliaferro (lead vocals), </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Kragen Hinojosa + Jughead's sister Angelica</div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"Jelli" Jones-Torres. Jelli was married to bassist </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Babalù Torres, a Reggaetòn musician who mostly </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">worked south of the border. It's Babalù who booked </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">this session @ Mèxico City's Conga Room. Juggy played </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">drums and sang duet vocals with Pippa on “The </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Heart To Break The Heart” and “Come To Me”.</div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Veronica + Sabrina were on hand to play guitar </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">and keyboards, respectively; it was very much like </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">one of the early Archie Records sessions, back when </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Alexandra was the head of Artists + Repertoire.</div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Originally recorded by Disco diva France Joli, eight </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">of these sizzling Latin rockers featured on FEEL </div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">LIKE DANCING, the penultimate Archies</div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Fan Club double EP.</div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35697218260/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE VIXENS FEEL LIKE DANCING"><img alt="THE VIXENS FEEL LIKE DANCING" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4326/35697218260_04589eb925.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">AFTER BIG ETHEL QUIT THE VIXENS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">TO PURSUE A SOLO CAREER, THEY</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CONTINUED AS A GROUP ON </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THEIR OWN.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: I REMEMBER WORKING FREELANCE WITH BOTH THE VIXENS + THE COCHINADA BROTHERS. THOSE GROUPS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER: THE WOMEN WORKED SO SMOOTHLY TOGETHER, THEY WERE LIKE A WELL-OILED MACHINE! THE BROTHERS DID NOTHING BUT ARGUE, AND THEY FELL FAR SHORT OF MY EXPECTATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR. HOWEVER, CHA CHA, LALO, MEMO + BUBBA COCHINO WERE IMMENSELY TALENTED SINGERS! WITH VERONICA ON HAND TO CURB THEIR MORE RAMBUNCTIOUS TENDENCIES, THEY MIGHT’VE FILLED THE MALE VOCAL GROUP VACUUM ON ARCHIE RECORDS’ ROSTER; BUT IT WASN'T TO BE.</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>MY CRYSTAL BALL SHOWS ME CUTTING A NEW VERSION OF "ONE TIME IN </span><span>A MILLION" WITH THE NEW ARCHIES; THAT WILL HAPPEN IN ABOUT A DECADE.</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/23482994088/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EPs"><img alt="WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EPs" height="388" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4347/23482994088_93121dd706.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIE FAN CLUB EPs SCHEDULED FOR</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE YEAR 2015 WERE CANCELLED! </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSIONS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"I LOVE YOU"</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JUNE/JULY 2014</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">THE CONGA ROOM,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MÉXICO CITY, MÉXICO</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THOSE COUNTRY GIRLS - unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THAT CERTAIN SOMEONE - unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">PLEASE MAKE THE LOVE GO AWAY! </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I DON'T WANNA BE LEFT OUTSIDE </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WHAT GOOD IS I LOVE YOU? </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GOOD, GOOD LOVIN' - unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LET THE SUN SHINE - unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ONE TIME IN A MILLION - unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I HEAR THE GRASS SINGING </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I LOVE YOU - unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Greenwich, Rashkow)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE COCHINADA BROTHERS</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>w/JUGHEAD</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>w/REY COCHINO + BIG-ASS BRASS</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>THE COCHINADA BROTHERS</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: REY COCHINO</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Producer: </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: HUSSEIN HABAKKUK</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Although Dilton Doiley Briseño is credited</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>as producer of these dates, his protegée</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Bree Spellman </i><i>did most of the hands-on work. </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Jughead played drums and the Cochinada </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Brothers' "</i><i>Uncle Rey" performed the trumpet </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>solos</i><i>. Dilton certainly had good reason to </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>trust Bree's </i><i>emerging production skills; </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>these playbacks </i><i>were </i><i>nothing </i><i>less than </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>extraordinary! But not to the </i><i>tone-deaf </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>ears </i><i>of </i><i>Jason </i><i>Blossom. </i><i>I LOVE YOU </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>was one of </i><i>the </i><i>forthcoming </i><i>releases </i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>that he </i><i>cancelled.</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FALCON RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSIONS</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"HUSH"</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JULY 2014</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">THE CONGA ROOM,</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MÉXICO CITY, MÉXICO</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS (UNDERDUB)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Lolly + Pat Vegas)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HUSH (UNDERDUB) - unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Joe South)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GET IT ON! (UNDERDUB) - unreleased</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Marc Bolan)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">INSTANT KARMA - Hush EP</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(John Lennon)</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>KEVIN KELLER</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/GAYME + SABRINA</i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>KEVIN KELLER, VERONICA</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>BREE SPELLMAN, BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: STYNG RAYE</i></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Sabrina's trip south of the border in the summer of 2014 was very productive! She worked as arranger on three EPs cut in México: The first for The Vixens, the second for The Cochinada Brothers, and the last for Kevin Keller. It was time for Kelly to drop another hit! Archie wasn't about to let him linger on the vine the way Josie + The Pussy Cats had. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>His co-producers Veronica + Jughead were both still in México City, so he flew down to The Conga Room to join them. @ Sabrina's suggestion, Roni also booked a flight for </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Gayme, the Caribbean backing vocal duo from </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Archies' HITS OF THE SIXTIES tour. She managed to coax them out of retirement</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>for this one studio date.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Kelly arrived knowing that he had to track some more Hard Rock, but dude was ornery! He refused to duplicate the Heavy Metal sound of his first album. Sabrina suggested that he cover the old Redbone hit "Witch Queen Of New Orleans," and she wrote an authentic "Swamp Blues" arrangement for the song. After Kelly sang "Witch Queen," everybody dug it so much that Veronica asked: "What other songs can we do in that same groove?" </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Kelly chose the T-Rex classic "Get It On," Juggy favored Billy Joe Royal's "Hush," and Roni insisted on John Lennon's "Instant Karma." Two weeks later, they played back four strong sides, and nobody could decide which one would make the best single! This stalemate resulted in the wise decision to market a new Kevin Keller EP.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>HUSH just exploded on Pop radio, and it shot right into the Top Ten! It did even better in Australia, topping the charts "down under." This EP was one of the best things Archie Records ever released (although, like Kelly's MAN BITCHES soundtrack, it carried the Falcon imprint); but would you believe that, a few years later, Jason Blossom's ham-handed sound engineers destroyed the master? </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>They crudely erased the vocals so that a jive-ass Gangsta rapper Jason had signed could recycle the backing tracks! It makes my fur stand on end to think about it, and I'm not even a cat anymore! Fortunately, Kelly had given a demo version to his lover Josie James; that demo will be used to reconstruct the master when HUSH is reissued in the 22nd century.</i></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">IN LATE JUNE OF 2014, PLANS FOR ARCHIE RECORDS’ HOLOGRAPHIC CONCERT TOUR WERE FINALIZED. USING PEFORMANCE FOOTAGE THEY’D BEEN FILMING SINCE 2012, BROTHERS ICHI + KOO PARK HAD CREATED THEIR HOLOGRAMS. IT WAS A PAINSTAKING PROCESS, BUT THE RESULTS WERE REMARKABLE! WHEN THESE RAZOR-SHARP IMAGES WERE PROJECTED ON ACRYLIC GLOBES OF VARYING SIZES AND SUSPENDED OVER THE HEADS OF AUDIENCES, THEY GAVE THE STARTLING IMPRESSION OF MINIATURE LIVE MUSICIANS FLOATING OVERHEAD! TONI TOPAZ'S HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE WAS THE LAST ONE PERFECTED.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">THE "POP-ART-CHIE" TOUR LAUNCHED IN JULY. IT CONTINUED UNTIL MARCH OF 2015, STOPPING @ ART AND MUSIC SCHOOLS ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA. THE RESPONSE WAS PHENOMENAL; EVERYBODY WANTED TO EXPERIENCE THIS AMAZING PRODUCTION! ONE OF THE ELEVEN ACTS FEATURED ON THAT TOUR WAS STILL AN UNKNOWN, BUT HER CAREER WAS JUST ABOUT TO EXPLODE!</span></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52385727316/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BEST OF ARCHIE BACK COVER"><img alt="BEST OF ARCHIE BACK COVER" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52385727316_9666a8a0ab.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARTISTS FEATURED ON ARCHIE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>RECORDS' </span><span>2014-15 HOLOGRAPHIC </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>CONCERT </span><span>TOUR OF ART SCHOOLS.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;">SINGLES SESSIONS</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JULY 25 - 27, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">LONDON, UK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THROW DOWN A LINE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single A-side</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Hank Marvin)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">POP LIFE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single B-side*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Prince + The Revolution)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>TONI TOPAZ</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE MACK DADDYS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>w/THE ROSCOE SHIRLEY STRINGS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>w/CUMBERLAND GAP</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS, *ROD MACK</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>THORNE TEWKSBURY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: Veronica listened to the playback of Toni Topaz’s forthcoming album and declared, with typical bluntness: “There’s no hit single here, and this album isn’t getting released without one!” Archie booked a session for Toni @ London's Abbey Road Studios and recruited musicians he regarded as heavyweights: The Mack Daddys, Roscoe Shirley + Judi “Madame Axe” Parisella.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Also in the mix was Cumberland Gap, a talented brother-and-sister Americana duo who’d recently auditioned for him. From his wife, he’d learned that the best way to test a new act’s mettle was to “throw them in at the deep end!” But after years of backing Country music stars in Branson, Missouri, Kirby + Chelsea Cumberland were seasoned performers, ready for anything!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Archie arrived in the UK armed with a song that everybody agreed was a potential smash: “Pop Life”, a 1985 Top Ten hit co-written by Prince. That is, everybody but Rod Mack! "That's not the kind of song an artist can interpret," he warned. "If Toni doesn't sing it like Prince did, people will complain; and if she does sing it the same way, radio might bypass it. Why play a carbon copy?" He suggested that they also track “Throw Down A Line”, a Christian Rock tune first recorded decades earlier by Cliff Richard.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Archie was more than familiar with the song: The Archies had cut an unreleased studio version in 2010, and there was a live version on The Mack Daddys' EP from the same year. Dude wasn't convinced that it was a good fit for Toni, even after writing a Reggae arrangement that both she + Rod loved; but he told Ralfi Chingas to lay down a track anyway.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>When "Ms. Double-T-Soul" added an insolent, swaggering vocal interpretation, the track caught fire! Long before hearing playbacks for the two selections, there was consensus among the studio crew: "Throw Down A Line" was going straight to Number One! </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>And sure enough, it did. What’s more, Toni Topaz </i>débuted <i>as both a chart-topping single </i>and <i>album artist; Veronica could not have been more pleased when THE TONI TOPAZ ALBUM matched the single’s success! And Cumberland Gap, who were label-credited as accompanists, were next in line for star treatment. Contracts were being drawn up for the duo to sign.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Unfortunately, when Jason Blossom purchased the label in December 2014, he tore up the paperwork! Dude had no interest in recording anything but urban music. Their contract offer withdrawn, Kirby + Chelsea were obliged to seek a record deal elsewhere. Archie had taken them under his wing, and he felt as betrayed as they did!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52518955227/in/dateposted/" style="font-size: medium;" title="KEVIN KELLER HUSH EP DESIGN"><img alt="KEVIN KELLER HUSH EP DESIGN" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52518955227_d18882bcdf.jpg" width="500" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">VERONICA, KEVIN KELLER, JUGHEAD +</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BREE SPELLMAN TRACK PERCUSSION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">@ THE RECORDING SESSION FOR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">KELLY'S 2014 EP <i>HUSH.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FALCON RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">OVERDUB SESSION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"HUSH"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AUGUST 9 - 15, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BEL CANTO STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">LONDON UK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">JULY 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">THE CONGA ROOM,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">MÉXICO CITY, MÉXICO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS (OVERDUB)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Hush EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">GET IT ON! (OVERDUB) - Hush EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">HUSH (OVERDUB) - Hush EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">I LOST MY LOVE LAST NIGHT </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- single, SHAD ROWE*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Paul Anka)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">KEVIN KELLER</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;">w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/GAYME + SABRINA</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/ROD MACK</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>*Arranger: KEVIN KELLER</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>*CHUCK CLAYTON, ALAN MAYBERRY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Producer/*Producer:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ROD MACK</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Engineer:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>TAFFY MIDDLETON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sometimes, Veronica could be obsessive about</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>a forthcoming release. Listening back over and</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>over to Kevin Keller's forthcoming EP, she</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>found that it lacked something - and her own</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>guitar solos were what she found unsatisfactory!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Instead of re-cutting them, she sent the master</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to London for Rod Mack to overdub. Sure </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>enough, he delivered what she wanted! Kevin</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Keller brought the EP master to Rod in person, </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and </i><i>on the second day of the remix sessions, he </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>cut a Paul Anka ballad from the 1950s. Kelly</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>played his own accompaniment on a grand piano,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>with Rod overdubbing acoustic guitar later on.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Radically different from his HUSH recordings, "I</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Lost My Love Last Night" stood little chance of </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>getting Roni's approval for release; but,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>surprisingly, Jason </i><i>Blossom later marketed it</i><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>under the bogus name </i><i>"Shad Rowe." In 2017,</i><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>he spread rumors </i><i>that this </i><i>Shad person was Kelly's </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>younger brother! Jason bagged a Top Twenty</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Adult Contemporary single for his </i><i>trouble.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Salem da Katt: Rumor has it that Kevin Keller + Rod Mack started knockin' boots during the 2009 sessions for Josie James's solo single. T'ain't true! These 2014 dates marked the occasion when Roderick first tapped that fine Scottish-German ass! For a minute, "Kellymack" was a thing but that didn't mean Kelly wasn't still bouncin' the bedsprings with Josie! It did mean he was estranged from his husband, Dr. Clay Walker. Rod had nothing to do with them separating, though.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Clay kicked Kelly to the curb after tabloids revealed that dude had impregnated two (female) groupies! That probably explains why dude would want to cut a heartbreak piano ballad. So their marriage degenerated into a bubbling hot mess, but fortunately, everything worked out over time. Kelly got back together with Clay; Rod hooked up with Tony Briseño; and Josie got cozy in a long-term "triad" relationship with two women. Not with who you think, though! Ever since </i><i>her failed romance with Alan Mayberry, "don't shit where you eat" was a maxim that babe followed religiously! </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>SABRINA: FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2014, THE ARCHIES RECORDED ALL BUT ONE SONG MEANT FOR AN ALBUM CALLED <i>ABBA-NORMALITY.</i> TRACKED IN BERLIN, GERMANY, IT WAS VERONICA’S DREAM PROJECT, POSTPONED FROM DECEMBER OF 2008. BJÖRN ULVAEUS OF ABBA HAD CONTACTED NICHOLAS FREUND, PROPOSING THAT KEVIN KELLER CUT HEAVY METAL VERSIONS OF HIS SONGS. RONI WAS QUICK TO GET INVOLVED, AND SHE CONVINCED </span><span>BJÖRN</span><span> TO LET THE ARCHIES REALIZE HIS CONCEPT, WITH KELLY AS A SPECIAL GUEST VOCALIST.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52484310535/in/photostream/" title="ARCHIE + FALCON TOGETHER"><img alt="ARCHIE + FALCON TOGETHER" height="371" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52484310535_784c3089ea.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FORMERLY OWNED BY TONY BRISEÑO, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FALCON RECORDS WAS THE LAST </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RECORD COMPANY TO JOIN THE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIE LABEL GROUP.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SCHALLPLATTEN POLAR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ABBA-NORMALITY"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EINE SUGARTOWN-PRODUKTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">verknüpft mit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">POLAR MUSIC</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">HANSA STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BERLIN, GERMANY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">TAKE A CHANCE ON ME </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DANCING QUEEN - ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SOS - ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/GARTH BROOKS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/TRISHA YEARWOOD</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/JOHN LEGEND</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND, THE ARCHIES</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: MAD MAX</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>With help from four celebrity sidemen, The Archies </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>began recording a Heavy Metal-flavored tribute to ABBA. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Eccentric "Mad Max" Manischevitz will later become one of </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Europe's most famous and successful record producers. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>He’ll claim to have produced these album sessions! </i><i>Archie </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>+ Veronica's </i><i>infuriated responses to Max's claims are best </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>left unquoted.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52385727371/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE VIXENS SINGLE PROMO"><img alt="THE VIXENS SINGLE PROMO" height="389" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52385727371_0aee44f7d8.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BY 2014, THE VIXENS WERE READY TO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">STEP OUT FROM BEHIND THEIR DEMO,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BACKGROUND AND JINGLE SINGER</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">MICROPHONES.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SEPTEMBER 20, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTAL)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BEL CANTO STUDIOS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">LONDON, UK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">OCTOBER, 2013</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME TONIGHT!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- cancelled single A-side</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Vanda, Young)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">STATE OF SHOCK - single B-side*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Hansen, Jackson)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE VIXENS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE MACK DADDYS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>*THE ARCHIES w/ROD MACK</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Producer: ROD MACK</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Engineer: TAFFY MIDDLETON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Executive Producer:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: When ARCHIE @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL came out in January of 2014, Rod Mack found that he'd been left out of the production credits. Dude was royally pissed, and justifiably so! But in the fall, Archie + Veronica made amends: That September, they named Rod A&R Chief of Archie Records.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>The Mack Daddys amicably parted company with their namesake; Madame Axe renamed them The Saboteurs and took them out with her on the road. Their last job under their old name was overdubbing raw Heavy Metal chords onto The Vixens’ forthcoming single. Almost a year had passed since they cut it; Rod felt that the single needed updating, and he supervised a remix.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52312776094/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BookScanCenter (4)"><img alt="BookScanCenter (4)" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52312776094_813b702b5e.jpg" width="375" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">"STATE OF SHOCK" FEATURING GUEST</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">VOCALS BY ROD MACK WAS THE LAST</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">HIT SINGLE THAT THE ARCHIES</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RELEASED PRIOR TO THE DEMISE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">OF ARCHIE RECORDS.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span><i>@ Veronica's behest, he also remixed a duet she'd sung with him. “State Of Shock” had been captured live in Paris, during The Archies’ March 2010 gig @ The Moulin Rouge. Their performance had hit potential, and Roni knew it before the final note was played; but timing is always an important factor in the Pop market. </i></span><i>For four years, Roni bided her time: Now, finally, the iron was hot enough to strike! She had Rod's single mix rush-released in South America where it proceeded to burn up the charts and pack dance floors!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>The revamped Vixens single was scheduled for release in January of 2015. Simultaneously, the ladies were booked to cut an LP @ Abbey Road. Jason Blossom opted to cancel both the single and the album sessions, effectively ending The Vixens’ recording career! Although they subsequently cut sides for other labels, those would also go unissued. Their only recorded work was destined to be FEEL LIKE DANCING, an Archies Fan Club EP that, ironically, was issued just prior to this remix session.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">SCHALLPLATTEN POLAR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ABBA-NORMALITY"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">EINE PRODUKTION-SUGARTOWN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">verknüpft mit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">POLAR MUSIC</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">OCTOBER 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">HANSA STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">BERLIN, GERMANY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HONEY, HONEY - ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MONEY, MONEY, MONEY </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">VOULEZ-VOUS - ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/YO-YO MA</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/SHEILA E</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND, THE ARCHIES</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: MAD MAX</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The virtuosity of Yo-Yo Ma + Shelia E took the edge off of</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>tracking sessions that were fraught with strong emotions.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The lyrics of "Knowing Me, Knowing You", sung as a duet</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>by Betty + Juggy Jones, lay bare the tensions in their</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>troubled marriage. Nevertheless, their recording is</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>destined to become a smash hit in the 22nd century,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> and </i><i>it will win The Archies a posthumous </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Grammy award.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/25150713045/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES PROMO 1"><img alt="SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES PROMO 1" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1501/25150713045_0c5a4fe8c7.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>THE SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES</i> IS THE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ONLY ARCHIES FAN CLUB ALBUM</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THAT RATED A GENERAL </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">MARKET RELEASE.</span></div></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">SCHALLPLATTEN POLAR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ABBA-NORMALITY"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">EINE PRODUKTION-SUGARTOWN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">verknüpft mit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">POLAR MUSIC</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">NOVEMBER 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">HANSA STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">BERLIN, GERMANY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WATERLOO - ABBA-Normality LP*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GIMME! GIMME! GIMME! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- ABBA-Normality LP**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">RING RING - ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Anderson, Andersson, Cody, Sedaka, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>*w/TONI TOPAZ</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>**w/PAUL SABU</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND, THE ARCHIES</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: MAD MAX</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Archies finally tracked a version of “Does </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Your Mother Know?”, which had been in their stage </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>repertoire since the 1990s. Heavy Metal icon Paul</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sabu contributed a blistering guitar solo! Their version </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>of "Waterloo," featuring a guest lead vocal by Toni </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Topaz, will become a posthumous hit in the 22nd century.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>It will also win Grammy's Song of the Year for 2114</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>(obviously, the Recording Academy's qualifying </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>rules will have changed by then)!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34885469016/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE ON BROADWAY"><img alt="ARCHIE ON BROADWAY" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4276/34885469016_9f6f9cf3d8.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SINGER, DANCER, CHOREOGRAPHER,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR AND</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE AMAZING TONI TOPAZ!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SCHALLPLATTEN POLAR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ABBA-NORMALITY"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EINE PRODUKTION-SUGARTOWN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">verknüpft mit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">POLAR MUSIC</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">DECEMBER 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">HANSA STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BERLIN, GERMANY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THE NAME OF THE GAME </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MAMMA MIA - ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FERNÀNDO - ABBA-Normality LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Andersson, Ulvaeus)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">incomplete</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/WYNTON MARSALIS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND, THE ARCHIES</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: MAD MAX</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Legendary Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis fulfilled</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>a promise to Jughead, that one day he would</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>blow his exquisite horn @ an Archies record date!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"The Name Of The Game" will be a third posthumous</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>hit in the 22nd century; Betty Jones sang lead. The </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>incomplete song listed is an instrumental track for </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"So Long," an early ABBA hit. It was slated to be the </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>next Archies single, but objections from the </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ABBA organization resulted in a scrapped </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>recording.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36542438790/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SO LONG"><img alt="SO LONG" height="388" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4393/36542438790_34ec9d4395.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">"SO LONG" WAS TO BE THE FIRST </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SINGLE FROM THE ARCHIES' HEAVY </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">METAL TRIBUTE TO ABBA,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BUT THEIR RECORDING OF IT</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WAS NEVER COMPLETED.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">DECEMBER 18 - 20, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">*(VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, 2014</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">HANSA STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">BERLIN, GERMANY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE en Español</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Archie Around The World CD</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Cahn, Smith, Van Heusen)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WATERLOO en Español </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Archie Around The World CD*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FERNÀNDO en Español </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Archie Around The World CD*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU en Español</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Archie Around The World CD*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND, THE ARCHIES</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producer/Sound Engineer: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>MAD MAX</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Trev Smith took the lead on "Millie," his own Spanish</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>translation of a song The Archies performed in a </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>2014 German TV special. A Spanish lead vocal by </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Veronica replaced Toni Topaz's lead from The Archies' </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>English-language version of "Waterloo". These recordings </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>were intended for a South-American EP that never </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>got pressed.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span>SABRINA: VERONICA'S DREAM OF RECORDING AND RELEASING </span><span>A TRIBUTE TO ABBA WAS COMING TRUE! BUT UNFORTUNATELY, SHE WAS IN FOR A VERY RUDE AWAKENING. </span><span>BJÖRN</span><span> ULVAEUS REGRETTED BRINGING THE ARCHIES INTO WHAT HE'D ORIGINALLY ENVISIONED </span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">AS A KEVIN KELLER SOLO PROJECT. HE FOUND FAULT WITH NEARLY EVERYTHING THEY SUNG AND PLAYED! </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THE BERLIN ALBUM SESSIONS WERE A DEMORALIZING EXPERIENCE </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span>FOR BOTH </span><span>RONI + ARCHIE, AND THEY SUFFERED A FINAL INDIGNITY WHEN </span></span></span><span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span>BJÖRN</span><span> SUED TO KEEP </span></span><i style="color: #d9ead3;">ABBA-</i></span><i style="color: #d9ead3;">NORMALITY </i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">OFF THE MARKET!</span></span></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">THEN MATTERS TOOK ANOTHER TURN FOR THE WORSE: ON DECEMBER 21st, THE ANDREWS ALONG WITH THEIR PARTNERS ALAN MAYBERRY + NICHOLAS FREUND OFFICIALLY SOLD SUGARTOWN PRODUCTIONS, THE PARENT COMPANY OF ARCHIE RECORDS TO REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL. THE PAPERWORK WAS FINALIZED ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, EXACTLY FOURTEEN YEARS SINCE THEY FOUNDED THE LABEL. BILLIONAIRE JASON BLOSSOM BECAME ARCHIE'S NEW CEO, AND AS MY DEAR FRIEND SALEM DA KATT WOULD SAY, <i>THE SHIT HIT THE FAN!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ARCHIES WERE INFORMED OF THE SALE AFTER THE FACT. ANGERED BY ARCH + RONI'S SECRECY AND HORRIFIED BY JASON'S SLASH-AND-BURN BUSINESS PRACTICES, THEY REFUSED TO RECORD FOR HIM! BOTH BETTY + KELLY CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF HIS SEXUAL HARASSMENT. TREVOR SMITH DECLARED JASON A RACIST, AND JUGHEAD AGREED: "HE'S THE ONLY ANTI-SEMETIC JEW I EVER MET!" TECHNICALLY, THIS REVOLT AGAINST NEW OWNERSHIP PUT THE GROUP IN BREACH OF CONTRACT; THEY STILL OWED THE ARCHIE LABEL FIVE NEW ALBUMS!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52724633008/in/photostream/" title="ARCHIES A GO GO BOOK BACK COVER"><img alt="ARCHIES A GO GO BOOK BACK COVER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52724633008_7a25c7a8b1.jpg" width="371" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PHOTOS OF VERONICA, ROD MACK + BETTY</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JONES AS THEY APPEARED ON THE BACK </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">COVER OF THE </span></span><i style="color: #fce5cd;">ARCHIES À GO-GO</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">INSERT BOOKLET.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;">THEY'D LATER ARGUE THAT THEIR LEGAL AGREEMENT WAS WITH ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTIONS, NOT WITH SUGARTOWN PRODUCTIONS OR REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL. VERONICA'S COUSIN, ATTORNEY MARCI LODGE-KATZENBAUM WARNED THEM THAT SUCH AN ARGUMENT WOULDN'T HOLD UP IN COURT, BUT A MAJORITY OF BAND MEMBERS STILL VOTED TO GO ON HIATUS. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;">JUST AS HAPPENED BACK IN 2006, A DEEP RIFT SPLIT THE ARCHIES APART, AND THIS ONE </span><span style="font-size: medium;">TOOK MUCH LONGER TO HEAL. THEIR FINAL PERFORMANCE FOR TWELVE YEARS TOOK PLACE @ RIVERDALE'S AWESOME VENUE; ANDY YOSHIDA FLEW IN FROM HOLLYWOOD TO SIT IN WITH THEM. THE LAST SONG THEY SANG TOGETHER @ THAT SHOW WAS "THE SUN AIN'T GONNA SHINE ANYMORE." ARCHIE LATER TOLD ME: "IT FELT LIKE THE SUN REALLY <i>WOULD </i>STOP SHINING! WE PUT ON A GOOD SHOW, BUT I FELT TERRIBLE; NOBODY WAS ON SPEAKING TERMS."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">HE + VERONICA GAVE UP OWNERSHIP OF THEIR VALUABLE MASTER TAPES, BUT GAINED THE FUNDS TO OPEN THEIR OWN MUSIC SCHOOL. RIVERDALE MUSIC ACADEMY WOULD EARN A REPUTATION AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP PERFORMING ARTS CONSERVATORIES! IN LATER YEARS, RONI WILL BE QUOTED AS SAYING: “ARCHIE + I BELIEVE THAT MUSIC IS A GIFT THAT SHOULD KEEP ON GIVING. SELLING OUR RECORD COMPANY IS WHAT MADE OUR GIFT OF MUSIC POSSIBLE.”</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52456742663/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="CHUTZPAH PROMO"><img alt="CHUTZPAH PROMO" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52456742663_65f7a358fb.jpg" width="374" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>CHUTZPAH!</i> WAS THE FIRST POST-ARCHIE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RECORDS LABEL RETROSPECTIVE. INFAMOUS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FOR CONTAINING <i>NO TRACKS </i>BY THE ARCHIES,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"> IT WAS RELEASED IN FRANCE DURING THE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SUMMER OF 2017.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">LEGAL COMPLICATIONS WILL KEEP THE ARCHIES’ <i>ABBA-NORMALITY </i>ALBUM IN LIMBO FOR AN ENTIRE CENTURY! IT WAS SQUARELY TARGETED @ EUROPEAN FANS, SIGNALLING HOW THE BAND’S MARKETING FOCUS WOULD HAVE SHIFTED HAD THEY CONTINUED TO RECORD. WITH OR WITHOUT ITS FLAGSHIP ACT, NEW A + R CHIEF ROD MACK WAS READY TO CHART A NEW COURSE FOR THE SUGARTOWN EXPRESS; BUT THE TRAIN’S FINAL STOP WAS MUCH CLOSER THAN HE KNEW!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2015.html?zx=7ddcb88a7bb445f5" target="_blank">YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY ENDS HERE:</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24591032687/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="TONI GOLD"><img alt="TONI GOLD" height="388" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4726/24591032687_f7ed13f505.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;">"EVERYBODY"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>THE STAFF OF ARCHIE RECORDS LEARNS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>ITS COLLECTIVE FATE IN THE YEAR</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><i>2 0 1 5 !</i></span></div></b></span>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-40642027076537313122023-03-19T09:30:00.026-04:002024-02-16T18:51:27.392-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2013<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/23859289644/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="JUMP BACK HONEY LP DESIGN"><img alt="JUMP BACK HONEY LP DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1691/23859289644_7714c7899e.jpg" width="382" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>POP CULTURE CANTINA</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Presents</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A Journey Through</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE GREAT AMERICAN </b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ROCK ‘N’ ROLL </b></span><b style="color: #cfe2f3;">SONG BOOK</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Salem da Katt: Sabrina + I have been accused of using witchcraft to make Archie Records a success! T'AIN'T TRUE!!! Bree is too ethical to do things like that, and as for me, I’m nobody’s do-gooder. Everybody knows that The Archies kept that label afloat; but compared to most acts, they got very little radio airplay in the early 2000s. So it does make sense to wonder about how they generated such healthy sales!</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">True, airplay's a big part of how success is measured in the music business; but The Archies were one of the bands that proved it isn't mandatory. They embraced digital downloading from the start, selling their music exclusively in that format or on vinyl (whose resurgence Archie + Roni anticipated). They also had their mob-connected manager Big Nipsy Freund, tirelessly booking them for TV shows, podcasts, nightclub appearances and music festivals all over the world. Meanwhile, a team led by publicist Heather "Squeak" McGillicuddy maintained a high social media profile for them, and clever promotional efforts like the Pop-Art-Chie hologram tour generated lots of good publicity. </span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>South of the border, The Archies are remembered for co-starring in a blockbuster 2005 </i>telenovela,<i>"La Diosa del Aire." Between 2006 and 2013, </i></span></b><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">they made </span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>dozens of </i>telenovela <i>cameo appearances. Among the most memorable were adaptations of classic Mexican film dramas like "Janitzio", "Señora Tentación" "Victimas del Pecado" and "Mulata". This </i></span></b></span><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">helped solidify what became a massive Latino fan base! In addition, The Archies</span></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">guest-starred on some popular soap operas in The Philippines, </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">including "Pangako Sa'Yo." </span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">They also had key music industry friends: For instance, Dolly Midnight, a popular deejay @ Radio Luxemburg in Europe; Heavy Herbie, the Australasian Sensation; Disco Vinny of Radio Jamaica; and Professor Bubblegum, host of the Echo Valley podcast. The Prof commanded a huge cult following! In addition, The Archies were supported by international TV hosts like Cristina Saralegui, Javier Romero, Boy William + Belinda Lee; and I can’t count how many times they appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning, America” over the years!</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Archie Records music videos got lots of exposure, because they were crafted by award-winning directors like Raj Patel and often choreographed by Toni Topaz. That fierce little lady was trained by Shabba-Doo Quiñones of The Lockers, and her grooves were always on point! Even though Hip-Hop wasn't the kind of music Archie marketed, you could count on Toni and her dancers to put cutting-edge West Coast moves on display every single time. </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The videos for "Soul Deep Ska" and "Glitter And Gold" in particular influenced a lot of choreographers. </span></i></b></span></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">While they were married, Jughead + Betty owned a thriving North-American restaurant chain. Not only was new Archies music played regularly in their diners, you never knew when The Archies themselves would drop by for an impromptu performance! That happened many times. What's more, the band's regular performances @ Riverdale's Awesome Venue drew shitloads of fans from hundreds of miles away! </span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52456480809/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES @ JUGHEAD'S"><img alt="ARCHIES @ JUGHEAD'S" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52456480809_f87aa70a7b.jpg" width="500" /></a></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></b></div><div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES, MAKING ONE OF MANY</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SURPRISE APPEARANCES @ A</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JUGHEAD'S DINER FRANCHISE.</span></b></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i> </i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b><i>An edge that the label had over its competitors was how it treated digital singles as if they were vinyl. Where other companies would release one track @ a time, Archie always dropped a pair: Just like old-fashioned pressings, there'd be an "A" side and a "B" side! And a significant number of those bonus songs became popular in their own right. Also, in 2010 the Archie Records website started selling bundles of hit singles pressed on vinyl; they were for sale @ selected venues in Europe and Asia, too. Once vinyl started getting popular again, those bundles did a surprisingly brisk business! </i></b></span></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The biggest promotional vehicle for The Archies just may have been the cartoon series based on them; new episodes ran during and immediately after they recorded for Kirshner Records. That hit TV series went into syndication, and it was still airing while Archie Records was active. Big Nipsy arranged for the band’s newer music to be edited into those shows! </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">What's more, Archie’s project coordinator Mike Pellerito supervised the production of two Archie comic books, PEP and LAUGH, that almost always sold out.</span></i></b></span></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>But, I can’t stress this enough: Archie label product was FIRE! Written, arranged, performed, pressed and packaged according to the highest standards. Word-of-mouth is still one of the best promotional tools around, and when you've got music that's as addictive as what Archie Records produced . . . </i>forget about it! <i> Once people were exposed to those boss grooves, they had to have more, more, more!</i></span></b></div><div><b><br /><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></b></div><div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>THE THIRTEENTH YEAR: 2013</i></span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><b>"THE CHICKEN + THE HAWK"</b></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY OF 2013, JUGHEAD, KEVIN KELLER, TONI TOPAZ, RALFI CHINGAS, JONNIEMAE + ARCHIE CUT THE CAST ALBUM FOR <i>SOUL + INSPIRATION.</i> THE LP WAS TRACKED IN LONDON, WHERE THE MUSICAL WAS PLAYING TO SELLOUT CROWDS. </span></b></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b>I'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY IT TOOK SO LONG FOR A MUSICAL ABOUT THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS TO REACH THE STAGE! BILL MEDLEY + THE LATE BOBBY HATFIELD HAD A CLASSIC SHOW BUSINESS STORY, AND THEIR HITS WERE WRITTEN BY THE CREAM OF AMERICAN SOUL AND POP COMPOSERS: DENNIS LAMBERT + BRIAN POTTER, GERRY GOFFIN + CAROLE KING, AND OF COURSE, MANN + WEIL. BILL WAS ALSO A GREAT SONGWRITER, PENNING FANTASTIC TUNES LIKE "LITTLE LATIN LUPE LU" AND "WHO AM I?" (WHICH WILL SCORE A POSTHUMOUS PLATINUM SINGLE FOR THE ARCHIES.) </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b>AS IF THAT WEREN'T INCENTIVE ENOUGH, THE CAST OF CHARACTERS INCLUDES TWO POP CULTURE ICONS: PHIL SPECTOR AND HIS GREATEST DISCOVERY, DARLENE LOVE! YOU'D THINK PRODUCERS WOULD'VE BEEN IN FIERCE COMPETITION TO BE THE FIRST TO MOUNT A RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS SHOW. </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b>I GUESS IT JUST WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN UNTIL THE RIGHT CREATIVE TEAM GOT TOGETHER! THAT WAS DEFINITELY MEDLEY, MANN + WEIL; AND JUGGY + KELLY COULDN'T HAVE BEEN MORE PERFECT AS VEHICLES FOR THEIR VISION. THE ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING OF <i>SOUL + INSPIRATION </i>IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE JUKEBOX MUSICAL GENRE AT ITS FINEST!</b></span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/26788054948/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SOUL + INSPIRATION SLEEVE DESIGN"><img alt="SOUL + INSPIRATION SLEEVE DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4755/26788054948_ea715395ef.jpg" width="406" /></a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE BIOGRAPHICAL MUSICAL </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>SOUL + INSPIRATION</i> WAS THE </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SENSATION OF LONDON'S WEST</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">END THEATRE DISTRICT IN 2013!</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CAST ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"SOUL + INSPIRATION"</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A MANN/WEIL/MEDLEY PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">in association with</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">RALFI CHINGAS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JANUARY 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BEL CANTO STUDIOS,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">LONDON, ENGLAND</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">OVERTURE (instrumental)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">HE</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BUCKY HEARD,</span></b><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"> PARAMOURS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">+ BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Mullin, Richards)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">THERE SHE GOES </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(THE PARAMOURS featuring BILL MEDLEY)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Bill Medley)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">GIVE IT TO THE PEOPLE </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BILL MEDLEY, PARAMOURS + BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Lambert, Potter)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">THE TIME OF MY LIFE </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BILL MEDLEY, DARLENE LOVE, PARAMOURS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">+ BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(DiNicola, Markowitz, Previte)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">BROWN-EYED WOMAN </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BILL MEDLEY, DARLENE LOVE + BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Mann, Weil)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">MAKE THE WOMAN LOVE ME </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BILL MEDLEY + PARAMOURS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Mann, Weil)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">LORD, IF YOU'RE A WOMAN </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(DARLENE LOVE + BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Mann, Weil)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">SEE THAT BOY</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(TONI TOPAZ + BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Mann, Weil)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">GOTTA TELL YOU HOW I FEEL! </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BILL MEDLEY + BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Bill Medley)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">GEORGIA ON MY MIND </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BILL MEDLEY, PARAMOURS + BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Carmichael, Gorrell)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">SHE'S MINE, ALL MINE </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BOBBY HATFIELD)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Bobby Hatfield)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">A MAN WITHOUT A DREAM </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BOBBY HATFIELD)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Goffin, King)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS</span></b><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Willie Dixon)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">UNCHAINED MELODY </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BOBBY HATFIELD + PARAMOURS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(North, Zaret)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><b>I CAN'T MAKE IT ALONE</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><b>(RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><b>(Goffin, King)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><b>- Soul + Inspiration cast album</b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/TONI TOPAZ + TREVOR ANSARI</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/COCHINADA BROTHERS</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE VIXENS</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>w/MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></div><div><b><i>w/POP TATE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Vocal Arranger: KEVIN KELLER</i></b></div><div><b><i>Arrangers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS, BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></div><div><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producer: </i></b><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, LAKSHMI SHUTTLESWORTH</i></b></div><div><b><i>These cast album recordings for SOUL + INSPIRATION, </i></b></div><div><b><i>the West End hit starring Jughead + Kevin Keller were the </i></b></div><div><b><i>most expensive studio dates Archie Records ever mounted! </i></b></div><div><b><i>"Stand By" did not appear on the cast album; it was </i></b><b><i>featured </i></b></div><div><b><i>on a promotional EP. The </i></b><b><i>Cochinada Brothers are nephews of trumpet </i></b></div><div><b><i>virtuoso Rey Cochino. </i></b><b><i>Nurmeen “Mimi” Saroyan + Juggy's sister Jelli Jones-</i></b></div><div><b><i>Torres were </i></b><b><i>The Vixens in studio, but neither one of them appeared on stage. </i></b></div><div><b><i>The London production of SOUL featured a rotating pair of </i>femme </b><b><i>singers. </i></b></div><div><b><i>However, whether on stage or in the studio, Toni Topaz always provided </i></b></div><div><b><i>the third voice in that group.</i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b> </b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51313835673/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="DISCOS DE ORO"><img alt="DISCOS DE ORO" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51313835673_85ea1d8a3c.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">DISCOS FUENTES MARKETED MANY</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"> ARCHIES SONGS THAT DIFFERED FROM</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">NORTH AMERICAN RELEASES. SOME</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIES HITS WERE UNIQUE TO </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SOUTH AMERICA.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: BY THE END OF THE YEAR, PLANS HAD BEEN FINALIZED TO MOVE THE SHOW TO BROADWAY, BUT WOULD YOU BELIEVE . . . <i>WITHOUT </i>KELLY + JUGGY? A NEW PRODUCTION TEAM FIRED THEM AND RECAST THE LEAD ROLES WITH HOLLYWOOD STARS. "WE NEED MARQUEE NAMES," THEY INSISTED, EVEN THOUGH KEVIN KELLER HAD BECOME A HUGE CELEBRITY! "THOSE SONS-OF-BITCHES TOLD ME I WAS TOO OLD," KELLY FUMED, "AND THAT I LACKED SOMETHING CALLED 'HIP-HOP STREET CRED.' <i>WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?</i> WE WEREN'T DOING A RAP MUSICAL!" JUGGY TOLD ME: "BILL MEDLEY WAS AGAINST RECASTING OUR PARTS, BUT HE'D BARGAINED AWAY HIS POWER." THE SHOW SUBSEQUENTLY TANKED, BUT THE CAST ALBUM WAS A DOUBLE-PLATINUM SMASH FOR ARCHIE RECORDS! THOSE NEW PRODUCERS WOUND UP WITH EGG ON THEIR FACES AND EMPTY POCKETS.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CAST ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"SOUL + INSPIRATION"</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A MANN/WEIL/MEDLEY PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">in association with</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">RALFI CHINGAS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FEBRUARY 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">LONDON, ENGLAND</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">LITTLE LATIN LUPE LU </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Bill Medley)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">MEDLEY: </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>JUSTINE/FANNIE MAE/</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>CRAZY LITTLE MAMA</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS)</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(Harris, Terry)/(Brown, Lewis, Robinson)/</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(Abner/Moore)</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">I STILL LOVE YOU</span></b></div><div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS + DARLENE LOVE)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Nino Tempo)</span></b></div></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">MEDLEY:</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>HUNG ON YOU/ON THIS SIDE OF GOODBYE</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS , PARAMOURS</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>+ BLOSSOMS)</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(Goffin, King, Spector)/(Goffin, King)</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">WOMAN, MAN NEEDS YA! </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BOBBY HATFIELD, JIMMY WALKER </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">+ BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Dick Monda)</span></b></div><div><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><b>- Soul + Inspiration cast album</b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">MELANCHOLY MUSIC MAN</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS </span></b><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">+ BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Bonner, Gordon)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">DREAM ON</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(DARLENE LOVE + THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Lambert, Potter)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">MEDLEY:</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>I CAN'T MAKE IT ALONE (REPRISE)/</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>GO AHEAD AND CRY</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(BILL MEDLEY, PARAMOURS</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>+ BLOSSOMS)</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(Goffin, King)/(Bill Medley)</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">ROCK + ROLL HEAVEN</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(BILL MEDLEY, DARLENE LOVE, PARAMOURS, </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">+ BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(O'Day, Stevenson)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">MEDLEY:</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN'/</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>JUST ONCE IN MY LIFE</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(BILL MEDLEY, BUCKY HEARD,</i></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><b><i>PARAMOURS + BLOSSOMS)</i></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(Mann, Spector, Weil)/(Goffin, King)</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">SOUL AND INSPIRATION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">PARAMOURS + BLOSSOMS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Mann, Weil) </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Archie Sings Barry, Mann + Weil*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">FINALE:</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>BRING YOUR LOVE TO ME/DREAM ON</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS, JIMMY WALKER, </i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>DARLENE LOVE, BUCKY HEARD, </i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>PARAMOURS + BLOSSOMS)</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><i>(Hatfield, Medley/Lambert, Potter)</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">Soul + Inspiration cast album</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/TONI TOPAZ, RALFI CHINGAS</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>+ TREVOR ANSARI</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/COCHINADA BROTHERS</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE VIXENS</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>w/MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></div><div><b><i>w/REY COCHINO</i></b></div><div><b><i>Vocal Arranger: KEVIN KELLER</i></b></div><div><b><i>Arrangers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS, BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></div><div><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producers: RALFI CHINGAS, *JOHNNIEMAE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, THORNE TEWKSBURY</i></b></div><div><b><i>On the cast album, a single version of “Soul + Inspiration”</i></b></div><div><b><i>that Blue-Eyed Soul recorded in 2011 will substitute </i></b></div><div><b><i>for the new version cut @ Abbey Road. These duet</i></b></div><div><b><i>sessions are justifiably famous! Juggy + Kelly</i></b></div><div><b><i>laid down some of the finest Rock duet performances</i></b></div><div><b><i>ever recorded; Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John,</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sir Tom Jones, Rick Astley, Alison Moyet, Carlos +</i></b></div><div><b><i>Cindy Santana, Laverne Cox + JK Rowling were among</i></b></div><div><b><i>a host of celebrities observing from the sound</i></b></div><div><b><i>booth @ various times. The SOUL + INSPIRATION cast</i></b></div><div><b><i>album sold double-platinum, even while the new</i></b></div><div><b><i>Broadway production went down in history as</i></b></div><div><b><i>one of the biggest bombs on record!</i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53365646440/in/dateposted/" title="ROD MACK SINGS BOB CREWE"><img alt="ROD MACK SINGS BOB CREWE" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53365646440_dd8ccc0609.jpg" width="500" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>IN THE YEAR 2033, ROD MACK WILL RECORD HIS LAST SOLO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ALBUM. THOUGH UNSUCCESSFUL, IT WILL LAUNCH A</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FRUITFUL PRODUCTION PARTNERSHIP WITH DILTON</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>DOILEY BRISEÑO. THEIR CREATIVE COLLABORATION </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;"><b>EVOLVES INTO A PERFECT </b></span><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;">BLEND OF </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">BUSINESS, MUSIC AND LOVE!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">EP SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"SOUL + INSPIRATION"</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">MARCH 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">FALCON STUDIOS,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">EL PASO, TEXAS</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I STILL LOVE YOU - Soul + Inspiration EP*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Nino Tempo)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GO AHEAD AND CRY - Soul + Inspiration EP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Bill Medley)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BRING YOUR LOVE TO ME - Soul + Inspiration EP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Hatfield, Medley)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">STAND BY - Soul + Inspiration EP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Bill Medley)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>w/MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></div><div><b><i>*w/TONI TOPAZ</i></b></div><div><b><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></b></div><div><b><i>KEVIN KELLER</i></b></div><div><b><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></div><div><b><i>Conductor: </i></b></div><div><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producer: JONNIEMAE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: HUSSEIN HABAKKUK</i></b></div><div><b><i>@ long last, Archie convinced Blue-Eyed Soul to </i></b></div><div><b><i>sign with his label! It happened during the London</i></b></div><div><b><i>cast album sessions. Unfortunately, it ended up being</i></b></div><div><b><i> a </i></b><b><i>symbolic coup: </i></b><b><i>Repeated </i></b><b><i>scheduling conflicts </i></b></div><div><b><i>prevented Juggy + Kelly from tracking any more</i></b></div><div><b><i>duet masters! This promotional EP was the first </i></b></div><div><b><i>logged production </i></b><b><i>for Ralfi Chingas associate </i></b></div><div><b><i>Jonniemae Trouten, as </i></b><b><i>well as the only one </i></b></div><div><b><i>that this musically gifted Transwoman did </i></b></div><div><b><i>for Archie </i></b><b><i>Records.</i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">SABRINA: SOMETIMES I'M MISTAKENLY CREDITED WITH </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">WRITING ORCHESTRATIONS FOR THE MUSICAL <i>SOUL + INSPIRATION. </i> BELIEVE ME, I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM! THAT WAS ALL ARCHIE'S WORK, AND HE DID A FABULOUS JOB. MY ONLY INVOLVEMENT </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">WITH THAT PROJECT WAS HELPING JONNIEMAE PRODUCE </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">RADIO-FRIENDLY VERSIONS OF SOME OF THE SONGS. </span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">WE CUT THEM @ TONY BRISEÑO'S STUDIO IN EL PASO, WHERE I HAD THE PLEASURE OF ARRANGING FOR EL MARIACHI LOWRIDER AND WORKING WITH JUGHEAD AGAIN. HE MOSTLY PLAYED BASS @ THOSE SESSIONS, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">AND I ACTUALLY PLAYED DRUMS A COUPLE OF TIMES! THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN TOO OFTEN. ALTHOUGH I'M A DECENT DRUMMER, I'M DEFINITELY NOT IN JUGGY'S LEAGUE; BUT WITH TONY COACHING ME, I LAID DOWN SOME SOLID BEATS! THAT'S ME YOU HEAR ON "GO AHEAD AND CRY" AND "STAND BY."</span></b></span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36542439070/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="GERALDINE AND CHUCK"><img alt="GERALDINE AND CHUCK" height="388" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4407/36542439070_1556556afb.jpg" width="500" /></a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>SINGER/SONGWRITER </b><b>CHUCK CLAYTON </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>FELL VICTIM TO </b><b>THE SAME KIND OF </b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">TABLOID COVERAGE THAT THE </span></b></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>ARCHIES HAD TO </b><b>ENDURE! THIS </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span><b>SENSATIONAL </b></span><b>PHOTO </b><b>SPREAD </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>APPEARED </b><b>WHILE </b><b>HE WAS </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>CUTTING HIS </b><b><span><i>DÉBUT </i></span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ALBUM.</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME"</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH/APRIL 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">THE CAPITOL TOWER,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FALLIN' - You're Gonna Miss Me LP </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Greenfield, Sedaka)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MANY TEARS AGO - You're Gonna Miss Me LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Winfield Scott)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MY HEART HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- You're Gonna Miss Me LP </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Greenfield, Keller)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT FORSAKEN</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> - You're Gonna Miss Me LP </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tommy Everett)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DON'T CRY ON MY SHOULDER</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> - You're Gonna Miss Me LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Benjamin, Marcus)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- You're Gonna Miss Me LP </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Memphis Curtis)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KATZ + THE FIDDLES</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>Arranger: GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></b></div><div><b><i>Conductor: REY COCHINO</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></div><div><b><i>ZACHARY THAXTON</i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: Chuck Clayton was an honorary member of</i></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Archies, dating back to 1989. When they were still college students, </i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>dude subbed for absent members on stage. He was also the g</i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>roup’s touring music director @ that time. </i></span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Later on, Chuckii was an aspiring Country singer/songwriter, </i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>and for years he struggled for recognition in Nashville. </i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>He worked for Archie Records in unofficial capacities </i></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>until Archie tapped him, first for A + R chief of the Archies Fan Club label </i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>and later for promotion director @ Cherry Vagina Music. By 2013, </i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Chuckii was heavily involved in song publishing activities and no longer </i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>actively pursuing a singing career. </i></span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>In fact, dude was so deep into an administrative bag, he </i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>declined Big Ethel’s request to cut a record for the Archies </i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Fan Club; however, Veronica wouldn't take no for an answer! </i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Roni even got Katz + The Fiddles to back him up in the studio.</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>They had to postpone the start of their Las Vegas residency, but </i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Katz Rockland + her boys were more than happy to do it. </i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>After all, Chuckii produced their 2010 debut album!</i></span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52357885005/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="OLGUITA + REGINALD PROMO"><img alt="OLGUITA + REGINALD PROMO" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52357885005_bec0501b47.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PRESENTING A NEW LATIN MUSIC</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SENSATION: THE FOLKLORIC</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SONGS AND DANCES OF OLGUITA </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">+ REGINALD!</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">FALCON RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">"OLGUITA + REGINALD"</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">MAY 31, JUNE 1 - 7, 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">FALCON STUDIOS,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">EL PASO, TEXAS</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BUENO YA . . .</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single A-side</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">NO ESCÚCHAME MÁS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Olguita + Reginald LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">CREE QUE TODAVÍA LO QUIERO</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Olguita + Reginald LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LLORÉ TODO EL CAMINO</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Olguita + Reginald LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">¡CÓRRENLE, GATOS!</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Olguita + Reginald LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">CABRONITO</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single B-side</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">¡VAYA AMOR!</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single B-side</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YA NO ESTÁ EN EL CORAZÓN</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Olguita + Reginald LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JUNTOS OTRA VEZ</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Olguita + Reginald LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YO, EL MISERABLE</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Olguita + Reginald LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">¡NO COMPRARÍA UN BURRO DE ÉL!</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single A-side</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IDO, IDO, SE HA IDO</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Olguita + Reginald LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Olga San Quentín)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>OLGUITA + REGINALD</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO, </i></b></div><div><b><i>OLGA SAN QUENTÍN, REGGIE “GINO” MANTLE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Conductor: FOOLKILLER</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producer: </i></b></div><div><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></div><div><b><i>Executive Producer:</i></b></div><div><b><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: HUSSEIN HABAKKUK</i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: Membership in The Archies, and in The Juggz before them, was only ever a means to an end for Gino! Even before the band came under Don Kirshner’s supervision, dude was eyeing a solo career. Over the years, he repeatedly tried for one without success. Each time, he ended up back with The Archies; but by late 2012, he’d spent all the creative energy he cared to spend on their music.</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Gino + his future wife, the talented singer, songwriter and dancer Olga San Quentín, had formed an exciting duet act. They sang and performed exhibition dances to her original songs. In his gut, he felt: “This is my last chance. It’s now or never!” So dude took what became a permanent leave of absence from The Archies, but there was still something Archie Andrews could do for him: Manufacture and distribute his new music! </i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Since Archie + Veronica were planning to launch another subsidiary devoted to Latin sounds, the arrangement was mutually beneficial. Tony Briseño had already agreed to sell them his Falcon label, so the stage was set for the recording </i>début <i>of "Olguita + Reginald!" Gino had never </i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>liked Veronica’s pet name for him, but Tony convinced him that “Olguita + Gino” didn’t have the right flow: “It sounds like a has-been comedy team!” </i></span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>Olguita’s </i>ranchera</span><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;">-tinged, Spanish-language repertoire proved </span></i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;">to be the launching pad Gino had sought for decades; but surprisingly, he was in no hurry to leave the act. His love for Olga was deep and real, and performing with her was joyful in ways being an Archies member had never been! Soon enough, Gino would be thrilling stadium crowds on his own; but in the fall of 2013, the runaway success of the OLGUITA + REGINALD album was all the career he wanted or needed.</span></i></span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: A GOLDEN ROCK MUSIC ERA WAS DRAWING TO A CLOSE. BY THE SUMMER OF 2013, PARTNERS ARCHIE, VERONICA + ALAN MAYBERRY (ALONG WITH SILENT PARTNER NICHOLAS FREUND) HAD DECIDED TO SELL ARCHIE RECORDS. SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS BEGAN. THERE WERE SEVERAL BIDDERS, INCLUDING SONY, WEA AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC, BUT ONLY ONE COMPANY BROUGHT TO THE TABLE THE KIND OF SEVEN-FIGURE OFFER THE PARTNERS WERE AFTER: REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL, THE MEDIA CONGLOMERATE HEADED BY JASON BLOSSOM!</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">PRIMARILY KNOWN AS A RUTHLESS CORPORATE RAIDER (HIS NICKNAME IN INDUSTRY CIRCLES WAS "THE PIRANHA"), JASON WAS ONE OF THE THREE RICHEST MEN IN THE WORLD! WHEN HE COULDN'T FORCE HIS WAY INTO A COMPANY, HE AND HIS ATTORNEYS BROKE DOWN THE OWNERS IN BRUTAL NEGOTIATIONS. HE'D KNOWN THE MEMBERS OF THE ARCHIES SINCE THEY WERE ALL TEENAGERS, WHICH PUT HIM ON THE INSIDE TRACK. JASON WAS SURE ARCHIE + RONI WOULD BE PUSHOVERS, BUT LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING: IN VERONICA LODGE-ANDREWS, BABY BOY MET HIS MATCH AND MORE!</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">USING MY CRYSTAL BALL, I EAVESDROPPED ON THEIR MEETINGS. THE LANGUAGE WAS RAW! "YOU'RE A HARD-BITTEN BITCH," JASON SNARLED WHEN RONI REJECTED MULTIPLE LUCRATIVE OFFERS,"BUT GODDAMIT, I'M GOING TO BREAK YOU." VERONICA SET HIM STRAIGHT IN A HURRY: "MONEY TALKS, AND BULLSHIT WALKS, MOTHERFUCKER. IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT THE MONEY, THEN STOP WASTING MY TIME!" <i>WOW! </i>IT TOOK SIX MONTHS BEFORE THEY COULD COME TO TERMS, BUT BY LATE 2013, A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT HAD BEEN REACHED. ONLY A SMALL CIRCLE OF PEOPLE </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">KNEW ABOUT IT!</span></b></span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34092410961/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS"><img alt="HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2907/34092410961_91efa1f444.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES w/KEVIN KELLER </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">DEMO "HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS"</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">@ SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">+ GRILL.</span></b></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SINGLES SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JUNE 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">NIKI HOEKY - Big Noise From Riverdale LP*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ford, Vegas)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING - Archie In New Orleans LP*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Greenwich, Powers)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING in Swedish</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> - single (Scandinavia)*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Greenwich, Lodge-Andrews, Powers, Svenson)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HOW FINE CAN ONE GUY BE? in Swedish </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Archie Around The World CD</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, Greenwich, Lodge-Andrews, Svenson)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SMACK DAB! IN THE MIDDLE (UNDERDUB)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> - Complete Fuentes Albums box set</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Charles Calhoun)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JUMP BACK, HONEY (UNDERDUB) </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- God Bless Rock 'n' Roll**</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Hadda Brooks)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>Vocal Arrangers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>VERONICA, *BETTY JONES, </i></b></div><div><b><i>**KEVIN KELLER</i></b></div><div><b><i>Arranger: JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></div><div><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></div><div><b><i>The version of "Niki Hoeky" listed here is the rare</i></b></div><div><b><i>second recording. The first one was cut in January</i></b></div><div><b><i>2002 @ The Archies' maiden record date with</i></b></div><div><b><i>Ralfi Chingas. "A Little Bit Of Everything" became a</i></b></div><div><b><i>chart-topper in Sweden, sung by Betty in </i></b></div><div><b><i>the native language.</i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: IT WAS NO SECRET, HOW MUCH INTO CLASSIC SOUL MUSIC ARCHIE WAS. HE WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO GET HIS BAND TO CUT A SOUL ALBUM! </b><b>HE KNEW THEY WERE CAPABLE OF AUTHENTIC SOUL SINGING BECAUSE, </b><b>WHILE STILL SIGNED TO THE KIRSHNER LABEL, THEY'D DAZZLED THE NOTORIOUSLY TOUGH AUDIENCE @ HARLEM'S APOLLO THEATER. EVEN SO, THE OTHER MEMBERS JUST DIDN'T SHARE HIS OBSESSION. </b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">VERONICA IN PARTICULAR PUSHED BACK HARD ON IT. HER TASTES WERE AS POP-ORIENTED AS THEY GET, AND SHE STAYED LASER-FOCUSED ON WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC WOULD WORK BEST FOR THE ARCHIES COMMERCIALLY. "DON KIRSHNER WASN'T THE ONLY ONE GIFTED WITH GOLDEN EARS," HER COUSIN LEROY WOULD BRAG, "AND I'VE GOT THE YEAR-END PROFIT REPORTS TO PROVE IT!" HE WAS ARCHIE'S CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, SO YOU COULD TAKE HIM @ HIS WORD! </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b>RARELY DID RONI'S MUSICAL INSTINCTS FAIL TO DELIVER </b><b>A HIT; BUT THE RECORD BUSINESS IS NOTHING IF NOT UNPREDICTABLE. RELEASING THE WRONG RECORD @ THE WRONG TIME WAS SOMETHING EVEN RONI WAS CAPABLE OF! THAT HAPPENED WITH BOTH HER SOLO ALBUM AND ARCHIE'S, AND WITH THE ARCHIES PROJECT THAT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT NOW.</b></span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/33839130370/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SOLID POTATO SALAD"><img alt="SOLID POTATO SALAD" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2941/33839130370_f0a495c595.jpg" width="500" /></a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">KEVIN KELLER + RALFI CHINGAS </span></b></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>HELP </b><b>THE ARCHIES DEMO "SOLID </b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">POTATO SALAD."</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"JUMP BACK, HONEY"</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><b>in association with</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><b>RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTIONS</b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JUNE 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">BLACKSMITH BLUES</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">BOUNCE THE BALL</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">GREYHOUND</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">GET ON BOARD, LITTLE CHILDREN</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">COFFEE DATE</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">JUMP BACK, HONEY (OVERDUB)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">- single, Jump Back, Honey LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>Arranger: JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></div><div><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></div><div><b><i>Executive Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></div><div><b><i>The Archies commenced cutting backing tracks for a Jazz/</i></b></div><div><b><i>Blues album, their most ambitious project to date.</i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: JUGHEAD HAD BEEN URGING THE BAND TO TRY CUTTING A JAZZ ALBUM SINCE 2009, WHEN THEY RECORDED DIXIELAND ARRANGEMENTS FOR AN ABORTED PARTRIDGE FAMILY TV SERIES. BY 2013, THE MEMBERS WERE READY FOR A NEW CHALLENGE (ESPECIALLY BETTY, WHO WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL CREATIVELY STIFLED). FOR HIS PART, ARCHIE WANTED TO SILENCE PERSISTENT RUMORS THAT HIS GROUP DIDN’T PLAY ON THEIR RECORDS! THOSE RUMORS HAD BEEN HAUNTING THE BAND SINCE THEIR KIRSHNER YEARS. </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">EVERYONE GOT ON THE SAME PAGE WHEN JUGGY BROUGHT VINTAGE RECORDINGS BY 1940s DIVA ELLA MAE MORSE TO A BAND REHEARSAL. SHE WAS ONE OF THE GREAT SWING VOCALISTS, AND HER MATERIAL WAS WRITTEN BY SOME OF THE BEST SONGWRITERS OF THE DAY. EVERYBODY'S TOES WERE TAPPING AND FINGERS WERE POPPING WHEN THEY HEARD HER INCOMPARABLE RENDITIONS OF "BLACKSMITH BLUES", "OAKIE BOOGIE", "SHOO-SHOO, BABY", "MISTER FIVE x FIVE" AND "COW COW BOOGIE."</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">THERE WERE PHOTOGRAPHERS @ BOTH THE DEMO SESSIONS AND THE ALBUM DATES. ARCHIE INVITED AS MANY AS WOULD COME, AND THEY CAPTURED THE ARCHIES PLAYING MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS AND STRUGGLING TO MASTER VERY</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">COMPLICATED JAZZ ARRANGEMENTS. THE MUSIC PRESS WAS OPENLY SKEPTICAL THAT THEY COULD PULL OFF SUCH AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT, BUT I NEVER DOUBTED THEM! </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">WORKING REMOTELY FROM BOSTON, I WAS INVOLVED WITH THIS NEW ALBUM IN A PERIPHERAL </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">WAY; BUT I DON’T WANT TO TAKE ANY CREDIT AWAY FROM JUSTIN STRICKLAND. HE </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">WAS THE ARRANGER, AND HE'S THE ONE WHO TAUGHT THE ARCHIES HOW TO SWING! </span></b></span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/33381375214/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="GREYHOUND"><img alt="GREYHOUND" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2917/33381375214_d274aa73dc.jpg" width="500" /></a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">KEVIN KELLER, ARRANGER JUSTIN </span></b></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>STRICKLAND</b><b>+ GUITARIST JONNIEMAE </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>HELP THE </b><b>ARCHIES DEMO </b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">"GREYHOUND."</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JUNE 24, 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">ROCK THE TASTE FROM YOUR MOUTH (PART 1)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;"> - fan club single</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Andrews, Briseño, Clark, Spellman)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">ROCK THE TASTE FROM YOUR MOUTH (PART 2)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- fan club single flipside</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>Music Director: </i></b></div><div><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></div><div><b><i>Archie + Trevor brought their Sam + Dave performance </i></b></div><div><b><i>style to bear on these live tracks, which were cut @ Spanish </i></b></div><div><b><i>Eddie's Bar + Grill on May 3. Instead of the recording</i></b></div><div><b><i>studio upstairs, they were captured downstairs in </i></b></div><div><b><i>the club. Complete with stomps, screams and wolf </i></b></div><div><b><i>whistles from the SRO crowd, "Rock The Taste, </i></b></div><div><b><i>Parts I + II" became the opening and closing themes</i></b></div><div><b><i>of Archie Radio, an all-Archie satellite music </i></b></div><div><b><i>channel that aired for three months in late 2013.</i></b></div><div><b><i>The tune is a rewrite of "Baby, I Dig Love", originally</i></b></div><div><b><i>recorded by Rudy Lewis in 1963; Archie, Dilton</i></b></div><div><b><i>Doiley Briseño + Bree Spellman collaborated</i></b></div><div><b><i>on the new music and lyrics. The very last </i></b></div><div><b><i>Archies Fan Club </i></b><i><b>single to </b><b>be released, it was </b></i></div><div><i><b>only ever tracked live.</b></i></div><div><b> </b></div><div><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/33381377234/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BOUNCE THE BALL"><img alt="BOUNCE THE BALL" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2864/33381377234_180a16b352.jpg" width="500" /></a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ONLY AFTER COMPLETING THEIR </span></b></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>DEMO FOR </b><b>"BOUNCE THE BALL" </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>DID THE ARCHIES </b><b>FEEL CONFIDENT </b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ENOUGH TO RECORD THEIR</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JAZZ ALBUM!</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"JUMP BACK, HONEY"</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><b>in association with</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><b>RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTIONS</b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JUNE/JULY 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">COW COW BOOGIE</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS (OVERDUB)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">OAKIE BOOGIE</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">SOLID POTATO SALAD</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">MISTER FIVE BY FIVE</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">FORTY CUPS OF COFFEE</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">SMACK DAB! IN THE MIDDLE (OVERDUB) </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">- Jump Back, Honey LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">SHOO, SHOO, BABY</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>Arranger: JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></div><div><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></div><div><b><i>Executive Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></div><div><b><i>A wealth of alternate takes survive from this</i></b></div><div><b><i>instrumental session.</i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/33381376014/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FORTY CUPS OF COFFEE"><img alt="FORTY CUPS OF COFFEE" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4165/33381376014_68c61d7e8b.jpg" width="500" /></a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WHEN DEMOS FOR THE ARCHIES' JAZZ </span></b></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">ALBUM </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">SURFACED ON eBAY, </span></b></span><b style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;">THEY </span></b></div><div><b style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;">WERE IMMEDIATELY </span></b><b style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;">SNATCHED </span></b></div><div><b style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;">UP BY </span></b><b style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;">COLLECTORS. "FORTY </span></b></div><div><b style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;">CUPS </span></b><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">OF COFFEE" EARNED </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE </span></b><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">HIGHEST BID PRICE!</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"JUMP BACK, HONEY"</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">in association with</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">COFFEE DATE - Jump Back, Honey LP*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barris, Whiteman)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SOLID POTATO SALAD - Jump Back, Honey LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(DePaul, Prince, Raye)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BOUNCE THE BALL </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- flipside, Jump Back, Honey LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Dexter, Jackson)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GREYHOUND - Jump Back, Honey LP**</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Rudy Toombs)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BLACKSMITH BLUES - Jump Back, Honey LP*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jack Holmes)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">COW COW BOOGIE - Jump Back, Honey LP*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Carter, DePaul, Raye)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>Vocal Arrangers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>VERONICA, *KEVIN KELLER, </i></b></div><div><b><i>**BETTY JONES</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></div><div><b><i>Executive Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></div><div><b><i>The Archies played every note of music</i></b></div><div><b><i>on JUMP BACK, HONEY save for a</i></b></div><div><b><i>trumpet solo on "Greyhound" that </i></b></div><div><b><i>neither Juggy nor </i></b><b><i>Archie could nail to</i></b></div><div><b><i>Justin Strickland's satisfaction. Ralfi </i></b></div><div><b><i>Chingas overdubbed it "on the QT" </i></b></div><div><b><i>@ the last of these dates.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34092410641/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SHOO SHOO BABY"><img alt="SHOO SHOO BABY" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2811/34092410641_7196fbf951.jpg" width="500" /></a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ALTHOUGH HE HELPED THE ARCHIES CUT</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ALBUM DEMOS, RALFI CHINGAS DID</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">NOT PRODUCE THEIR JAZZ ALBUM. </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">VERONICA HELMED THE SESSIONS, </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ASSISTED BY JUGGY + KELLY.</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">SABRINA: RALFI CHINGAS WAS A GREAT PRODUCER, BUT AS I TOLD YOU BEFORE, HE WASN'T THE EASIEST GUY TO WORK WITH. TO SAY THAT HE WAS MOODY WOULD BE A GROSS UNDERSTATEMENT, AND HIS TEMPER WAS UNPREDICATABLE. I COULD SEE EARLY ON </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">THAT HE WAS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH VERONICA! THAT COLLISION FINALLY HAPPENED IN 2009, WHEN SHE FIRED HIM DURING </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">SESSIONS FOR THE ARCHIES' SECOND COUNTRY ALBUM.</span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span>WORKING WITH RONI TO PUT ARCHIE'S COLLABORATION WITH BURT BACHARACH TOGETHER GOT RALFI BACK IN HER GOOD GRACES. THAT'S WHY </span></b><b><span>HE WAS REHIRED TO HELM THE ARCHIES' NEXT BIG PROJECT, </span></b><b><span><i>HITS OF THE SIXTIES. </i> HOWEVER, AFTER HE CLASHED SPECTACULARLY WITH </span></b><b>SONGWRITERS BARRY MANN + CYNTHIA WEIL, WHO </b></span><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WERE THAT PROJECT'S EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, </span></b><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">RONI REACHED THE END OF HER ROPE WITH HIM!</span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">THERE WAS NO FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF RALFI BEING REPLACED; HE WAS NEVER OFFICIALLY A + R DIRECTOR </span></b><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">OF ARCHIE RECORDS ANYWAY! IT WAS JUST UNDERSTOOD THAT, GOING FORWARD, VERONICA (WHO <i>WAS </i>THE OFFICIAL HEAD OF A + R) WOULD BE CALLING THE SHOTS IN THE STUDIO. KEVIN KELLER APPEARED AS A GUEST ARTIST ON <i>JUMP BACK, HONEY, </i>SO RONI ASKED HIM + JUGGY TO CO-PRODUCE THE NEW ALBUM WITH HER. </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">JUST LIKE IN AUGUEST OF 2011 WHEN THE ARCHIES CUT THEIR BARRY GIBB TRIBUTE AND AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER WHEN THEIR TEAM-UP SINGLE WITH THE PUSSY CATS WAS TRACKED, RALFI WAS GIVEN THE TITLE OF EXECUTIVE PRODUCER. IT WAS WHAT I'D CALL A "CEREMONIAL" TITLE! HIS MUSIC DIRECTOR, JONNIEMAE CONTINUED TO WORK WITH THE ARCHIES, BUT HE NO LONGER HAD ANY SAY OVER THE PROCEEDINGS. HE HATED BEING </span></b><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">PUT OUT TO PASTURE, AND WHO WOULDN'T? SO NEARLY TWO DECADES PASSED BEFORE RALFI + THE ARCHIES SHARED</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">A STUDIO AGAIN. </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"JUMP BACK, HONEY"</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">in association with</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">OCTOBER 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">OAKIE BOOGIE - Jump Back, Honey LP*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Johnny Tyler)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS - Jump Back, Honey LP*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Raye, Slack)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FORTY CUPS OF COFFEE - Jump Back, Honey LP*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Danny Overbea)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GET ON BOARD, LITTLE CHILDREN </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Jump Back, Honey LP*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(DePaul, Raye)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MISTER FIVE BY FIVE - Jump Back, Honey LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(DePaul, Raye)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SHOO, SHOO, BABY - Jump Back, Honey LP</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Phil Moore)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>Vocal Arrangers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>VERONICA, *BETTY JONES</i></b></div><div><b><i>Arranger: JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></div><div><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producer: VERONICA</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></div><div><b><i>Executive Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></div><div><b><i>"Oakie Boogie" and "Shoo-Shoo, Baby" were</i></b></div><div><b><i>issued as a double A-side fan club single: Betty led</i></b></div><div><b><i>the up tempo number, and Veronica cooed the </i></b></div><div><b><i>sultry ballad.</i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/33412440183/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="GET ON BOARD LITTLE CHILDREN"><img alt="GET ON BOARD LITTLE CHILDREN" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2913/33412440183_640419766d.jpg" width="500" /></a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>AFTER <i>JUMP BACK, HONEY!</i> WAS</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>RELEASED, THE ARCHIES' MUSIC</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>SKILLS WERE NEVER QUESTIONED</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>AGAIN!</b></span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: UNFORTUNATELY, <i>JUMP BACK, HONEY</i> WAS A BIG COMMERCIAL DISAPPOINTMENT. DESPITE ABUNDANT CRITICAL PRAISE, IT ONLY SOLD WELL IN JAPAN! ARCHIE AGREED WITH ME THAT THE ALBUM WOULD FIND ITS AUDIENCE OVER TIME; BUT HE WAS TOO BUSY BEHIND-THE-SCENES TO BE PREOCCUPIED WITH FAILURE. AFTER HE + VERONICA PURCHASED FALCON RECORDS FROM DILTON, THE ARCHIE LABEL'S PARENT COMPANY OFFICIALLY CHANGED ITS NAME: ARCHIE AMERICANA BECAME SUGARTOWN PRODUCTIONS! UNDER THOSE AUSPICES, THE ARCHIES PREPARED TO CUT A NEW LIVE ALBUM @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL. MEANWHILE, A GIRL GROUP TO REPLACE THE CANDYHEARTS WAS FINALLY ABOUT TO BE SIGNED!</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SINGLES SESSIONS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">OCTOBER 29 - 30, 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">*A STEED-PINTO PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTAL)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">AUGUST 20, 2005</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">RED BUS RECORDING STUDIOS,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">LONDON, UK</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME TONIGHT!</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(OVERDUB) - unreleased*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Vanda, Young)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I’LL LET YOU HOLD MY HAND</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- unreleased</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(DeMilo, Wiley)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE VIXENS</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>*w/THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/ROD MACK</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/DEANIE GRUNDY</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>Vocal Arrangements:</i></b></div><div><b><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></div><div><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div><b><i>REGGIE MANTLE*, ROD MACK</i></b></div><div><i><b>Conductor: </b><b>ROD MACK</b></i></div><div><b><i>Producers:</i></b></div><div><b><i>LAURA PINTO*, CHUCK CLAYTON,</i></b></div><div><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY</i></b></div><div><b><i>Executive Producer: </i></b></div><div><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: Even before Big Ethel officially quit the girl group she founded, The Vixens started appearing without her. The various members cut demos and sang background for different artists, both individually and in different configurations. By the early teens, The Vixens were picking up high-profile gigs here and there and building a fan base separate from Ethel.</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Her absence from their ranks was due to an increasing reluctance to perform secular music. Slowly but surely, Fawn Ethel Mason was transitioning to Gospel! Babe attended this singles date in her capacity as president of Archies Fan Club Records. Her presence wasn’t just official, though: Ethel had a strong maternal feeling about her “homegirls!” They were cutting an </i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>AFC single @ her request.</i></span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>The Vixens almost always performed as a trio, but their membership varied: Present @ this session were Clydene Philpott-Saunders, Nurmeen “Mimi” Saroyan + Pamela “Pippa” Tagliaferro. Pippa sang lead vocals on the first song and Mimi did the honors on the second; over the years, both ladies had matured into outstanding song stylists.</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Producers Chuck Clayton + Alan Mayberry devoted the most studio time to “Gonna Have A Good Time Tonight!” It rocked hard to a bone-crunching instrumental track that The Archies had recorded almost a decade earlier. On the second tune, session musicians Rod Mack (visiting from London), Deanie Grundy + Chuckii were joined by Mimi, who did double-duty as bass player and background singer. She’ll teach her daughter to play bass, too, and Nantzi Saroyan will do just that @ a 2031 Archies studio date.</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>The playbacks sounded hella fabulous! So much so that Veronica decided the time had come to sign The Vixens up as Archie Records artists. That happened the day before Thanksgiving, 2013; so instead of AFC, their single got scheduled for release on the flagship label. Big Ethel still wanted AFC product from them, so a Vixens EP was planned.</i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53475056992/in/dateposted/" title="DISCO DE ORO, VOLUMEN III"><img alt="DISCO DE ORO, VOLUMEN III" height="371" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53475056992_93c1b8c65a.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>A THIRD VOLUME OF THE POPULAR <i>DISCO DE</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b><i>ORO</i> SERIES WILL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>UNTIL THE YEAR 2060. IT WILL INCLUDE</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>THE BELATED ARCHIES HITS "JUST FOR </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>TONIGHT" AND "KARATE MONKEY".</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SINGLES SESSION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NOVEMBER 21, 2013</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">*AN ISLAND PACIFIC PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTAL)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">NOVEMBER, 2009</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">VOX POPULI STUDIOS,</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">TOKYO, JAPAN</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">PRECIOUS AND FEW, ENGLISH OVERDUB*</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Lite Av Allt LP (Scandinavia)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Walter Nims)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">ROCK IT! </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Big Noise From Riverdale box set</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">(Goetzman, Piccirillo)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div><b><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></b></div><div><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div><b><i>*BREE SPELLMAN, RALFI CHINGAS, </i></b></div><div><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></div><div><b><i>Producers: </i></b></div><div><b><i>*BARCLAY SINGH, VERONICA </i></b></div><div><b><i>w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></div><div><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></div><div><b><i>The hit Japanese version of "Precious And Few"</i></b></div><div><b><i>was tracked in Japan in November of 2009.</i></b></div><div><b><i>Here was an excellent </i></b><b><i>ballad performance by</i></b></div><div><b><i> Jughead, coupled with </i></b><b><i>Veronica's solid </i></b></div><div><b><i>interpretation of an </i></b><b><i>obscure Disco tune; but </i></b></div><div><b><i>indecision over which </i></b><b><i>side to promote resulted </i></b></div><div><b><i>in neither being </i></b><b><i>released as an </i></b></div><div><b><i>Archies single.</i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b><a a="" data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52299339390/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="ARCHIE @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL ALBUM COVER DESIGN"><img alt="ARCHIE @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL ALBUM COVER DESIGN" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52299339390_87586335fe.jpg" /></a></div><div><b><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>ARCHIE @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE LAST PLATINUM ARCHIES ALBUM</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">RELEASED BY ARCHIE RECORDS!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">DISCOS FUENTES</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">"ARCHIE @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">DECEMBER 10 - 14, 2013</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">CHAPEL OF ROCK,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">TEACH ME TO TWIST (Appell, Cohen)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">SOUTH STREET (Appell, Cohen)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">MEDLEY:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>NOT ME! (Anderson, Guida)/</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THE EIGHTY-ONE (Gamble, Ross)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">YOU CAN'T SIT DOWN bilingual</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">(Clark, Cohen, Mack, Muldrow, Upchurch)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">ANGEL OF THE MORNING en Español</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">(Mack, Santiago, Taylor)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- single A-side (South America)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">MEDLEY:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>LIMBO ROCK en Español (Cohen, Santiago, Strange)/</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>YOU JUST DON'T KNOW! (Robert Miller)</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">DO THE CHA-CHA-CHÁ bilingual</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">(Appell, Cohen, Lowe, Santiago)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">MEDLEY:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>DO THE BIRD/ROCK ME IN THE CRADLE OF LOVE </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>(Appell, Cohen)</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">FEVER en Español </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">(Blackwell, Cooley, Mack, Santiago)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- single A-side (South America)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">LONG TALL SALLY </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">(Blackwell, Johnson, Penniman)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>KARATE MONKEY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">(Jackson, Virtuoso)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">-Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">MEDLEY:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>WAH-WATUSI (Appell, Cohen)/</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>MASHED POTATO TIME </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>(Bateman, Cohen, Dobbins, Garrett, Gorman, Holland)</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">DO THE FISH bilingual (Cohen, Denson, Dixon, Mack)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">EVERYTHING'S WRONG! (Alfred, Farrell)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- single flipside (South America)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">CAST YOUR FATE TO THE WIND en Español</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">(Guaraldi, Mack, Santiago, Werber)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- single A-side (South America)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">MEDLEY:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>HULLY GULLY BABY/BRISTOL STOMP/</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DO THE NEW CONTINENTAL/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THE POPEYE WADDLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">(Appell, Cohen)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">NINETY-SIX TEARS en Español (Rudy Martínez)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">PICTURE ME GONE (Gorgoni, Taylor)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- single flipside (South America)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">MEDLEY:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>JINGLE BELL ROCK bilingual </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>(Beal, Boothe, Mack, Santiago)/</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>CHRISTMAS (BABY, PLEASE COME HOME)</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP*</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">THE TWIST (Ballard, Santiago) bilingual</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- Archie @ The Hollywood Bowl LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>w/LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>w/ANDY YOSHIDA</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>w/SASHIMI SISTERS</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>w/ROD MACK</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*w/DARLENE LOVE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Vocal Arranger: </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">ANDY YOSHIDA</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Arrangers: </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">TREVOR SMITH, ROD MACK</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Music Director: ROD MACK</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Remix Producers: </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">TOM MOURGOS, VERONICA</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Remix Engineers: </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">TOM MOURGOS, ROD MACK, </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">CANDY FIGUEROA</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: Trevor Smith had the option of re-cutting his 2012 AFC album with replacement musicians. He didn’t want to do that, so WATUSI FEVER never came out. That might’ve been the end of it; but in late 2013, Big Nipsy Freund booked The Archies to play a Christmas concert @ the world-famous Hollywood Bowl. Their Jazz + Blues album JUMP BACK, HONEY was tanking, but here was a </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>plum opportunity to promote it! Yet they sensed that they'd just be beating a dead horse. They decided to not perform any songs from the LP, but they didn't want to sing Christmas carols, either. </i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Trevor had an inspired suggestion: "Remember my solo album with all those early Sixties dance numbers on it? Why don’t we perform those songs live? With all of us singing them, of course. That would be hella fun, both for us and the audience!" The Archies agreed that it was a great idea; the unissued master was retrieved, and new lead vocalists were assigned to Trevor’s album selections. However, they didn't want to just copy what his backing band had done - even though that band was Josie + The Pussy Cats! </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>@ Trev's urging, they flew Rod Mack to Los Angeles from his home in London. He + Rod then got busy customizing the song arrangements they'd written the previous year. Rod also served as music director for the show, which involved working with the Hollywood Bowl dancers. After a red-eye flight, dude was probably suffering jet lag but it didn't show: The man worked his ass off, coordinating songs with dance numbers, adding ballads to the set list for variety, translating several numbers into Spanish with Trevor's help, and creating a Christmas medley for the finale.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Gino Mantle had still not been replaced. Sometimes, Kevin Keller subbed for him but the majority of Kelly's time was taken up by his solo career. During The Archies' HITS OF THE SIXTIES tour, Andy Yoshida had sung background vocals and alternated with Sabrina on piano. He lived nearby in West Hollywood, so Archie called on him to play keyboards. Andy ended up doing much more; dude had flawless comedic timing, formidable arranging skills and an excellent lead voice! He played Bobby Rydell</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>to Trevor's Chubby Checker. </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52312779489/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ANDY!"><img alt="ANDY!" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52312779489_5eae7785e3.jpg" width="373" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ANDY YOSHIDA WAS THE ARCHIES'</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">SPECIAL GUEST STAR @ THEIR</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2013 HOLLYWOOD BOWL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CONCERT.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>As for live background singers, Veronica wanted The Cochinada Brothers, but they weren’t available. Andy offered to contact the other HOTS background singers; there had been five in all. Gayme (the elderly Brothers St. George) had retired from performing by then, but The Sashimi Sisters were still active. Lissabet and Nohemmy Sterling had never done a holiday gig before and were thrilled to be asked! Rod Mack provided a third background voice. </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>"Christmas Watusi Fever with The Archies" drew a diverse crowd ranging from nostalgia junkies to senior citizen groups, young parents with toddlers, East LA gang bangers, drag queens and longtime Archies fans. The show went down big with all of them! By the time Betty took center stage to sing "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)," that crowd was on fire; but the Hollywood Bowl erupted like a volcano when surprise guest star Darlene Love walked out of the wings! Darlene joined Betty for a dope-ass duet performance of the yuletide classic she made famous. I mean to tell you . . . that shit was </i>off the chain!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i> In fact, that December 1st concert was so well-received, The Archies were asked to reprise the theme the following year. They likely would have, too, had the demise of Archie Records not put the band’s future in doubt. Fortunately, sound engineer Tom Mourgos recorded the show so its awesomeness could be preserved on a live album.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Behind the scenes, Archie + Veronica were @ a crucial stage of negotiations to sell Archie Records. They needed another best-selling LP to justify their lofty asking price, and Roni felt strongly that ARCHIE @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL would fit the bill. Yet after hearing the playback, Archie was undecided. He didn’t think an album of dance craze remakes could go Top Ten in America; but Veronica had a different America in mind: South instead of North! And her instincts were dead on target: Subtitled FIEBRE DEL WATUSI NAVIDEÑO, the live album broke for a Top Ten record on the Pan-American charts! </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>It was released on Discos Fuentes' Coda subsidiary, destined to be an Archie Records reissue label in the far-flung future. The album might've been a bigger success with full international distribution, but with sufficient sales to go Platinum, it was certainly successful enough! During a period that was devoid of new studio-generated Archies product, it kept the group's market profile high. That profile was Veronica's ace bargaining chip, and she used it to play a winning hand with Jason Blossom!</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/40087566912/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RADIO HERALD"><img alt="ARCHIE RADIO HERALD" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4742/40087566912_5a46373d37.jpg" width="390" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ARCHIE RADIO BROADCAST FROM</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2013.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: IN THE FALL OF 2013, REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL SPONSORED ARCHIE RADIO, A SATELLITE CHANNEL THAT BROADCAST FROM MAMARONECK, EL PASO AND LONDON. IT AIRED THE VERY BEST OF THE ARCHIE LABEL'S OUTPUT, AS WELL AS LIVE PERFORMANCES BY ARTISTS PAST AND PRESENT. STUDIO SIDEMEN LIKE RALFI CHINGAS, MADAME AXE, POP TATE, NERO THE DOG, ROD MACK, CHUCK CLAYTON + ME ALSO APPEARED. TREVOR ANSARI, WHO PORTRAYED SINGER JIMMY WALKER IN THE LONDON PRODUCTION OF <i>SOUL + INSPIRATION,</i> WAS THE MAIN DEEJAY. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RADIO WAS AN IDEAL PROMOTIONAL VEHICLE: A THREE-MONTH-LONG MUSICAL CELEBRATION! LITTLE DID ANYONE SUSPECT THAT IT HERALDED THE LAST GASP OF THE FINEST INDIE OF THE EARLY 21st CENTURY.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52739064244/in/dateposted/" title="REGGIE'S SOLO ALBUMS"><img alt="REGGIE'S SOLO ALBUMS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52739064244_54f200034a.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>REGGIE MANTLE CUT THREE SOLO ALBUMS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BEFORE JOINING THE POPULAR <i>TEJANO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>DUO OLGUITA + REGINALD. HE WON'T</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RECORD ANOTHER ONE UNTIL AFTER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;"><b>HE RE-</b></span><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;">INVENTS HIMSELF AS A </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;">MEXICAN </b><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;"><i>HUAPANGO </i>ICON.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">IN DECEMBER OF 2013 AFTER CONQUERING THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, THE ARCHIES HELPED CHUCK CLAYTON COMPLETE AN ALBUM TRIBUTE TO CONNIE FRANCIS. <i>YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME</i> WAS THE LAST ALBUM RELEASED BY ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS, BUT ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR. THAT SAME MONTH, ARCHIE + VERONICA NAMED CHUCK CEO OF THEIR MUSIC PUBLISHING FIRM, CHERRY VAGINA MUSIC.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35796262845/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME"><img alt="YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME" height="388" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4281/35796262845_44679036ec.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">CHUCK CLAYTON BELATEDLY RELEASES</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">HIS FIRST AND ONLY SOLO ALBUM,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">REFLECTING HIS LOVE FOR BOTH</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">COUNTRY MUSIC AND CONNIE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">FRANCIS!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">"YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A SUGARTOWN PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">DECEMBER 2013</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">FAME STUDIOS,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">DROWNIN' MY SORROWS </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- You're Gonna Miss Me LP </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Hunter, Vincent)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">IF YOU EVER GET LONELY </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- You're Gonna Miss Me LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Bob Forshee)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">HOLLYWOOD - You're Gonna Miss Me LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(John Loudermilk)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">WHO'S SORRY NOW? </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- You're Gonna Miss Me LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Kalmar, Ruby, Snyder)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">I WAS SUCH A FOOL </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- You're Gonna Miss Me LP </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Canosa, Stradella)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- You're Gonna Miss Me LP </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Greenfield, Keller)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">WISHIN' IT WAS YOU </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"> You're Gonna Miss Me LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Byers, Otis)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">SECOND HAND LOVE </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- You're Gonna Miss Me LP </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Hunter, Spector)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Arrangers: </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">GERALDINE GRUNDY, THE ARCHIES</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Producers: </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">CHUCK CLAYTON, ALAN MAYBERRY</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sound Engineer: CADE MURPHY</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">These are belated final sessions for Chuck Clayton's</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Archies Fan Club LP. Katz + The Fiddles weren’t </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">available, so Veronica secured a more-than-adequate </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">substitute to complete the project! As a rule, The Archies</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">didn’t play back-up for other artists, but they gladly</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">made an exception for their former music director (and</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">they made another one for Big Ethel in 2014). Even though </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">the band features on most of Chuck's album tracks,</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">they declined to take label credit. "We don't want</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">anybody calling this an Archies record," they agreed.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">"It's Chuckii's time to shine!" Shine he did on 14</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">choice Connie Francis covers. Betty Jones adored</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME, calling it "the Country album</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">I tried to make but never did." It outsold every other</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">AFC album except BE YOUR OWN ARCHIES! Long-delayed</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">stardom seemed to beckon, but "you're gonna miss me" really </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">was Chuck Clayton’s message to Nashville; he chose to stay</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">on the publishing side of the music business.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: EVERY MAJOR ROCK SINGER AND BAND DREAMS ABOUT GRACING THE COVER OF <i>ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE! </i> THE ARCHIES WANTED THAT HONOR AS MUCH AS THEIR PEERS DID, BUT THERE WAS A MAJOR OBSTACLE: MOST OF THE ROCK PRESS DESPISED THEM! THE SAME CRITICISMS WERE HURLED REPEATEDLY: THEY WEREN'T EDGY ENOUGH; THEY WERE A THROWBACK ACT; THEY DIDN'T SING THEIR OWN SONGS! ONE EXASPERATED CRITIC WROTE "THE ARCHIES ARE JUST TOO GODDAMN <i>CUTE!"</i> AND LEFT IT AT THAT.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">SO NOBODY THOUGHT THEY STOOD EVEN HALF A CHANCE OF MAKING THAT COVETED COVER, BUT THEY HAD A SECRET WEAPON: KEVIN KELLER. BY THE END OF 2013, THE GROUP'S FREQUENT SIDEMAN WAS ONE OF ROCK'S MEGA-STARS! AND THERE WAS AN EDGE TO KELLY THAT SET HIM APART FROM THE ARCHIES. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ONE EXAMPLE OF THIS WAS HIS NC-17-RATED ART HOUSE SMASH MAN <i>BITCHES ON A BEACH! </i>ANOTHER ONE WAS THE FILTHY POTTY MOUTH HE ACQUIRED DURING HIS MILITARY SERVICE. KELLY'S SURPRISE WIN AT THE 55th GRAMMY AWARDS CAUGHT HIM COMPLETELY OFF-GUARD; ON THE PODIUM, HE GAVE AN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FILLED WITH GRATITUDE AND BLAZING WITH PROFANITY! THE NEXT DAY, HIS NAME AND IMAGE WERE PLASTERED ALL OVER SOCIAL MEDIA. EVERYBODY LOVES A "BAD BOY!"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52347771621/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES ROLLING STONE COVER"><img alt="ARCHIES ROLLING STONE COVER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52347771621_fe788a668f.jpg" width="369" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">WITH KEVIN KELLER'S HELP,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES POUR A LITTLE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">SUGAR ON READERS OF</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>ROLLING STONE </i>MAGAZINE!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>ROLLING STONE</i> COULDN'T WAIT TO SCHEDULE A COVER SHOOT FOR HIM; THEY DID SO THE VERY NEXT WEEK IN FEBRUARY 2013. HOWEVER, KELLY SHOCKED THEM WITH AN ULTIMATUM. "I WOULDN'T BE WHERE I AM TODAY WITHOUT MY GOOD BUDDIES, THE ARCHIES," HE INSISTED, "AND DAMMIT, I WANT THEM RIGHT THERE ON THE COVER WITH ME!" </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">PUBLISHER JANN WENNER WAS VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED TO THE IDEA, BUT KELLY HAD LEVERAGE: HIS ART FILM AND THE <i>SOUL + INSPIRATION</i> CAST ALBUM HAD MADE HIM A HOTTER PROPERTY THAN EVER! WENNER OFFERED A COMPROMISE: HIS WEST END CO-STAR JUGHEAD COULD SHARE THE COVER BUT NOT THE REST OF THE GROUP. AN OUTRAGED KELLY TURNED THUMBS DOWN ON THIS DEAL: "FORGET ABOUT IT, DUDE! IT'S ALL OF US OR <i>NONE </i>OF US!"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">KELLY HELD OUT UNTIL HE GOT HIS WAY; HIS DEFIANCE WAS UNPRECEDENTED! AND HE ENDED UP GRACING NOT ONE, BUT TWO <i>ROLLING STONE </i>COVERS: THE FIRST ONE, WHICH HE SHARED WITH HIS HUSBAND, DR. CLAY WALKER AND HIS FRIEND (WITH BENEFITS!) JOSIE JAMES OF THE PUSSY CATS, APPEARED IN JUNE OF 2013. THE SECOND HE SHARED WITH THE ARCHIES! PUBLISHED WITH A DECEMBER COVER DATE, IT CONTAINED SEPARATE FEATURES ON BOTH SOLO ARTIST AND GROUP. YOU'D BEST BELIEVE THAT CHAMPAGNE CORKS </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">WERE POPPING @ ARCHIE RECORDS HQ IN MAMARONECK!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2014.html" target="_blank">CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE:</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24591032377/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="KELLY GREEN"><img alt="KELLY GREEN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4638/24591032377_155f77f2f7.jpg" width="389" /></a></b></div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></span></b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">"11:59"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>JUST A MINUTE LEFT BEFORE ARCHIE</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>RECORDS' GOLDEN CARRIAGE TURNS </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>INTO A </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>PUMPKIN IN THE YEAR</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><i>2 0 1 4 !</i></span></b></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-68436276901557540702023-03-18T18:45:00.019-04:002024-01-17T09:47:55.972-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2012<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51314361699/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="POP-ART-CHIE REDUX"><img alt="POP-ART-CHIE REDUX" height="388" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51314361699_e93cf94c90.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></span></span></b></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presents</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;">A Journey Through</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE GREAT AMERICAN </span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SONG BOOK</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: IT'S TIME TO TELL YOU ABOUT MY PORN CREDIT. <i>WHAT?</i> YOU DIDN'T KNOW I <i>HAD </i>ONE? WELL, OF COURSE I DO. IT WAS ACTUALLY THE FIRST MOVIE I EVER WORKED ON!</span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">DO YOU REMEMBER THAT EMBARRASSING FILM FOOTAGE OF KEVIN KELLER + NICHOLAS FREUND THAT I TOLD YOU ABOUT? THAT WAS BACK IN 2005. WHEN KELLY'S SOLO CAREER TOOK OFF IN EARLY 2012, HE GOT AN UNPLEASANT REMINDER OF IT! </span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">PUCHI SCHNEIDER WAS THE PRODUCER, DIRECTOR AND CINEMATOGRAPHER OF THE GAY X-RATED FILM THAT KELLY + BIG NIPSY UNWITTINGLY BECAME A PART OF. A BLACKMAILER ALL HIS LIFE, PUCHI WOULD LATER CAUSE THE DOWNFALL ONE OF THE NEW ARCHIES! WERE IT NOT FOR MY RETICENCE TO TAMPER WITH PREDETERMINED SEQUENCES OF EVENTS, I MIGHT'VE USED SORCERY TO END HIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES YEARS BEFORE THAT HAPPENED.</span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"> HE DIDN'T KNOW WHO THE INTERLOPERS ON HIS MOVIE SET WERE, BUT SINCE THEY WERE BOTH GOOD-LOOKING, HE KEPT THEM IN THE FILM. <i>MAN BITCHES ON A BEACH</i> TANKED UPON ITS RELEASE IN EARLY 2007; BUT FIVE YEARS LATER, PUCHI RECOGNIZED KEVIN KELLER. HIS IMAGE HAD STARTED TO BLANKET ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA! </span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">HE SENT A BLACKMAIL THREAT TO KELLY THROUGH HIS MANAGER: "PAY ME (x) MILLION DOLLARS, OR SEE YOUR REPUTATION RUINED!" PUCHI WAS THREATENING TO REISSUE HIS PORN MOVIE WITH KEVIN KELLER BILLED AS THE STAR, AND FRANKLY, I DON'T THINK A PAYOFF WOULD'VE STOPPED HIM!</span></div><div><br /><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52356513047/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="KEVIN KELLER, BUCCANEER"><img alt="KEVIN KELLER, BUCCANEER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52356513047_646cfc301b.jpg" width="373" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">POLYAMOROUS ROCK STAR KEVIN</span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">KELLER SHARED HIS FIRST</span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>ROLLING STONE </i>MAGAZINE </span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>COVER </span><span>WITH BOTH HIS LOVER,</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span> JOSIE JAMES, </span><span>AND HIS </span><span>HUSBAND, </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CLAY WALKER! </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">KELLY'S MANAGER, OF COURSE, WAS NICHOLAS FREUND. BIG NIPSY WAS ALSO IN THAT FILM FOOTAGE, BUT PUCHI HAD NO INTEREST IN A MAN HE SNEERINGLY CALLED "THAT HAS-BEEN FOLK SINGER." HE DARED TO SAY THAT TO A MEMBER OF BOSTON'S FREUND CRIME FAMILY! AS IF THE BLACKMAIL THREAT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH. </span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>WELL, PUCHI SCHNEIDER SOON REALIZED THAT HE'D BITTEN OFF MORE THAN HE COULD CHEW! </span><span>HE GOT A PAYOFF, ALL RIGHT, BUT MUCH SMALLER THAN HE WANTED, AND HE WAS FORCED TO GIVE UP SOMETHING IN RETURN: OWNERSHIP OF THE FILM NEGATIVE! ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTIONS TOOK POSSESSION OF IT, BY MEANS THAT I'D RATHER NOT REVEAL.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">BUT ONCE HE HAD POSSESSION OF THE COMPROMISING FILM, BIG NIPSY DECIDED NOT TO SUPPRESS IT! "MY LIFE EXPERIENCE HAS TAUGHT ME THE FOLLY OF TRYING TO HIDE STUFF," HE TOLD ARCHIE, REFERRING TO THE DECADE HE SPENT TRYING TO CONCEAL HIS MAFIA BACKGROUND. "INSTEAD OF KEEPING SECRETS, IT'S BETTER TO USE THEM TO YOUR ADVANTAGE!"</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">NICHOLAS WAS ONE OF A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE WHO KNEW THAT DIRECTOR RAJ PATEL MADE PORN TAPES ON THE SIDE. HE SET UP A PRIVATE SCREENING OF <i>MAN BITCHES</i> FOR RAJ. THEY AGREED THAT A MUCH BETTER FILM COULD BE MADE OUT OF THE FOOTAGE, WITH MOST OF THE EXPLICIT SCENES TAKEN OUT. </span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">RAJ WAS BUSY DIRECTING THE HIT JUKEBOX MUSICAL <i>SOUL + INSPIRATION, </i>BUT FOR A WHILE HE TURNED THAT DUTY OVER TO CYNTHIA WEIL, THE SHOW'S LYRICIST AND CO-PRODUCER. WITH HIS WIFE AMISHA, HE GOT BUSY RE-EDITING PUCHI'S FAILED FLICK. (HE ALSO COMPLETED A PROJECT WITH THE ARCHIES DURING THIS TIME; SALEM WILL ELABORATE LATER ON.) MEANWHILE, NICHOLAS SHARED HIS PLANS WITH AN ASTONISHED KEVIN KELLER. </span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">"APPEARING IN A PORN FLICK DIDN'T HURT SYLVESTER STALLONE'S CAREER," HE ARGUED, "AND IT WON'T HURT YOURS, EITHER!" KELLY WAS RETICENT @ FIRST, BUT HE EVENTUALLY CAME AROUND. ONCE HE DID, NICHOLAS APPROACHED ME ABOUT REPLACING PUCHI'S MEDIOCRE SOUNDTRACK MUSIC. BEING THE KIND OF MANAGER WHO STAYED INFORMED ABOUT PEOPLE IN HIS ORBIT, HE KNEW ABOUT MY FILM SCORING AMBITIONS.</span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">THINGS STARTED HAPPENING VERY QUICKLY! IN APRIL OF 2012, I FOUND MYSELF @ ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, ACTING AS MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR THIS UNUSUAL PROJECT. I CHOSE ROD MACK, ROSCOE SHIRLEY AND MY SONGWRITING PARTNER TIMOTHY GARLAND TO WORK ON IT WITH ME. MY FRIEND MADAME AXE WAS ALSO THERE TO PLAY LEAD GUITAR. </span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">NICHOLAS WAS THE PRODUCER AS WELL AS LEAD SINGER ON THE SONGS I WROTE WITH TIM + ROD. APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, WE CREDITED THEIR TRIO VOCALS TO "THE NASTY BOYS", ARCHIE'S DEFAULT MALE BACKING GROUP! WE TRACKED EIGHT NUMBERS OVER TWO WEEKS.</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>THE TWELFTH YEAR: 2012</i></span></div><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;"> "KISSIN' COUSINS"</span></div></b></span></div><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Salem da Katt: Archie + Veronica, both of partial Italian descent, longed to cut a record that celebrated their heritage. If @ all possible, they wanted to do it with The Archies! Betty, Jughead, Reggie + Trevor were always game for singing in other languages; it was just a question of finding the right songs. The group members finally agreed on titles in late 2011.</span></i></div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Early the next year, after filming a TV special in Rome, The Archies stopped over in Milan for recording sessions. Milanese producer D'Angelo “Dandy” Wong, who'd supervised their Italian-language hit single "Take A Letter, Maria" was waiting with lots of song arrangement ideas. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Their former voice coach Ron Dante had served as music director for the TV special, and he was set to co-produce the sessions; however, a scheduling conflict forced him to leave after just one day of recording. The Archies ended up co-producing in his stead: they cut an album's worth of vintage Italian Pop! Real San-Remo-song-festival shit. Not my taste, but you know: Different strokes! </i></span></div></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Leaving Italy, The Archies flew to Studio City in Hollywood where a sound stage had been booked. They filmed a long-form video to promote their forthcoming Italian releases. Raj Patel was on hand to direct, taking a break from his editing chores on </i></span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>the</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Man Bitches <i>movie.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Fashion guru Donatella Granito (Ron Dante's cousin) had created costumes for the group's TV special. Now they called on her designing talents again; but one of the outfits she sent over from Rome was a shocker! It was nothing but an Italian flag beret and twelve strategically-placed color bands. "Where's the rest of it?" Jughead wanted to know. There wasn't any more: the wearer would essentially appear in his or her birthday suit!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Always looking for ways to push the visual envelope, Raj Patel decided to film somebody dancing in this provocative costume. He hired choreographer Toni Topaz to help him stage the video, and she immediately got to work creating a special solo; but who was going to perform it? Toni herself, maybe? Veronica? Betty? “Forget it!” Betts declared.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Nobody loved filming nude women more than Raj, but for this video, he had beefcake in mind. "It's </i>got <i>to be a male," he insisted. "Fans today want to see 'pickle' on screen! Kevin Keller’s naked dance for 'My Clone Sleeps Alone” is proof of that. What's more, it's got to be a member of the group."</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34762158112/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="MI RICORDANO MARIA"><img alt="MI RICORDANO MARIA" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4246/34762158112_e76ed9b84d.jpg" width="406" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ARCHIES SINGLES FEATURING REGGIE'S</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>LEAD VOCALS WERE ESPECIALLY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>POPULAR IN ITALY AND SOUTH</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AMERICA.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Gino Mantle, long known as "the daring one" was the obvious candidate! However, back in 2008 he'd filmed some sexually-explicit music videos for a solo album. The results were disastrous: Critics bashed him, his album got yanked off the market, and the famous songwriter it paid tribute to (one Neil Diamond) sued him for defamation! So it wasn't surprising when dude begged off. Archie was game (he'd done nude love scenes in the indie flick BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN), but Veronica quickly nixed the idea: "You're a </i>stank <i>dancer, Archiekins! You'd just embarrass me."</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>As for Juggy, he was too self-conscious about the size of his huge donkey dick! He was the one who suggested Trevor Smith, though. "After Reggie, Trev is the best male dancer in the group," he noted. Trevor also sang lead on "Mambo Italiano," the number Raj wanted to synchronize to the nude dance sequence.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>The normally shy bass player wasn't as reticent as you might expect: Trev had put himself through music school working as an artist's figure model. Dancing on camera scared him far more than nudity did, but Toni Topaz made it easy for him: Babe created a dance routine that was essentially a series of dramatic poses. Raj filmed them in high-contrast </i>chiaroscuro <i>light, enhancing the drama! These nude scenes weren't as gratuitous as they'd been in Kevin Keller's video, but there was definitely "pickle" on display!</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36047140026/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="MAMBO ITALIANO VIDEO"><img alt="MAMBO ITALIANO VIDEO" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4321/36047140026_f48e9e263f.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR THE ARCHIES'</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AWARD-WINNING ITALIAN-</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>LANGUAGE MUSIC VIDEO,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>MAMBO ITALIANO.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>When released in Europe, the video caused a sensation! Predictably, the two minutes' worth of dance scenes</i> nel nudo<i> went viral on the web, but the public's response wasn't only about that. MAMBO ITALIANO oozed high style! Shot in two-strip Technicolor, it had silent film production values and resembled a German expressionist movie short. </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Critics hailed the promo as "Raj Patel's artistic triumph", and it won several international video awards!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Somehow, though, the records (two five-track EPs marketed in Europe) didn't benefit from its popularity. Sales were lukewarm @ best; yet when Big Ethel combined the EPs for an Archies Fan Club Christmas premium, it sold like hotcakes! The complete MAMBO ITALIANO sessions are documented below . . .</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51912937114/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE ITALIANO PROMO"><img alt="ARCHIE ITALIANO PROMO" height="324" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51912937114_2cd095c92f.jpg" width="500" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES WILL SCORE A</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>POSTHUMOUS HIT IN THE YEAR</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2089 WHEN VOX ITALIA MARKETS</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE LATIN POP COMPILATION</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ARCHIE ITALIANO.</i> IT WILL BE</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>REISSUED IN 2109.</b></span></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"MAMBO ITALIANO"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUZIONE GRAND-PRIX</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>associata a</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>PRODUZIONI ARCHIE AMERICANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>GRAND PRIX STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MILAN, ITALY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ARCHIE LOVES MAMBO </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Lei Mi Aspetta EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hoffman, Manning, Reichner, Wong)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GLORIA - Lei Mi Aspetta EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bigazzi, Tozzi)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LA SPIA - Mambo Italiano EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Daniele Pace)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>QUANDO? QUANDO? QUANDO?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Lei Mi Aspetta EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Renis, Testa)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MAMBO ITALIANO </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mambo Italiano EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Merrill, Tate, Wong)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CIAO RAGAZZI CIAO/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GOODBYE, BOYS, GOODBYE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Lei Mi Aspetta EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Celentano, del Prete, Rapetti)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LEI MI ASPETTA/SHE BELIEVES IN ME</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Lei Mi Aspetta EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bembo, Pallavicini)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HO BISOGNO DI VERDETI/YOU'RE MINE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mambo Italiano EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ciampi, Monaldi)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>VOLARÉ - Mambo Italiano EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Migliacci, Modugno)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TORNA DE NUOVO/OVER AND OVER </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Dante, Lodge-Andrews, Tate)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/SANT'ANGELO BRASS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers/Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>D'ANGELO WONG w/THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductors:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RON DANTE, ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>FRANCESCO NALDI</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Archie Loves Mambo" was an Italian-language take on</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Papa Loves Mambo," the fondly-remembered Perry Como</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>smash from 1954. "Gloria" will later be covered in English</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>by two New Archies members: Garcy Briseño (for an</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>unreleased single) and Ramsay Khalid Sharma (for</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>his first solo album). "Torna de Nuovo" was an updated</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>version of a song recorded by the Kirshner-era Archies;</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Roni Lodge-Andrews + Terry "Pop" Tate wrote</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Italian lyrics for this </i>molto splendido<i> Jeff Barry/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Ron Dante composition! The pair of EPs that feature</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>these tracks were only available in Europe until late 2013.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Decades from now, a Vox compilation titled ARCHIE ITALIANO</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>will combine them with </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>MI RICORDANO MARIA (The </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Archies' first Italian-</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>language EP) for a best-selling LP.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: WHILE HE WAS IN ITALY, I TELEPHONED ARCHIE WITH EXCITING NEWS: </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">"GLITTER + GOLD" WAS GOING TO WIN A PEOPLE'S </b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">CHOICE AWARD FOR SONG OF THE YEAR! HE + VERONICA </span></b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">WERE ECSTATIC! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">SO MUCH OF THE ARCHIES' MUSIC </b></span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DESERVED NOMINATING FOR AWARDS, BUT IT WAS ALWAYS </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">GETTING PASSED OVER. THIS WAS ONE TIME WHEN THE </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">GROUP GOT ITS DUE, AND NO BIG SURPRISE: IT WAS </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THE FANS WHO GAVE IT TO THEM! THE ARCHIES COULDN'T </b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ATTEND THE </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">CEREMONY IN HOLLYWOOD, SO THEY </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">ACCEPTED THE </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">AWARD FROM MILAN VIA A </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">REMOTE </b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">VIDEO HOOK-UP</b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">. THE </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">MEMBERS WERE IN THE MIDST </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">OF </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">AN EP COVER </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">PHOTO SHOOT, AND EVERYBODY </b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WAS DRESSED TO KILL IN DONATELLA GRANITO'S </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FASHIONS. <i>THE CROWD ATE THEM UP!</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36087316335/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="MAMBO ITALIANO 2"><img alt="MAMBO ITALIANO 2" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4318/36087316335_10fefaa3db.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">COVER DESIGN FOR THE ARCHIES FAN </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">CLUB RECORDS </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">DOUBLE-EXTENDED </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">PLAY DISC <i>MAMBO </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>ITALIANO. </i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE FIRST HUNDRED PRESSINGS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">INCLUDED A RACY POSTER!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"DESTINATION LOVE"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUZIONE GRAND-PRIX</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FEBRUARY 3 - 5, 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>GRAND PRIX STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MILAN, ITALY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SOME OTHER GUY - Destination Love LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barrett, Leiber, Stoller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>RUBY BABY - Destination Love LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Leiber, Stoller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>STAND BY ME - underdub, lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(King, Leiber, Stoller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOUR OLD LADY - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Curtis, Isley, Leiber, Stoller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ARCHIE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/SANT'ANGELO BRASS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>D’ANGELO WONG</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i> ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>FRANCESCO NALDI</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: These sessions took place while The Archies were cutting MAMBO ITALIANO and LEI MEI ASPETTA, their Italian-language EPs. Archie still hadn’t given up on recording a duet album of Leiber + Stoller songs with Veronica - even though by now, babe was dead set against it!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Confident that she’d come around eventually, Arch bided his time by laying down more tracks. There were four solo vocals by Roni in the can, so Arch planned to cut four of his own. He only managed three, but they’re all killer performances! With the powerful Sant’Angelo Brass augmenting him and D'Angelo Wong playing multiple instruments, Archie tracked three very strong single candidates.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>When she heard the playbacks, Roni wanted to release them as singles but hubby told her: “Not so fast, sweetheart! I'll put them out as teasers for our duet album; but no album? No solo records!” Veronica bristled. “That’s blackmail,” she fumed. “No way!” </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>So these new Leiber-Stoller masters joined the others, gathering dust on the shelf; but damned if Archie was gonna settle for that situation! Dude vowed that they wouldn’t stay there indefinitely.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: THE ARCHIES SPENT THE WINTER OF 2011/2012 IN ITALY ON A WORKING VACATION. TONY BRISEÑO + I FLEW OVER THERE DURING THE LAST PART OF IT. IN LATE FEBRUARY AND EARLY MARCH, THE BAND CUT DEMOS FOR A PROPOSED ALBUM OF ORIGINAL SONGS. THE DEMOS WERE TRACKED @ GRAND PRIX STUDIOS, AND THE ALBUM WOULD LIKELY HAVE BEEN RECORDED THERE, TOO.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CONCEIVED BY TONY + ME, <i>POP-ART-CHIE</i> WAS GOING TO BE THE GROUP’S FIRST FORAY INTO ELECTRONIC MUSIC! IT INCLUDED FOUR SONGS FROM <i>MEXOTICA</i>, THE CULT MUSICAL THAT WE WROTE TOGETHER: "ROMEO," "END OF THE WEEK," "SWEET EMOTION" AND "YOU TO ME ARE EVERYTHING." WE RE-IMAGINED THEM AS SYNTHESIZER POP TUNES. I'M A VERY CREATIVE PROGRAMMER, IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF! AND TONY WAS A MASTER WHEN IT CAME TO TECHNOLOGY OF ANY KIND. EVERYONE LIKED OUR DEMOS, BUT ARCHIE, BETTY, JUGHEAD + TREVOR FOUND THEIR OWN SONGS LACKING IN COMPARISON. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>@ LEAST, THAT'S WHAT THEY TOLD US; BUT IN MY OPINION, THEY JUST WEREN'T COMFORTABLE WITH COMPUTER-PROGRAMMED MUSIC! "SOMETHING ORGANIC IS MISSING," BETTY COMPLAINED. THE GROUP DECIDED TO ABANDON THE CONCEPT, AND NO MASTER TAPES WERE EVER CUT. BOTH TONY + I WERE HEARTBROKEN! IN 2014, THERE WOULD BE A "POP-ART-CHIE" CONCERT TOUR, BUT IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS ABORTED PROJECT.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52472787548/in/dateposted/" title="ALL FIRED UP STUDIO SESSION"><img alt="ALL FIRED UP STUDIO SESSION" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52472787548_f59d6b6ea0.jpg" width="374" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">KEVIN KELLER, DRESSED AS A</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FUNKY UNCLE SAM DURING</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">STUDIO SESSIONS FOR HIS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>DÉBUT </i>ALBUM <i>ALL FIRED UP!</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ALL FIRED UP!"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MARCH 21 - 29, 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, UK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GET NERVOUS! - All Fired Up LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Geraldo, Steinberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WE LIVE FOR LOVE - All Fired Up LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Geraldo)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WE BELONG - All Fired Up LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lowen, Navarro)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW HOW TO LOVE ME</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- All Fired Up LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Chapman, Chinn)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PRISONER OF LOVE - All Fired Up LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Scott Sinclair Sheets)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HEARTBREAKER - All Fired Up LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gill, Wade)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT - All Fired Up LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Dave Byron)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ALL FIRED UP! - All Fired Up LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gerardo, Tolhurst)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SEX AS A WEAPON - My Clone Sleeps Alone EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Briley, Geraldo)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LITTLE TOO LATE - All Fired Up LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Alex Call)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JUST LIKE ME - My Clone Sleeps Alone EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Dey, Hart, Melcher)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PRECIOUS TIME - My Clone Sleeps Alone EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Billy Steinberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ROD MACK, BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, THORNE TEWKSBURY,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>MYRIAM FORERO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: “My Clone Sleeps Alone” b/w “Take It Any Way You Want It” was the fastest-selling single of the year 2012! It was just starting to fall off the charts when Kelly, Jughead, Veronica, Judi “Madame Axe” Parisella, Big Nipsy Freund + Rod Mack’s Mack Daddys tracked the first Kevin Keller LP in London. Roni didn’t believe in looking gift horses in the mouth: Since both sides of the hit single were Pat Benatar covers, the album would be a tribute to the trailblazing female rocker.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Kelly was blindsided by success as a singer, and he didn’t know what to make of becoming Heavy Metal’s newest exponent. “I dig HM, but it’s never been my favorite music,” he confessed to the studio crew. “I’m a Jazz singer at heart, just like my pal Juggy!” </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Jazz is a direct descendant of the Blues, so Veronica advised him to sing the tunes as if they were Blues songs. </span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>All of the vocal tracks were recorded in Abbey Road's Gatehouse studio with just Kelly, Juggy + Rod playing piano, percussion and acoustic guitar, respectively; b</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>ut upstairs in the Penthouse, Roni was overdubbing industrial-strength “white noise” provided by Madame Axe + The Mack Daddys! The soon-to-be-megahit Kevin Keller album emerged after Alan Mayberry mixed the tracks with his magic touch.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>It blew the minds of everybody who heard it, including Kelly himself! Not necessarily in a good way, either; but by then, he was ready to embrace stardom in whatever form it came to him. One form would be a Grammy Award for Best New Artist, presented by Pat Benatar herself!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52569702288/in/dateposted/" title="SOUL + INSPIRATION POSTER"><img alt="SOUL + INSPIRATION POSTER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52569702288_99998eb289.jpg" width="375" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">JUGHEAD, KEVIN KELLER + TONI TOPAZ</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">APPEAR ON A POSTER FOR THE ORIGINAL </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">PRODUCTION OF <i>SOUL + INSPIRATION,</i></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">STAGED @ RIVERDALE'S AWESOME</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">VENUE.</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: </span></span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I DIDN'T SPEAK TO MY COUSIN AMBROSE FOR WEEKS AFTER HE TOLD ME HE'D PROPOSED TO BETTY. BREAKING UP A MARRIAGE WAS BAD ENOUGH, BUT AMBROSE HAS NEVER BEEN THE MARRYING KIND! HE HAD NO INTENTION OF MAKING GOOD ON HIS PROMISE. BETTY FOUND THAT OUT SOON ENOUGH, AND SHE RAN SOBBING BACK TO JUGGY. THEY DECIDED TO HAVE ANOTHER GO @ STAYING TOGETHER, BUT SOON REALIZED THAT NOTHING HAD CHANGED: THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS STILL ON VERY SHAKY GROUND! </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>IN EARLY 2012, THEY AGREED TO THE FIRST OF SEVERAL TRIAL SEPARATIONS. "THEY SAY ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER", JUGGY HOPED. "I KNOW SHE LOVES ME AS MUCH AS I LOVE HER. WE'VE HAD SOME ROUGH PATCHES, BUT WE'LL PULL THROUGH! I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT BETTY." IT WAS PAINFUL TO HEAR HIM TALK LIKE THAT! HE WAS TRYING HARD TO CONVINCE HIMSELF OF SOMETHING THAT, DEEP DOWN, HE DIDN'T BELIEVE. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT, EITHER; I COULDN'T! MY CRYSTAL BALL FORETOLD THEIR EVENTUAL DIVORCE. THAT FIRST SEPARATION WAS GOOD FOR BOTH OF THEM, THOUGH. BETTY DECIDED TO REACTIVATE HER HIGH SCHOOL BAND, WHICH ALLOWED HER TO CONCENTRATE ON A NEW CHALLENGE; AND JUGHEAD TOOK ADVANTAGE OF A STAR-MAKING OPPORTUNITY THAT HE WOULDN'T HAVE OTHERWISE CONSIDERED.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SOON AFTER COMPLETING SESSIONS FOR THE ALBUM <i>ALL FIRED UP!,</i> JUGGY + KELLY CONTRACTED WITH SONGWRITERS BARRY MANN, CYNTHIA WEIL + BILL MEDLEY TO APPEAR IN A JUKEBOX MUSICAL. THEY SPENT MOST OF THE REST OF 2012 APPEARING IN THE LAVISHLY-STAGED RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS TRIBUTE <i>SOUL + INSPIRATION.</i> "BROTHERS" BILL + BOBBY WERE THE BIGGEST BLUE-EYED SOUL ACT OF THE SIXTIES, SO WHO BETTER TO PORTRAY THEM ON STAGE THAN . . . BLUE-EYED SOUL? </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">KELLY FILLED BOBBY HATFIELD’S ROLE @ BILL MEDLEY’S REQUEST, WHILE </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">JUGGY PORTRAYED BILL HIMSELF.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/39863238182/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SOUL + INSPIRATION MURAL"><img alt="SOUL + INSPIRATION MURAL" height="389" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4761/39863238182_ac3c520b1a.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">OUTSIDE OF NEW ENGLAND AND THE UK,</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ONLY WAY TO HEAR THE ORIGINAL</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">HIT VERSION OF THE MUSICAL <i>SOUL</i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>+ INSPIRATION</i> WAS TO BUY THE</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ARCHIE RECORDS CAST ALBUM.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: IN THE LATE SPRING OF 2012, I PURCHASED A MANSION IN BOSTON AND STARTED RENOVATING IT. I SUPERVISED EVERY ASPECT OF </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">THE MAKEOVER, BUT BEING A WITCH, I DIDN’T HAVE TO ALWAYS BE ON SITE TO KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING! SO I SPLIT MY TIME BETWEEN BOSTON, LONDON AND ARCHIE RECORDS HQ IN MAMARONECK. DURING THAT TIME, I WORKED ON TWO SPECIAL PROJECTS. I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU ABOUT ONE OF THEM!</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52472701195/in/dateposted/" title="MAN BITCHES LP DESIGN"><img alt="MAN BITCHES LP DESIGN" height="366" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52472701195_9dddddcac2.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>KEVIN KELLER, THE NASTY BOYS +</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>MUSIC DIRECTOR BREE SPELLMAN,</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CUTTING THE SOUNDTRACK MUSIC</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FOR <i>MAN BITCHES ON A BEACH.</i></b></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FALCON RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SOUNDTRACK SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"MAN BITCHES ON A BEACH"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A CHERRY VAGINA MUSIC PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL 9 - 20, 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON UK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ASS MENAGERIE, VOCAL VERSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Man Bitches soundtrack*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mack, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ASS MENAGERIE, INSTRUMENTAL VERSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Man Bitches soundtrack</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bree Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CLAMSHELL THEME - Man Bitches soundtrack</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bree Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>DUNE BUGGY BOUNCE - Man Bitches soundtrack</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bree Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>HORSE AND RIDER THEME - Man Bitches soundtrack</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bree Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LIFEGUARD'S THEME - Man Bitches soundtrack</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bree Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CIRCUS MAXIMUS THEME - Man Bitches soundtrack</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bree Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>KEVIN'S BOOGALOO - Man Bitches soundtrack</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bree Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ORGASMIC WORLD, INSTRUMENTAL VERSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Man Bitches soundtrack</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bree Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ORGASMIC WORLD, VOCAL VERSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Man Bitches soundtrack*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Garland, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE NASTY BOYS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*featuring BIG NIPSY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THORNE TEWKSBURY, EDITHA COLLINS-BECKHAM</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>As a progressive Christian, Rod Mack had no qualms</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>about playing music for a </i>risqué <i>film, but his more </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>conservative studio band </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Mack Daddys did! </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>That's why the backing tracks were cut by The</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Nasty Boys (Timothy Garland on drums, Big Nipsy</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Freund on bass and Rod on guitar) with Bree Spellman</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>playing keyboards and Madame Axe contributing her</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>awesome guitar solos. As these dirty ditties were </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>being tracked, director Raj Patel was putting </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>finishing touches on a film that had begun life</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>as a (very) low-budget porn feature.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/37173341562/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="REY COCHINO + COCHINADA BROTHERS"><img alt="REY COCHINO + COCHINADA BROTHERS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4432/37173341562_4bbbe4fbee.jpg" width="389" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE COCHINADA BROTHERS SANG</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BACKGROUND ON KEVIN KELLER'S</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>POPULAR COVER VERSIONS OF</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ALL THE YOUNG DUDES" AND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"SOMEBODY TO LOVE".</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: @ THE END OF APRIL, TONY BRISEÑO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>TOOK KEVIN KELLER INTO HIS EL PASO STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AND TRACKED A PAIR OF SIXTIES POP CLASSICS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>IF THIS NEW VERSION OF <i>MAN BITCHES</i> TANKED LIKE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE ORIGINAL VERSION DID, ARCHIE </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">+ VERONICA </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">AT LEAST WANTED </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THE CUSHION OF A HIT </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">SINGLE! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">NO WAY </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">WERE THESE JEFFERSON </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">AIRPLANE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">AND </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">MOTT THE HOOPLE COVERS </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">GOING TO </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MISS THE CHARTS.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FALCON STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SOUNDTRACK SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"MAN BITCHES ON A BEACH"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL 28 - 30, 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>STUDIO "B",</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL PASO, TX</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ALL THE YOUNG DUDES </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Man Bitches soundtrack*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(David Bowie)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SOMEBODY TO LOVE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Man Bitches soundtrack</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Darby Slick)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*w/MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/LOS HERMANOS COCHINADA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FOOLKILLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>HUSSEIN HABAKKUK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>In January of 2013, these masters were synched</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>up to music videos, which were then added to</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>the movie by director Raj Patel. Nicholas Freund's</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>unusual idea for a </i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">promotional </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">vehicle paid off </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">handsomely when KEVIN </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">KELLER'S MAN BITCHES </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">ON A BEACH</span></i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> became </i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">an art house hit and </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kelly's </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">blazing </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">remake </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">of Jefferson </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Airplane's </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Somebody To</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Love" </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">turned its </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">soundtrack </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">album into a surprise </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">summer </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">best-seller! </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lead guitarist </span></i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Judi "Madame Axe" Parisella </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>was the </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>only musician to appear on both</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>these El Paso dates and the Abbey</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Road scoring sessions.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: THE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM WAS COMPLETED A WHOLE YEAR BEFORE THE FILM WAS RE-RELEASED: <i>MAN BITCHES ON A BEACH</i> BECAME THE FIRST LP PRESSED ON ARCHIE'S NEW FALCON SUBSIDIARY. WITH A STUNNING NUDE COLLAGE ON THE COVER PHOTOGRAPHED BY RAJ PATEL'S WIFE AMISHA, IT WENT ON SALE IN MAY OF 2013. SIMULTANEOUSLY, RAJ'S RADICALLY RE-IMAGINED, NC-17-RATED CUT OF PUCHI SCHNEIDER'S PORN FILM PREMIERED ON THE ART HOUSE MOVIE CIRCUIT. </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">BOTH BECAME SMASH HITS, OBVIOUSLY BENEFITING FROM KEVIN KELLER'S IMAGE AND NAME RECOGNITION. HE + RAJ PATEL FLEW TO CANNES, FRANCE TO PROMOTE THE RELEASE. PERFORMING ON THE RED CARPET WITH THREE MUSCLE BOYS IN THONG BIKINIS, KELLY CAUSED A <i>SENSATION!</i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">HIS FANS EXPECTED A LURID PEEP SHOW, BUT WE GAVE THEM SOMETHING DIFFERENT: WE MARRIED HEAVY METAL ROCK TO HOMOEROTIC SCENES, USING MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCTION VALUES. IT TURNED OUT TO BE JUST WHAT AUDIENCES WERE WAITING FOR! WHAT'S MORE, RAJ PATEL MADE <i>MAN BITCHES</i> AS MUCH OF AN ARTISTIC STATEMENT AS <i>MAMBO ITALIANO</i>, HIS AWARD-WINNING LONG-FORM VIDEO FOR THE ARCHIES.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SO, AM I PROUD OF CREATING SONGS LIKE "ASS MENAGERIE" AND "ORGASMIC WORLD"? ACTUALLY, I AM. I'M PROUD TO HAVE HELPED TURN SOMETHING THAT WAS CONSIDERED SHAMEFUL INTO A WORK OF ART! <i>MAN BITCHES</i> SET A PRECEDENT FOR THE LATER WORK I DID, SCORING ALL KINDS OF CUTTING-EDGE FILMS. NEITHER KEVIN KELLER NOR I PLANNED ON THE KIND OF FILM <i>DÉBUT</i> WE HAD, BUT EVERYBODY HAS TO START SOMEWHERE!</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;">AND NOW THAT I'D STARTED, I WASN'T GOING TO STOP. @ THE END OF JUNE, I LEFT ARCHIE RECORDS TO GO FREELANCE. IT WAS TIME TO BEAR DOWN ON PURSUING MY TWIN GOALS: WRITING ORIGINAL MUSIC FOR FILM SOUNDTRACKS AND OPENING MY VERY OWN RECORDING STUDIO! THAT WAS THE </span><span style="font-size: medium;">REASON I PURCHASED THAT HAUNTED MANSION IN BOSTON.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52552122813/in/dateposted/" title="AUSTRALIAN VINYL SINGLES"><img alt="AUSTRALIAN VINYL SINGLES" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52552122813_c50343e106.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BEFORE 2010, AUSTRALIA WAS THE ONLY</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PLACE IN THE WORLD WHERE VINYL</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SINGLES BY THE ARCHIES WERE SOLD</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">REGULARLY. PRESSINGS ON THE </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">AUSTRALIAN </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">ARCHIE LABEL ARE </span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">HIGHLY </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">COLLECTIBLE!</span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"PAST, PRESENT + FUTURE"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAY 2012</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FAME STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">GIVE HIM A GREAT BIG KISS</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">WHAT IS LOVE?</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">NEVER AGAIN</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">RIGHT NOW AND NOT LATER</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">I CAN NEVER GO HOME ANYMORE</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">HE CRIED</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">DRESSED IN BLACK</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS</i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;">w/DEANIE GRUNDY</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>Arranger:</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>Conductor:</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>REY COCHINO</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>CHUCK CLAYTON, JOSIE JAMES</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>Sound Engineer: CADE MURPHY</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>Work finally began in earnest on The</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>Pussy Cats' second album for Archie</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>Records. It was to be a tribute to</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>a group that many Rock historians</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>regarded as their direct forerunner:</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>The Shangri-Las. Josie was so invested</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>in this project, she insisted on co-</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>producing the sessions. Unfortunately,</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>as was the case when previous Archie</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>sessions collapsed, a disruptive influence</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>invaded the studio. This time, it was The</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>Pussy Cats' manager, Lex Cabot! It took</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>some doing, but he convinced the band to</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i>scuttle the tribute.</i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>Salem da Katt: Lex Cabot loved to brag about how fierce </i></span><i style="color: #f4cccc;">a protector he was of The Pussy Cats' best interests. I'm </i><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span>convinced there was self-interest @ play, too! Dude was a greedy motherfucker! From hanging </span><span>out with his sister's witch cat Sebastian, I found out how excessive </span><span>his manager's commission was - far more than </span><span>what most groups paid. "Basty" also told me that Lex </span><span>wanted to produce as well as manage the Pussy Cats. For sure, because then dude could charge them an even higher fee! </span></span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i><span><span>The one and only time </span><span>they let Lex supervise their music, the record label had to </span><span>hire four remixers to bring his shitty production values up </span><span>to speed! He disliked Chuck Clayton because his wife </span><span>Valerie found him attractive and said so. W</span><span>hen Josie requested that Chuckii produce</span></span></i><i><span><span> The Pussy Cats, </span><span>dude's head nearly exploded! That's when he decided to sabotage the Shangri-Las sessions. </span></span></i><i><span>"WTF do you think </span></i></span><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;">you're doing?" he raged. "Cutting these old-ass girl group </span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span>songs? The Pussy Cats don't pay </span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span>tribute to other groups. </span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span>Other groups </span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;">should be paying YOU tribute!"</i><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span> </span></span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><i><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i><span><span>Appealing </span></span></i><i><span><span>to a performer's ego - it works every time! </span></span></i></span><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span>Lex kept The </span></span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span>Pussy Cats out of the studio </span><span>until </span></span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span>their contract with </span></span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;">Archie ran out. Looking back, </i><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;">it's a miracle that the asshole even let them cut </span></i><i style="color: #f4cccc;">one album </i><i style="color: #f4cccc;">for the label!</i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"BE YOUR OWN ARCHIES"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUNE 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SUSPICIOUS MINDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Be Your Own Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mark James)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HIP SHAKER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Be Your Own Archies EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JACKY DANIELS AND YOU</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Be Your Own Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Greenfield, Sedaka)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TRAIN FROM KANSAS CITY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Be Your Own Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Hawkins)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; 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font-family: verdana;"><b>SUGAR, SUGAR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Be Your Own Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Kim)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>LES GIGOLETTES: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">BIG ETHEL, percussion</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>JONNIEMAE, guitar</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>MIDGE MERCURY, drums</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>BREE SPELLMAN, keyboards</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, keyboards</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>TERRY "POP" TATE, saxophone</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>FRANKIE VÁLDEZ, bass</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer/Sound Engineer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Executive Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BE YOUR OWN ARCHIES was the Archies Fan Club</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>release for Christmas 2012. The session crew for</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>this first of two rounds of karaoke album sessions</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>contains the nucleus of what would become</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The Bettys: In 2014, Jonniemae Trouten, Midge</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Mercury + Bree Spellman joined Betty Jones'</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>reformed Rock band. Using his nickname "Cisco,"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>session bass player Frankie Váldez later became</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>a member of El Mariachi Lowrider. All songs are</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>instrumental remakes of Archies hits except for </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"Suspicious </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Minds." The </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">Archies never recorded a </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>studio version of this Elvis Presley classic! They</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>considered cutting it several </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">times, though, and </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Betty </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">will feature it live on the </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">band's 2032</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>farewell tour.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53241282874/in/dateposted/" title="BE YOUR OWN ARCHIES PROMO"><img alt="BE YOUR OWN ARCHIES PROMO" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53241282874_ccb7cfb371.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ARCHIES FAN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CLUB RELEASE WAS 2012'S <i>BE YOUR </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>OWN ARCHIES,</i> A KARAOKE ALBUM</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RECORDED BY LES GIGOLETTES.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"BE YOUR OWN ARCHIES"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JULY 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I DON'T WANNA LOVE YOU</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Be Your Own Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; 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font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HILL UNDERGROUND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Be Your Own Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lewis-Warrick, Smith)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ANGELITO MÍO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Be Your Own Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, San Quentín)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NINETEENTH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Be Your Own Archies EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOOKING AT TOMORROW</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Be Your Own Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>LES GIGOLETTES:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>CHUCK CLAYTON - guitar</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>CORKY CLAYTON - bass</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>JELLI JONES-TORRES - percussion</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>MIDGE MERCURY - drums</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>FRENCHY SKAGGS - fiddle</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND - keyboards</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Executive Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BE YOUR OWN ARCHIES was by far the most</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>successful Archies Fan Club album release (and an EP</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>released from the sessions also sold well)! Copies found</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>their way into the hands of many non-members and</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>became coveted cult items. Les Gigolettes' Power</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Pop interpretations of Archies hits are as easy to play</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>as they are to sing, and they'll end up influencing</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>a generation of garage bands.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52483353062/in/photostream/" title="KEVIN KELLER @ CANNES"><img alt="KEVIN KELLER @ CANNES" height="377" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52483353062_d9220be7c0.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>DIRECTOR RAJ PATEL WITH KEVIN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>KELLER AND THREE HUNKY "MAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BITCHES!" </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">THEY CONQUERED </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE CANNES </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">FILM FESTIVAL IN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">MAY OF </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">2013.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: IN EARLY AUGUST OF 2012, THE ARCHIES CUT A TRIBUTE TO BARRY GIBB + THE BEE GEES. IT WAS A (VERY) SCALED-DOWN VERSION OF THEIR ABANDONED<i> FIFTY SHADES OF SOUL</i> ALBUM. THIS EP WAS THE RESULT OF TWO SIMULTANEOUS RECORDING SESSIONS HELD IN NEW ORLEANS AND PHILADELPHIA; WORKING REMOTELY FROM HOLLYWOOD WHERE I WAS PURSUING FILM SOUNDTRACK ASSIGNMENTS, I CO-WROTE THE SONG ARRANGEMENTS WITH ROD MACK.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"SHADOW DANCING"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>in association with</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AUGUST 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SIGMA SOUND STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SHADOW DANCING </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Shadow Dancing EP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(The Bee Gees, Andy Gibb)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TOO MUCH HEAVEN* </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Shadow Dancing EP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(The Bee Gees)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NIGHTS ON BROADWAY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Shadow Dancing EP (Asia)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(The Bee Gees)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Shadow Dancing EP (Asia)**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(The Bee Gees)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>COME ON OVER </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Shadow Dancing EP (Asia)**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry + Robin Gibb)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JIVE TALKIN' </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Shadow Dancing EP (Asia)***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(The Bee Gees)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>REGGIE MANTLE, *VERONICA, </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>**BETTY JONES, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">***KEVIN KELLER</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ROD MACK, BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>EDDIE ROXCHILD, SETH JACCOBY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Executive Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>This was the first of two bi-coastal Archies record</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>dates; the second will take place twenty years</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>later. Betty, Roni, Reggie + Trevor tracked music</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>and lead vocals in New Orleans while Juggy + Kelly</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>recorded instrumental overdubs and The Vixens’ </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">background vocals </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">in Philadelphia. Archie didn’t attend </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">these sessions - he disliked Disco music intensely - </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">but some of </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">his pre-recorded guitar tracks were </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">added to the final mix. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">SHADOW DANCING had a very </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">limited shelf life! Only </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">released in Asia, it was pulled off </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">the market when </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">early sales fell flat. A 2099 compilation </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">titled ARCHIE IN </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">NEW ORLEANS will give these half-dozen </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Disco remakes </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">(mostly sung by Veronica + Betty) a much-</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">deserved reissue. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Contrary to rumors, SHADOW </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">DANCING was never </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">going to be a Fan Club EP.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36466902425/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SHADOW DANCING EP_1"><img alt="SHADOW DANCING EP_1" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4429/36466902425_8f78504c56.jpg" width="373" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE MOST COLLECTIBLE ARCHIES EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>IS <i>SHADOW DANCING,</i> A 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>TRIBUTE TO DISCO LEGEND BARRY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>GIBB. COPIES ARE </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">EXTREMELY RARE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">AND HAVE BEEN </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">KNOWN TO CHANGE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">HANDS FOR </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">UPWARDS OF $500.00!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: THERE WAS EXCITEMENT AROUND THE ARCHIE OFFICES IN LATE AUGUST OF 2012: BURT BACHARACH HAD INVITED ARCHIE TO BE HIS SPECIAL GUEST @ A PERFORMANCE IN CUBA! IT WAS AN INVITATION-ONLY CONCERT @<i> CASA DE LA MÚSICA DE MIRAMAR, </i>A VERY POPULAR LIVE MUSIC VENUE IN HAVANA. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">UNFORTUNATELY, BURT ENDED UP HAVING TO CANCEL HIS APPEARANCE THERE; BUT ARCHIE WENT TO CUBA ANYWAY! HE ACTUALLY FILLED IN FOR BERT AND DID A SHOW THAT FEATURED HIS MUSIC EXCLUSIVELY. JUSTIN STRICKLAND WROTE THE ARRANGEMENTS AND FLEW DOWN WITH HIM + VERONICA. MEMBERS OF EL MARIACHI LOWRIDER ALSO TRAVELED TO HAVANA, ENGAGED AS BACKING MUSICIANS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">BY ARCHIE. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A LAST-MINUTE SUBSTITUTION LIKE THAT COULD'VE BEEN DISASTROUS, BUT IT WORKED FOR A SURPRISING REASON: HIGH REGARD FOR ARCHIE'S 2010 SOLO ALBUM OF BACHARACH TUNES! ONE OF THE FEW PLACES IN THE WORLD WHERE IT SOLD WELL WAS CUBA (ALBEIT IN BOOTLEG FORM); SO BURT'S CUBAN FANS WERE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT RECORD, AND THEY TURNED OUT IN DROVES TO HEAR ARCHIE SING SELECTIONS FROM IT LIVE! SO MUCH FOR THE "INVITATION ONLY" ADMISSION RULE! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">THE CROWD WAS SO BIG THAT THE RELATIVELY SMALL CLUB COULDN'T POSSIBLY HOLD IT; PEOPLE SPILLED OUT ONTO THE STREET AND LINED THE BLOCK. EVENTUALLY, THE FRONT DOORS OF <i>CASA MIRAMAR</i> WERE FLUNG OPEN SO THAT EVERYONE COULD HEAR. THE PERFORMANCES WERE CHEERED SO LOUDLY, THE HAVANA POLICE GOT SUMMONED @ ONE POINT! UNTIL THE END OF HIS LIFE, ARCHIE WILL TELL JOKES ABOUT THAT! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I WOULDN'T PRESUME TO SAY WHICH OF THE MANY SHOWS HE DID WAS HIS ALL-TIME FAVORITE, BUT THAT CUBAN GIG IS THE ONE HE WAS PROUDEST OF. IN VERONICA'S CASE, THERE WAS NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER; THE ONLY THING THAT COULD'VE MADE IT BETTER FOR HER WAS IF BURT BACHARACH HAD BEEN THERE!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"WATUSI FEVER"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUCCIÓN BROWN BOY JOY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 14 - 19, 21 - 26, 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE CONGA ROOM,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MÉXICO CITY, MÉXICO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SOUTH STREET </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Appel, Cohen)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">GRAVY</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Appel, Cohen)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">BRISTOL STOMP</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Appel, Cohen)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">YOU CAN’T SIT DOWN</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Clark, Cohen, Muldrow, Upchurch)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">LET’S TWIST AGAIN </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Appell, Cohen)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">LIMBO ROCK </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Cohen, Santiago, Strange)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">DO THE BIRD</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Appel, Cohen)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">MEDLEY:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THE WAH-WATUSI/MASHED POTATO TIME</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Appel, Cohen)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">HULLY GULLY BABY</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Appel, Cohen)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">DO THE FISH</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Cohen, Denson, Dixon)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">NOVENTA Y SEIS LÁGRIMAS/NINETY-SIX TEARS</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Rudy Martinez)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">DO THE CHA-CHA-CHA</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Appel, Cohen, Lowe)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">MEDLEY:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><i>BRISTOL STOMP/DO THE NEW CONTINENTAL/</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><i>THE POPEYE WADDLE</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Appel, Cohen)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THE TWIST</b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Hank Ballard)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THE TWIST en Español </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">(Ballard, Santiago)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MEDLEY en Español:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">LIMBO ROCK en Español (Cohen, Santiago, Strange)/</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">POPEYE, THE HITCHHIKER (Appell, Cohen, Mack)/</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU JUST DON'T KNOW (Mack, Miller, Santiago)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- unreleased</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><i>TREVOR SMITH</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers/Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>TREVOR SANTIAGO, ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: JOSIE JAMES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: STYNG RAYE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: In the late summer of 2012, Josie + The Pussy Cats tried one last time to cut a second album for Archie Records. It was going to be a tribute to early Sixties dance crazes; the concept originated with Valerie Smith’s brother Trevor. The trio was set to cover a bunch of vintage hits from the catalog of Cameo-Parkway Records, but the LP never even got to the demo stage; Lex Cabot shot it down, which should come as no surprise! Dude's excuse? "It’s too novelty-oriented,” he complained.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Trev wasn’t ready to give up. Sabrina’s crystal ball conjures up the past quite nicely, so I can tell you </i>verbatim <i>what he said to Melly + Val. “Maybe Sixties dance music isn’t the right material for </i>you,”<i> he declared, “but it’s perfect for me. I love that genre of Rock ‘n’ Roll; not only that, I sound a lot like Chubby Checker when I sing. I’ll make this album my damn self! Big Ethel has just asked me to cut a solo record for the Archies Fan Club.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>An impish grin washed over his face. “So . . . </i>what if I have my Pussy and eat it, too?”<i> Valerie rolled her eyes at him: “What are you talking about, </i>conejo?”<i> A laughing Melody Munro-Jones chimed in: “I know! He wants us to back him up @ his album sessions.” Trev nodded. “Would you? Do you think Josie will agree to it?” Babe walked in @ just that moment and answered the question herself: </i>“Only<i> for you, Trev! We’d love to be your session crew. That is, if scheduling permits.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52312789130/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BookScanCenter (1)"><img alt="BookScanCenter (1)" height="390" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52312789130_214a393c5d.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">NEVER-RELEASED PROMO FOR TREVOR </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">SMITH'S 2012 ARCHIES FAN CLUB </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ALBUM <i>WATUSI FEVER.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Trev made sure that scheduling would! He had session contractor Rey Cochino book the date as soon as they were free. Dude produced WATUSI FEVER himself @ The Conga Room in México City. @ Josie’s suggestion, Trevor flew Rod Mack over from England to help write the arrangements. Rey came down, too, with his Big-Ass Brass section in tow; but it’s from Rod that I got the 411 on how this project came together . . . and fell apart!</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>"Trev + The Pussy Cats covered fourteen Cameo-Parkway hits over a span of two weeks," he told me. "Most of the sessions were conducted in Spanish. I used to be part of a teenage Salsa act, so I was fine with it; four years earlier, when Trevor couldn't go to México with The Archies, I'd subbed for him. </i><i>After he repeatedly flubbed the English lyrics to '96 Tears', Valerie and I suggested that he sing the Spanish-language version instead. Dude subsequently translated the lyrics to 'The Cha-Cha-Chá', 'Limbo Rock' and 'The Twist' and replaced his English vocals on those songs. We also prepared a Spanish translation of 'Fever', but it wouldn't be tracked until much later.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52346815542/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="WATUSI FEVER PRODUCTION STAFF"><img alt="WATUSI FEVER PRODUCTION STAFF" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52346815542_89349fba0e.jpg" width="393" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A RARE PHOTO OF THE SESSION</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>CREW FOR TREVOR SMITH'S <i>WATUSI</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FEVER.</i> TREV IS SHOWN WITH MUSIC</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>CONTRACTOR REY COCHINO, CO-</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>PRODUCER ROD MACK + </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">SUPERSTAR </b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;">BACKING BAND </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">JOSIE + THE </b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;">PUSSY CATS!</b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>"WATUSI FEVER was scheduled for a Christmas release, and it would've been the first time Josie + The Pussy Cats had featured on an Archies Fan Club project! There was a nagging question, though: AFC artists owned their own master tapes, but who owned FEVER? Trevor or The Pussy Cats? AFC contracts had no co-ownership clause. That became an issue when Lex Cabot got wind of the album sessions!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>"That fucker legally forbad AFC Records to issue the master until ownership could be established! The Pussy Cats’ contract with Archie had just expired; if they owned Trevor’s album, then Lex had the right to take the master to another label. On the other hand, if Trev was the owner, Lex could demand that his clients’ music tracks be erased! The reason not only had to do with that missing co-ownership clause, but the unique nature of Trev’s recording contract with Archie Records.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>"Trevor Smith was a member of The Archies, but not a charter member," Rod explained. "When he joined up, he signed directly to the Archie label as an individual; the other members had signed as a group. They were free to put out solo records on any label they wanted to, but he wasn’t; so if The Pussy Cats claimed his album master, Archie couldn't market it and they couldn't either! WATUSI FEVER got stuck in legal limbo and stayed there, unreleased." That’s exactly what Lex intended: Dude didn’t want his clients associated with a novelty record in any way, shape or form!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Valerie Smith-Cabot was hopping mad about what her husband had done, but in the end she deferred to his judgment. All of the Pussy Cats did! Nobody was more responsible for their success than Lex, and even though dude bled them with a huge management fee, their trust in him was unshakeable. “I hate to be such an SOB about these things,” he’d say when they objected to his hard-ass tactics, “but if I wasn't, you'd get screwed!"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Archie + Veronica felt like </i>they’d <i>gotten screwed, and for that reason they didn’t ask The Pussy Cats to extend their recording contract. They’d had enough of Lex Cabot's abrasive personality! “A little bit of him goes a long way,” Roni declared, “and a long way is just where I want Lex to go!” This convoluted story has a sequel; stay tuned!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52054320846/in/dateposted/" title="ENGLAND SWINGS"><img alt="ENGLAND SWINGS" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52054320846_ea23892011.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN: SINGLES AND AN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ALBUM RECORDED BY JOSIE + THE PUSSY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CATS w/GREG JAMES, RELEASED ON THEIR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>OWN CUSTOM RECORD LABEL IN THE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>UNITED KINGDOM.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: IN OCTOBER OF 2012, THE ARCHIES ATTEMPTED TO CUT ANOTHER EP IN EL PASO, BUT ONLY ONE TRACK WAS COMPLETED: “WHOLE WORLD SHAKIN,’’ ONE OF THE LAST HITS RECORDED BY SOUL LEGEND SAM COOKE. ULTIMATELY, THE BAND WOULD RECORD THAT SONG THREE DIFFERENT TIMES! IT'S DESTINED TO BE THE TITLE TRACK OF THE ARCHIES’ FINAL STUDIO ALBUM, WHICH WILL BE RECORDED FOR ANOTHER LABEL.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"WHOLE WORLD SHAKIN'"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(MUSIC + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>OCTOBER 2-5, 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>STUDIO "B",</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL PASO, TEXAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHOLE WORLD SHAKIN' (UNDERDUB) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- End Of A Century LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Sam Cooke)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BETTY JONES, REGGIE "GINO" MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>HARVEY "FOOLKILLER" SCHWARTZ</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: HUSSEIN HABAKKUK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Archie + Trevor sang duet vocals on the underdub</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>of "Whole World Shakin'." This never-completed</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>EP was to include covers of The Guess Who's</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Shakin' All Over", Chan Romero's "Hippy</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Hippy Shake" and James + Bobby Purify's</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Shake A Tailfeather".</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: I ALMOST FORGOT TO MENTION ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS OF 2012. EARLY THAT YEAR, CHERRY VAGINA MUSIC ACQUIRED THE SONG CATALOG OF BOBBY FULLER, INCLUDING THE HITS OF THE BOBBY FULLER FOUR. BOTH ARCHIE + VERONICA FELT THAT BOBBY WAS A GROSSLY UNDERRATED SONGWRITER WHOSE COMPOSITIONS SHOULD BE WIDELY CELEBRATED! WHILE THEY WERE DISCUSSING HOW TO BEST PROMOTE THIS TREASURE TROVE OF MUSIC, TONY BRISEÑO INTRODUCED THEM TO TWO OF HIS FRIENDS WHO WERE INVENTORS.</span></b></div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">KOREAN BROTHERS ICHI + KOO PARK COULD HARDLY TALK ABOUT ANYTHING BUT THEIR LATEST INNOVATION: A NEW KIND OF HOLOGRAM THAT WAS UNCANNILY REALISTIC! ALWAYS A FOUNTAIN OF IDEAS, VERONICA CONCEIVED A HOLOGRAM TOUR STARRING THE ARCHIES. WITH ARCHIE'S INPUT, HER CONCEPT LATER GREW TO INCLUDE ALL THE OTHER ARCHIE ACTS. IT WOULD BE A MODERN VERSION OF MOTOWN RECORDS' FAMOUS "MOTORTOWN" REVUE!</span></div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> <br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52456211316/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="HOLOGRAM ROCK"><img alt="HOLOGRAM ROCK" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52456211316_c657573998.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ICHI + KOO PARK PREPARE AN</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">AUDIO-VISUAL ROCK 'N' ROLL</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">EXTRAVAGANZA FOR ARCHIE</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RECORDS!</span></b></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BEGINNING IN THE SUMMER OF 2012, THE PARK BROTHERS FILMED SEVERAL CONCERTS IN THEIR SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS. THESE SHOWS FEATURED MOST OF THE ARCHIE RECORDS ROSTER, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: BIG ETHEL +(SEPARATELY) THE VIXENS; REGINALD aka REGGIE MANTLE; BLUE-EYED SOUL aka JUGHEAD + KEVIN KELLER; TREVOR SMITH + SAVOY SOUND; ARCHIE + VERONICA; TONI TOPAZ; JOSIE + THE PUSSYCATS; AND, OF COURSE, THE ARCHIES! THE PUSSY CATS WERE FIRST TO GO BEFORE THE HOLOGRAM CAMERAS.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">MY EX-BOYFRIEND HARRIS GARDNER, WHO RECORDED THE FIRST ARCHIE RECORDS PRODUCTION, WAS A SPECIAL GUEST ON THIS "TOUR." HE WAS FILMED THAT NOVEMBER, IN CONCERT @ THE FAMOUS CLUB TROPICANA IN HAVANA, CUBA. THE OTHER PERFORMERS WERE CAPTURED @ THE HISTORIC LINCOLN THEATER IN WASHINGTON, DC; THE OLYMPIA THEATER IN PARIS; THE SCOTCH OF ST. JAMES CLUB IN LONDON; AND THE PALOMAR BALLROOM IN SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA. CHUCK CLAYTON WAS MUSIC DIRECTOR, AND DEANIE GRUNDY WROTE ALL OF THE SONG ARRANGEMENTS WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM ME. I'LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT LATER ON.</span></span></div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"THE SWEETEST SAX"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BEL CANTO STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, ENGLAND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SUGAR, SUGAR - Sweetest Sax EP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Kim)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SWEETER THAN SUGAR - unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Feldman, Levine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SUGAR TOWN - Sweetest Sax EP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lee Hazlewood)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SUGAR SHACK - Sweetest Sax EP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(McCormack, Voss)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>KISSES SWEETER THAN WINE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Sweetest Sax EP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Campbell, Newman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU'RE A SWEET SWEETHEART - unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Goffin, King)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SUGAR ON SUNDAY - Sweetest Sax EP***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(James, Vale)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SWEET MARIJUANA - Sweetest Sax EP***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Coslow, Johnston)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SWEET SEASONS - Sweetest Sax EP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(King, Stern)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SUGAR WALLS - Sweetest Sax EP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Prince)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>POP TATE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/TONI TOPAZ</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*ROD MACK, **ARCHIE ANDREWS,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>***RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>LAKSHMI SHUTTLESWORTH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>SOUL + INSPIRATION was a jukebox</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>musical based on the memoirs of Bill Medley,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>a member of The Righteous Brothers. With</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Juggy Jones + Kevin Keller in the leading roles </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">and a </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">book by legendary song lyricist Cynthia </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Weil, the </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">show did SRO business in New England </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">during </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">the Spring, Summer and Fall of 2012. </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">In preparation </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">for transferring the production to </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">London's West End, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">the cast and crew traveled to </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">the UK to play previews. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Terry "Pop" Tate was one of </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">the pit musicians, and </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Archie (who wrote arrangements </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">for the show) </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">booked studio dates for him after </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">curtain each night. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The band that backed Pop </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">included Arch, Rod Mack + </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Johnniemae on </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">guitars. </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Juggy + Kelly’s co-star </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Toni Topaz </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">displayed her </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">talent as a bass player. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">arguably the finest </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">band that ever played </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">on </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">an Archies-related </span></i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>studio session!</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36087313525/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="POP TATE PLAYS THE SWEETEST SAX"><img alt="POP TATE PLAYS THE SWEETEST SAX" height="383" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4316/36087313525_8dfc4fa339.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>TERRY "POP" TATE WAS AN OCCASIONAL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SIDEMAN ON ARCHIES RECORDING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>DATES. HE RELEASED A CRITICALLY-</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ACCLAIMED EXTENDED-PLAY DISC</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ON THE ARCHIES FAN CLUB</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>LABEL.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: IN DECEMBER OF 2012, THE ARCHIES TRACKED MULTI-LINGUAL VOCALS IN SANTA BARBARA, AS WELL AS A MOVIE THEME THAT I ARRANGED FOR THEM. THE SONGS IN PORTUGUESE WERE MEANT FOR YET ANOTHER ABORTED EP; </b></span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE OTHERS WERE INTENDED AS FOREIGN SINGLES. FROM THOSE TRACKS </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">CAME A KOREAN VERSION OF “IT’S A HAPPENING WORLD,” WHICH BROKE FOR A HIT IN SOUTH ASIA.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>REGGIE MANTLE SANG LEAD ON MY ARRANGEMENT OF "WHERE ARE WE GOING?" WHEN I HEARD HOW GREAT HE SOUNDED ON THE PLAYBACK, I WAS SO PROUD OF HIM! HE COULD BARELY SING @ ALL STARTING OUT, BUT HE WORKED VERY HARD TO LEARN HIS CRAFT: NOT ONLY SINGING, BUT <i>SELLING </i>A SONG, BOTH IN THE STUDIO AND ON STAGE! NOW, AWAY FROM THE ARCHIES, HE WAS A TOP NASHVILLE DEMO VOCALIST AND THE OBVIOUS CHOICE TO </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">SING A MOVIE THEME.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34472318556/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="CHICO'S GIRL"><img alt="CHICO'S GIRL" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4169/34472318556_23de0e7bcf.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">EVEN THOUGH ARCHIE WAS PRESIDENT</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">OF THE COMPANY, RONI LODGE-ANDREWS </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">WAS THE HEAD, HEART, SOUL AND</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE OF </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ARCHIE RECORDS! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ARCHIE IN BRAZIL"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>in association with</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MS. DEBBIE PRODUCTIONS and</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ISLAND PACIFIC PRODUCTIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DECEMBER 2012</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOOK IN MY EYES, MARÌA </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Grandes Éxitos Latinos</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHERE ARE WE GOING? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Big Noise From Riverdale box set*#</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lane, Linde)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I GOT A DREAM in Portuguese </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Grandes Éxitos Latinos**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Angel, Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HE AIN'T NO ANGEL in Portuguese </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Grandes Éxitos Latinos**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Angel, Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE TRAIN FROM KANSAS CITY in Portuguese</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Grandes Éxitos Latinos**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Angel, Barry, Greenwich, Hawkins)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>UPTOWN in Portuguese</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Grandes Éxitos Latinos*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Angel, Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NIGHTS ON BROADWAY in Portuguese</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Grandes Éxitos Latinos***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Angel, The Bee Gees)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>in Portuguese </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Grandes Éxitos Latinos**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Angel, Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE HER! in Vietnamese</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie Around The World CD**#</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Mung, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOOKING AT TOMORROW in Russian</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie Around The World CD**#</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Mung, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I SAW THE LIGHT in Korean</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single B-side (Southeast Asia)#</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jones, Mung, Rundgren)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IT'S A HAPPENING WORLD in Korean</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single (Southeast Asia)*#</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jones, Mann, Mung, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/DEBBIE ALLEN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*BREE SPELLMAN,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>**RALFI CHINGAS,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>***ROD MACK + BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Conductors: </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND, ##LEE CHIN MUNG</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>#w/DEBBIE ALLEN, ##w/BARCLAY SINGH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>Of this batch of mostly foreign-language recordings,</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>only "It's A Happening World" became a hit. It</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>reached the Top Forty in South Korea; Archie +</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Veronica sang a duet lead. Lyric translation</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>was a family affair: The Portuguese lyricist</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>was Trevor Smith's wife Cristina Angel, and</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>and Taiwanese conductor Lee Chin Mung </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(executive producer Barclay Singh's brother- </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>in-law) was the Russian, Vietnamese and</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Korean translator. Reggie sang lead on </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"Where Are We Going?" which featured </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> in the 2013 </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Debbie Allen film of the </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>same title. </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>This was the last </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>time he would </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>share a recording </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>studio with </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>all of his </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>bandmates; going forward, Reggie was</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>essentially a solo artist.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52563198046/in/dateposted/" title="REGGIE SAYS GOODBYE"><img alt="REGGIE SAYS GOODBYE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52563198046_45812cf64b.jpg" width="369" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>REGGIE SAYS GOODBYE TO</b></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES!</b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: THE MOVIE <i>WHERE ARE WE GOING?</i> WAS DIRECTED BY DEBBIE ALLEN, AND SHE CO-PRODUCED THE SESSION @ WHICH ITS </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THEME SONG WAS RECORDED. @ HER SUGGESTION, </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THE ARCHIES WERE ALSO GOING TO CUT TWO SONGS FROM </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">HER ICONIC EIGHTIES TV SERIES "FAME." THERE WASN'T </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">ENOUGH STUDIO TIME LEFT TO DO THAT, BUT THE GROUP DID </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">REHEARSE "THE SECRET." THAT'S ONE </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">OF MY FAVORITE TV SOUNDTRACK BALLADS! </b></span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BETTY + REGGIE SANG A DUET LEAD, AND NEAR THE END</b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">, DEBBIE HERSELF CHIMED IN:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The secret of life: Celebrate life/</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Each moment of every day/</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Just jump right in and live it/</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Every single minute/</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The secret of love: Celebrate love/</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Each moment of every day/ </i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>There's one thing to be sure of/</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>You'll end up having more love/</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>When you've given love away.*</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"> I WASN'T THERE, BUT </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">I WITNESSED THEIR PERFORMANCE LATER ON, GAZING INTO MY CRYSTAL BALL. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY <i>STUNNING!</i> AFTER THEY FINISHED </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THE LAST CHORUS, BETTY THREW HER ARMS AROUND REG </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">AND STARTED TO CRY. THEY HELD ON TO EACH OTHER </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">FOR A LONG TIME! EVERYBODY COULD SENSE THAT IT </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">WAS THE END OF AN ERA.</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REGGIE MANTLE TOOK EXTENDED LEAVE FROM THE GROUP AFTER THIS SESSION, DETERMINED TO STRIKE OUT ON HIS OWN ONE LAST TIME. HE WOULD NEVER RETURN TO THE GROUP AS AN ACTIVE MEMBER!</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*Music + Lyrics by Barry Fasman + Steve Sperry,</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>published by EMI-Jemaxal Music, R2M Publishing</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>and Songs of LaStrada (BMI/ASCAP)</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2013.html" target="_blank">CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE: </a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24591031377/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="REGGIE SILVER"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="REGGIE SILVER" height="390" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4690/24591031377_94d65f3581.jpg" width="500" /></span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span>"THE CHICKEN + THE HAWK"</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc;">A MILLIONAIRE AND A CORPORATE RAIDER</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc;">DO BATTLE ACROSS A CONFERENCE</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc;">TABLE IN THE YEAR</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><i>2 0 1 3 !</i></span></span></b></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-15728307931892853842023-03-17T18:44:00.007-04:002024-02-15T12:55:21.526-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24264364040/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="HITS OF THE 60s ALBUM COVERS"><b><img alt="HITS OF THE 60s ALBUM COVERS" height="393" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1535/24264364040_71c22a2fb5.jpg" width="500" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>POP CULTURE CANTINA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Presents</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A Journey Through</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE GREAT AMERICAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SONG BOOK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS, THE ORIGINAL LOCATION OF WHICH WAS IN MAMARONECK, NEW YORK, WAS ARCHIE’S RE-IMAGINED VERSION OF MOTOWN’S HITSVILLE STUDIO. VERONICA NEVER THOUGHT IT LIVED UP TO THE NAME! SHE HATED THE ACOUSTICS. "ASS" ENDED UP BEING USED MAINLY AS A DEMO STUDIO FOR CHERRY VAGINA MUSIC, THE PUBLISHING DIVISION OF ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTIONS. THAT’S THE REASON SESSIONS WERE HELD IN MEMPHIS @ SUN STUDIOS, IN LONDON @ ABBEY ROAD, IN HOLLYWOOD @ THE CAPITOL TOWER AND OTHER LEGENDARY RECORDING LOCALES AROUND THE WORLD. I LOVE TO TRAVEL, SO I DIDN’T MIND AT ALL.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HOWEVER, BOTH ARCHIE + RONI WANTED TO HAVE A “HOME BASE” STUDIO. THEY ENDED UP WITH TWO! VERONICA FAVORED SPANISH EDDIE’S IN NEW ORLEANS, AND I THINK THAT WAS BECAUSE THE OWNER, EDDIE ROXCHILD WAS ONE OF THE BEST SOUND ENGINEERS IN THE BUSINESS. ARCHIES PRODUCER RALFI CHINGAS CERTAINLY TOOK A LIKING TO EDDIE, TOO, BUT FOR REASONS MORE CARNAL THAN TECHNICAL!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE FAVORED THE CHAPEL OF ROCK, OWNED AND OPERATED BY JEFF BARRY; JEFF WAS THE FIRST PRODUCER ASSIGNED TO WORK WITH THE ARCHIES. THE CHAPEL WAS SET UP INSIDE AN ABANDONED CATHEDRAL IN SANTA BARBARA; I LOVED THAT STUDIO BECAUSE IT WAS HAUNTED BY THE SPIRITS OF <i>CONQUISTADORES</i>, <i>PADRES</i>, INDIGENOUS WARRIORS AND ALL MANNER OF EARLY CALIFORNIANS!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/30041817140/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE'S ALBUM BOX AD 1"><img alt="ARCHIE'S ALBUM BOX AD 1" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/8130/30041817140_7f61b6be1f.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ARCHIES ALBUMS ISSUED ON</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIE LABEL WERE FAR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>MORE POPULAR THAN THOSE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RELEASED BY KIRSHNER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RECORDS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ITS APPEAL TO ARCHIE WAS ITS SUPERB SOUND REPRODUCTION; BUT I THINK HIS STRONG CATHOLIC FAITH ALSO PLAYED A PART. HE WAS HIP TO THE FACT THAT EARLY ROCK STARS LIKE BILL HALEY, BUDDY HOLLY AND BRENDA LEE RECORDED INSIDE CHURCH SANCTUARIES. WE CAME TO REGARD THE CHAPEL AS OUR GOOD LUCK CHARM, AND RIGHTLY SO: WITH THE GREAT TOM MOURGOS MANNING THE DESK, THE ARCHIES TRACKED <i>THREE </i>MILLION-SELLING ALBUMS THERE! ONE OF WHICH I WORKED ON WITH THEM.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>RALFI CHINGAS PREFERRED WORKING @ HIS <i>RANCHO </i>IN BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO. HOWEVER, WE NEVER USED IT THAT MUCH, AND I PERSONALLY NEVER WORKED A SESSION THERE. I DID, OF COURSE, WORK QUITE A BIT @ DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO’S HOME STUDIO IN EL PASO, TEXAS. HIS MIXING BOARD WAS STATE-OF-THE-ART! BUT THE BEST ADVERTISEMENT FOR THAT FACILITY WAS EL MARIACHI LOWRIDER, THE INCREDIBLE DANCING <i>TEJANO </i>BAND! THOSE GUYS WERE SO MUCH FUN TO WORK WITH. THE ARCHIES WOULD CALL ON THEM<i> </i>WHENEVER THEY WANTED A BIG BAND LATIN SOUND.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE VERY LAST ARCHIES TRACKING DATES WILL BE HELD @ MY OWN TRACKING FACILITY, IN THE YEAR 2033. HOWEVER, IT WILL BE LEFT TO THEIR SUCCESSORS, THE NEW ARCHIES, TO REALLY PUT WITCH QUEEN RECORDING STUDIO ON THE MAP. THAT’S A WHOLE OTHER NARRATIVE!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ELEVENTH YEAR: 2011</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"FABULOUS"</b></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></div></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"CANTA RAGAZZINA"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A MADAME AXE PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JANUARY 10 - 17, 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>GRAND PRIX STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MILAN, ITALY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>COMM’È BELLA A STAGIONE - Canta Ragazzina EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Falvo, Pisano)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>C’È UNA COSA CHE NON SAI - Canta Ragazzina EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Kahan, Keyes, Pace)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NON PENSARE A ME - Canta Ragazzina EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Sciorilli, Testa)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SENZA MAMMA E’NNAUMMURATA </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Canta Ragazzina EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Francesco Pennino)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TANGO DELLA GELOSIA - Canta Ragazzina EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mascheroni, Mendes)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CANTA RAGAZZINA - Canta Ragazzina EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Depedrini, PattaciniI)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DI LA VERITA - Canta Ragazzina EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Brignolo, Daniele)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ADDIO, MI’AMORE - Canta Ragazzina EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Allen, Merrell)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>JUDI PARISELLA + THE SABOTEURS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>featuring DEANIE GRUNDY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangements:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>CHUCK CLAYTON, D’ANGELO WONG</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Executive Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JUDI PARISELLA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sound Engineer: </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">FRANCESCO NALDI</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Salem da Katt: When Big Ethel decided to end AFC's ARCHIES</span> <span style="color: #f4cccc;">RARE MASTERS series, Archie wanted the first non-Archies EP to be special. During sessions for his Burt Bacharach tribute album, he convinced session guitarist Judi Parisella to cut a solo record. “Madame Axe” had never considered doing so before, but she was intrigued by the prospect - especially when he told her she would own the master tape! As it happened, The Mack Daddys were the first act to succeed The Archies, but Judi's EP would still be a standout.</span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>This time, Archie planned to be her sideman instead of the other way around; but when time came for the session, he was doing something else and couldn’t take part. Veronica assigned the reliable Chuck Clayton to produce Judi; playing rhythm guitar, bass and drums, he ended up accompanying her on record as a one-man band called “The Saboteurs”.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52385967633/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="MADAME AXE PROMOS"><img alt="MADAME AXE PROMOS" height="321" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52385967633_57d01911eb.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR MADAME AXE'S</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PUNK ROCK TRIBUTE TO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CONNIE FRANCIS!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>When Judi met with Chuck to plan the sessions, they discovered mutual adoration for Rock ballad queen Connie Francis. Of course, Chuck had produced YOUR OTHER LOVE, the celebrated Connie tribute by Australian singer Deb Delman. That album was full of Pop/Rock hits, but he personally favored Connie’s Country music sides. Judi preferred La Franconero's many Italian-language recordings. “So what about you interpreting some of your Italian favorites instrumentally?” Chuck suggested. “I will,” she agreed, “but only if we can record them in Italy!” They could . . . and they did!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>With D’Angelo Wong as co-producer, they tracked a double EP’s worth of Punk Rock instrumentals in Milan; but during demo dates for the record, D’Angelo complained that Judi’s interpretations were “too radical!” Neither Judy nor Chuckii thought so, but to appease their Milanese collaborator Chuck decided to add brief vocal segments to each song. He flew in his life partner, Geraldine Grundy to sing them.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>“Don’t try to be a Punk rocker,” he told Deanie. “Just phrase the ballads as you normally would while Judi shreds on guitar! I promise you, the juxtaposition will work.” Not counting her vocals on the limited-edition cast album HOT DOG BUDDY BUDDY, this was Deanie’s first new recording since her heyday as a Sixties Folk icon; for that reason, CANTA RAGAZZINA became Chuckii’s favorite Archies Fan Club recording. Archie dug it, too. “If The Archies had gone in a Punk direction,” he said, “This is how I'd have wanted us to sound.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Music critics rarely took note of Archies Fan Club releases, but they sure noticed this one! Praise was unanimous and effusive: "One of the best Punk records of the year!" The popularity of this second Connie Francis tribute led Chuck Clayton to cut one of his own in 2013.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52903779871/in/dateposted/" title="HITS OF THE SIXTIES: LIVE IN ROME SLEEVE DESIGN"><img alt="HITS OF THE SIXTIES: LIVE IN ROME SLEEVE DESIGN" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52903779871_db767a97f2.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>HITS OF THE SIXTIES</i> BECAME </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>THE BASIS </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>OF AN </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">AWARD-</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">WINNING </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">"ROCKUMENTARY" </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">THAT </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">AIRED ON ITALIAN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">TV DURING THE YEAR</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2012.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: FROM MARCH TO JUNE OF 2011, THE ARCHIES RECORDED THEIR PLATINUM <i>HITS OF THE SIXTIES</i> ALBUM IN SANTA BARBARA. SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE THEY RECORDED THIS CELEBRATION OF SONGS BY BARRY MANN + CYNTHIA WEIL, VERONICA APPROACHED THE HUSBAND-AND-WIFE COMPOSING TEAM FOR PERMISSION TO DO IT. THEY GAVE HER AN EMPHATIC "NO!" </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>@ THE TIME, THEY STILL REGARDED THE ARCHIES AS A BUBBLEGUM POP BAND, AND MOST OF THEIR MATERIAL ISN'T TEEN-ORIENTED; BUT IN 2010, THE COUPLE CAUGHT ONE OF THE LAST SHOWS ON <i>THE RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY</i> TOUR. THEY WITNESSED THE MUSICAL POWERHOUSE THAT THE GROUP HAD BECOME, AND WERE ESPECIALLY IMPRESSED WHEN REGGIE SANG "I DON'T WANNA LOVE YOU," ONE OF THEIR MORE OBSCURE COUNTRY BALLADS. WHAT THEY SAW AND HEARD COMPLETELY CHANGED THEIR PERCEPTION OF THE ARCHIES! RONI'S EGO GOT A MASSIVE STROKE WHEN A CONTRITE BARRY + CYNTHIA CONTACTED HER AND ACTUALLY <i>REQUESTED </i>AN ALBUM TRIBUTE. IT WOULD BE HER ALL-TIME FAVORITE ARCHIES PROJECT! </b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>THE LEGENDARY SONGWRITERS HELPED CHOOSE THE TRACK LINEUP, AND THEY ALSO ATTENDED THE TRACKING DATES IN SANTA BARBARA. BOTH TONY BRISEÑO + RALFI CHINGAS LOBBIED TO PRODUCE THE NEW RECORD; TONY HAD THE INSIDE TRACK AFTER HAVING DONE SUCH A GREAT JOB ON <i>RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY! </i>HOWEVER, VERONICA DECIDED TO GIVE RALFI ANOTHER CHANCE.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>POOR TONY WAS CRUSHED! IT WAS THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF DISAPPOINTMENTS THAT THE ARCHIES SUBJECTED HIM TO; BUT HE NEVER GAVE UP ON THEM. THAT WAS TO THEIR BENEFIT, BECAUSE HE'D LATER CO-PRODUCE THEIR MOST CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED ALBUM!<i> RIDE, RIDE, BABY</i> WILL BE TRACKED DURING THE ARCHIES' BRIEF SOJOURN @ ATLANTIC RECORDS IN THE LATE 2020s.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>RALFI WAS @ HIS BEST AND HIS WORST @ <i>THE HITS OF THE SIXTIES</i> SESSIONS: AMAZINGLY CREATIVE AND VEXINGLY MERCURIAL @ THE SAME TIME! @ TONY'S SUGGESTION, HE HIRED ME TO WRITE THE ARRANGEMENTS, AND HE BROUGHT IN HIS NEW DISCOVERY, JONNIEMAE TROUTEN, TO SERVE AS MUSIC DIRECTOR. </b><b>THAT'S WHERE MAE MAE AND I MET FOR THE FIRST TIME. WE WORKED WELL TOGETHER, BUT THE SAME COULDN'T BE SAID ABOUT RALFI + CYNTHIA WEIL! THE TWO OF THEM WERE BOTH STRONG-WILLED AND HIGHLY OPINIONATED; CLASHES WERE INEVITABLE, THEY WERE EXPLOSIVE, AND THEY TOOK PLACE THROUGHOUT THE RECORDING PROCESS! VERONICA WAS APPALLED AND EMBARRASSED, BUT THERE WAS SYNERGY IN THEIR VOLATILE RELATIONSHIP. THE SESSIONS PROVED TO BE AS PRODUCTIVE AS THEY WERE BOMBASTIC! </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><b>THE TWO-RECORD SET WE MADE TOGETHER SPARKLES AND SHINES LIKE THE RARE GEM THAT IT IS. REGGIE WAS IN PARTICULARLY GOOD FORM: HIS VOCAL INTERPRETATIONS OF "ONLY IN AMERICA", "LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE" AND "MAGIC TOWN" (A SMASH HIT OVERSEAS) WERE SUPERB! JUGHEAD TOOK MY BREATH AWAY SINGING "I JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVIN'" AND THE SECOND BIG HIT FROM THE ALBUM,"LOVE HER!" RONI + BETTY SENT CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE LEADING THE CHORUS ON "MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC," AND BETTY MADE THE CRYSTALS OLDIE "UPTOWN" SOUND BRAND NEW AND ALL HER OWN! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BUT THE ALBUM'S ONE-TWO KNOCKOUT PUNCH CAME IN THE FORM OF "GLITTER AND GOLD", A LEAD SINGLE SUNG TO PERFECTION BY ARCHIE + TREVOR; AND ITS HARD-ROCKING FLIPSIDE "CHICO'S GIRL", SENT ROARING UP THE MEXICAN POP CHARTS IN A SIZZLING VERONICA RENDITION! BOTH OF THOSE SONGS WERE BLOCKBUSTERS! MY PERSONAL FAVORITE WAS "IT'S A HAPPENING WORLD", AN ARCHIE/RONI DUET WHICH WOULD BREAK FOR A BELATED HIT IN ASIA THE FOLLOWING YEAR. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE ARCHIES' SUBSEQUENT TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THIS ALBUM WAS THEIR MOST SUCCESSFUL TO DATE. TONY BRISEÑO WAS THE ARCHIES' TOURING MUSIC DIRECTOR, BUT IN 2010 HE WAS CAUGHT UP IN A MESSY DIVORCE FROM HIS WIFE BUNNY. WHEN HE OPTED TO SIT OUT THE TOUR, I SUBBED FOR HIM AND HAD A LOT OF FUN ON THE ROAD!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52311549512/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BookScanCenter (5)"><img alt="BookScanCenter (5)" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52311549512_98f37257f5.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES WITH KEVIN KELLER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PLAY RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>IN JUNE OF </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">2011.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"HITS OF THE SIXTIES"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MARCH 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ONLY IN AMERICA - Hits Of The Sixties LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Leiber, Mann, Stoller, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IT'S A HAPPENING WORLD </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NEW WORLD COMIN'</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside, Hits Of The Sixties LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHICO'S GIRL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside, Hits Of The Sixties LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'M GONNA BE STRONG </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties LP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LITTLE HONDA in Japanese </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single (Japan)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jones, Love, Wilson, Takeshi)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/MANN + WEIL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/POP TATE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/JONNIEMAE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA, *BETTY JONES,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>**REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS + THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The Archies cut a tribute album to Barry Mann + Cynthia</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Weil, arguably the most successful Pop songwriters of the</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>20th century. The couple sang background vocals @ these</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>first sessions. Terry “Pop” Tate played the saxophone solos.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Music director and Flamenco guitarist Jonniemae Trouten was a</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>discovery of Ralfi Chingas. "Chico's Girl" went Top Ten in Mexico;</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Roni Lodge-Andrews sang lead. The Archies hoped "Little Honda"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>would be the hit follow-up to their Japanese smash "Precious</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>And Few", but this rare Juggy/Reggie duet failed to catch</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>on. It was issued as a fan club single flipside.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: MY COUSIN AMBROSE HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO KEEP SECRETS FROM ME; I KNOW HIM TOO WELL! SO WHEN HE </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">SHOWED UP TO PLAY BONGÓS @ TWO OF THE "HOTS" TRACKING </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">DATES, I KNEW THAT WASN'T THE ONLY REASON HE WAS THERE! </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">AFTER JUST A FEW MINUTES OF OBSERVING HOW HE INTERACTED</b><b style="font-family: verdana;"> WITH BETTY JONES, I KNEW: MY VERY </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">PROMISCUOUS COUSIN WAS HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH JUGHEAD'S </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">WIFE! I IMMEDIATELY CONFRONTED HIM ABOUT IT.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IT TURNED OUT THAT JUGGY KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON. @ BETTY'S </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">INSISTENCE, THEY WERE TRYING AN OPEN RELATIONSHIP. SHE </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">+ AMBROSE STARTED THEIR FLING IN AUGUST OF 2010; HE LIVED IN </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">HOLLYWOOD @ THAT TIME, AND THE ARCHIES WERE IN TOWN </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">CUTTING THEIR UNRELEASED <i>MOVE IT!</i> EP. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ARRANGING SONGS FOR THE ARCHIES WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE, </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">BUT BITTERSWEET, TOO. WITH AMBROSE @ HER SIDE, BETTY LOOKED MORE JOYFUL THAN I'D SEEN HER IN SEVERAL YEARS; BUT MY DEAR FRIEND </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">JUGGY LOOKED MISERABLE! EARLIER, I SPOKE OF HOW EVERY </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">ARCHIES MEMBER HAD HIS OR HER FAVORITE ALBUM. WELL, ONE OF </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THEM HAD A <i>LEAST </i>FAVORITE! I KNOW WHO IT WAS, I KNOW WHICH ALBUM, AND I UNDERSTAND WHY HE FELT THAT WAY ABOUT IT.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53271292465/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIE-OKE PROMO"><img alt="ARCHIE-OKE PROMO" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53271292465_d3588e075c.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">LED BY DRUMMER MIDGE MERCURY, </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">ARCHIE RECORDS' </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">STELLAR SESSION </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">CREW STEPPED INTO THE </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">SPOTLIGHT </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WITH A BEST-SELLING 2012 KARAOKE </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>ALBUM </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>AND A HIT EXTENDED PLAY </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">SINGLE.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"HITS OF THE SIXTIES"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'VE GOT TO FIND ME A WOMAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Retro box set</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Kim)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HUNGRY! - Hits Of The Sixties LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GLITTER AND GOLD </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Hits Of The Sixties LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>KICKS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside, Hits Of The Sixties LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties LP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOOKING AT TOMORROW</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Hits Of The Sixties LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/REY COCHINO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/AMBROSE NIXON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA, *BETTY JONES,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>**REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Rey Cochino played saxophone at these dates and</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Ambrose Nixon sang back-ups and played percussion.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Glitter And Gold", featuring duet vocals by Archie and</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Trevor, was a major international hit!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34762161062/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="GLITTER AND GOLD"><img alt="GLITTER AND GOLD" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4274/34762161062_0b1e8bdaeb.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR THE ARCHIES'</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2012 EXTENDED-PLAY DISC</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>GLITTER + GOLD.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"HITS OF THE SIXTIES"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MAGIC TOWN - Hits Of The Sixties LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ON BROADWAY - Hits Of The Sixties LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Leiber, Mann, Stoller, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THAT'S THE BOY - Glitter And Gold EP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BLESS YOU, BABY SUITE:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BLESS YOU/YOU, BABY**/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BABY, BABY (I STILL LOVE YOU)*/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BLESS YOU (REPRISE)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Mann, Weil/Titelman, Weil/Mann, Weil)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- End Of A Century LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/MANN + WEIL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/AMBROSE NIXON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>REGGIE MANTLE, *BETTY JONES,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>**VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Not released as a single in the USA, "Magic Town"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>was a hit in several countries around the world.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Reggie Mantle sang lead on that track as well</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>as the fan club single flipside "Looking Through</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The Eyes Of Love". The "Bless You, Baby Suite,"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>featuring tag-team vocals by Juggy, Betty +</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Veronica, was briefly scheduled for release in</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>South Africa; test pressings exist.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34885466056/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="NEVER RELEASED RARITIES"><img alt="NEVER RELEASED RARITIES" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4273/34885466056_636e977430.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SEVERAL ARCHIES RECORDINGS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PLANNED FOR RELEASE AS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SINGLES WERE EITHER CANCELLED</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>OR WITHDRAWN FROM SALE.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: THERE ARE BEINGS WALKING THIS EARTH THAT ARE MUCH OLDER THAN THEY APPEAR TO BE. ME, FOR INSTANCE (BUT DON'T EXPECT ME TO TELL YOU HOW OLD I AM)! REINCARNATION IS A THEORY THAT WITCHES KNOW TO BE FACTUAL, AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT ANIMALS COMING BACK AS HUMANS, AND VICE-VERSA, IS COMMONPLACE. WHEN RALFI CHINGAS HIRED JONNIEMAE TROUTEN TO WORK AS HIS MUSIC DIRECTOR, SHE AND I BECAME CLOSE; BUT I WAS DESTINED TO BECOME EVEN CLOSER TO HER PET POODLE NERO, WHOM SHE TOOK WITH HER EVERYWHERE.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I COULD TELL RIGHT AWAY THAT NERO HAD A PREVIOUS LIFE: I LATER DICOVERED THAT HE'D BEEN A HUMAN CHILD WHO'D TRAGICALLY PERISHED IN AN ACCIDENT. HE RETAINED MANY HUMAN TRAITS, AND I USED MY MAGIC TO ENHANCE THEM EVER SO SLIGHTLY! NERO WAS A "WONDER POODLE", AND OF THE MANY AMAZING THINGS HE COULD DO, HE LOVED TO SING MOST OF ALL. HE WAS A MUSICIAN'S PET, SO WHAT COULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE? BELIEVE IT OR NOT, NERO HAD PERFECT PITCH AS WELL AS AN EXCELLENT SENSE OF RHYTHM. JUST LIKE JONNIEMAE, PUPPY WAS DESTINED FOR A MUSIC CAREER! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>WHEN SHE MOVED TO COLOMBIA, NERO STAYED BEHIND AND CAME TO LIVE WITH ME. (SALEM WASN'T HAPPY @ FIRST, BUT HE AND THE POODLE BECAME DEVOTED "FRENEMIES"!) HE DID BECOME AN ARTIST AS WELL AS AN IMPORTANT MEMBER OF MY STAFF, BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANT: HE BECAME A MEMBER OF MY FAMILY! I MISS RUNNING MY HANDS THROUGH HIS THICK PURPLE FUR.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51357377876/in/dateposted/" title="NERO FOREVER 2"><img alt="NERO FOREVER 2" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51357377876_f4cfa34b99.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">NERO THE DOG WILL RETURN TO </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">POP CULTURE </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">CANTINA IN HUMAN </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">FORM FOR </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A FUTURE CARTOON </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">NARRATIVE. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">STAY TUNED!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"HITS OF THE SIXTIES"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUNE 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVIN' - Hits Of The Sixties LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TALK TO ME, BABY - Hits Of The Sixties LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HOME OF THE BRAVE - Hits Of The Sixties LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>UPTOWN - Hits Of The Sixties LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE HER! - Hits Of The Sixties LP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties LP***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/NERO THE DOG</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA, *BETTY JONES,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>**REGGIE MANTLE,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>***VERONICA + BETTY JONES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Unbeknownst to Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Jonniemae’s pet poodle Nero “sang” background</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>vocals during these dates! Looking for a unique</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>sound, Ralfi Chingas mixed his barks and howls</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>in with the instrumentation. The writers would’ve</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>been furious had they known; as it was, they</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>strongly objected to the recording of “Love Her”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>that was cut @ these sessions. At their insistence,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>a remix session was scheduled.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A DYAD MUSIC PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUNE 27-29, 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REX PRODUCTIONS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE HER! (REMIX) - single*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BLUE-EYED SOUL MEDLEY:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IT'S NOT EASY LOVIN' YOU, BABY/GOODBYE, GIRL/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SHADES OF GRAY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie Sings Barry, Mann + Weil LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ON THE ROAD - single flipside</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SOUL AND INSPIRATION - single</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>*THE ARCHIES</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: JONNIEMAE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BARRY MANN, CYNTHIA WEIL,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*RALFI CHINGAS +THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Sound Engineer: SOLEDAD ESPINOZA</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i> "On The Road" was the remake of a song that The </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Archies </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">cut for </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">an </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">unreleased 2009 </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">British TV soundtrack</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>A favorite of Jughead, it was re-cut @ his suggestion</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>but with a new arrangement co-written by Barry Mann</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">+ Bree Spellman. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Much to the ire of Mann + Weil, promo </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">copies of </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Soul And Inspiration" b/w "On The Road" </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">mistakenly </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">omitted </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">their </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">production credit! That single </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">will be a bonus </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">track on </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">a musical cast album of the </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">same title; for </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">additional </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">recording details, see the </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">entries for </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">January and </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">February of 2013.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52324798448/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SABRINA AU MOULIN ROUGE"><img alt="SABRINA AU MOULIN ROUGE" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52324798448_e1252c1076.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SABRINA + THE SAINT-GEORGE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BROTHERS SING BACKGROUND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FOR THE ARCHIES @ RADIO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CITY MUSIC HALL.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: DURING THE FINAL RECORDING SESSIONS FOR "HOTS", THE ARCHIES AND I FLEW TO NEW YORK. THEY PLAYED A SOLD-OUT, ONE NIGHT ONLY CONCERT @ RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL; THE VENUE WAS PACKED, AND IT WAS VERY EXCITING! I SANG BACKGROUND VOCALS ON STAGE WITH TWO LOVELY CARIBBEAN BROTHERS WHO CALLED THEMSELVES GAYME. SY + HERBIE ST. GEORGE WERE VETERANS OF EARLY SIXTIES DOO-WOP GROUPS; ROAD MANAGER KIX PANUNZIO HIRED THEM TO ACCOMPANY US ON THE "HOTS" TOUR. LATER ON, THEY TOOK PART IN A KEVIN KELLER TRACKING DATE. BETTY JONES USED TO HAVE LONG TALKS WITH THE SAINT-GEORGE BROTHERS, AND THEY TOLD HER ABOUT THEIR LONG-AGO EXPERIENCES ON THE ROAD IN THE SEGREGATED SOUTH. THOSE </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">CONVERSATIONS WERE SOURCE MATERIAL FOR <i>DON'T TOUCH MY GUITAR, </i>THE ROCK MUSICAL SHE'LL TAKE TO BROADWAY. TWO DECADES FROM NOW, IT WILL WIN A TONY AWARD!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"THE SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AUGUST 23-20, 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>STUDIO “B”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL PASO, TEXAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Dorsey + Johnny Burnette)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>EVERYBODY - Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tommy Roe)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>FABULOUS - Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bernie Lowe, Kal Mann)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>KING CREOLE - Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Leiber, Stoller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CAT TALK - Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lew Williams)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>L'IL WILLY - Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Chapman, Chinn)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ELEVEN-FIFTY-NINE - Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jimmy Destri)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'M A BELIEVER - Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Diamond)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>TEARDROP CITY - Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Boyce, Hart)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>DANCING WITH MYSELF </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Idol, James)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>STANDING IN THE NEED OF LOVE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(traditional)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE CHICKEN + THE HAWK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Leiber, Stoller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>I JUST CAN'T HELP IT</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tucker, Wilson)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU CAN'T GO HALFWAY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Fowler, Gary, Johnson, Nash)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>THAT'S THE WAY WE GET BY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(John Bundrick)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>KISSIN' COUSINS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Savage Young Archies LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Starr, Wise)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Music Director:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineer: HUSSEIN HABAKKUK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>With his divorce from Bunny Peckerwood finalized,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Dilton was able to return to work @ his studio.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>He taped these early live performances in the years</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>1987 and '88, when The Archies were still a</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>“Punk-a-Billy” trio. During part of that time, they were</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>known as The Juggz. Tony used recording equipment of</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>his own invention to capture crystal-clear performances</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>of Archie Andrews, Juggy Jones + Reggie "Gino" Mantle</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>at their rawest! The tapes were stolen in 1989, but after</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>the turn of the century, some of them surfaced in the</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>possession of King Records. The Archie label sued to block</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>a 2008 release of King's EARLY ARCHIES CD. Three<br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>years later, Archie + Veronica won control of the lost</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>tapes and released them on an Archies Fan Club LP.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES was one of three wildly </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>popular AFC albums </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>(the others were a karaoke LP, </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>BE YOUR OWN ARCHIES, </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>and Chuck Clayton's solo </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>album YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME).</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36248240091/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES LP DESIGN"><img alt="SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES LP DESIGN" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4406/36248240091_f24bfd88a7.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> <span style="color: #fce5cd;"> T H E S A V A G E </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Y O U N G A R C H I E S !</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A COMPILATION OF EARLY LIVE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">RECORDINGS RELEASED</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">IN DECEMBER OF 2011.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 10, 11, 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BABY GRAND STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HONOLULU, HAWAII</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MY CLONE SLEEPS ALONE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single A-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Benatar, Capps)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAKE IT ANY WAY YOU WANT IT </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single B-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Briley, Geraldo)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: RHETT VALENTYNE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Kevin Keller will be remembered as one of The Archies, but he was only an official member of the group for a few years. He started singing background on Archies studio dates ‘way back in 1990! The band offered him membership for the first time a year later. Kelly declined because he had just signed up to serve a military tour.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The offer was repeated after his discharge, but by then dude had decided to run for public office: Kelly served one term as a Republican state senator. Two years later, the desire to become a film and TV star motivated his third refusal; but the closest Kelly came to stardom was filming “The Equalizer”, the rejected pilot for a superhero series. (Decades later, the concept that had been created for him was revamped into a successful vehicle for actress/rapper Queen Latifah.)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Back in 2009, Veronica had convinced Kelly to sing in public for the first time since his role in HOT DOG BUDDY BUDDY. “You still want to do stage musicals,” she reminded him, “and this will be great practice!” So he'd opened for The Archies during part of their RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY World Tour. It was a plum gig, and Kelly went down so well with audiences, he opened The Archies’ 2011 tour, too. “Don’t lose your momentum,” Archie advised. “Why don’t you cut a solo record? That can be a stepping stone to an acting career.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52348019938/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="KEVIN KELLER REHEARSAL"><img alt="KEVIN KELLER REHEARSAL" height="388" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52348019938_740509a031.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>KEVIN KELLER REHEARSES FOR A</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RECORDING SESSION WITH</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>VERONICA, JUGHEAD</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>+ ROD MACK.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>When the HITS OF THE SIXTIES tour stopped in Honolulu, Kelly was hustled into Baby Grand Studios. He was presented with a pair of Eighties Pop songs Veronica had specially chosen for him. Dude wasn’t impressed until she revealed her intention to give them a Heavy Metal makeover! Kelly was so intrigued that he wound up helping to arrange the music. Even so, the Iraq War vet didn’t think either side of his forthcoming single would sell “worth a flying fuck!” All Kelly really wanted to do was film a music video.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Just like Veronica, video director Raj Patel liked to think outside the box. He revealed his intention to film Archie Records’ newest artist jumping out of a giant crumb cake. “That’s gonna look hella dumb!” Kelly complained. Raj begged to differ: “Not with you wearing nothing but a smile! I mean, like, totally bare-assed! Dude, are you game?”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Former US Marines aren’t the kind to beg off a dare, so Kevin Keller got cake crumbs and pink sugar icing all over his birthday suit! The video for “My Clone Sleeps Alone” subsequently went viral, and the rest is history!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: TWO DAYS AFTER KEVIN KELLER TRACKED HIS SINGLE, BETTY + VERONICA FLEW TO LONDON. THERE THEY RECORDED A SONG CALLED “STOP! AND YOU’LL BECOME AWARE” IN A TRIO WITH MELODY FROM THE PUSSY CATS. THE RECORD WAS CREDITED TO JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS WITH THE ARCHIES, BUT NO OTHER MEMBERS OF EITHER GROUP ATTENDED THE SESSION! </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ALEXANDRA + RALFI CHINGAS CONCEIVED A TEAM-UP </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">SINGLE FOR THE TWO BANDS. THEY BOTH THOUGHT A </b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CERTAIN NORTHERN SOUL OLDIE BY BRITISH POP STAR </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">HELEN SHAPIRO WOULD BE </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THE PERFECT VEHICLE; THE ARCHIES HAD ALREADY CUT AN UNRELEASED VERSION OF IT. THERE WAS A MAJOR </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">HURDLE TO OVERCOME, THOUGH: <i>JOSIE!</i> SHE ABSOLUTELY REFUSED TO WORK WITH XANDIE. </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">WHAT'S MORE, VERONICA WASN'T INCLINED TO LET RALFI </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">PRODUCE THE ARCHIES AGAIN! HIS </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">HOT TEMPER HAD GOTTEN THE BEST OF HIM DURING THE </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><i>HITS OF THE SIXTIES </i>SESSIONS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">COMPROMISES WERE REACHED: THE SINGLE WOULD </span></span></b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">BE AN "ALL-GIRL" AFFAIR, WITH NO MALE GROUP MEMBERS</span></span></b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> TAKING PART. XANDIE WOULD PRODUCE IT, AND RALFI WOULD BE AN OFF-SITE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER. JOSIE WAS SUPPOSED </span></span></b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">TO PLAY LEAD GUITAR REMOTELY UNTIL SHE CHANGED HER MIND @ THE LAST MINUTE</span></span></b><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">! MADAME AXE COULD PLAY JOSIE'S RIFFS BUT UNFORTUNATELY, SHE WAS ALL BOOKED-UP. ROD MACK WAS THE LOGICAL SUBSTITUTE; BACK IN THE DAY, JOSIE HAD BEEN ONE OF HIS GUITAR TUTORS! </span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">OF COURSE, THIS</span></span></b><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> SPOILED THE FEMALE-ONLY CONCEPT BUT WHAT THE HELL? </span></span></b><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">YOU CAN'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD, AND ROD WAS THE BEST. BESIDES, HE WASN'T THE ONLY MALE ON THE PREMISES: JUSTIN STRICKLAND CAME UP </span></span></b><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">WITH A DYNAMITE SONG ARRANGEMENT </span></span></b><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">THAT HAD EVERYBODY RAVING! </span></span></b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I WAS ACTUALLY SCHEDULED TO CONDUCT THAT DATE, BUT SINCE JUSSIE WAS ARRANGING INSTEAD OF ME, </span></span></b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I </span></span></b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">DECIDED TO LET HIM DO THE HONORS.</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> A PUBLIC HUNGRY FOR NEW PUSSY CATS MUSIC SNAPPED UP THIS DECEPTIVELY-BILLED RELEASE, AND ANOTHER </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">HIT WAS LOGGED FOR ARCHIE RECORDS; BUT "STOP! AND YOU'LL BECOME AWARE" WAS THE LAST NORTH-AMERICAN TOP FORTY SINGLE FOR THE ARCHIES! IT WAS ALSO THE </span></span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;">LAST ONE WITH JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS AS ARCHIE ARTISTS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52538195254/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIES-PUSSY CATS SESSION"><img alt="ARCHIES-PUSSY CATS SESSION" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52538195254_f7ec7914dc.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>VERONICA, ROD MACK, BETTY JONES </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>+ MELLY </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">MUNRO-JONES: PRINCIPAL </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">MUSICIANS @ </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE SEPTEMBER </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">15th BEL CANTO </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">SESSION.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A KOOLTYME PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>in association with</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 13-16, 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BEL CANTO STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, ENGLAND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>STOP! AND YOU'LL BECOME AWARE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single A-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Roger Okin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KOOLTYME KATTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>ALEXANDRA</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>LAKSHMI SHUTTLESWORTH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Executive Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Betty Jones, Roni Lodge-Andrews + Pussy Cats </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>drummer </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Melody Munro-Jones sang tag-team lead </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">vocals on this song, </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">originally tracked by The Archies</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">in September of 2004. Rod Mack </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">played lead guitar </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">in Josie's signature style. The single wasn't pressed </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">until March </b></i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>of 2012, with a flipside by Josie + The Pussy </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Cats alone. </i></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"Stop!" first appeared on the 2011 label </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>compilation </i></span></b><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">POP ART! and </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;">was issued on 45 by </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">popular demand.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"SEVENTEEN AIN'T YOUNG"</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>OCTOBER 2 - 14, 2011</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE CAPITOL TOWER,</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES LP - unreleased</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>SUGAR, SUGAR LP - unreleased</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JINGLE JANGLE LP - unreleased</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>incomplete</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Music Supervision:</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Producer:</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, ZACHARY THAXTON</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>These were sessions for an aborted</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>box set of Archies albums from</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>the Kirshner catalog. This project</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>was cancelled, but Archie Records</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>would complete the production of</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>another LP retrospective in early</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>2014.</i></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34472316356/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="TWERK SIGNORINA"><img alt="TWERK SIGNORINA" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4162/34472316356_f7f7ec097b.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ARCHIES SINGLES RECORDED FOR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE EUROPEAN MARKET.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EINE GRAND-PRIX PRODUKTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>OCTOBER 18, 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HANSA STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BERLIN, GERMANY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>*A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTAL)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MARCH 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TWERK SIGNORINA! in Italian </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single (Western Europe)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Andrews, Britton, Nerangis, Tate, Wong)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IT'S A HAPPENING WORLD in Czech </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single (Czech Republic)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers: THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>D'ANGELO WONG,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*RALFI CHINGAS w/THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TROTZKY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"It's A Happening World" in Czech was not a hit for </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The Archies, but it became quite well-known; the </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>recording was used in a national </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">campaign to heighten </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">awareness about climate change. </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">"Twerk Signorina" </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>(loosely based on the 1976 Crown Heights Affair hit</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Foxy Lady") was the group's entry in Italy's San Remo</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Song Festival for the year 2011; Archie + Trevor</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>sang a rambunctious duet lead! It became a cult</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>hit in European dance clubs, but because of lyrics</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>that both Veronica + Betty considered sexist, </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>the Archie </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Andrews/Terry Tate/D'Angelo Wong </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">composition was </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">only ever performed </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>@ the festival.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: THAT RADIO CITY CONCERT I TOOK PART IN WITH THE ARCHIES WAS RECORDED. SOME OF THE LIVE TRACKS APPEARED ON THE SECOND SIDE OF AN ALBUM CALLED <i>POP ART!</i> IT WAS A BEST-SELLING ARCHIE RECORDS COMPILATION THAT CHUCK CLAYTON ASSEMBLED. ALSO FEATURING STUDIO TRACKS BY ARCHIE, VERONICA, SAVOY SOUND, JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS + KEVIN KELLER, <i>POP ART! </i>WAS MARKETED TOWARD THE END OF THE YEAR. RELEASED @ THE SAME TIME, KELLY'S <i>DÉBUT </i>SINGLE WAS A </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">RUNAWAY SMASH, AND THIS COMPILATION CLIMBED THE </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">CHARTS IN ITS WAKE.</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/49635775191/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="POP ART ALBUM DESIGN"><img alt="POP ART ALBUM DESIGN" height="390" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49635775191_d44d9f908b.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR THE MILLION-SELLING</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIE RECORDS COMPILATION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">P O P A R T !</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"POP ART!"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2011</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE’S BAR + GRILL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>*A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>in association with</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>KOOLTYME PRODUCTIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">BEL CANTO STUDIOS,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">SEPTEMBER 2011</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>**A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY, JUNE 2004 </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">STOP! AND YOU’LL BECOME AWARE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Pop Art LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Roger Okim)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LET’S GET IT ON TODAY, LIVE VERSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Pop Art LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Adams, Dante)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>NINETEENTH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LIVE VERSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Pop Art LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>BIG CITY MISS RUTH ANN, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LIVE VERSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Pop Art LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tom Lazoros)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>GLITTER AND GOLD, LIVE VERSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Pop Art LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>GOOD DEAL, LUCILLE, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>NEW LIVE VERSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Pop Art LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Miller, Theriot)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE HER, LIVE VERSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Pop Art LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>HOLD ON BABY MEDLEY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Pop Art LP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/GAYME + SABRINA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*w/JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BREE SPELLMAN, *JUSTIN STRICKLAND,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>**RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Music Director: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Producer: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Everybody knows that The Archies recorded their first hit singles and albums for Kirshner Records. The owner, Don Kirshner, lost ownership of his company @ the turn of the century and its assets were auctioned off in 2005.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Archie + Veronica were elated when they bid for and won The Archies’ masters; but they were undecided about how to market them. Big Ethel mined the tapes for choice unreleased tracks, which were issued on the four Archies Fan Club EPs we told you about; but the album masters lay undisturbed for seven years.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52312789165/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BookScanCenter (2)"><img alt="BookScanCenter (2)" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52312789165_0a3a3c8849.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THIS POSTPONED ARCHIES ALBUM</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BOX SET WON'T BE RELEASED</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>UNTIL THE YEAR 2070!</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>In late 2011, Archie got the idea for a Kirshner LP box set. SEVENTEEN AIN’T YOUNG would’ve featured new pressings of all six Archies albums released between 1988 and 1991. It was going to be a deluxe release, pressed on baby pink and powder blue vinyl! The project got far enough along for promo ads to be made; but Veronica was never on board.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">“We reached a high point of musical sophistication this year with HITS OF THE SIXTIES,” she argued. “Now is not the time to evoke nostalgia for our Eighties sound!” Archie eventually saw the wisdom in her reasoning and sidelined the box set. It would be left for the Vox reissue label to remaster and market, but that won’t happen until the year 2070! In its place, Archie Records put out a single-disc label retrospective.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Compiled by Chuck Clayton, POP ART! included previously-unissued tracks, recently-captured live Archies recordings and a special dance remix by Eddie Roxchild. Following Roni’s advice proved to be a smart move, because this Platinum-selling compilation nearly topped the charts! With The Archies' HITS OF THE SIXTIES album also going Top Ten and Kevin Keller's first single actually claiming the top spot, it was a hella lucrative Christmas for Archie Records!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>But the best Christmas present of all came from The Archies: </i></b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>The label's flagship act signed a new long-term contract! </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>While other record companies did express interest in the group, there was little chance that they would defect; the members had </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>creative freedom, handsome royalty rates and individually-crafted perks. However, for one member, Gino, the re-up </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>was short-term instead of long-term; and for another, Betty, </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>it was the last go-round! </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>Babe made it clear that when this contract ran out, her time in the group would be over; and later, </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>in private, she informed her shocked hubby that their </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>marriage was on borrowed time, too! Betty was </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>divorcing Jughead to marry up Sabrina's cousin, Ambrose Nixon!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2012.html" target="_blank">CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE: </a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24591032047/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="RONI GREEN"><img alt="RONI GREEN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4690/24591032047_b46f6003e1.jpg" width="395" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"KISSIN' COUSINS"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>PORNOGRAPHY GETS TRANSFORMED INTO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>HIGH ART IN THE YEAR</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>2 0 1 2 !</i></b></span></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-48721944421226565962023-02-14T12:00:00.104-05:002024-02-02T21:31:39.792-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2010<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52683074870/in/dateposted/" title="TRIBUTE TO BACHARACH"><img alt="TRIBUTE TO BACHARACH" height="372" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52683074870_77a2629ac6.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Presents</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A Journey Through</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE GREAT AMERICAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="font-size: large;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SONG BOOK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Since attempting a solo album back in 2001, Archie had let the prospect slip his mind. However, it remained top of mind for his wife Veronica, who knew exactly what kind of solo record she wanted from him. "If you can conceive a project for me, Archiekins," she purred, "why can't I conceive one for you? Turnabout is fair play, you know." Much to his surprise, dude learned in late 2009 that she had arranged for him to cut an album with none other than . . . BURT BACHARACH!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>It wasn’t something that Archie’s fans would ever expect from him; nor was it the kind of project that Archie would conceive for himself. “That’s exactly the point,” Roni declared. “This will be a worthwhile challenge for both you + them.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Ralfi Chingas was a longtime friend of Burt; when he mentioned this to Roni in 2008, babe naturally wanted to meet him. “He’s my favorite songwriter of all-time!” she squealed. That meeting didn’t happen until late 2009, after she + Ralfi had buried the hatchet; but once he introduced her to the lounge music legend, they became friends right away. “Veronica's so sassy and gutsy!” Burt told Ralfi. “She kinda reminds me of Angie." Dude was talking about his ex-wife, Angie Dickinson! Not every woman rates a comparison like that!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The Archies had intended to sample the Bacharach song catalog on their aborted medley album FIFTY SHADES OF SOUL. Now the idea for an ARCHIES SING BACHARACH album took root in Roni’s imagination! Burt wasn’t interested when she first proposed it; but when she re-imagined the record as an Archie solo project he was intrigued. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i> "I really dig the arrangements Archie wrote for the movie </i>Black Belt Smackdown,<i>" Burt revealed, adding with a chuckle: "If only his acting had been half as good!" When </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Ralfi reminded his old homie that they'd talked about co-producing an album, a deal came together.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE TENTH YEAR: 2010</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"DANCING WITH MYSELF"</b></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Just two days after the deal was finalized, Veronica had chosen all the songs. Babe wasn’t lying when she said Bacharach was her favorite composer: She knew his catalog from front to back! The sessions took place in France, where Burt was scoring a film; the movie orchestra actually played on some of the tracks.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Ralfi Chingas did co-produce the sessions, and </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Archie wrote all the song arrangements. </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Except for the French backing vocalists, who he thought sounded stiff, dude was ecstatic: he bonded strongly with the material, and he loved working with Burt: "The most complete musician I ever met!"</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Also, he had a happy reunion with Harris Gardner, the second artist to cut an album for Archie Records. Now a famous French balladeer, Harris cut short a concert tour in order to lead the orchestra @ Archie’s initial album sessions.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, ARCHIE?"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A BURT BACHARACH PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>in association with</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JANUARY 9 - 14, 16 - 21, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE HONKY CHÂTEAU,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DEAUVILLE, FRANCE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOST HORIZON </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, ARCHIE?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MEXICAN DIVORCE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, Hilliard)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LITTLE BETTY, FALLING STAR </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, Hilliard)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PROMISE HER ANYTHING </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I’M A BETTER MAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THERE GOES THE FORGOTTEN MAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ARCHIE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*ARCHIE + VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/L'ORCHÈSTRE DES PAYS DE SAVOIE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/LES PLASTIQUES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangements:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: HARRIS GARDNER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BURT BACHARACH, RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, OCTAVIA G</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Archie would remember this session as "intimidating!" </i></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Burt Bacharach was known to be a studio taskmaster</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>, but his work ethic had nothing to </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>do with how Archie felt. "It's as if </i></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>the spirits of Dionne Warwick, </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Gene Pitney, Gene McDaniels, Tom Jones and all </i></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>the other great singers who had put </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>their stamp on Burt's tunes were staring </i></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>down @ me," he confided to Ralfi. "No shit . . . I can feel them </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>judging my performances!" </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Ralfi told Archie to stay focused and not let his imagination get the best of him - good advice! There were </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>a few false starts due to nerves, but </i></b><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">dude more than rose to the challenge. E</b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">very </b></i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>note that Archie sang was true, and his </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>phrasing would've done Frank </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Sinatra proud! IMO, t</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>he highlight of this session was the movie </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>ballad "Alfie", rebranded with his name and sung as a duet </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>with Veronica.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: ALMOST TWO YEARS HAD PASSED SINCE JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS’ COMEBACK ALBUM BLEW EVERYBODY AWAY. A FOLLOW-UP WAS LONG OVERDUE. I WANTED TO WORK WITH THEM SO BAD, I WAS HUNGRY FOR IT! I’M NOT </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">THE KIND TO BEG FOR ANYTHING, BUT I LOBBIED VERY HARD TO SUPERVISE THE PUSSY CATS’ NEXT RECORD. IT TOOK THE BETTER PART OF A YEAR, BUT THEIR MANAGER, LEX CABOT, FINALLY GAVE ME THE NOD. THE ONLY REASON I DIDN'T USE A MAGIC SPELL TO LAND THE GIG IS BECAUSE HE WAS THE BROTHER OF MY FRIEND ALEXANDRA!</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52330435002/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SOUL GALORE PROMO"><img alt="SOUL GALORE PROMO" height="390" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52330435002_bae6159f9c.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>SOUL GALORE</i> WAS THE ONLY ALBUM</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THAT JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">RELEASED ON THE ARCHIE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">LABEL.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"DRIVING WHEEL"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A WITCH QUEEN PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FEBRUARY 6 - 8, 17 - 19, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE’S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NATHAN JONES - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Caston, Wakefield)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HE’S MY MAN, second version </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Patterson, Wright)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU’RE MY DRIVING WHEEL </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Beatty, Brown, Holland, Stafford)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Brian + Eddie Holland)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LET YOURSELF GO </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Beatty, Holland)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I’M GONNA LET MY HEART DO THE WALKING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Beatty, Holland)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: JOSIE JAMES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Archie was determined to put together a date for Josie + The Pussy Cats that was chaos-proof! In February of 2010, he thought he had just the right combination: A great studio, Spanish Eddie’s in New Orleans; a great album concept, focusing on the 1970s hits of The Supremes; great sidemen in Big Ethel, Rod Mack + Rey Cochino; and Sabrina “Bree” Spellman, an inexperienced but highly competent producer with no problematic track record. Josie got along with all of them, and her nemeses Alexandra + Alan M were nowhere in sight! So Archie Records’ third Pussy Cats recording session was the charm . . . until it wasn’t!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>As you know, Spanish Eddie’s Bar + Grill was a nightclub with a recording studio on the top floor. Usually, sessions took place during the daytime when the downstairs area was closed, but The Pussy Cats always liked to cut their tracks @ night. No biggie: The studio was completely soundproof. No problems were anticipated, and none occurred until the evening of February 18th. A gang of robbers overcame the club bouncer and held up the patrons and downstairs staff!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The musicians upstairs didn’t know what was going on until three of the thugs crashed the session. Little did they suspect who they were waving their guns at: Sabrina, secretly a kick-ass sorceress! Not to mention ex-roller derby queen Josie James! Valerie Smith-Cabot + Melody Munro-Jones weren’t pushovers, either, and Big Ethel held a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu! Even before Bree made their guns explode in their hands, these petty criminals got the message: They'd fucked with the</i> wrong pussy!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>As the male musicians stood awestruck, the ladies made short work of the thugs: In less than five minutes, all of them were restrained and helpless! Another one of Bree’s discreet magic spells disarmed the gangsters who remained downstairs; the robbery was thwarted, and nobody but the bouncer got hurt. His injury was serious but with prompt medical attention he had a quick recovery. The recording sessions resumed the following evening, and six masters were completed.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>All’s well that ends well, right? </i>Wrong! <i>When The Pussy Cats’ manager (and Valerie’s husband) Lex Cabot learned of the incident, he fucking hit the roof! Lex had the reputation of being a hot-tempered bad-ass, and he was also fiercely protective of his clients. Archie was the unfortunate recipient of his outrage, which got communicated in no uncertain terms: “My legendary ladies, threatened with firearms? WTAF? We signed a contract that guaranteed their safety on any and all premises used for recording. Dude, you’ve got some explaining to do!”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The explanations didn’t satisfy Lex, and his relationship with Archie + Veronica never got back on track; nothing they subsequently said or did could meet his expectations. </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Pussy Cats' Supremes tribute was never finished, but they would later re-record some of these songs @ another label. For that reason, Archie Records graciously kept the (far superior) original versions off the market. Just before that decision was made, the DRIVING WHEEL album was re-imagined as an extended-play disc; that’s why, in the Archie session log, the LP sessions are notated as EP sessions.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52472701140/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIE SINGS BACHARACH LP DESIGN"><img alt="ARCHIE SINGS BACHARACH LP DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52472701140_5f9c670fdb.jpg" width="374" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>EVERYTHING ABOUT ARCHIE'S TRIBUTE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ALBUM TO BURT BACHARACH WAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, INCLUDING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE FEATURE-LENGTH PROMOTIONAL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>VIDEO DIRECTED BY RAJ PATEL.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, ARCHIE?"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A BURT BACHARACH PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>in association with</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL 11 - 17, 23, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>WILLIAM TELL STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SURESNES, FRANCE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PROMISES, PROMISES </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU’LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LONG AGO TOMORROW </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>24 HOURS FROM TULSA - lost*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MESSAGE TO MARTHA </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MADE IN PARIS - single A-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THIS EMPTY PLACE - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CASINO ROYALE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What's It All About, Archie LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HOT SPELL </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ARCHIE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*w/VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>**BIG ETHEL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/MADAME AXE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: KEVIN BOYLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BURT BACHARACH, RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, NOËLLE GLADSTONE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Burt Bacharach completed his film work before Archie’s solo album was finished. Sessions then moved from The Honky Château to William Tell Studios, where the full London Symphony Orchestra and some of Archie + Veronica’s favorite British session musicians joined the crew. Also, Big Ethel + The Vixens flew over to sing the kind of background harmonies Archie liked. Burt loved Big Ethel’s voice, so much so that one track was set aside for her to sing lead vocals on. “Hot Spell” was supposed to be a single but somehow never got scheduled for release; it later surfaced in southeast Asia as a bootleg credited </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>to </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"Pink Dragon!"</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36298868572/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="TREV SMITH PORN STAR"><img alt="TREV SMITH PORN STAR" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4336/36298868572_0ebb809ec1.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">TREVOR SMITH PAID HIS WAY THROUGH</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">MUSIC SCHOOL WORKING AS AN</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ARTIST'S MODEL AND PART-</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">TIME PORN STAR!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE ARCHIES WELCOMED TREVOR SMITH AS A PERMANENT MEMBER IN EARLY 2010. THAT YEAR, THEY TOURED THEIR <i>RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY </i>ALBUM FROM APRIL TO JUNE. AWAY FROM THE BAND, ARCHIE, BETTY, JUGHEAD + TREVOR DEMONSTRATED THEIR SKILL @ WRITING COUNTRY MUSIC: ALL FOUR OF THEM SCORED BMI AWARDS, HAVING PENNED HITS FOR CHRIS YOUNG, LAURA BELL BUNDY + VERONICA’S GODMOTHER, DOLLY PARTON! HOWEVER, THE ARCHIES CHOSE NOT TO RELEASE ANY OF THEIR OWN COMPOSITIONS; INSTEAD, WITH MY ENCOURAGEMENT THEY KEPT MINING THE VEIN OF CLASSIC ROCK AND POP OLDIES.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">THE GROUP WAS A SENSATION ALL OVER EUROPE, WITH ONE GLARING EXCEPTION: FRANCE! AIRPLAY FOR THEIR RELEASES WAS SPORADIC @ BEST AND SALES WERE SLUGGISH. EVEN SO, THE BAND'S LIVE PERFORMANCES WERE ALWAYS WELL-RECEIVED. ONE OF THEIR MOST SUCCESSFUL CONCERT SERIES WAS STAGED IN PARIS DURING THE SPRING OF 2010.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NICHOLAS FREUND BOOKED THEM A WEEK-LONG RESIDENCY @ THE WORLD-FAMOUS MOULIN ROUGE CABARET. IN ADDITION TO THEIR OWN MATERIAL, THEY PERFORMED HITS BY ICONIC FRENCH ROCK STARS LIKE JOHNNY HALLYDAY, LES CHATS SAUVAGES AND SERGE GAINSBOURG. I'M A BIG FAN OF FRENCH POP AND AM FLUENT IN THE LANGUAGE, SO I TAUGHT THEM THOSE NUMBERS. I ALSO WROTE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THAT SHOW. BY THE THIRD NIGHT, THEY WERE DRAWING SRO CROWDS TO THE VENUE!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52299113694/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="RONI + ROD AU MOULIN ROUGE"><img alt="RONI + ROD AU MOULIN ROUGE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52299113694_cee81e491f.jpg" width="371" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">VERONICA w/ROD MACK, SINGING A</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">DUET ON STAGE "AU MOULIN</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ROUGE" IN EARLY 2010.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ROD MACK WAS IN TOWN, SENT ON A PROMOTIONAL TOUR OF THE CONTINTENT BY ESSEX RECORDS UK. HE CAME BACKSTAGE TO VISIT US, NEVER SUSPECTING THAT HE'D SOON BE ON STAGE AGAIN WITH HIS OLD FRIENDS! ON CLOSING NIGHT, THE ARCHIES DID BRING ROD OUT; IT WAS THEIR FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCE TOGETHER SINCE 1990! THAT WAS THE YEAR THEY MET HIM, WHILE HEADLINING A SONG FESTIVAL @ HARLEM'S APOLLO THEATER.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AFTER JAMMING WITH HIM ON "JET AIRLINER", THE ARCHIES GRACIOUSLY ALLOWED ROD TO SING HIS LATEST RELEASE, "LOVED ONE". HE ALSO PERFORMED HIS PREVIOUS SINGLE "TIGHTER" AND SANG TWO DUETS WITH VERONICA: "SAYIN' SOMETHING" (INTENDED FOR ROD'S NEXT SINGLE BUT NEVER RELEASED) AND "STATE OF SHOCK."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE LATTER PERFORMANCE, SUNG BILINGUALLY IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH, RESURFACED IN A BIG WAY FOUR YEARS LATER: THE MICHAEL JACKSON/MICK JAGGER COVER SCORED A SURPRISE HIT SINGLE IN ARGENTINA! FRENCH IS SPOKEN THERE AS WELL AS SPANISH, YOU KNOW; BUT IT WILL TAKE THE ARCHIES UNTIL THE YEAR 2034 TO HAVE A MAJOR HIT RECORD IN FRANCE - ONE FULL YEAR AFTER THEY DISBAND!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52499864909/in/dateposted/" title="FIFTY SHADES OF SOUL ALBUM COVER"><img alt="FIFTY SHADES OF SOUL ALBUM COVER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52499864909_4f81f4ca91.jpg" width="375" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">HAD IT BEEN COMPLETED, THE 2007 </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ALBUM <i>FIFTY SHADES OF SOUL</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WOULD HAVE CONTAINED AN</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIES SONG TRIBUTE TO </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>BURT </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>BACHARACH.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY 27, 28, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISCOS FUENTES,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUNE 15, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BEL CANTO STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, ENGLAND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOOL - single B-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bailey, Clark, Williams)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TELL ME LIKE IT IS - Pop Art LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Brass, Kooper, Levine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT - single B-side**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Kolber, Titleman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LAND OF MILK AND HONEY - single A-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hurley, Wilkins)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ARCHIE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>**ARCHIE + VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/SAVOY SOUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/MADAME AXE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>MIRABELLA de ORGANZA, THORNE TEWKSBURY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: While on tour with The Archies in South America, Veronica decided that Archie should cut a single. He agreed! Dude didn’t intend to preview anything from his Bacharach tribute album, but he wanted to have a solo 45 out by summer.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Savoy Sound was The Archies’ opening act, so The Andrews engaged their services for a singles date in Medellín, Columbia. The date was held @ the in-house studio of Discos Fuentes, Archie's South American distributor. It became a joint session when Veronica contributed duet vocals to “Little Things Like That” and sang solo on “Tell Me Like It Is.” Tony Briseño, touring music director for The Archies, played drums.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>This was the very first time that Savoy Sound’s pianist Justin Strickland arranged music for members of The Archies. Two months later, Jussie would work with the full group on an unreleased tribute to Cliff Richard. BTW, that record is fucking </i>superb!<i> I'll never understand why they held it back.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Near the end of this South-American record date, The Archies’ newest member Trevor Smith dropped to his knees and surprised Savoy Sound's Cristina Angel with a wedding proposal! The subsequent joyous celebration burned up the rest of their studio time, and the single was left unfinished.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>When The Archies’ tour stopped in London, Arch + Roni took the unfinished tracks to Bel Canto Studios. Their favorite British guitarist Judi Parisella was called in to do overdubs. Kevin Keller joined the tour in England, and with Jughead (as Blue-Eyed Soul) he helped Veronica produce master tapes.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>“Land Of Milk And Honey” was tagged for single release; everybody agreed that it had the most hit potential. But then, after going to so much trouble, Archie decided to shelve it! Dude reconsidered the decision to not pull his </i>début <i>single from the Bacharach sessions. “Made In Paris” was released instead, but that record bombed bigger than Kanye West @ a Jewish wedding reception!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Sadly, the album WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, ARCHIE? suffered the same fate, although it drew </i>beaucoup <i>critical praise. "Don't judge a book by its cover," </i>Bleeding Cool's<i> reviewer advised. "A Bacharach tribute album by Archie Andrews may seem like a must-to-avoid; but you'll be sorry if you do!" In Veronica's opinion, the Archie label had never put out a finer Pop collection, and never would.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>“Land Of Milk And Honey” was the follow-up single, and they promoted the bee Jesus out of that record! Popularized by an action-packed music video with Arch + Blue-Eyed Soul riding skateboards, it cracked the Top Thirty. Can you believe that would be the only solo hit Archie had? “Made In Paris” was too good a song to give up on, though: Re-recorded in French, it scored a Canadian hit for Jughead in early 2011.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>OVERDUB SESSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUNE 3, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>*AN ISLAND PACIFIC PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTAL)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>VOX POPULI STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>TOKYO JAPAN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>ST. KEVIN, APOSTROPHE (ENGLISH OVERDUB) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arranger: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, BLUE-EYED SOUL,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*BARCLAY SINGH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, GO TAKESHI</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Trevor Smith + Juggy Jones were the only group</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>members in attendance @ this one-day session.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Trev had written this song about Kevin Keller's</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>finicky habits, so who more appropriate to sing</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>it but Kelly himself? Originally tracked in</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Japanese, the English version of "St. Kevin,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Apostrophe" will be released as an Archies single</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>in the 22nd century. It's destined to become as </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>big a hit as </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>its flipside, "Titty Twister!" The remainder </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>of songs cut @ </i></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>this date </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>were demos written by </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>songwriters </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>contracted </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>to Cherry Vagina Music.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52472701165/in/dateposted/" title="¡MAMBITO! LP DESIGN"><img alt="¡MAMBITO! LP DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52472701165_cb590ea462.jpg" width="374" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RALFI CHINGAS'S SOLO ALBUM</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>WAS A SMASH HIT ACROSS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>LATIN AMERICA, BUT ESPECIALLY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>IN HIS </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">ADOPTED HOME OF </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">PUERTO </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">RICO.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: DURING THE SUMMER OF 2010, RALFI CHINGAS CUT A SOLO LP WITH LAURA PINTO PRODUCING; IT WAS A DISCOS FUENTES RELEASE, BUT DISTRIBUTED IN NORTH AMERICA BY MIAMI RECORDS. THE ARCHIE LABEL COULD'VE HAD IT BUT AS YOU KNOW, VERONICA COULDN'T <i>STAND </i>LAURA! SHE PASSED UP THE OPPORTUNITY TO MARKET RALFI'S MUSIC AND THAT PROVED TO BE A MISTAKE: <i>MAMBITO </i>BECAME A TOP TWENTY LATIN POP RECORD! IT BELONGED IN THE ARCHIE CATALOG, IF ONLY BECAUSE BETTY, JUGHEAD + REGGIE WERE FEATURED AS GUEST VOCALISTS. MEANWHILE, ARCHIE + RONI WERE IN MILAN, ITALY, OVERDUBBING TRACKS THAT RALFI HAD CO-PRODUCED FOR HIS BACHARACH TRIBUTE ALBUM.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>OVERDUB SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"BACHARACH ITALIANO"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUZIONE GRAND PRIX</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JULY 6 - 9, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>GRAND PRIX STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MILAN, ITALY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUZIONE GRAND PRIX</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">*UNA PRODUZIONE BURT BACHARACH</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(INSTRUMENTALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">associata a</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">PRODUZIONI RALFI CHINGAS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, ENGLAND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>A POCHE ORE DA TE/24 HOURS FROM TULSA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>- What’s It All About, Archie LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David, Rapetti)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>UNA BELLA VACANZA/LONG AGO TOMORROW</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David, Wong)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>UNA CASA NON È UNA CASA/A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David, Tate)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>VORREI PARLARE CON MARTA/MESSAGE TO MARTHA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David, Cassia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ARCHIE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangements:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BURT BACHARACH, RALFI CHINGAS,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*D’ANGELO WONG</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THORNE TEWKSBURY, FRANCESCO NALDI</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Archie arguably sang Bacharach tunes even better in </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Italian than he did in English! Unfortunately, poor album </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>sales scuttled plans to make spinoff EP BACHARACH </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ITALIANO </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>a deluxe Christmas release. Only one of </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>these D’Angelo </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Wong-produced vocal tracks surfaced </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>during the 21st </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>century; it replaced an English-language </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>performance of </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa” on </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>WHAT'S IT ALL </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>ABOUT, ARCHIE? The complete EP </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>won’t appear on </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>vinyl until the year 2137!</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: AFTER COMPLETING THEIR SUMMER TOUR, THE ARCHIES FLEW TO NEW ORLEANS AND TRACKED A TRIBUTE TO BRITISH ROCKER CLIFF RICHARD; THAT WAS IN LATE JULY AND EARLY AUGUST OF 2O1O. RALFI CHINGAS WAS ON HAND TO PRODUCE THIS UNRELEASED DOUBLE EP, WHICH WAS TO BE TITLED <i>MOVE IT! </i>VERONICA WAS CONFLICTED ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL OF THIS RECORD, AND ULTIMATELY TURNED THUMBS DOWN ON A RELEASE. I ALWAYS TRUSTED HER JUDGMENT, BUT </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">THIS ONE TIME I THINK SHE WAS OVER-CAUTIOUS. WITH BOTH REGGIE MANTLE +</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> TREVOR SMITH NOW IN THE BAND, THE ARCHIES WERE @ OPTIMUM </span></span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;">STRENGTH. THEY NEVER SOUNDED BETTER!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52580918228/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIES IN NEW ORLEANS"><img alt="ARCHIES IN NEW ORLEANS" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52580918228_ffe613f35c.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES @ CONGO SQUARE IN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, CIRCA 2007</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"MOVE IT!"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JULY 28-31, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I COULD EASILY FALL </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in New Orleans LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(The Shadows)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE ONLY WAY OUT </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in New Orleans LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ray Martinez)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in New Orleans LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Alan Tarney)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THROW DOWN A LINE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in New Orleans LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hank Marvin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Reggie Mantle came back as a full-fledged member</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>@ these sessions, taking over keyboards from Roni Lodge-</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Andrews. She officially moved into the lead guitar spot</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(she'd been playing lead for a while) and Archie</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>switched to rhythm guitar.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35372913151/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="MOVE IT EXPANDED REISSUE"><img alt="MOVE IT EXPANDED REISSUE" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4290/35372913151_2f61877f4a.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES SINGING THE HITS OF</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CLIFF RICHARD: THE ALBUM THAT</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SHOULD HAVE BEEN!</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"MOVE IT!"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AUGUST 1-4, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE CAPITOL TOWER,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MOVE IT! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in New Orleans LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ian Ralph Samwell)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MY KINDA LIFE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in New Orleans LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Chris East)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE TIME IN-BETWEEN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in New Orleans LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Aber, Brown, Jones)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GOOD TIMES/BETTER TIMES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Lite Av Allt LP (Scandinavia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Cook, Greenaway, Lordan)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/AMBROSE NIXON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: PHYLLIS MILLS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The Cliff Richard tribute sessions moved to</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Hollywood so that The Archies could rehearse</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>for a show @ the legendary Greek Theater.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sabrina's cousin Ambrose joined Archie,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Jughead + Trevor Smith on backing vocals</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>and percussion instruments. In the year</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>2046, The New Archies will cut their own</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>version of "The Time In-Between". Archie +</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Veronica had intended the MOVE IT! EP as a</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>comeback release in the UK, where The</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Archies' recent recordings had made little</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>impact. However, they changed their minds and</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>cancelled it. Decades from now, these tracks will</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>belatedly appear in both EP and LP format.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: DURING THE <i>MOVE IT!</i> SESSIONS, JUGHEAD AGREED TO CUT A SOLO ALBUM FOR ARCHIE RECORDS. IT WOULD BE MARKETED EXCLUSIVELY IN FRENCH-SPEAKING TERRITORIES! </b></span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JUGGY WAS CHOSEN TO SPEARHEAD A MASTER PLAN THAT ARCHIE, </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">VERONICA + PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR DUFFY OVERTON HAD DEVISED TO FINALLY CONQUER FRANCE. IN SEPTEMBER OF 2010, I HELPED HIM TRACK A FRENCH DISCO LP CALLED <i>TOUT CE QU’ILS DIRENT DE MOI. </i>IT WAS ALL ORIGINAL SONGS, WRITTEN BY HIM, ME + OTHER CHERRY VAGINA MUSIC STAFFERS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I'LL NEVER FORGET CUTTING THAT RECORD! IT WAS RECORDED @ THE FAMOUS HONKY CHÂTEAU IN DEAUVILLE, WHERE ELTON JOHN CUT HIS SMASH HIT ALBUM OF THAT NAME. I WAS LABEL-CREDITED AS THE ARRANGER, BUT I ACTUALLY CO-PRODUCED THE SESSIONS! IT TURNED OUT THAT THE FRENCH PRODUCER VERONICA HAD HIRED HATED DISCO MUSIC WITH A PASSION; HE WAS TRYING TO PUSH JUGGY IN A PUNK ROCK DIRECTION. WELL, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">JUGGY WASN'T HAVING IT!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/33412437973/in/dateposted/" title="TOUT CE QU'ILS DIRENT DE MOI"><img alt="TOUT CE QU'ILS DIRENT DE MOI" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2822/33412437973_3fdded2d7c.jpg" width="386" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>TOUT CE QU'ILS DIRENT DE MOI:</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>JUGHEAD'S SOLO ALBUM, RECORDED</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>IN FRANCE DURING THE FALL OF</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2010.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">DISQUES PATHÉ</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"TOUT CE QU'ILS DIRENT DE MOI"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNE PRODUCTION JM de LUXE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 6 - 8, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HONKY CHÂTEAU,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HÉROUVILLE, FRANCE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MATAHARI </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Garland, Jones, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>AU COURANT DE L'AMOUR </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Garland, Jones, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TOUT CE QU'ILS DIRENT DE MOI </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jones, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PERSONNE! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Andrews, Garland, Jones)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ACHETONS DES BIJOUX </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Clayton, Jones, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BAL AUX MÈCHANTES </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Garland, Jones, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>FIRE! BABY, I'M ON FIRE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Big Noise From Riverdale box set*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Andy Kim)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JUMP THE GUN - fan club single*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Faltermeyer, Forsey)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>JUGGY avec LES ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*LES ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/SIMONE et LES PUTAINS</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BREE SPELLMAN, *ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>JUGHEAD</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JEAN-EMANUEL de LUXE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>OCTAVIA G, MARC-PAUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>These were split sessions for Archies + Juggy solo tracks,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">all targeted @ the French market. Jughead's </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">recordings </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">were all </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">original tunes with French lyrics </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">written by </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sabrina and/or Timothy Garland. Originally, the group </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">the group had no plans to back </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jug on his solo album; </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">he engaged their services @ the last minute! They ended </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">up replacing French Punk Rock musicians that weren't </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">playing his music the </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">way he wanted them to. Simone </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">led the female </span></b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">backing vocal group; she was a </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">member of Marseilles Punk band Plastic Salopard. </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Mysteriously, </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">they scored a major hit with "Fire! </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Baby, I'm On Fire" a month after these dates, </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">using Archie’s </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">arrangement. This resulted </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">in </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">a </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">major falling-out </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">between Veronica + </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Disques Pathé CEO </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Claude Canaille!</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34472317336/in/dateposted/" title="PRECIOUS AND FEW"><img alt="PRECIOUS AND FEW" height="390" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4176/34472317336_1487d0882f.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>WHETHER MARKETED UNDER HIS OWN NAME</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>OR THE ARCHIES' NAME, ALL OF JUGGY'S</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SINGLES ARE ARCHIES RECORDINGS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THEY WERE TARGETED TO CANADIAN,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FRENCH + JAPANESE CONSUMERS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"MACK DADDY BOOGALOO"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 9 - 12, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BEL CANTO STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, UK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>STANDING IN THE NEED OF PRAYER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(traditional)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mack Daddy Boogaloo EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CRYSTAL BLUE PERSUASION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(James, Vale)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mack Daddy Boogaloo EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>OH, HAPPY DAY!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Doddridge, Hawkins, Rimbault)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mack Daddy Boogaloo EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Sam Cooke)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mack Daddy Boogaloo EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ONE TIN SOLDIER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lambert, Potter)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mack Daddy Boogaloo EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>RIVERS OF BABYLON</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Dowe, Farian, McNaughton, Reyam)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mack Daddy Boogaloo EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>THROW DOWN A LINE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hank Marvin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mack Daddy Boogaloo EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SING HALLELUJAH!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mike Settle)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mack Daddy Boogaloo EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>MY SWEET LORD</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Harrison, Mack)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mack Daddy Boogaloo EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>DAY BY DAY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Steven Schwartz)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mack Daddy Boogaloo EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE MACK DADDYS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*w/BIG ETHEL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/FROGGY DOGGY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Music Director: ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineer: MYRIAM FORERO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: When Archie’s BACHARACH ITALIANO EP was pulled from AFC Records’ Christmas release schedule, Big Ethel asked Rod Mack to record a substitute. Dude was hesitant until she suggested an EP devoted to Christian Rock. “We should work on it together,” he insisted. “You’re Protestant and I’m Catholic, but I’d be honored to host your </i>début <i>as a Christian rapper!”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Rod scheduled a live recording of his weekly show @ London’s Scotch of Saint-James club; The date was 19 June 2010. With her preacher husband’s blessing, Ethel flew over to take part! New England’s former Hip-Hop Queen came out of retirement to perform Rap lyrics she wrote for Rod's live cover of “Rivers Of Babylon.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Also joining him onstage were several Rock and Jazz musicians who were devout Christians; he’d befriended them all since moving to London in 2006. There was bassist Curzon Reese, his percussionist brother Darnell Reese, guitarists Hollis Ferguson + Orlando Longoria, + Indo-British vocal group Froggy Doggy. The only exception was a Jewish keyboard player named Donna Steinberg!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>For this one-off date, the band was billed as The Mack Daddys. They would never appear together in public again; but going forward, Donna, Holly, Landy + the Reese brothers would be fixtures @ British studio dates booked for Archie Records artists.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52331393476/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE MACK DADDYS"><img alt="THE MACK DADDYS" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52331393476_49ea524296.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE MACK DADDYS WERE AN ACTIVE </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BAND FOR </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">NEARLY FOUR YEARS, </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BUT THEY ONLY PLAYED</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ONCE IN PUBLIC. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>An explicit Gospel record awash with Heavy Metal guitars and funky rhythms </i>à la<i> Sly + The Family Stone, MACK DADDY BOOGALOO was Big Ethel's favorite AFC release. No surprise there, because in addition to rapping she was Rod's duet partner on "One Tin Soldier", "Sing Hallelujah!" and "Day By Day." What's more, her first double-EP production was pressed on amber-colored “Scotch” vinyl! That was in honor of the concert venue: Scotch of Saint-James.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Unfortunately, fan club members found BOOGALOO's overt Christian message too preachy; this live set is the closest thing to a flop that Big Ethel ever released. Time has increased demand for it, though: Copies are now rare and hella expensive!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: EVERYONE WAS SHOCKED TO HEAR "FIRE! BABY, I'M ON FIRE" ON RADIO LUXEMBOURG, BARELY A MONTH AFTER THE ARCHIES HAD RECORDED IT! NOTE FOR NOTE, IT WAS ARCHIE'S ARRANGEMENT BUT THE ARCHIES WEREN'T SINGING IT; "FIRE" BECAME THE BREAKTHROUGH HIT FOR A PUNK BAND CALLED PLASTIC SALOPARD. WHEN I TOLD VERONICA THAT SESSION BACKGROUND SINGER SIMONE WAS IN THAT BAND, AND THAT DISQUES PATHÉ CEO CLAUDE CANAILLE WAS HER LOVER, SHE QUICKLY PUT 2 + 2 TOGETHER. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'D SEEN RONI GET ANGRY BEFORE, BUT THIS TIME SHE WAS SEETHING WITH RAGE! CONSULTING HER SMARTPHONE ROLODEX, SHE GOT BUSY CONTACTING KEY MUSIC INDUSTRY CONTACTS IN EUROPE. THE LAST PERSON SHE TELEPHONED WAS </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">CLAUDE CANAILLE. THE LANGUAGE RONI USED ON HIM WAS SO SPICY, I WOULDN'T DARE REPEAT IT EVEN IN TRANSLATION! SUFFICE IT TO SAY THAT FRENCH <i>BILLBOARD </i>ANNOUNCED CLAUDE'S RESIGNATION THE VERY NEXT WEEK! HE NEVER WORKED FOR ANOTHER RECORD COMPANY.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I ALSO SAW JUGHEAD LOSE HIS COOL DURING THAT SOJOURN IN FRANCE. JUGGY WAS A VERY LAID-BACK MAN, EXCEPT WHEN HE WASN'T GETTING WHAT HE WANTED! HE TOOK CONTROL OF HIS ALBUM SESSIONS, PAID OFF THE CONTRACTED FRENCH MUSICIANS AND SENT THEM PACKING. THEN HE CONTACTED HIS BANDMATES AND ASKED THEM TO CUT HIS BACKING TRACKS. THEY WERE GOING TO DO IT REMOTELY BUT ENDED UP FLYING OVER FROM THEIR VARIOUS HOMES IN THE US. IT WAS WONDERFUL FOR THE ARCHIES TO DO THAT ON SHORT NOTICE!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>WHILE THAT DISCO-HATING FRENCH PRODUCER SAT IN A CORNER AND FUMED, JUGGY AND I SALVAGED THE PROJECT. WITH HELP FROM REGGIE, WHO COULDN'T MAKE THE TRIP TO FRANCE BUT SENT OVER SOME EXCELLENT VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS, WE CREATED A DANCE RECORD THAT WOULD'VE DONE THE BEE GEES PROUD! <i>TOUT CE QU'ILS DIRENT DE MOI </i>BECAME AN INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER AND MY FIRST SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTION! I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT MANY MORE WOULD FOLLOW.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53241213418/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIE ON BROADWAY PROMO"><img alt="ARCHIE ON BROADWAY PROMO" height="369" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53241213418_3c07053e38.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>ARCHIE'S FLAMENCO ROCK MEDLEY</i> WAS RECORDED @</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE SAME NEW ORLEANS SESSION THAT PRODUCED</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">"SUGAR, SUGAR EN ESPAÑOL". A CENTURY LATER,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THIS EXCITING SPANISH TRANSLATION OF "VENUS"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">AND "TIMOTHY" WILL BELATEDLY GO TOP TEN</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ON THE DANCE MUSIC CHARTS!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISQUES PATHÉ</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"TOUT CE QU'ILS DIRENT DE MOI"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNE PRODUCTION JM de LUXE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 21 - 29, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HONKY CHÂTEAU,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HÉROUVILLE, FRANCE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THEY DON'T KNOW bilingual</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(MacColl, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MADE IN PARIS in French, single (Canada)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bacharach, David, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PRESQUE DÉCEMBRE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b> Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jones, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SEPT TEMPS AU REVOIR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Garland, Smith, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PLUS DE SILENCE SUR LA SEXUALITÉ!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Garland, Keller, Lodge-Andrews)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SAMEDIS, APRÈS-MIDI</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jones, Smith, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TANT QUE JE TE VEUX</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jones, Mason, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PETITS MORTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Tout Ce Qu'Ils Dirent De Moi LP (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Cooper, Garland, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>JUGGY avec LES ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*LES ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BREE SPELLMAN, *GUY FRECHETTE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Conductor: JUGHEAD</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Producer: </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JEAN-EMANUEL de LUXE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: MARC-PAUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>More French-language split sessions for Juggy </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>+ The Archies</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>. These "solo" recordings hit</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>the market in early 2011. Sales and airplay in</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>France were negligible, but Jughead's sophomore LP</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(his first was for the Peerless label) found an avid</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>audience on the international Gay dance club circuit.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>What's more, his Francophone version of "Made </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>In Paris" </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">broke for a smash in French-speaking </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Canada! (Earlier in </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">the year, Archie had released </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">his unsuccessful </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">English-language solo version.) </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">"They Don't Know", led by </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">Veronica, was featured in </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">LE TWIST SAUVAGE, </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">a French TV special; the</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">early September album sessions were </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">interrupted so that The Archies could</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">rehearse and film their guest-star</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">segments.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"LATIN SOUL SAUCE"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>OCTOBER 19, 20, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>STUDIO “B”,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL PASO, TEXAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>RUM AND COCA-COLA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Begin The Beguine LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Amsterdam, Baron, Grant, Sullivan)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JUNGLE DRUMS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Begin The Beguine LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lecuona, Lombardo, O’Flynn, Sánchez)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SOUL SAUCE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Latin Soul Sauce EP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gillespie, Pozo, Santiago)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BEGIN THE BEGUINE - EP Version</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Latin Soul Sauce EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Cole Porter)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>SAVOY SOUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>featuring CRISTINA ANGEL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*TREVOR SMITH + SAVOY SOUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: FOOLKILLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: PUNK E. GUTIÉRREZ</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Savoy Sound's LATIN SOUL SAUCE dates had a </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>far more </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">rootsy Latin flavor than their album </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">sessions; here the quartet </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">was augmented by </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Mariachi Lowrider. Although every selection was</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>intended for release on an EP, half of the tracks </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>got duplicated </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">on BEGIN THE BEGUINE. Surprisingly, </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">given that fans seemed to dislike </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">Trevor Smith's </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>vocals on that album, what little airplay </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">LATIN SOUL SAUCE </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">got was mostly due to its </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>title track: A stand-alone recording that </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">featured him! </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">It became a very popular sample for </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>rappers, but only in later years. Although</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Archie + Veronica had hoped to penetrate the </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Latin </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">music market with </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">Savoy Sound's releases, </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>the group just couldn't spin much revenue. </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Archie Records </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">would have to wait three years for </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">an act strong enough to storm </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">Spanish-language </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>radio playlists!</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52346815562/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="COCHINADA BROTHERS DEMO"><img alt="COCHINADA BROTHERS DEMO" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52346815562_323c377868.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE COCHINADA BROTHERS WERE BRIEFLY</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">CONSIDERED CANDIDATES TO REPLACE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">SAVOY SOUND AS ARCHIE'S LATIN</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">VOCAL GROUP.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: IN NOVEMBER OF 2010, BETTY JONES RECORDED HER FIRST AND ONLY SOLO ALBUM IN MEMPHIS. <i>PATSY, JACKIE AND ME</i> WAS A COLLECTION OF JACKIE DeSHANNON SONGS RECORDED IN THE SINGING STYLE OF PATSY CLINE! BETTY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ADORED JACKIE'S WORK AND MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT SHE SANG LIKE PATSY. SHE CAME UP WITH THE UNUSUAL CONCEPT HERSELF AND HAD ALREADY ATTEMPTED IT SEVERAL TIMES; BUT THE PROJECT DIDN'T COME TOGETHER UNTIL JACKIE GOT PERSONALLY INVOLVED. ALTHOUGH THE ALBUM FAILED COMMERCIALLY, IT HAS SINCE BECOME A MUCH-CELEBRATED CULT FAVORITE OF VINTAGE COUNTRY MUSIC FANS. THE CD WAS RELEASED BY JAMIE RECORDS, WITH RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCING.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35085614061/in/dateposted/" title="SONGS FROM THE GIANT JUKEBOX"><img alt="SONGS FROM THE GIANT JUKEBOX" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4255/35085614061_d8a97bd535.jpg" width="390" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>SONGS FROM THE GIANT JUKEBOX:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RELEASED TO ARCHIES FAN CLUB</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>MEMBERS IN DECEMBER 2010.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"SONGS FROM THE GIANT JUKEBOX"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER 3 - 4, 2010</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A DON KIRSHNER PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>DAVE CLARK FIVE MEDLEY:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>GLAD ALL OVER/ANY WAY YOU WANT IT/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CATCH US IF YOU CAN/BECAUSE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Clark, Smith/Clark/Clark, Davidson/Clark)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SWEET SATURDAY NIGHT - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE BIG BOAT - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>OH, SWEET SUZY - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Foster, Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE VIBRATIONS - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ANYONE CAN BE ANYTHING - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(I'M JUST) YOUR PUPPET ON A STRING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SOMEBODY LIKES YOU - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>HEY! LITTLE ONE - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LITTLE BY LITTLE - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>JUNGLE GEORGE - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>OH, BABY (DON'T LET IT GET YOU DOWN)!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ROWBOAT RIDE - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Goldberg, Lyle)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE WAYS I LOVE YOU - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>FALLIN' IN LOVE IS FUN - Giant Jukebox LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Brian Goldberg)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>NEIL BRIAN GOLDBERG, RON DANTE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Don Kirshner promoted The Archies with a series of</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>animated shows that ran on the Cartoon Network,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>starting in 1988 and extending into the mid-Nineties.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>SONGS FROM THE GIANT JUKEBOX is a selection</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>of live recordings taken from "Archie's Funhouse,"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>which aired in 1990 and 1991. That show, recorded</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>@ Filmation Studios in Reseda, California, mixed</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>cartoons with live-</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>action concert footage. This </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>previously-unreleased soundtrack album was made</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>available to Archies Fan Club members, and among </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>its fifteen </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>live cuts was a never-telecast medley of </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Dave Clark Five hits. </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Fondly recalled by studio </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>audience members, they were the </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>only ones who </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>heard it @ the time! In the year 2086, Hepzibah</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Baumgartner, catalog A & R producer for Vox Sound</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>+ Image will deconstruct the medley and create</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>four distinct song performances. These "new" </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>recordings </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>will subsequently feature on END </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>OF A CENTURY, </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Archies' 100th </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>anniversary album.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: PROFIT-WISE, 2010 WAS ONE OF ARCHIE RECORDS’ </b></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>WORST YEARS! NO BEST-SELLING ARCHIES ALBUM WAS MARKETED, AND </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>THERE WAS NOTHING NEW FROM JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS, EITHER. JUGHEAD'S "SOLO" ALBUM WOULD EARN A GOLD RECORD AWARD, BUT ITS RELEASE GOT HELD BACK UNTIL JANUARY. </b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BEHIND THE SCENES, ARCHIE + VERONICA LOST MONEY </span></b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ON SESSIONS FROM WHICH NOTHING GOT RELEASED. NOBODY KNEW </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THAT VERONICA BRIEFLY CONSIDERED SHUTTING THE LABEL DOWN IN </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">ORDER TO CONCENTRATE ON SONG PUBLISHING AND AD JINGLES! IT MADE SENSE, BECAUSE CHERRY VAGINA MUSIC COPYRIGHTS BROUGHT IN A LOT OF MONEY THAT YEAR. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34885465786/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ONLY IN AMERICA"><img alt="ONLY IN AMERICA" height="395" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4246/34885465786_8a82e9c37c.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">KEVIN KELLER </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">WILL </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">NOT OFFICIALLY </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">JOIN THE </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ARCHIES </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">UNTIL THE </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">YEAR 2027.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BUT NO WAY WAS ARCHIE READY </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>TO THROW IN THE TOWEL! THE ARCHIES WERE ABOUT TO SIGN ANOTHER MULTI-YEAR CONTRACT, AND THERE WAS A LOT OF MUSIC HE STILL WANTED TO RECORD WITH THEM. ARCH COUNSELED HIS WIFE TO BE PATIENT, AND THAT PATIENCE WAS RICHLY REWARDED THE FOLLOWING YEAR. NOT ONLY WOULD </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE PARADE OF HIT SINGLES AND ALBUMS RESUME, </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">BUT A BLOCKBUSTER NEW ACT WOULD BE SIGNED; AND </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE DAMNDEST THING ABOUT IT WAS: THIS SUPERSTAR HAD BEEN </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES ALL THE TIME!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2011.html?zx=92ce4b2185081bdf" target="_blank">CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE: </a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/38749061804/in/dateposted/" title="TREVOR BLUE"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><img alt="TREVOR BLUE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4637/38749061804_024a1fca8b.jpg" width="388" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span>"FABULOUS"</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc;">ARCHIE RECORDS RACKS UP HIT</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc;">AFTER HIT IN THE YEAR </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><i>2 0 1 1 !</i></span></b></span></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-27940428052792544382023-02-14T11:30:00.112-05:002024-01-20T13:41:56.540-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2009<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/23999807453/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY LP COVERS"><img alt="RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY LP COVERS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1525/23999807453_a373b7dff0.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>POP CULTURE CANTINA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Presents</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A Journey Through</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE GREAT AMERICAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ROCK ‘N’ ROLL </b></span><b style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">SONG BOOK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;">Salem da Katt: So . . . is it true that The Archies were @ one time signed to play The Partridge Family in a reboot of the classic TV series? The answer is: Yes and no!</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>In late 2008, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) greenlit a new version of "The Partridge Family." Would you believe it was set in Liverpool during the late 1950s? Word! And, unlike on the original series, none of the actors they cast could sing or play instruments. Hired as music director for the series, my man Rod Mack was tasked with finding studio substitutes. Naturally, he thought of his friends The Archies!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Veronica Lodge-Andrews was a fucking </i>huge <i>Partridge Family fan - remember her aborted PARTRIDGE GANGSTAS project? So there was no way that she was going to refuse this gig. With Chuck Clayton subbing for Reggie, who was still suspended, The Archies flew over to London. In January of 2009, they spent two weeks @ Abbey Road Studios, tracking music for the new series. Also during that time, Archie + Veronica finalized a deal for their label to release @ least one soundtrack album from </i></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">the series.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52385967663/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="PARTRIDGE FAMILY PUBLICITY"><img alt="PARTRIDGE FAMILY PUBLICITY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52385967663_58f1b885b6.jpg" width="373" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES @ ABBEY ROAD,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WHERE THEY DUBBED SINGING</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>VOICES FOR THE </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">PARTRIDGE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FAMILY!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Then, a week into the sessions, they got word that production problems had shelved the show indefinitely. Roni was crushed! Then portions of the script were leaked to the press, and fans of the original series balked @ content that included devil worship, prostitution, interracial rape fantasies, drug-dealing and pedophilia! The project was ultimately abandoned, but not before the group had posed for publicity shots in late-50's period costumes. Those pictures are what fueled the rumors!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The Archies cut eight complete songs: selections from the Partridge Family catalog, re-imagined as what the British call "Trad Jazz" - Dixieland to you + me! Strange but true, and not half-bad. These unusual recordings have circulated for years as bootlegs, and if you’ve ever heard them, it’s obvious where inspiration for The Archies’ infamous 2013 Jazz album came from.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>So, that's the real story behind the "Parchies!" And I should know because I was there, in my gorgeous feline form! Sabrina took me with her when she flew over to help Rod Mack + Roscoe Shirley with the song arrangements.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE NINTH YEAR: 2009</i> </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"KING CREOLE"</b></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: ROD MACK + I CONSIDER OURSELVES "HONORARY" MEMBERS OF THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY, BECAUSE WE SANG AND PRODUCED SONG DEMOS FOR THE TV SERIES TOGETHER! I KEPT COPIES OF THE ARRANGEMENTS I WROTE, AND A PARTRIDGE TRIBUTE IS ONE OF THE PROJECTS I'LL HAVE ON THE DRAWING BOARD FOR THE NEW ARCHIES. </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">UNFORTUNATELY, WE'LL NEVER GET AROUND TO DOING IT!</b></span></div><div><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SOUNDTRACK SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"PARTRIDGE FAMILY '59"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A SCREEN GEMS-EMI MUSIC PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JANUARY 5, 7 -9, 12 - 16</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, UK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SINGIN' MY SONG - unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Farrell, Hilderbrand)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING* </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Brown, Levine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LET THE GOOD TIMES IN - unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bayer-Sager, Sedaka)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>BROWN EYES - unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Farrell, Janssen)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY - unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Farrell, Janssen)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ON THE ROAD - unreleased***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SUMMER DAYS - unreleased***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tony Romeo)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'M ON MY WAY BACK HOME </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hart, Keller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/GRAND AVENUE JAZZ</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*ROD MACK, **ROSCOE SHIRLEY,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>***BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Conductor: </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">ROD MACK</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: KEVIN BOYLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BUDDY + RONNIE SHELBY, </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ESMAEL ABDULKERIM</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Although the recording sessions are logged here,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>these unreleased masters are housed in the </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">archives </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">of Screen Gems-EMI Music.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: IN LATE JANUARY, FANTASY RECORDS RELEASED <i>LOVE TO LOVE</i>, REGGIE MANTLE'S FINEST SOLO ALBUM. SUBTITLED <i>REGGIE DOES NEIL DIAMOND,</i> IT WAS A CELEBRATION OF SOME OF THE THEATRICAL ROCKER'S </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">MORE OBSCURE COMPOSITIONS. I THOUGHT IT WAS BRILLIANT, AND NOT JUST BECAUSE I WROTE SOME OF THE ARRANGEMENTS! THE </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">SONGS HAD AN EDGY QUALITY AND THEY SEGUED ONE INTO THE OTHER LIKE CLASSIC DISCO ALBUMS FROM THE 1970s. FANTASY WOULD'VE BEEN WISE TO TARGET DANCE CLUBS; INSTEAD, THEY FUNNELED NEARLY ALL OF THEIR PROMOTION MONEY INTO A TRIO OF PROVOCATE MUSIC VIDEOS. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SAY THIS: REGGIE'S VIDEOS WERE X-RATED! AS AN ARTIST, HE ALWAYS LIKED TO BE ON THE CUTTING-EDGE; BUT WHEN HE </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">DECIDED TO FILM REAL SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS AS BACKDROPS FOR HIS RECORDINGS OF "LORDY", "LOVE TO LOVE" AND "IT COMES AND GOES", HE PUSHED THE ENVELOPE TOO FAR - ESPECIALLY FOR NEIL DIAMOND!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>NEIL SUED BOTH REGGIE AND FANTASY RECORDS, CHARGING THAT THEY'D "DEFAMED" HIS SONGS AND THREATENED HIS REPUTATION AS A FAMILY-FRIENDLY </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">ARTIST. MEDIA CRITICS SMELLED BLOOD, AND THEY POUNCED ON </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">REGGIE'S "SLEAZY SENSATIONALISM" AS WELL AS HIS VOCAL DEFICIENCIES - ALTHOUGH BY THEN HE WAS A MUCH BETTER </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SINGER THAN HE USED TO BE.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>AFTER JUST THREE WEEKS ON THE MARKET, FANTASY RECORDS WITHDREW </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><i>LOVE TO LOVE</i> FROM SALE AND PULLED THE MUSIC VIDEOS FROM CIRCULATION. I WAS SAD FOR MY FRIEND, BUT NOT WORRIED: ONCE THE CONTROVERSY DIED DOWN, IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE HIS EXCELLENT ALBUM WOULD BE REDISCOVERED. IN FACT, IT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DREW A CULT FOLLOWING; THE SELECTIONS WERE COVERED BY RICKY MARTIN, SANTANA, TONI TOPAZ AND (YEARS LATER) THE NEW ARCHIES! BUT THE ONSLAUGHT OF NEGATIVE PUBLICITY IN 2009 GREW SO INTENSE, REGGIE WENT INTO SECLUSION @ HIS FLORIDA RANCH. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">FORTUNATELY, HE GOT STRONG MORAL SUPPORT FROM HIS BANDMATES - INCLUDING ARCHIE, MUCH TO HIS SURPRISE! REGGIE </b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ALSO HAD OLGA SAN QUENTÍN </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">BY HIS SIDE; AND IN THE SPRING OF 2009 THEY WELCOMED DANTE CARMINE MANTLE, THEIR FIRST CHILD TOGETHER. RON DANTE IS HIS GODFATHER, AND I WAS THRILLED TO BE NAMED HIS GODMOTHER! DANTE WILL GROW </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">UP TO BE A TOP CHOREOGRAPHER, AND IN THE YEAR 2039, I'LL HIRE MY GODSON TO STAGE SHOWS FOR </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THE NEW ARCHIES.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53111658010/in/photostream/" title="ARCHIE @ ABBEY ROAD BOX"><img alt="ARCHIE @ ABBEY ROAD BOX" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53111658010_23786a4f4b.jpg" width="373" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PARTRIDGE FAMILY SOUNDTRACK </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SONGS PERFORMED BY THE ARCHIES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>IN EARLY 2009 WILL SURFACE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ON A 2118 BOX SET</b></span><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><i>.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ESSEX RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FEBRUARY 25 - 28, MARCH 2 - 6, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ESSEX STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, UK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>FORTY DAYS, FORTY NIGHTS (James, King) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single B-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SAYIN' SOMETHING (Crewe, Knight) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- duet, unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JUST BECAUSE (Clayton, Mack) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single B-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GINGERBREAD MAN (James, Vale) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single A-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TIGHTER (James, King) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- solo version, single A-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TIGHTER (James, King) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- duet version, unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THROUGH THE FIRE (Clayton, Mack, Tate) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single B-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVED ONE (James, Vale) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single A-side*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/LES GIGOLETTES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE NASTY BOYS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*w/BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BREE SPELLMAN, *ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: XENA FREES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Rod Mack never wanted to become an Archie Records artist, although he was offered a contract more than once. Dude doubted that a Rock-oriented label was the right place for a Jazz artist! Instead, he chose to sign with Essex, a British imprint known for its classical and Jazz releases. However, Essex’s A + R department planned to promote him as a Pop artist; they saw in Rod potential to become a new George Benson!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>What’s more, the British indie had just linked up with Disques Pathé, the Paris-based company whose American sister label was Archie Records. Long story short, Archie staff flew over to help Rod cut his Essex singles. “I’ve got the best of both worlds,” he told Chuck Clayton, who was assigned to supervise his sessions. “I’m with a Jazz label that wants to sell me to Pop audiences; and I get to make records with friends who know what I’m all about musically!” Those friends not only included his fellow Nasty Boys Chuck and Terry “Pop” Tate, but Les Gigolettes, too. </i></b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>Rod also invited Sabrina to sit in; she was already in London to work on the aborted Partridge Family project.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Due to factors beyond his control, dude was only an Essex artist for eighteen months; three singles were issued during that time. None got the promotion they deserved, but each one earned a cult following soon after hitting the market. All were intended as heralds for a jazzy album tribute to Tommy James, one of Rod’s favorite artists. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>“I wasn’t interested in those chirpy Bubblegum Rock songs Tommy recorded with The Shondells,” he'd later tell me. “I wanted to sing Rock ballads like 'Loved One' and 'Tighter'. He wrote those songs after finding salvation with Jesus Christ. They have a spirituality and soulfulness that I strongly related to.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>So did Sabrina, even though she's a Wiccan. Recalling Rod</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>'s never-completed tribute album decades later, babe was inspired to produce a million-selling New Archies LP called TIGHTER. The title track will chart in 2039 with an arrangement that’s all but identical to Rod’s unreleased duet version. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Loved One” was the only Essex single to get airplay; in the year 2028, it will feature in a successful film adaptation of Rohase Piercy’s cult novel MY DEAREST HOLMES. </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>While not a chart hit, Rod's solo version of "Tighter" was favored by British dance clubs as a closing-time number. </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>His third single “Gingerbread Man” b/w “Forty Days And Forty Nights” was his personal favorite; Les Gigolettes sounded awesome on that one! But sadly, it never caught on.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>And despite Essex’s distribution agreement, none of his singles were ever marketed outside of Europe. In the end, Rod was left wondering if he should've signed with Archie after all! Many years later, the reissue label Vox Sound + Image will acquire the rights to Rod's Essex masters; because of his history with the Archie label they'll be treated as part of its catalog, which Vox will have already purchased. Long before then, dude scored a hit on the Archie label without being on the artist roster . . . details forthcoming!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53111447449/in/dateposted/" title="DISQUE D'OR REMIX SESSION"><img alt="DISQUE D'OR REMIX SESSION" height="368" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53111447449_4ea65bedcb.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>DISQUE D'OR</i> WAS THE FIRST OF FOUR </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ALBUMS THAT </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ROD MACK REMIXED </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">FOR ARCHIE RECORDS. THE OTHERS WERE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>ARCHIE @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL</i>, THE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">LIVE-IN-CONCERT ALBUM <i>ÉXITOS EN VIVO</i> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">AND </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILATION </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ÉXITOS EN VIVO"</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MARCH 12 - 16, 2009</span></b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, UK</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>DULCE Y PICANTE - Éxitos en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Allan, Dante, Santiago)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>JINGLE JANGLE en Español </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP*</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Kim, Milstein) </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SKOOBY-DOO </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Kim, Milstein)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>VEN BAILAR CONMIGO </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, San Quentin)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SEÑOR FÁBRICA </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Goldberg, Santiago)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHICOS Y CHICAS </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, San Quentin)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SEÑORITA RITA </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, San Quentin)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>MALAGUEÑA SALEROSA </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP*</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Galindo, Ramirez)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>BANG-SHANG-A-LANG en Español</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>-</b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"> <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, San Quentin)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>A LA LINEA </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, San Quentin, Santiago)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>JUNTOS DOS </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Kim, Milstein)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">DISFRUTANDO TÚ </b><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><span>(Adams, Barkan, Santiago)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>¿QUIÉN ES TU NOVIA? </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>(Barry, Kim, Milstein)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>PASEO </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>(Barry, San Quentin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>UNA Y OTRA VEZ </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>(Barry, Dante, Santiago)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>ANGELITO MÍO </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>(Barry, San Quentin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>¡DÁMELO! </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>LA MÚSICA ROCK </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>(Barry, San Quentin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>JUVENTUD NO ES JOVEN </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>(Barry, San Quentin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>MEDLEY:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i>SONRISA (Barry, Briseno, Kim, Milstein)/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i>LA BAMBA (Ritchie Valens)/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i>CHERRY, CHERRY (Neil Diamond)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>- </b><b>Éxitos </b><b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>LUZ DE AMOR </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>(Barry, San Quentin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>SUGAR, SUGAR en Español - </b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;">- <b>Éxitos </b>en Vivo LP***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b>(Barry, Kim, Milstein)</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/EL MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*w/</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>RITA PHOENIX</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>**w/BINGO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>***w/RITA PHOENIX + BINGO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Music Director:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BUDDY SHELBY, XENA FREES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Executive Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The live-in-concert version of The Archies'</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL album came very close</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>to being released as the AFC album for Christmas</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>2009. The previous year, it been bumped from</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>the schedule by U. S. of ARCHIE, but Archie wasn't</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>averse to having one live LP follow another one.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Shelved yet again, this time in favor of Betty +</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Veronica's excellent 2009 duet album</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BEAUTIFUL STRANGER, </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>ÉXITOS EN VIVO will</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>take seven decades to see light of day! After</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Atlantic Records declines to market the master</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>in 2027, it will somehow get lost in Abbey Road Studio's</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>vast tape archive. W</i></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>hen </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>finally recovered in the </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>year 2078, EN VIVO will have sustained climate </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>damage and a five-</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>year restoration project </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>will be necessary; </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>fortunately, it will be successful!</i></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52298845051/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE GIGOLETTES/THE BETTYS"><img alt="THE GIGOLETTES/THE BETTYS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52298845051_e15d37a61d.jpg" width="372" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE EVOLUTION OF </span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">LES GIGOLETTES.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: HOW AND WHEN LES GIGOLETTES BECAME THE NEW HOUSE BAND FOR ARCHIE RECORDS IS SURELY A TALE WORTH TELLING! IN EARLY 2007 @ THE HEIGHT OF THEIR MARITAL CRISIS, ARCHIE + VERONICA DECIDED TO FOCUS ON SOMETHING OTHER THAN THEMSELVES. THEY ADOPTED A HOMELESS FORMER LAB ANIMAL: A RARE PYGMY ALLIGATOR THAT HAD BEEN LEFT IN POOR HEALTH. RONI NAMED HIM "BEAU JACQUES" AFTER HER PATERNAL GRANDFATHER.</span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SHE + ARCHIE SPENT MONTHS NURSING HIM BACK TO HEALTH; AND IN THE PROCESS, THEY REDISCOVERED THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER! SO IT ISN'T HARD TO UNDERSTAND HOW “BJ” BECAME A TREASURED MEMBER OF THEIR FAMILY. BY EARLY 2008 THE GATOR WAS WELL AGAIN, AND THEY OBTAINED A SPECIAL LICENSE ALLOWING THEM TO WALK HIM OUTSIDE ON A LEASH. VERONICA WOULD BRING BJ TO THE ARCHIE RECORDS OFFICES! </span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">HAVING THE SNOUT OF A PYGMY ALLIGATOR NUZZLING IN MY LAP TOOK GETTING USED TO, I MUST ADMIT; BUT IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG! AS A BORN WICCAN, I HAVE A TELEPATHIC RAPPORT WITH ANIMALS. I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT BEAU JACQUES HAD NO WILD TENDENCIES LEFT; HE WAS WARM (IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT IN A REPTILE), FRIENDLY, PLAYFUL AND DOCILE AS COULD BE! THE ENTIRE ARCHIE STAFF JUST ADORED HIM.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;">WELL, ALL EXCEPT FOR TWO PEOPLE.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">BINGO WILKIN'S WIFE SAMI WAS SO AFRAID OF WILD ANIMALS, SHE REFUSED TO EVEN VISIT THE RIVERDALE ZOO! SHE'D TOTALLY FREAK OUT IF SHE KNEW BJ WAS ANYWHERE NEARBY. SAMI WILKIN COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY RONI WOULD HAVE "THAT SWAMP MONSTER" AS A PET, AND HER HUSBAND AGREED. THEY UNWISELY SAID SO ALOUD, LEADING TO THE END OF THE BINGOS' TENURE AS ARCHIE'S HOUSE BAND! FORTUNATELY, ANOTHER GROUP WAS WAITING IN THE WINGS TO REPLACE THEM.</span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">DRUMMER MIDGE MERCURY HAD RECENTLY STARTED HER OWN BAND WITH SOME GIRLFRIENDS; LES GIGOLETTES FANCIED THEMSELVES RIVERDALE'S ANSWER TO THE BANGLES! BUT BOOKINGS WERE SLOW, SO THEY WERE DELIGHTED WHEN ARCHIE OFFERED THEM SOME WELL-PAYING STUDIO GIGS. THE FIRST ONE WAS A SESSION FOR VERONICA'S ABORTED ABBA TRIBUTE.</span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">MIDGIE WAS A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN BUT NOT SO FIFI BURNS (KEYBOARDS), JOYA "JOEY" KLEMPERER (BASS) + MYRNA MARIE TOLLIVER (GUITAR). HOWEVER, WHEN I REHEARSED THEM I FOUND THAT THEY HAD GOOD EARS AND WERE FAST LEARNERS. TECHNICALLY, LES GIGOLETTES WEREN'T AS GOOD AS THE BINGOS, BUT THEIR PLAYING HAD AN APPEALINGLY GRUNGY "GARAGE" SOUND. ARCHIE LOVED IT, AND SO DID I. THEIR 2012 KARAOKE ALBUM <i>BE YOUR OWN ARCHIES</i> WAS A HUGE BEST-SELLER FOR THE ARCHIES FAN CLUB LABEL!</span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"SOUL ON FIRE"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MARCH 13 - 15, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>STUDIO “B”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL PASO, TEXAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HE’S MY MAN, El Paso version</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Patterson, Wright)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JUMP THE GUN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Faltermeyer, Forsey)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAKE ME WITH YOU</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Dunbar, Wayne)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I WISH I’D NEVER LOVED YOU - single B-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hawker, Raymonde)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>featuring VALERIE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: FOOLKILLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: PUNK E. GUTIÉRREZ</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: There was little chance that Josie would agree to work with Alexandra + Alan M again. For The Pussy Cats’ second Soul music album, Archie hooked the group up with Tony Briseño. Instead of London, Josie, Melly + Val headed down South to the Land of </i>Tejanos; <i>and this time, Josie’s friend Rod Mack wasn’t part of the crew. In retrospect, Rod's absence was a bad omen! (Rod + Dilton won’t actually meet for another twenty years, although they'll come close to crossing paths several times.)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>As on most of his productions, Tony planned to augment the trio with his studio house band, Mariachi Lowrider. The prospect of cutting Soul music with </i>mariachi <i>horns had him salivating with anticipation! Josie was never completely on board with the idea, though, and her skepticism soon turned into disapproval. To her ears, the stylistic blend was dissonant: “That Tijuana Brass sound won’t fly with our fans,” she complained. Before long, babe was battling with Tony for control of the sessions!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>As if the mood in Studio "B" wasn’t tense enough, Tony’s wife Bundles crashed the sessions on the third day. When she slammed her fist down on the engineer’s console, sound man Punk E. Gutiérrez spilled hot coffee all over himself! Fortunately he didn't suffer any burns, but Bunny could have cared less; she always mistreated Tony's staff, and they hated her like poison! While Punk E. excused himself to clean up, she resumed an argument with Tony that they'd been having that morning.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i> </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52324479261/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="MEET BUNNY PECKERWOOD"><img alt="MEET BUNNY PECKERWOOD" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52324479261_9879e8c3a6.jpg" width="374" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO'S WIFE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BUNNY PECKERWOOD: BOTH THE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">LOVE OF HIS LIFE AND THE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BANE OF HIS EXISTENCE!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>A busty and brassy Galveston blonde, Bunny Peckerwood-Briseño was rude, crude and insanely jealous! To the total shock of everyone present, she accused Tony of having an affair with a member of the group. </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“Which one, Dilton?” she demanded. “It’s Valerie, isn’t it? I know you’ve got jungle fever! Grandma Peckerwood warned me you’d take up with a Black bitch someday. Oh, why did I ever marry an Afro-Mexican?” </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Not one to suffer racial slurs in silence, Valerie Smith-Cabot laid right into Bunny! A proud Afro-Mexican her damn self, Val vented her outrage with a rapid-fire torrent of Spanish laced with Anglo-Saxon cuss words! Bunny got up in her face and started shrieking the N-word! A mortified Tony barely managed to stop a mini-race riot!</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>In the midst of utter chaos, he had little choice but to abort the date. Session contractor Rey Cochino attempted to reschedule but hit a stone wall: The Pussy Cats refused to work with Tony again! Thoroughly incensed, they flew back to Archie Records HQ and back to the drawing board for a new album concept. Nothing got released from their truncated El Paso sessions but the flipside of a single that would surface two years later.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: ARCHIE BADLY WANTED TO FINISH HIS GROUP'S ABORTED <i>FIFTY SHADES OF SOUL </i>ALBUM; HE KEPT PUSHING IT FOR QUITE SOME TIME. HOWEVER, HE CONCURRED WITH HIS BANDMATES THAT IT WAS TOO AMBITIOUS; THE CONCEPT NEEDED TO BE SCALED DOWN. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">@ ONE POINT, THERE WAS TALK ABOUT CUTTING INDIVIDUAL TRIBUTE ALBUMS TO BARRY GIBB, VALERIE SIMPSON + LAURA NYRO; TONY BRISEÑO CHAMPIONED THE LATTER AND LOBBIED HARD FOR IT! HE WON'T STOP LOBBYING UNTIL THEY AGREE TO RECORD IT AS THE SOUNDTRACK FOR A TV SPECIAL; BUT THAT WON'T BE UNTIL THE YEAR 2032, LONG AFTER ARCHIE RECORDS' DEMISE.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"> IN 2009, VERONICA'S COMMERCIAL INSTINCTS WERE STEERING HER IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. "IT'S TIME TO MAKE ANOTHER COUNTRY ALBUM," SHE DECLARED. THE NEXT THING THE ARCHIES KNEW, THEY WERE CUTTING ONE IN BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO. THAT'S WHERE RALFI CHINGAS' HOME STUDIO WAS; HE ALWAYS PREFERRED WORKING THERE, AND THIS TIME AND HE INSISTED ON IT. THE COUNTRY LP HE PRODUCED IN PUERTO RICO SURFACED DECADES LATER UNDER THE TITLE <i>ARCHIE ON THE BAYOU</i>; I THINK OF IT AS THE ARCHIES' GREAT LOST CAJUN MUSIC EXPERIMENT!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ARCHIE ON THE BAYOU"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL RANCHO CHINGAS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BAYAMÒN, PUERTO RICO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>OKLAHOMA HILLS - discarded</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Woody Guthrie)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NEVER-ENDING SONG OF LOVE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Delaney Bramlett)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>UP ABOVE MY HEAD - Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Rosetta Tharpe)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>RAMBLIN' MAN - Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Dickey Betts)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>AIMÈE - Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Craig Fuller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JACKY DANIELS AND YOU </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Greenfield, Sedaka)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JET AIRLINER - Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Paul Peña)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>REUBEN JAMES - Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Etris, Harvey)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/TREVOR SMITH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Vocal Arranger: BETTY JONES</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers/Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: MIGUELITO SKEEN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Reggie Mantle was still officially "on suspension" from </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Archies in 2009. </b></span></i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Trevor Smith had not yet</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>officially joined the group when he played bass on these </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>sessions. The </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">titles were intended for The Archies' </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">second Country </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">music album.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24737062932/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="ARCHIE ON THE BAYOU ALBUM COVERS"><img alt="ARCHIE ON THE BAYOU ALBUM COVERS" height="397" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1623/24737062932_cddd90ed47.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>A R C H I E</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>O N T H E B A Y O U !</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>AN UNRELEASED ARCHIES </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ALBUM FROM 2009.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: INCREASINGLY, BETTY JONES LIKED TO CHALLENGE HERSELF MUSICALLY. IN ORDER TO DISTINGUISH THIS NEW COUNTRY ALBUM FROM 2002's <i>ARCHIE COUNTRY!,</i> SHE SUGGESTED THAT THE SONG SELECTIONS BE GIVEN CAJUN MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS. HER BANDMATES WERE GAME, AND TO MY EARS THEY DID A GOOD JOB APPROXIMATING LOUISIANA SOUL. "AIMEÉ," "NICKY HOEKY" AND "RAMBLIN' MAN" WERE ESPECIALLY GOOD; THEY SURELY WOULD'VE BECOME HITS!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">HOWEVER, VERONICA DIDN'T LIKE HOW THE NEW TRACKS SOUNDED ON PLAYBACK; SHE COMPLAINED THAT THEY WERE "TOO RUSTIC." BETTY WAS UNHAPPY, BUT RALFI CHINGAS WAS INCENSED BY HER REACTION! ADDING INSULT TO INJURY, RONI DEMANDED THAT HE MOVE THE PRODUCTION TO SPANISH EDDIE'S; SHE TOLD RALFI THAT RANCHO CHINGAS WASN'T HER IDEA OF A TOP-FLIGHT RECORDING FACILITY. "NEITHER IS A STUDIO SITUATED OVER A DIVE BAR!" HE FUMED. </span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">THE TWO OF THEM GOT INTO A SHOUTING MATCH, AND BY THE TIME THE ARCHIES LEFT PUERTO RICO FOR NEW ORLEANS, THEY WERE NO LONGER ON SPEAKING TERMS. ALMOST A YEAR WOULD PASS BEFORE RALFI WORKED WITH THE BAND AGAIN!</span></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ARCHIE ON THE BAYOU"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL RANCHO CHINGAS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BAYAMÒN, PUERTO RICO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hurley, Wilkins)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVIN' ARMS - Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tom Jans)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DRIFT AWAY - Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mentor Williams)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THERE'LL BE NO TEARDROPS TONIGHT </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hank Williams)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GOOD DEAL, LUCILLE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Miller, Theriot)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE SWEETEST THING I'VE EVER KNOWN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie On The Bayou LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Robert Otha Young)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/TREVOR SMITH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Vocal Arranger: BETTY JONES</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers/Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: MIGUELITO SKEEN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Guitarist Katz Rockland + fiddler Frenchy </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Skaggs from </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Katz + The Fiddles were rumored</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">to be sidemen </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">on this date. In fact, they were</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">not present; </b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">the only sideman was Trevor Smith.</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Reggie Mantle + </span></b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Olga San </span></b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Quentín were present to </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">observe </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">the </span></b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">proceedings, </span></b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">but neither of them took</span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">part. When Roni </span></b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lodge-Andrews </span></b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">nixed the release </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;">of </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">these Cajun</b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">-flavored tracks, </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">The Archies </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">started </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">over recording </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">their new </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Country album </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">from </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">scratch.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: FROM MAY TO AUGUST, THE GROUP RE-RECORDED MOST OF THE SONGS, WHICH WERE SUBSEQUENTLY RELEASED ON THEIR MILLION-SELLING <i>RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY</i> LP. JUST AS VERONICA WANTED, THE TRACKING WAS DONE @ SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL, AND TONY BRISEÑO TOOK OVER PRODUCTION DUTIES. HAVING FINALLY MADE UP WITH ARCHIE, REGGIE MANTLE TOOK PART IN THE ALBUM SESSIONS AS A “GUEST ARTIST.” HOWEVER, HE HADN’T YET MADE UP HIS MIND TO REJOIN THE GROUP!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY/JUNE 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAKE A STEP - single flipside (Canada)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Billy Dawn Smith)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAKE A LETTER, MARÌA </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(RB Greaves)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TIME DRAGS BY - Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(The Shadows)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GOOD DEAL, LUCILLE - Golden Sugar LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Miller, Theriot)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SPEEDY GONZÀLEZ </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Return To Archie Country LP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hess, Kaye, Lee)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVIN' ARMS - Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tom Jans)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*JUGGY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/TREVOR SMITH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>**w/OLGA SAN QUENTÌN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Dilton Doiley Briseño stepped in for an absent</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Ralfi Chingas, sidelined by creative differences</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>with Veronica. Unfortunately, most label copy</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>mistakenly credited Ralfi as the co-producer</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>of these sessions, resulting in strained relations</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>between him and Tony! "Take A Step" was issued</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>as a fan club single; Juggy Jones sang lead.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Featuring a comedic duet vocal by Reggie </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">Mantle </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>+ his </i>fiancée<i> Olga San Quentín, </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Speedy </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">González" became a major hit in</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>South America.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52348089089/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BRISEÑO-MACK CHRISTMAS CARD"><img alt="BRISEÑO-MACK CHRISTMAS CARD" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52348089089_da090d5963.jpg" width="372" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AFTER DIVORCING BUNNY PECKERWOOD</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AND EMBRACING HIS LONG-SUPPRESSED</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BISEXUALITY, DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>WILL FIND HAPPINESS WITH</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ROD MACK.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JULY 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>UP ABOVE MY HEAD </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Rosetta Tharpe)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Green, Montgomery)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I FOUGHT THE LAW </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Sonny Curtis)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>REUBEN JAMES </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Etris, Harvey)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JET AIRLINER </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Paul Peña)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BLESS MY SOUL! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b> Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Bloom)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/TREVOR SMITH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/HARRY CONNICK, JR.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers/Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Jazz legend Harry Connick, Jr played piano @ these dates.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"I Fought The Law" became a major hit in Australia, with</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Juggy Jones singing lead; this wasn't the last time that</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Archies would sample The Bobby </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Fuller Four's </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>song catalog.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: BY NOW, MOST ARCHIES FANS KNOW THAT TONY BRISEÑO PRODUCED <i>RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY</i>, BUT FEW PEOPLE KNEW THAT WHEN THE ALBUM FIRST HIT THE STREETS! RALFI CHINGAS WAS CREDITED AS THE PRODUCER. THERE'S NO TRUTH TO RUMORS THAT TONY AGREED TO FOREGO CREDIT FOR CONTRACTUAL REASONS; HE WAS TOTALLY SHOCKED TO SEE RALFI'S NAME ON THE RECORD LABELS! IT WAS A MISTAKE THAT GOT CORRECTED ON FUTURE PRESSINGS. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">RALFI DIDN'T EXACTLY GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO CLEAR UP THE CONFUSION! IN HIS DEFENSE, HE <i>DID </i>PRODUCE THE OLDER ALBUM TRACKS, BUT TONY FELT THAT HE SHOULD'VE CLARIFIED HIS LIMITED ROLE IN THE PROJECT. GOING FORWARD, THERE WAS TENSION BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM AND THEY NEVER COLLABORATED AGAIN ON A STUDIO PRODUCTION!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53476106898/in/dateposted/" title="US OF ARCHIE, DELUXE EDITION"><img alt="US OF ARCHIE, DELUXE EDITION" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53476106898_90b8d5d258.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">A DELUXE EDITION OF THE ARCHIE FAN</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CLUB ALBUM <i>US OF ARCHIE </i>WILL GIVE 22nd</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CENTURY FANS THE CHANCE TO HEAR WHAT</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ROCK CRITICS AGREE IS THE ARCHIES' </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FINEST LIVE-IN-CONCERT</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RECORDING. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AUGUST 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SHE SHOT A HOLE IN MY SOUL! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Retro box set</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gayden, Neese)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hurley, Wilkins)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Greenfield, Sedaka)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A MESS OF BLUES </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Pomus, Shuman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HEY, MEMPHIS! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b> Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Pomus, Shuman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JACKY DANIELS AND YOU </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Return To Archie Country LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Greenfield, Sedaka)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/TREVOR SMITH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/OLGA SAN QUENTÌN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arranger: BETTY JONES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers/Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Love Of The Common People" was a major international</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>hit; it featured ensemble vocals by the entire group </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">(including Trevor </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Smith + the yet-to-be-reinstated </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Reggie Mantle). "Jacky </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Daniels And You" was The</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Archies' first and only Top </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ten Country single. "A Mess </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Of </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Blues" was </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">issued as a fan club single flipside; Betty</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Jones took the lead on both songs. Olga San Quentín</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>contributed acoustic guitar and backing vocals to</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>these sessions.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AUGUST 13-15, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>STUDIO "B",</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL PASO, TEXAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>JET AIRLINER - single</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>COUNTRY 2 THE CITY - single (Europe)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/TREVOR SMITH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/BILLY GIBBONS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILY BRISEÑO w/THE ARCHIES,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*ROD MACK w/THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Producers/Remix Engineers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO, SPANISH EDDIE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>A Top Ten hit featuring guest lead vocalist </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Trevor Smith, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">"Jet Airliner" was the only Grammy-</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">nominated Archies </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">single of the 21st century. The lead </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">guitar parts were </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">overdubbed by Billy Gibbons of ZZ </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Top; he and his </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">band were in negotiations @ this </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">time to become </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">Archie Records artists! Unfortunately,</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">they could </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">not come to terms with the label. "Country</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">2 The City" is a live recording captured at UK's Wembley</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Stadium in January 2009. It's the English version of the</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">only hit that The </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Archies ever scored in the Muslim world!</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>That single, sung in Arabic, was tracked in Hollywood</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>back in the Summer of 2007.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: <i>ARCHIE COUNTRY! </i>WAS A FINE ALBUM BUT <i>RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY </i>WAS A MUCH STRONGER RECORD. THE FORMER WAS COUNTRY POP; THIS NEW RECORD WAS PURE COUNTRY ROCK, RAW AND SASSY! </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">YOU COULD HEAR THE DIFFERENCE IN HIT SINGLES DRAWN FROM </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THE TRACK LIST: JUGHEAD BELTING OUT BOBBY FULLER'S "I FOUGHT THE LAW"; REGGIE + OLGUITA ROCKING "SPEEDY GONZÁLEZ" AS A BILINGUAL DUET; A SNARLING TREVOR SMITH PUTTING A REVERSE-RACIAL SPIN ON "REUBEN JAMES"; AND BETTY JONES GETTING DOWN 'N' DIRTY WITH A DRINKING SONG CALLED "JACKIE DANIELS AND YOU." COUNTRY RADIO POUNCED ON THAT ONE, AND NASHVILLE AWARED THE ARCHIES WITH A GOLD RECORD!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>TWO BIG SUPRISES WERE "LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE", A COUNTRY POP TUNE MADE OVER WITH A REGGAE ARRANGEMENT, AND "JET AIRLINER", A TEX-MEX-FLAVORED REVIVAL OF THE STEVE MILLER BAND CLASSIC. TONY BRISEÑO BELIEVED STRONGLY IN THOSE TRACKS, AND HE EVEN GOT INVOLVED IN PROMOTING THEM! HIS INSTINCTS WERE PROVEN RIGHT WHEN BOTH BROKE FOR SMASH HITS AS SINGLES; AND THE LATTER, FEATURING ANOTHER FEROCIOUS TREVOR SMITH VOCAL, GOT NOMINATED FOR A "BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE" GRAMMY AWARD!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SO WORKING WITH TONY PAID OFF HANDSOMELY FOR THE ARCHIES; BUT AS I SAID BEFORE, <i>RETURN TO ARCHIE COUNTRY</i> ALSO CONTAINED SOME LEFTOVER TRACKS FROM THE <i>ARCHIE COUNTRY! </i>SESSIONS. THOSE RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTIONS PACKED A COMMERCIAL WALLOP, TOO, AND "GOOD DEAL, LUCILLE" PROVED THE POINT WHEN IT EARNED A PLACE ALONGSIDE THE NEWLY-RECORDED HITS. REGGIE (WHO SANG LEAD) WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT HAPPENING; THE BAND CUT TWO ADDITIONAL VERSIONS, ONE IN PUERTO RICO AND ANOTHER IN NEW ORLEANS, BUT HE JUDGED THE ORIGINAL MEMPHIS MASTER SUPERIOR - AND ARCHIE AGREED! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>IT WAS A RARE </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">CREATIVE CONSENSUS BETWEEN ADVERSARIES THAT SEEMED TO PROMISE BETTER RELATIONS IN THE FUTURE; STILL, NOBODY KNEW WHETHER OR NOT REGGIE WOULD COME BACK TO THE ARCHIES! FOR THE TIME BEING, THAT UNCERTAINTY SUITED HIM JUST FINE: </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">"I ALWAYS LIKED TO KEEP THE GINGERBREAD MAN GUESSING," HE TOLD ME, USING HIS WRY NICKNAME FOR ARCHIE. "I NEVER LET DUDE TAKE MY COOPERATION FOR GRANTED!" </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52032954232/in/album-72177720298153505/" title="ARCHIES ARRIVE IN NEW YORK"><img alt="ARCHIES ARRIVE IN NEW YORK" height="325" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52032954232_2d28fd419f.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AS FAR BACK AS THE YEAR 1990,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES WERE SETTING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE STAGE FOR THEIR ULTIMATE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>INCARNATION AS A SOUL MUSIC</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BAND.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ARCHIE’S MOTOWN MEDLEY"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 23 - 26, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BABY GRAND RECORDING STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HONOLULU, HAWAII</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ARCHIE'S MOTOWN MEDLEY:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Part One)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>MY GIRL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Robinson, White)/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>SINCE I LOST MY BABY/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Robinson, Moore)/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BEAUTY’S ONLY SKIN DEEP</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Holland, Whitfield)/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(I KNOW) I’M LOSING YOU</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Grant, Holland, Whitfield)/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DANCING IN THE STREET</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Gaye, Hunter, Stevenson)*/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ASK THE LONELY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Hunter, Stevenson)*</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie’s Motown Medley EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>ARCHIE'S MOTOWN MEDLEY:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Part Two)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF LOVE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Dozier, Holland)*/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THERE’S A GHOST IN MY HOUSE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Dozier, Holland, Taylor)*/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN-HEARTED?</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Dean, Riser, Weatherspoon)**/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>LET ME GO THE RIGHT WAY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Berry Gordy, Jr)/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Gamble, Ross)/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>MY GUY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Smokey Robinson)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie’s Motown Medley EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*w/CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>**w/ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Music Director: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineer: RHETT VALENTYNE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Workaholic Big Ethel prepared this fourth and final volume of previously-unreleased Kirshner tracks while on vacation. Both sides of this EP play edited versions of a live medley that The Archies performed @ Harlem’s Apollo Theater. Guitarist, singer and arranger Rod Mack first met them @ that May 1990 gig and actually put the medley together. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Rod resented not being asked to work on this project, and when he heard Ethel’s edits, dude was less than happy! "I wish she'd put the complete, unedited medley out on an album," he grumbled. "I can't stand listening to this chopped-up version!" Fan club members must not have liked it either; what should’ve been the most collectible RARE MASTERS EP proved to be the least popular.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The series was discontinued. AFC Records began showcasing a a variety of artists on extended-play discs; ironically, Rod Mack would be the first in 2010. Shortly before stepping down from her duties @ Archie Records, Big Ethel did revive the ARCHIES RARE MASTERS series; however, her intended fifth volume was never pressed. For details, see the entry for March 14th, 2014.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>In the year 2065, Vox Sound + Image will reissue all four rarities EPs on one ultra-long-playing album. ARCHIE SINGS SOUL will also include three previously-unissued Kirshner Records sides that Big Ethel had under consideration: “I’ve Never Gotten Over You” featuring another rare lead vocal by Betty, plus live recordings of “I Like It Like That” and “The Way You Do The Things You Do.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52519705524/in/dateposted/" title="JOSIE SINGLE PROMO"><img alt="JOSIE SINGLE PROMO" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52519705524_7995f6a486.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR JOSIE'S 2009 SOLO SINGLE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"HE'S SO EASY TO LOVE" b/w "WHAT</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>LOVE HAS JOINED TOGETHER."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>TRIUMPH RECORDS</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>OCTOBER 16 - 19, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BEL CANTO STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, UK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHAT LOVE HAS JOINED TOGETHER - single</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Robinson, Rogers)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HE'S SO EASY TO LOVE - single B-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lewis, Phillips)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>JOSIE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers/Producers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>KEVIN KELLER, ROD MACK</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Conductor: JOSIE JAMES</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>VI NGUYEN</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>This was originally a demo </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>session for Josie +</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Pussy Cats, but the only singers present were</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Josie + Rod Mack; he sang a bass counterpoint to</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>her lead vocal. They both agreed that these tracks</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>sounded good enough </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>to be two sides of a single. </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The demos only had</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> guitar accompaniment, so Rod </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>suggested "sexing them up" before playing them for</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Valerie + Melody. </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Pussy Cats were about</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>to play a British Rock festival and</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> Kevin Keller </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>had flown over to catch their show. @ Josie's </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>request, Kelly came down to the studio and</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>overdubbed keyboards, </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>drums and percussion. </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Rod </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>was blown away by his organ-playing; h</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>e </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>excitedly dialed </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>up Archie </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>and played the new</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>dubs for him </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>over the phone. Equally excited,</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arch pronounced "He's So Easy To Love" a</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"surefire" hit</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>, and he set wheels in motion</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>for a rush release! The Pussy Cats</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> were </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>scheduled </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>to cut a master version</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> with </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Josie the following </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>week.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Kevin Keller + Josie James were</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>on-again, off-again lovers for years. Dude wasn't</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>such a big Pussy Cats fan; he flew to London to</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>see her, not them! Kelly identified himself as</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Gay </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>and Josie was rumored to be Lesbian, so when</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">their relationship was revealed in the mid-teens, it</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">surprised everybody - especially Kelly's husband, Dr.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Clay Walker! Eventually, both of them "came out"</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">as Bisexual. Kelly's marriage survived booty calls</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">with other women as well as his affair with Josie;</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">their sexual relationship evolved into a strong</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">friendship and professional bond that lasted</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">for the rest of her life.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Somehow, "He's So Easy To Love" got pressed up</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">before The Pussy Cats had a chance to redo it!</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Archie had a choice: Either kill the pressing or</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">release it as a solo record by Josie. Dude chose</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>to do the latter! Veronica wasn't happy that Archie</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>jumped the gun on a single before consulting her,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>but she grudgingly signed off </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>on the shipment.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">"You're plugging the wrong side," babe warned</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">him. "The Smokey Robinson tune is the hit!"</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, Arch chose to be stubborn: "I</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">know I'm right about this one. You'll see!" </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Pussy Cats manager Lex Cabot had negotiated </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>a custom record label for the </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>group, so "Easy To </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Love" </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>came out emblazoned with the Triumph </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>logo; but </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>when Roni's judgment proved to </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>be right and it underperformed on the Pop</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>charts </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>(barely </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>breaking Top Forty), dude </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>accused Archie </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Records' promotion </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>staff of </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>incompetence. </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>Valerie + Melody were pissed,</span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">too, </span></i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">for being left </span></i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">off of a single they were </span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">scheduled to play on! </span></i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Archie's </i>faux pas<i> sparked </i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>inter-group </span></i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span>friction </span></i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>and set </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>the stage for more</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>trouble down </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>the road.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">The Bettys cut a definitive version of "He's So Easy To</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Love" in 2017 but to this day, some people champion</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Josie's recording. </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>That wasn't the side that took</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>dance clubs by storm, though. "What </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Love Has Joined </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Together" did that, also in 2017, </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>after a club deejay </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>in Aruba</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> put an old promo copy in rotation. Soon, </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">it was in heavy rotation! Frenzy for that record</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>spread up </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>the Caribbean, exploded in New York </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>City and </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>ended by topping the dance charts! </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>This belated </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>smash will immediately go into the </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>set list of </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Josie's new band, Jozetta, which she'll </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>have launched the previous year.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34878716950/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE VIXENS WITH KEVIN KELLER"><img alt="THE VIXENS WITH KEVIN KELLER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4241/34878716950_9bdae31344.jpg" width="392" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>KEVIN KELLER REHEARSING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>@ AN OVERDUB RECORDING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SESSION IN MAMARONECK.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ARCHIE IN JAPAN"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ISLAND PACIFIC PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER 16-20, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>VOX POPULI STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>TOKYO, JAPAN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ST. KEVIN, APOSTROPHE in Japanese </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in Japan EP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Becker, Jones, Prado, Santiago, Takeshi)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>KIND OF A DRAG in Japanese</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in Japan EP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Holvay, Jones, Takeshi)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DENVER DREAM in Japanese</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in Japan EP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bellotte, Jones, Takeshi)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PRECIOUS AND FEW in Japanese </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie in Japan EP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jones, Nims, Takeshi)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/TREVOR SMITH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ROD MACK, *BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: BARCLAY SINGH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: GO TAKESHI</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Rod Mack + Bree Spellman took part in these sessions</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>on guitar and keyboards, respectively; this was Rod's</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>first work with The Archies since the disastrous 2006</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>dates for their album GET IT ON TODAY. "Precious And</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Few" became a Top Ten hit in Japan; </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Juggy Jones, half of </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">whose heritage is Japanese, was </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">prouder of this record </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">than any other he sang </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">lead on! He + Go Takeshi </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">collaborated on </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">new lyrics for all four of the selections</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">tracked at this Tokyo date. With much coaching from</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Jughead, soon-to-be new group member Trev Smith </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">sang a Japanese translation of his original song</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">"St. Kevin, Apostrophe." An English-language </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">vocal will be overdubbed by Kevin Keller in </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">June </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">of 2010.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: IN NOVEMBER OF 2009, I WAS WITH TONY BRISEÑO + THE ARCHIES WHEN THEY PLAYED THE NISSAN STADIUM IN TOKYO. THAT'S A GIGANTIC VENUE, BUT JUST HOURS AFTER TICKETS WENT ON SALE, THEY FILLED IT UP! AND THE SERIES OF SHOWS THEY PUT ON THERE WERE SIMPLY FABULOUS; @ ONE POINT, THE GROUP WAS JOINED ONSTAGE BY AN ALL-FEMALE SQUAD OF TAIKO DRUMMERS! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>WHILE THEY WERE IN JAPAN, THE GROUP CUT THEIR ONLY SIDES IN JAPANESE. <i>ARCHIE IN JAPAN</i> CONTAINED A REMAKE OF "PRECIOUS AND FEW," WHICH JUST EXPLODED ACROSS THE ASIAN CONTINENT! THAT EP ALSO CONTAINED A FUTURE HIT SINGLE: “ST. KEVIN APOSTROPHE”, WRITTEN BY JUGHEAD + TREVOR SMITH. THE ENGLISH VERSION, RECORDED A YEAR LATER, WAS DESTINED TO TOP THE CHARTS, BUT POSTHUMOUSLY - IN THE 22nd CENTURY! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LATER THAT MONTH, THE ARCHIES OVERDUBBED TRACKS FROM THEIR LATEST COUNTRY ALBUM IN ITALIAN. THESE NEW VERSIONS WERE RELEASED IN ITALY ON A CHART-TOPPING EP CALLED <i>MI RICORDANO MARIA.</i> ARCHIE + RONI, BOTH OF PART-SICILIAN HERITAGE, COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE PLEASED! REGGIE WAS NO LESS DELIGHTED, BECAUSE HIS LEAD VOCALS </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">GRACED THE TITLE TRACK.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISQUES PATHÉ</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>OVERDUB SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUZIONE GRAND PRIX</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">(VOCALS)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>GRAND PRIX STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MILAN, ITALY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUZIONE A LO LATINO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>*UNA PRODUZIONE RALFI CHINGAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>RANCHO CHINGAS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAZZA DI LACRIME/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>A MESS OF BLUES (OVERDUB)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mi Ricordano Maria EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>HO INFRANTO LA LEGGE/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>I FOUGHT THE LAW (OVERDUB)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mi Ricordano Maria EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>MI RICORDANO MARIA/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAKE A LETTER, MARÌA (OVERDUB)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mi Ricordano Maria EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>GALLEGIANTE/DRIFT AWAY (OVERDUB)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Mi Ricordano Maria EP (Italy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/TREVOR SMITH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>+ D'ANGELO WONG</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*RALFI CHINGAS + THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/D'ANGELO WONG</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Overdub Sound Engineer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FRANCESCO NALDI</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The Archies' Italian-language remake of</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Take A Letter, Marìa" topped the charts</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>in Italy! Veronica + Terry "Pop" Tate</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>translated the song; Reggie Mantle</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>sang "guest" lead vocals.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/27593978866/in/album-72157719486934828/" title="NASHVILLE KATZ"><img alt="NASHVILLE KATZ" height="387" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/7609/27593978866_d058b4ca5e.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>NASHVILLE KATZ</i> IS A</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUM</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RECORDED IN 2009.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE AMERICANA RECORDS</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"NASHVILLE KATZ"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A CHERRY VAGINA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DECEMBER 1- 3, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>1994 (Garland, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nashville Katz LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DOWN ON THE SPANISH SIDE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Andrews, Briseño)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nashville Katz LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TITTY TWISTER (Andrews, Jones, Mason)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nashville Katz LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JESUS WAS A GAMBLER (Jones, Mason)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nashville Katz LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CORN GIRLS AND COUNTRY BOYS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Betty + Juggy Jones)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nashville Katz LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MAKIN' IT LONELY FOR ME (Betty Jones)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nashville Katz LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>KATZ + THE FIDDLES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>KATZ + THE FIDDLES, GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: CADE MURPHY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>This was the maiden tracking date for the most promising act</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>to come out of Riverdale since The Archies! Members of Katz</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>+ The Fiddles frequently sat in on Archies sessions, prompting</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Archie to wonder why they weren't signed to a label. He activated</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>one in order to launch them and assigned the reliable Chuck Clayton</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>as their producer. Deanie Grundy flew down from her music school</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>in Haverhill to add authentic-sounding barrelhouse piano to the tracks.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: KATZ ROCKLAND WAS BORN IN ALABAMA, AND SHE WAS DELIGHTED WHEN CHUCK CLAYTON BOOKED HER GROUP INTO HISTORIC MUSCLE SHOALS STUDIOS; KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY WERE PRECEDED THERE BY THE LIKES OF WILSON PICKETT, ARETHA FRANKLIN + CHER INSPIRED ROUSING PERFORMANCES! THE GROUP OF VIXENS THAT SANG ON THESE DATES WAS NURMEEN "MIMI" SAROYAN, KRAYGEN HINOJOSA AND PAMELA "PIPPA" TAGLIAFERRO. A DIFFERENT LINEUP OF VIXENS HAD ACCOMPANIED THE ARCHIES ON THEIR <i>LIKE A ROLLING STONE</i> TOUR.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52324479391/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="TREVOR SMITH + SAVOY SOUND"><img alt="TREVOR SMITH + SAVOY SOUND" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52324479391_a71b2eb826.jpg" width="390" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR THE LATIN JAZZ VOCAL</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">GROUP SAVOY SOUND, FEATURING</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">TREVOR SMITH AS A STAND-</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">IN LEAD SINGER.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"BEGIN THE BEGUINE"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A STEED-PINTO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DECEMBER 5 - 7, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, UK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TABÚ - Begin The Beguine LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Margarita Lecuona)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A RAINY NIGHT IN RIO </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Begin The Beguine LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Robin, Schwartz)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BEGIN THE BEGUINE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Begin The Beguine LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Cole Porter)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ANDALUCIA </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Begin The Beguine LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ernesto Lecuona)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BÉSAME MUCHO </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Begin The Beguine LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Consuelo Velázquez)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAMPICO - Begin The Beguine LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Fisher, Roberts)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE LADY IN RED </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Begin The Beguine LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Dixon, Wrubel)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BRAZIL - Begin The Beguine LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ary Barroso)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>AMAPOLA - Begin The Beguine LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Joseph La Calle)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IN A LITTLE SPANISH TOWN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Begin The Beguine LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lewis, Wayne, Young)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>SAVOY SOUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*w/TREVOR SMITH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE SUGARTOWN PIPERS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/LES GIGOLETTES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: JUSTIN STRICKLAND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: KEVIN BOYLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: LAURA PINTO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RONNIE + BUDDY SHELBY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: These album sessions almost never took place! Archie signed Jazz vocalists Savoy Sound on Trevor Smith's recommendation; but he didn’t know that a love triangle was tearing the quartet apart!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Both lead singer Art Greene + pianist/music director Justin Strickland were romancing harmony vocalist Britney Birdsong. Matters came to a “head” when Art surprised Britney serving up a “box lunch” to Justin! Dude staged an ugly scene and then quit the group. This happened just two days before they were scheduled to begin cutting their </i>début <i>album!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Rather than forfeit an expensive orchestra date booked @ Abbey Road, Archie urged Trevor to fill in. Singing lead with the tenor and soprano-heavy trio, his smoky baritone stuck out like a sore thumb! However, Justin Strickland rose to the challenge; on the spot, Jussie crafted brand new song arrangements to showcase Trevor’s limited vocal range.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Members of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra were default accompanists @ Archie sessions held in the UK. "The Sugartown Pipers" were well worth the expense of hiring them, but both Archie + Veronica had occasion to find them lacking a certain looseness! This was one of those occasions. Monitoring the sessions from Mamaroneck, Arch dispatched Les Gigolettes to London. Producer Laura Pinto took umbrage @ their addition to her crew, but dude knew what he wanted to hear. "Their rawness," he promised her, "will give these songs an edge and make them swing harder. You'll see!"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Upon hearing the dope-ass playbacks, both Archie + Laura gave the album an enthusiastic thumbs-up! Roni wasn’t really a Jazz fan, but Savoy Sound’s Latin orientation was right up her musical alley. Everybody @ Archie Records loved BEGIN THE BEGUINE. Unfortunately, the quartet’s new configuration wasn’t to the liking of most of their fans! "There's just one thing wrong with the way this record sounds," a prominent Jazz blogger wrote. "The lead singer! Savoy Sound has essentially replaced Mel Tormé with David Lee Roth! WTF?"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sales stats for BEGIN THE BEGUINE were respectable </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>for an album by a brand new group, but</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> Veronica wasn't interested in respectability. Babe wanted Gold and Platinum Records! It was the beginning of the end for Savoy Sound. By the time their album hit the streets in January of 2010, Trevor Smith had accepted an invitation to join The Archies. The quartet found a new tenor lead in 2011; however, they never got their original groove back and broke up the following year.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Even so, signing them proved to be a very good investment - for Archie Records in general and Trev in particular. Jussie Strickland later became The Archies’ semi-regular arranger, while female lead singer Cristina Angel became Mrs. Trevor Santiago!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE AMERICANA RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"NASHVILLE KATZ"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A CHERRY VAGINA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DECEMBER 16 - 18, 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DON'T U WANT ME 2 LOVE U? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Keller, Lodge-Andrews)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nashville Katz LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHINCHILLA BLUES (Keller, Lodge-Andrews)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nashville Katz LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WALK LIKE THAT (Roni Lodge-Andrews)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nashville Katz LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HEARTQUAKE SHAKE 'N' BAKE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lodge-Andrews, Mason)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nashville Katz LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>KATZ + THE FIDDLES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/SUGARBRITCHES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/MYRNA MARIE TOLLIVER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/JOEY KLEMPERER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers: KATZ + THE FIDDLES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: CADE MURPHY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Members of Les Gigolettes took part in these sessions,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>lending a raw Rock edge to certain tracks. The </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Sugarbritches" (Kevin Keller, Roni Lodge-Andrews +</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Reggie Mantle) </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">reunited for this date. This trio was </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">The </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Archies' regular backing vocal </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">unit between </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">2002 and </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">2007. </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Salem da Katt: I'm not big into Country music, but I've got to </b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>give NASHVILLE KATZ its props: That album was fucking </i>excellent! <i>While it didn't become a best-seller, it did impress major Country acts like Gretchen Wilson, Ty Herndon + Dwight Yoakam. All of them mined the track listing for material. Veronica wasn't so prolific a songwriter, and her compositions were overshadowed by more successful ones by Betty, Juggy + Archie; but some of her best work can be found here.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">In retrospect, Archie Americana Records' first and only release was the best song showcase Archie's publishing company ever had! You can't help but speculate how an Archies album featuring these original tunes might've sounded. However, the flagship</b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">group was on a million-dollar roll remaking classic oldies; no way were </b></i></span></span><i style="color: #f4cccc;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">they going to abandon a winning strategy! </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52348197925/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES INSIDE ROLLING STONE"><img alt="ARCHIES INSIDE ROLLING STONE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52348197925_c1a78abdee.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>ROLLING STONE </i>CRITICS NEVER</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">LIKED THE ARCHIES' MUSIC, BUT</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THEY COULDN'T IGNORE IT!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: BOTH JOEY + MYRNA MARIE LEFT LES GIGOLETTES SHORTLY AFTER SITTING IN WITH KATZ + THE FIDDLES. THE ONLY DOWNSIDE TO THAT BAND WAS THEIR FREQUENT CHANGES IN MEMBERSHIP. THEY WERE LIKE A REVOLVING DOOR, WITH PEOPLE ALWAYS COMING AND GOING! @ DIFFERENT TIMES, BIG ETHEL, CHUCK CLAYTON, JUGHEAD'S SISTER ANJELICA AND I WERE ALL DRAFTED IN AS MEMBERS. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I WAS PART OF THE BAND WHEN IT EVOLVED INTO THE BETTYS, LED BY BETTY JONES. THIS WAS JUST BEFORE THE ARCHIES TOOK AN EXTENDED BREAK FROM THE MUSIC BUSINESS. THE OTHER MEMBERS WERE MIDGE MERCURY AND JONNIEMAE, THE BRILLIANT FLAMENCO GUITARIST DISCOVERED BY RALFI CHINGAS. WE WERE NEVER THE HOUSE BAND FOR ARCHIE RECORDS, BUT WE DID PLAY ON TONI TOPAZ'S FIRST ALBUM AS WELL AS ARCHIE + VERONICA'S UNRELEASED DUET ALBUM. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">AFTER THE ARCHIE LABEL WAS SOLD, I WENT OUT ON TOUR WITH THE BETTYS. UP UNTIL THAT TIME, WE'D ONLY HAD GIGS IN NEW ENGLAND; BUT WHEN BETTY, MIDGIE + MAE MAE ASKED ME TO GO ON THE ROAD, I SAID YES. I CERTAINLY HADN'T PLANNED ON DOING THE ROCK STAR THING, BUT I REALLY DON'T MIND TOURING; BY THEN, I'D WORKED AS THE ARCHIES' TRAVELING MUSIC DIRECTOR. BESIDES, I THOUGHT IT WAS A NOVEL WAY TO OCCUPY MY TIME WHILE MY RECORDING STUDIO IN BOSTON </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">UNDERWENT RENOVATIONS!</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2010.html" target="_blank">CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE:</a></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/38749061464/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="JUGGY RED"><b><img alt="JUGGY RED" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4681/38749061464_5507211165.jpg" width="388" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;">"DANCING WITH MYSELF"</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">THE ARCHIES CONCENTRATE ON</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">SOLO MUSIC PROJECTS</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">IN THE YEAR </span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">2 0 1 0 !</span></i></span></b></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-44993904424762672682023-02-14T08:01:00.027-05:002023-12-31T09:50:36.294-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2008<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24430380562/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL LP COVERS"><b><img alt="ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL LP COVERS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1561/24430380562_66b73a0999.jpg" width="384" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presents</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;">A Journey Through</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">THE GREAT AMERICAN </span></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL </span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">SONG BOOK</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;">FROM ROD MACK’S ORAL HISTORY </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">OF ARCHIE RECORDS</span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;">MOTOWN WAS THE FIRST INDIE LABEL TO SUCCESSFULLY MARKET ITSELF AS A BRAND, WITH AN INSTANTLY IDENTIFIABLE SOUND. THAT BRAND AND THAT SOUND PROVED IRRESISTIBLE TO MUSIC CONSUMERS OF ALL AGES, ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS AND NATIONALITIES. MOTOWN'S FAMOUS ARTISTS: DIANA ROSS + THE SUPREMES, THE TEMPTATIONS, SMOKEY ROBINSON + THE MIRACLES, MARY WELLS, MARVIN GAYE, STEVIE WONDER, THE FOUR TOPS, MARTHA REEVES + THE VANDELLAS . . . THEY WERE AMBASSADORS OF SOUL! THEY TOOK AN EXCITING NEW KIND OF GOSPEL-BASED DANCE MUSIC TO UNPRECEDENTED PEOPLE AND PLACES. IN THE PROCESS, THEY REDEFINED AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;">SIX DECADES LATER, THE INFLUENCE OF THE MOTOWN SOUND IS STILL STRONG! BERRY GORDY, JR’S DETROIT START-UP BECAME THE MOST SUCCESSFUL INDIE OF THE 1960s, AND THE ONE ALL SUBSEQUENT INDIES ARE MEASURED BY. BOTH ARCHIE + VERONICA IDOLIZED MR. GORDY AND LOVED VINTAGE MOTOWN MUSIC! THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT HIS "HITSVILLE USA" WAS THEIR TEMPLATE FOR </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: x-large;">SUGARTOWN.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><i>THE EIGHTH YEAR: 2008</i></span></div></span></b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"CAT TALK"</b></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: IN JANUARY OF 2008, THE ARCHIES REMADE THEIR BIGGEST EARLY HIT IN SPANISH. THEY CALLED IT “SUGAR, SUGAR EN ESPAÑOL” (DUH)! I WAS ONE OF THE KEYBOARD PLAYERS ON THAT RECORD, WHICH WAS TRACKED IN NEW ORLEANS. I PREDICTED THAT IT WOULD BREAK OPEN THE LATIN MUSIC MARKET FOR THEM, AND HOW RIGHT I WAS! THE SINGLE TOPPED THE PAN-AMERICAN CHARTS AND SOLD LIKE HOTCAKES EVERYWHERE SPANISH IS SPOKEN. FROM LATE JANUARY THROUGH THE ENTIRE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, THE BAND TOURED SPAIN, PORTUGAL, THE PHILIPPINES AND THE CARIBBEAN TO PROMOTE THEIR BILINGUAL BEST-SELLER.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HOWEVER, THE STUDIO SESSION THAT PRODUCED IT WAS TURBULENT! THE REASON? TONY BRISEÑO'S PROPOSED B-SIDE, A MEDLEY OF TWO </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SIXTIES ROCK CLASSICS TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH. REGGIE </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">AND BETTY SANG THE "FLAMENCO ROCK MEDLEY" AS A DUET, AND ARCHIE WAS FIT TO BE TIED! A FEW MONTHS EARLIER, REGGIE HAD TORPEDOED HIS <i>FIFTY SHADES OF SOUL</i> ALBUM CONCEPT BECAUSE OF ITS MEDLEY FORMAT; BUT NOW, HERE HE WAS LEADING A SONG MEDLEY WITH NARY A GRUMBLING WORD! ARCHIE'S RESENTMENT IS WHAT KEPT IT OFF THE FLIPSIDE OF "SUGAR, SUGAR EN ESPAÑOL". AN OLD ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TRACK WAS CHOSEN INSTEAD. THIS WAS A HARBINGER OF MORE SERIOUS CONFLICT LATER ON!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">DISCOS FUENTES</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SINGLES SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">UNA PRODUCCIÓN RALFI CHINGAS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JANUARY 16 - 17, 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SUGAR, SUGAR EN ESPAÑOL </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single, Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, Kim, Milstein)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FLAMENCO ROCK MEDLEY: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><i>BIENESTAR (Holmes, San Quentín)/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><i>¿QUIEN LLAMA? (San Quentín/Van Leeuwen)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Archie On Broadway EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/BREE SPELLMAN</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Their Spanish remake of "Sugar, Sugar" was The Archies'</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>top-selling hit in the Spanish-speaking world! Archie +</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Veronica repeated their duet lead from the original single,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but with Roni singing more of the lyric. The "Flamenco</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Rock Medley" is a Spanish translation of two classic </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>rockers from the late Sixties: "Timothy" and "Venus</i><i>." The</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>former tune is sung by Reggie Mantle, and the latter</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>features Betty Jones's lead voice. Misfiled and</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>believed lost for many years, the master will be located</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>in the late 2090s. When finally issued on a dance</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>EP in 2111, it will score a sizable hit.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52397440673/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SOUL GALORE ALBUM PROMO 3"><img alt="SOUL GALORE ALBUM PROMO 3" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52397440673_fce2092692.jpg" width="372" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ROD MACK WROTE THE SONG</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARRANGEMENTS FOR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JOSIE + THE PUSSY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CATS' 2008 COMEBACK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ALBUM. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: FOR SIX YEARS, THE ARCHIES HAD BEEN THE ONLY MAJOR ACT SIGNED TO ARCHIE RECORDS. THAT WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE! I WAS THRILLED TO MEET JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS; ARCHIE INTRODUCED ME TO THEM @ THE AWESOME VENUE, THE ROCK CLUB IN RIVERDALE WHERE THE ARCHIES OFTEN PERFORMED. THOSE WOMEN PUT ON ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING SHOWS I'D EVER SEEN! THE NEXT DAY, THEY CAME DOWN TO THE MAMARONECK OFFICE WITH THEIR MANAGER AND MET THE STAFF. (ALAN MAYBERRY WAS CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT THAT DAY; THE REASON WOULD BECOME APPARENT SOON ENOUGH!) THE PUSSY CATS WERE THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ALL-FEMALE ROCK BAND, WITH HITS STRETCHING BACK TO THE EARLY 1970s! JOSIE, MELODY + VALERIE WERE FEMINIST ICONS; I CRAVED THE CHANCE TO WORK WITH THEM IN THE STUDIO, AND I DID! BUT THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN RIGHT AWAY. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"SOUL GALORE"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A KOOLTYME PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FEBRUARY 11 - 28, 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, LONDON UK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HEARTBEAT - single A-side</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Rowe, Somerville, Stannard)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">STOLEN HOURS - single B-side</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Billy Page)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LOVE’S GONE BAD - Soul Galore LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Dozier, Holland)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I HURT ON THE OTHER SIDE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Soul Galore LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barnes, Jackson)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">CRUMBS OFF THE TABLE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Soul Galore LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Dunbar, Payne, Wayne)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FUGITIVE FROM LOVE - Soul Galore LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Harris, Kerr)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">TAKE THIS HEART OF MINE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Soul Galore LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Moore, Robinson, Tarplin)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">A BIRD IN THE HAND - Soul Galore LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Holland, Whitfield)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I’LL COME RUNNING OVER - single B-side</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Berns, Stuart)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SOULFUL DRESS - Soul Galore LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Maurice McAlister)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SEXY MF - Soul Galore LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Prince, New Power Generation)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JUST KEEP ON LOVIN’ ME - Soul Galore LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Deborah, Goehring, Martin)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Soul Galore LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(John Loudermilk)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HEAVY MUSIC - single A-side</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Bob Seger)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: ROD MACK</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: JOSIE JAMES</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producer: ALEXANDRA</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, TAYE FAXTOTUM</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: By early 2008, Josie + The Pussy Cats had been on the Pop music scene for nearly 40 years. They had a loyal fan base, but their heyday seemed long past. Their sound had evolved from Pop/Soul to Punk Rock to Pop/Punk, but many Rock critics were calling them has-beens! Joan Jett was quoted as saying: "I'll always love them, but lately their stuff just sounds kind of stale!" Josie James, Melody Munro-Jones and Valerie Smith-Cabot found themselves at a career crossroads.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>When their recording contract with a major label wasn’t renewed, a longtime fan came to their rescue: </i>Archie! <i>He promised The Pussy Cats that, as artists on his indie label, they’d experience a renaissance. With a new repertoire of songs carefully chosen from the Soul music canon, he sent them to London to cut their next album. Much to her shock and displeasure, Josie found Alexandra Cabot-Mayberry waiting for them @ Abbey Road Studios: Archie had hired her old nemesis to be their new producer! Equally shocking, Xandie’s ex-husband Alan Mayberry had flown over to engineer the sessions.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Let me unpack this situation for you: Xandie + Alan M had worked with The Pussy Cats at the start of their career, during which time Josie became involved in a love triangle with them. She was devastated when Alan married up Xandie! Subsequently, Josie kicked both of them hard to the curb.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Unaware of this, Archie had innocently thrown them all together again. Alan M (who never liked to talk about past relationships) was now his label’s recording manager, and since stepping down as Archie Records’ A & R Chief, Alexandra had distinguished herself as a neo-Soul producer. Only aware that they were former colleagues, Arch had decided to stage a surprise reunion: Neither Josie nor Xandie knew who’d be @ the session until they arrived. Talk about the shit hitting the fan!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>The women immediately started clashing, and both of them ended up giving Alan M a cold shoulder. Dude deserved it, too: His failure to give Archie a heads-up was largely responsible for the problem! The sessions grew so stormy that Arch had to do damage control while on tour in Spain. He dialed up his longtime friend Rod Mack, also a friend of Josie and more recently, a session guitarist for Xandie. Archie persuaded Rod to join the sessions, hoping that he could act as peacemaker; but unfortunately, his presence wasn’t enough to restore calm. That's when Arch resorted to drastic measures: He flew The Pussy Cats back to Mamaroneck and set up remote recording sessions with Josie in charge.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>So their new album was cut with the band working hundreds of miles away from the producer, arranger and sound engineer! That was the only way to proceed; but the inconvenience ended up being well worth the trouble. Josie + The Pussy Cats’ SOUL GALORE LP was the comeback album of the year 2008; it nearly sold Double-Platinum! </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>You'd best believe champagne corks started popping, both in Mamaroneck and in the Hollywood offices of Pussy Cats manager Lex Cabot; but little did Archie know that a pattern had been set. Recording session uproar would be the norm during the brief time the iconic trio were an Archie Records act!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52537902636/in/dateposted/" title="PAPICHULO MAMBO VIDEO"><img alt="PAPICHULO MAMBO VIDEO" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52537902636_fbb48534c8.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">REGGIE MANTLE PERFORMED A </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">DIFFICULT AERIAL DANCE IN THE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">MUSIC VIDEO </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">FOR HIS 2008 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">SOLO </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">SINGLE </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">"PAPICHULO </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;">MAMBO."</span></span></div></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>SABRINA: THE STAGE WAS SET FOR THE ARCHIES TO RECORD THEIR BEST-SELLING LP OF ALL-TIME. INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS EACH HAD </span><span>THEIR FAVORITE ALBUMS; FOR INSTANCE, BETTY </span><span>LOVED <i>ARCHIE COUNTRY. </i>REGGIE FAVORED <i>JEFF + ELLIE SONGBOOK.</i> ARCHIE SWORE BY AN UNRELEASED SOUL ALBUM THAT THE GROUP HAD RECORDED FOR DON KIRSHNER. HOWEVER, WHEN THEY CUT </span><i>ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL, </i><span>IT </span><span>WAS A SPECIAL </span><span>EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>LATIN </span><span>MUSIC IS THE FORGOTTEN THIRD ROOT OF ROCK 'N' ROLL, AND </span><span>THIS TWO-RECORD SET EXPLORED ALL OF ITS MAIN BRANCHES: MEXICAN <i>RANCHERA</i>, CUBAN <i>SON </i>AND <i>BOLERO</i>, DOMINICAN <i>MERENGUE </i>AND <i>BACHATA</i>, COLOMBIAN <i>CUMBIA</i></span><span>, PANAMANIAN <i>REGGAETÓN, </i>BRAZILIAN<i> SAMBA </i>AND <i>BOSSA NOVA, </i>AND PUERTO </span><span>RICAN <i>SALSA</i>. DURING THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 2008, </span><span>RALFI CHINGAS + TONY BRISEÑO INTRODUCED THE ARCHIES TO A BRAND NEW WORLD OF POPULAR SONG! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span>IT WASN'T THAT THESE INFLUENCES WERE ABSENT FROM THEIR PREVIOUS MUSIC - DON'T FORGET, JUGHEAD WAS A LATIN JAZZ <i>AFICIONADO! </i>AND IT WASN'T THAT THE GROUP HAD NO </span><span>HISPANIC FOLLOWING PRIOR TO SINGING IN SPANISH; BUT </span><span>GOING FORWARD, BOTH LATIN POP SOUNDS AND LATINO FANS BECAME PROMINENT IN THEIR INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS STORY. THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND: THIS DOUBLE-LENGTH<i> </i>LATIN ROCK ALBUM ACCELERATED THE ARCHIES' TRANSFORMATION FROM AMERICAN ROCK </span><span>STARS INTO </span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WORLD-CLASS SUPERSTARS!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">REGGIE STILL HAD SOLO STARDOM ON HIS MIND, AND DURING THE SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LEG OF THE BAND'S TOUR, HIS PUBLICITY-HUNGRY ANTICS WENT INTO OVERDRIVE - MUCH TO ARCHIE’S DISPLEASURE! HE POSED NUDE (AND LEWD!) FOR A TABLOID CENTERFOLD SPREAD; THREW A WILD PARTY THAT WAS RAIDED BY THE PORTUGUESE POLICE; AND PURSUED HIGH-PROFILE LOVE AFFAIRS WITH CELEBRITIES OF DIFFERENT SEXES INCLUDING RICKY MARTIN! IF GINO'S PLAN WAS TO ALL BUT OVERSHADOW HIS BANDMATES, HE SUCCEEDED . . . AND THERE WOULD BE CONSEQUENCES.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"DESTINATION LOVE"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH 3 - 7, 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LOVE ME- Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Leiber, Stoller)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">TROUBLE - Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Leiber, Stoller)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I KEEP FORGETTIN' </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Destination Love LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Garfield, Leiber, Stoller)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">incomplete</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>ARCHIE + VERONICA</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE BINGOS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/REY COCHINO + BIG-ASS BRASS</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/THE COCHINADA BROTHERS</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: REY COCHINO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producer: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: In early 2008, Veronica’s aborted second solo album was re-imagined as an Archie/Veronica duet project. The Bingos were engaged again, Rey Cochino assembled his horn section, and Rey's talented nephews The Cochinada Brothers came in to sing background vocals. These songs were tracked right after The Archies completed their 2008 tour of southern Europe and Latin America.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Chuck Clayton succeeded Ralfi Chingas + Jeff Barry @ the project’s production helm. Unfortunately, Archie Sound Studios (ASS) was the only audio facility available to book @ this time. "We modeled the design of ASS on Gold Star Studios," Alan Mayberry recalled. "That was the legendary Hollywood facility where Phil Spector cut his hits. We tried really hard to duplicate his Wall of Sound."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Despite ongoing renovations, the acoustics were never to Roni’s liking! Years later, she’d tell an interviewer: “Everything we recorded there sounded like shit!” Three songs were all she could stand to finish before calling a halt to the proceedings. Once again, Archie’s Leiber-Stoller album concept was shelved, but this time indefinitely; eight long years would pass before Roni agreed to take it up again!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SABRINA: ALSO IN EARLY MARCH, REGGIE MANTLE CUT A HIT SOLO SINGLE. “PAPICHULO MAMBO” WAS TRACKED IN NEW ORLEANS FOLLOWING ANOTHER FIGHT HE HAD WITH ARCHIE! </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HE'D FOUND THIS GREAT DANCE NUMBER IN SPAIN AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THE PERFECT FOLLOW-UP TO "SUGAR, SUGAR EN ESPAÑOL." WHEN ARCHIE DISAGREED, REGGIE THREATENED TO RECORD IT ON HIS OWN. "JUMP TO IT, DOG!" ARCH RESPONDED, WITH A SNEER ON HIS FACE. "GO CUT THAT BOMB BY YOUR DAMN SELF!" </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>INFURIATED, REGGIE BOOKED A SOLO SESSION WITH RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCING AND TONY BRISEÑO WRITING THE ARRANGEMENTS. "I'LL EMBARRASS ARCHIE'S GINGER ASS SO BAD," HE PROMISED, "DUDE WON'T WANT TO SHOW THAT UGLY FRECKLED FACE OF HIS IN PUBLIC!" HE WAS TRUE TO HIS WORD, TOO: RELEASED ON THE FANTASY LABEL, "PAPICHULO MAMBO" SCORED BIG ON THE DANCE CHARTS!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53386766883/in/dateposted/" title="TEQUILA Y LIMÓN"><img alt="TEQUILA Y LIMÓN" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53386766883_5c054a143e.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>TEQUILA Y LIMÓN</i> WAS A BROTHER-AND-SISTER</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">GUITAR ACT THAT PLAYED LATIN ROCK IN THE</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">EARLY 1980s. ROD MACK AND MARCIA PARADISE</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WERE PROMINENTLY FEATURED ON REGGIE "GINO"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">MANTLE'S FIRST <i>SALSA </i>HIT.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>REGGIE LAID DOWN A FINE VOCAL - ONE OF HIS BEST EVER- BUT IN MY OPINION, THE KEY TO HIS SINGLE'S SUCCESS WAS THE SIZZLING TANDEM LEAD GUITAR PARTS PLAYED BY ROD MACK AND HIS SISTER, MARCIA PARADISE. DECADES EARLIER, THEY'D WORKED AS A TEENAGE LATIN ROCK DUO CALLED TEQUILA AND LEMON! RALFI REMEMBERED THEIR UNIQUE SOUND AND DECIDED THAT NOTHING ELSE WOULD DO FOR THIS PARTICULAR SONG. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>@ HIS URGING, <i>TEQUILA Y LIMÓN</i> (AS THEY WERE KNOWN IN THE <i>SALSA </i>WORLD) REUNITED FOR REGGIE'S SOLO SESSION; AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, MARCIA JUST HAPPENED TO BE VISITING ROD IN LONDON. THEY LAID DOWN THEIR TRACKS @ ABBEY ROAD AND RALFI FLEW OVER THERE TO PERSONALLY SUPERVISE THE TRACKING. I GOT TO HEAR AN EARLY MIX OF "PAPICHULO MAMBO", AND IT WAS OUTSTANDING! SO MUCH SO THAT I WORRIED IT MIGHT SIGNAL THE END OF REGGIE'S MEMBERSHIP IN THE ARCHIES. THOSE WORRIES PROVED TO BE WELL-FOUNDED!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">REGGIE CULTIVATED A BAD BOY REPUTATION. HE USED TO BRAG ABOUT HIMSELF: "YOU CAN'T TIE A MUSTANG DOWN!" WILD AS THAT HORSE WAS, IT WAS ABOUT TO GET TAMED! WHILE TRACKING HIS SOLO SINGLE @ SPANISH EDDIE'S, HE MET THE WOMAN HE WAS DESTINED TO MARRY. TONY BRISENO WANTED REGGIE TO SING "PAPICHULO MAMBO" BILINGUALLY, JUST LIKE ARCHIE + VERONICA HAD SUNG THE NEW VERSION OF "SUGAR, SUGAR." HE </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">COMMISSIONED SINGER/SONGWRITER OLGA SAN QUENTÍN TO TRANSLATE PORTIONS OF THE SONG INTO ENGLISH; </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">PREVIOUSLY, SHE'D WRITTEN SPANISH LYRICS FOR THE UNRELEASED FLAMENCO ROCK MEDLEY THAT THE ARCHIES CUT IN JANUARY.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52563198071/in/dateposted/" title="LOVE TO LOVE ALBUM PROMO + SLEEVE"><img alt="LOVE TO LOVE ALBUM PROMO + SLEEVE" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52563198071_46174942e5.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR <i>LOVE TO LOVE,</i> REGGIE'S</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SOLO ALBUM ON FANTASY RECORDS.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span>OLGUITA CAME TO REGGIE'S RECORDING SESSION, BOTH TO DO THE TRANSLATION AND SING HARMONY VOCALS. THE BUXOM <i>CHICANA </i>ATTRACTED HIS ATTENTION WHEN SHE STARTED DANCING TO THE PLAYBACK. "BABE, YOU CAN REALLY SHAKE THAT GROOVE THING," HE EXCLAIMED. SHE BLUSHED, HE LAUGHED, AND THEIR ROMANCE BEGAN RIGHT ON THE SPOT! AS WELL AS BEING A FINE MUSICIAN, OLGUITA WAS AN EXCELLENT DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER. SHE STAGED THE DANCING FOR HIS "PAPICHULO" </span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MUSIC VIDEO AND PERFORMED THE FIRST OF MANY DANCE DUETS WITH HIM.</span></span></div></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SHE WAS ALSO ONE OF SEVERAL WRITERS THAT DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO HIRED TO TRANSLATE VINTAGE ARCHIES HITS. THE BAND HAD DECIDED TO UPDATE THEIR EARLY CATALOG WITH LATIN ARRANGEMENTS! UNDER THE AUSPICES OF ARCHIE'S CHERRY VAGINA MUSIC, TONY SET UP CHUPACABRA MUSIC AS A PUBLISHER OF ORIGINAL SPANISH SONGS. HE, OLGUITA + TREVOR SANTIAGO WERE THE FIRST WRITERS SIGNED TO CHUPACABRA, AND THEIR FIRST COPYRIGHTS WERE SPANISH LYRICS WRITTEN FOR THIS PROJECT. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">REGGIE WAS CHERRY VAGINA MUSIC'S MAIN DEMO SINGER. WHILE NEVER AS TALENTED A VOCALIST AS ARCHIE OR JUGHEAD, BY 2008 HE'D LEARNED HOW TO PHRASE SONG LYRICS EXCEPTIONALLY WELL. UNDER TONY’S SUPERVISION, REGGIE + OLGUITA CUT DEMOS FOR THE FORTHCOMING <i>ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL</i> LP. THEY WERE SUPERB, SO MUCH SO THAT THEY’D EVENTUALLY BE RELEASED AS THEIR OWN ALBUM; BUT NOBODY SUSPECTED HOW DEEP ARCHIE’S RIFT WITH REGGIE HAD BECOME. EVERYONE WAS SHOCKED WHEN, DURING THE FINAL DEMO DATE IN SANTA BARBARA, HE SUSPENDED HIS LONGTIME NEMESIS FROM THE BAND!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34472319366/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="A LA LINEA_1"><img alt="A LA LINEA_1" height="390" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4188/34472319366_5e82744317.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES' SPANISH-LANGUAGE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RECORDINGS WERE NOT ORIGINALLY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">INTENDED FOR RELEASE OUTSIDE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">OF LATIN AMERICA!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ANGELITO MÍO"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">in association with</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A LO LATINO PRODUCTIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CHAPEL OF ROCK,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">VEN BAILAR CONMIGO/</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YOU MAKE ME WANNA DANCE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Angelito Mìo EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JUVENTUD NO ES JOVEN/</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SEVENTEEN AIN’T YOUNG</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Angelito Mìo EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">CHICOS Y CHICAS/BOYS AND GIRLS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Angelito Mìo EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LA MÙSICA ROCK/ROCK 'N' ROLL MUSIC </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Angelito Mìo EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ANGELITO MÌO/YOU LITTLE ANGEL, YOU </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Angelito Mìo EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">PASEO/RIDE, RIDE, RIDE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Angelito Mìo EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, San Quentín)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/TREVOR SANTIAGO</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/OLGA SAN QUENTÍN</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS, DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The success of "Sugar, Sugar en Español" resulted </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>in a whole </i><i>album of Archies oldies sung in Spanish </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and updated with </i><i>tropical arrangements. Lyricist </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Olga San Quentín </i><i>played acoustic guitar and sang </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>backing vocals, </i><i>and bass guitarist Trevor Santiago </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>subbed for </i><i>Reggie Mantle, who was suspended </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>from The Archies </i><i>in March of 2008. Archie Andrews</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>sang lead on all sides of this EP, which was only</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>released in North America; the forthcoming album</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>was intended for Central and South America. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The version </i><i>of "Angelito Mìo" cut </i><i>@ these </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>dates was a hit </i><i>single in Spain. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35030384136/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SWEET SATURDAY KNIGHTS"><img alt="SWEET SATURDAY KNIGHTS" height="389" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4213/35030384136_ebcd04c1fc.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE "SWEET SATURDAY KNIGHTS"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SANG BACKGROUND VOCALS ON</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIES RECORDINGS IN THE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">LATE 2000'S + EARLY 2010'S.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: <i>ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL</i> WAS AN IMMEDIATE SMASH HIT SOUTH OF THE BORDER! EXCEPT FOR "SUGAR, SUGAR", "WHO'S YOUR BABY?" AND "SUNSHINE", ARCHIE HAD CONSIDERED THE ARCHIES' EARLY CATALOG DEAD AND BURIED; BUT REMAKING THE SONGS IN SPANISH GAVE THEM A NEW LEASE ON LIFE. IN FACT, THEY WERE MORE POPULAR THAN EVER BEFORE! DISCOS FUENTES PUT MAXIMUM PROMOTION RESOURCES BEHIND <i>ÉXITOS</i>, BUT WORD-OF-MOUTH IS WHAT REALLY SOLD THIS ALBUM. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IT WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE RELEASED IN LATIN AMERICA, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, BUT POPULAR DEMAND FOR IT IN OTHER TERRITORIES REACHED A FEVER PITCH! THERE WERE ACTUALLY TWO DIFFERENT RELEASE DATES: IN JULY ON DISCOS FUENTES AND A WORLDWIDE RELEASE IN SEPTEMBER ON THE ARCHIE LABEL. SALES IN NORTH AMERICA BUILT MORE SLOWLY </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THAN ELSEWHERE, BUT THERE WAS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD WHERE </span><i style="color: #d9ead3;">ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL </i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DIDN'T BECOME A BLOCKBUSTER! </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IT WAS THE ARCHIES' TOP-SELLING RECORD UNTIL THEIR FAREWELL CONCERT ALBUM TOPPED THE CHARTS IN 2031.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">DISCOS FUENTES</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">UNA PRODUCCIÓN RALFI CHINGAS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">asociada con</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">PRODUCCIONES A LO LATINO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">APRIL 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CHAPEL OF ROCK,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SEÑORITA RITA - Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, San Quentin)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SKOOBY-DOO/FEELIN' SO GOOD </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, Kim, Milstein)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DISFRUTANDO TÙ/CATCHIN' UP ON FUN </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Adams, Barkan, Santiago)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DULCE Y PICANTE/SUGAR + SPICE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante, Santiago)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LUZ DE AMOR/LOVE LIGHT </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, San Quentin)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">CANDIDA - Retro box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Levine, Wine)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/EL MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/TREVOR SANTIAGO</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/OLGA SAN QUENTÍN</i></span></div></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: FOOLKILLER</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS, DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Luz de Amor" was issued as a fan club single flipside.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Candida" was briefly considered for single release. Both</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>sides featured Juggy Jones' lead vocals.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35030387856/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="EXITOS EN ESPANOL SESSION"><img alt="EXITOS EN ESPANOL SESSION" height="371" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4287/35030387856_c6779bcf44.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">MEANT FOR RELEASE IN SPANISH-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SPEAKING COUNTRIES ONLY, THE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL</i> ALBUM WAS </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>ISSUED </span><span>IN NORTH AMERICA BY </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>POPULAR </span><span>DEMAND!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">DISCOS FUENTES</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">UNA PRODUCCIÓN RALFI CHINGAS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">asociada con</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">PRODUCCIONES A LO LATINO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAY 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CHAPEL OF ROCK,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WONDERFUL WORLD, BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE* </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- fan club single</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jimmy Cliff)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SONRISA/SUNSHINE - Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, Bloom, Briseño)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BANG-SHANG-A-LANG EN ESPAÑOL </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, San Quentin)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JUNTOS DOS/TOGETHER WE TWO </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, Kim, Milstein)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JINGLE JANGLE EN ESPAÑOL </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, Kim, Milstein)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SEÑOR FÀBRICA/MISTER FACTORY </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Cal Cagno, Goldberg, Santiago)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">*TREVOR SMITH + THE ARCHIES</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/EL MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/TREVOR SANTIAGO</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/JEFF BARRY</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: FOOLKILLER</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS, DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Trevor Santiago's lead vocal on "Wonderful</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>World, Beautiful People" was his first on</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>an Archies single; the single was only ever</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>released to Fan Club members. @ this early</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>stage, he was billed as a "guest vocalist".</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Trev adopted the surname "Smith" to match</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>that of his older sister, Valerie; she was the</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>lead singer of Josie + The Pussy Cats! Jeff</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Barry, who wrote most of these songs and</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>co-owned The Chapel Of Rock with audio</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>engineer Tom Mourgos sang background</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>vocals and played percussion @ these </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>dates.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34885469246/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ANGELITO MIO"><img alt="ANGELITO MIO" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4204/34885469246_030258d607.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SPANISH-LANGUAGE ARCHIES SINGLES </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RELEASED IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WERE COLLECTED FOR US FANS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ON AN EXTENDED-PLAY DISC.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IN 2011, THE ARCHIES PERFORMED EVERY SONG FROM THEIR </span><i style="color: #d9ead3;">HITS OF THE SIXTIES</i><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> ALBUM ON TOUR, BUT </span><i style="color: #d9ead3;">ÉXITOS </i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WAS THE </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FIRST ALBUM THEY PERFORMED FROM BEGINNING TO END ON STAGE. IT HAPPENED JUST ONCE, ON THE 4th OF JULY IN MÉXICO CITY. MANY MEXICANS CELEBRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY, SO THE WORLD-FAMOUS CLUB TENAMPA IN PLAZA GARIBALDI BOOKED THE ARCHIES FOR A SPECIAL APPEARANCE. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THE PLAZA IS A </span><i style="color: #d9ead3;">MARIACHI </i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SHOWPLACE, SO MARIACHI LOWRIDER FLEW DOWN FROM EL PASO TO AUGMENT THE GROUP. TONY BRISEÑO AND I ADAPTED THE<i> ÉXITOS</i> ARRANGEMENTS FOR A LIVE SETTING, AND TONY WAS GOING TO BE MUSIC DIRECTOR. @ THE LAST MINUTE, HE COULDN'T MAKE IT SO I SUBBED FOR HIM. TREVOR SMITH, WHO STOOD IN FOR REGGIE @ THE STUDIO DATES COULDN'T MAKE IT, EITHER; HE HAD A PRIOR COMMITMENT, SO VERONICA SECURED KEVIN KELLER'S SERVICES. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THE ARCHIES HAD SPECIAL INVITED GUESTS, TOO: RITA PHOENIX, WITH WHOM THEY'D APPEARED IN A SMASH HIT COLOMBIAN <i>TELENOVELA</i>, DID A SPECIALTY NUMBER. JUGHEAD'S COUSIN BINGO, WHOSE LATIN POP SINGLE "¡DÁMELO!" WAS RECORDED @ THE <i>ÉXITOS </i>SESSIONS PERFORMED HIS HIT LIVE; AND ROD MACK </span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FLEW IN FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TO CATCH THE CONCERT. @ ARCHIE'S REQUEST, HE ENDED UP SITTING IN WITH THE BAND!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52724565870/in/dateposted/" title="ÉXITOS EN VIVO EN MÉXICO"><img alt="ÉXITOS EN VIVO EN MÉXICO" height="372" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52724565870_d715f7c6bf.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RECORDED IN MÉXICO CITY ON JULY </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span><span>THE 4th, </span></span><span><span>THIS STUNNING LIVE</span></span> VERSION </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">OF THE ARCHIES' SMASH HIT SPANISH- </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">LANGUAGE LP </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">WON'T BE </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">RELEASED </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">UNTIL THE YEAR 2083!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I MEAN TO TELL YOU: IT WAS A SCENE RIGHT OUT OF BEATLEMANIA! COLOMBIAN DIVA RITA PHOENIX AND JUGHEAD'S COUSIN BINGO APPEARED AS SPECIAL GUESTS, BUT THEY COULDN'T UPSTAGE THE ARCHIES. THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE SCREAMING, CRYING AND FAINTING! ALL OF THEM CHEERING AND APPLAUDING @ BOTH THE START AND FINISH OF EVERY SONG!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;">THE BAND OPTED TO PLAY TRADITIONAL LATIN INSTRUMENTS INSTEAD OF THEIR USUAL EQUIPMENT, AND THEY DISPLAYED IMPRESSIVE SKILLS. BETTY DID HERSELF PROUD ON A <i>MARIACHI </i>VIOLIN, ARCHIE PLAYED A MEXICAN <i>GUITARRÓN MASTERFULLY,</i> KELLY WAS NO SLOUCH ON LATIN PIANO, AND VERONICA'S SPANISH GUITAR SOUNDED SO AUTHENTIC, SHE'D HAVE GIVEN CHARO A RUN FOR THE MONEY! NEEDLESS TO SAY, JUGHEAD'S <i>CONGA</i> PERCUSSION WAS FABULOUS. EXCEPT FOR A STUNNING ELECTRIC GUITAR SOLO BY ROD AND SOME SNATCHES OF ORGAN THAT I PLAYED, IT WAS AN ENTIRELY ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE. I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT SHOW. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DISCOS FUENTES CAPTURED IT ON TAPE, AND THERE WAS TALK OF RELEASING <i>ÉXITOS EN VIVO AL TENAMPA</i></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i>TO ARCHIES FAN CLUB MEMBERS. INSTEAD, THEY RELEASED <i>U.S. OF ARCHIE,</i> THE CONCERT I TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT WAS RECORDED ON A MILITARY BASE. IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE BETTER CHOICE SONICALLY, BUT THAT MEXICAN ALBUM WAS TOO GOOD TO HAVE FALLEN THROUGH THE CRACKS THE WAY IT DID. THE MASTER TAPE WILL BE PRESUMED LOST FOR MANY YEARS!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">DISCOS FUENTES</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">UNA PRODUCCIÓN RALFI CHINGAS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">asociada con</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">PRODUCCIONES A LO LATINO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JUNE 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CHAPEL OF ROCK,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">UNA Y OTRA VEZ/OVER AND OVER </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, Dante, Santiago)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JUVENTUD NO ES JOVEN/</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SEVENTEEN AIN'T YOUNG</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, San Quentin)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">¿QUIÈN ES TU NOVIA?/</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WHO'S YOUR BABY?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, Kim, Milstein)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">A LA LINEA/GET ON THE LINE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, San Quentin, Santiago)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ANGELITO MÌO/YOU LITTLE ANGEL, YOU</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Èxitos en Español LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, San Quentin)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">POPURRÍ:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">¡DÁMELO!/MAKIN' IT! y</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">¡DÁMELO DE NUEVO!/STILL MAKIN' IT! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Fekaris, Perren, Santiago)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>*BINGO</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/TREVOR SANTIAGO</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/OLGA SAN QUENTÍN</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS, DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The version of "Juventud No Es Joven" cut @ this date</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>featured Betty on lead vocals. "A La Linea" and</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Angelito Mio" were major hit singles in South America;</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Archie sang lead on both sides. "¡Dámelo!" (with its</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>sequel "Dámelo de Nuevo" on the flipside) was</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>the only solo single by Jughead's cousin Bingo</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Wilkin; marketed on the one-off Chismosa label,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>it was a major hit in the Spanish-speaking</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Caribbean but never charted in the USA.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52297862032/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="RARE MASTERS SERIES"><img alt="RARE MASTERS SERIES" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52297862032_130fce8037.jpg" width="373" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">IN THE EARLY 2000s, UNRELEASED </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>SONGS </span><span>FROM THE ARCHIES' </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>KIRSHNER RECORDS </span><span>CATALOG </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FINALLY SAW LIGHT OF DAY.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"RARE MASTERS, VOLUME THREE"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AUGUST 23 - 28, 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">I JUST WANNA MAKE YOU DANCE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Jeff Barry)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Rare Masters III EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">I FEEL BETTER (Barry, Davis)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Rare Masters III EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">WE GOT A THING GOIN’, BABY (Jeff Barry)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Rare Masters III EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">CHEER ME UP (Barry, Carr, Dante)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Rare Masters III EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Producer:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Engineer: TAYE FAXTOTUM</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem Saberhagen: All of The Archies’ releases on Kirshner Records featured Archie and/or Veronica’s vocals; Don Kirshner designated them as not only lead singers but the only singers in the group! Except for an occasional bass cameo by Jughead, none of the other members were allowed to cut vocal tracks (and contrary to rumor, it was Archie and not Gino who sang the </i>falsetto <i>lead on “Jingle Jangle”).</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>However, producer Jeff Barry as well as voice coaches Toni Wine + Ron Dante agitated to end that restriction. These unissued tracks featuring Juggy, Gino + Betty on lead are evidence of their efforts. The man Veronica called "Donniekins" damn sure missed the boat when he chose to ignore their vocal talents: Volume Three was by far the most popular of the ARCHIES RARE MASTERS EPs!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52455688447/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BINGO SINGLE ¡DÁMELO!"><img alt="BINGO SINGLE ¡DÁMELO!" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52455688447_2a29ffac17.jpg" width="377" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BINGO WILKIN'S SOLO CAREER</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WILL BE SPECTACULAR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BUT SHORT-LIVED!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">DISCOS CHISMOSA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"BOLEROS BY BINGO"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">UNA PRODUCCIÓN RALFI CHINGAS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">RANCHO CHINGAS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ESTA NOCHE - Boleros by Bingo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MANOS SOBRE LA MESA - Boleros by Bingo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SU CABEZA EN MI HOMBRO - Boleros by Bingo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ABRAZÁNDOTE - Boleros by Bingo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">CALIENTE PARA TÍ - unreleased</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DIME QUE ME QUIERES - Boleros by Bingo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HACE MUCHO TIEMPO - unreleased</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SOSTENIÉNDOTE - Boleros by Bingo </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">QUIERO AMARTE - Boleros by Bingo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">VAMOS A COJER - Boleros by Bingo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">¿CUÁNTO TIEMPO HA PASADO?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Boleros by Bingo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MIS DULCES SUEÑOS - Boleros by Bingo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Olga San Quentín)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>BINGO</i></span></div></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/REY COCHINO + BIG-ASS BRASS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/LOS HERMANOS COCHINADA</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>w/</span></i><span>OLGA SAN QUENTÍN</span></span></div></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger/Producer:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: REY COCHINO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: MIGUELITO SKEEN</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>SABRINA: BINGO WILKIN, THE LEADER OF ARCHIE RECORDS' HOUSE BAND, WAS THE ONLY ARTIST TO RECORD FOR BUFFY CHINGAS' SHORT-LIVED CHISMOSA LABEL. HER SON RALFI ARRANGED FOR CHISMOSA TO BECOME AN ARCHIE SUBSIDIARY AND, NATURALLY, HE PRODUCED THE SESSIONS. BINGO, RALFI + </span><span>OLGA SAN QUENTÍN </span><span>OVERDUBBED ALL THE RHYTHM INSTRUMENTS, AND </span><span>OLGUITA ALSO JOINED THE COCHINADA BROTHERS ON BACKING VOCALS.</span></span></div></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><i>BOLEROS BY BINGO </i>WAS ARCHIE'S SECOND PROJECT WITH OLGUITA, WHO'D RECENTLY COME ON BOARD AS A CHERRY VAGINA SONGWRITER. RALFI WAS SO ENTHUSED ABOUT HER BALLADS - WHICH WERE FABULOUS - THAT HE MADE BINGO'S SOLO ALBUM A SHOWCASE FOR THEM. THAT WASN'T A SMART MOVE, SINCE HIS HIT SINGLE "¡DÁMELO!" WAS A HI-ENERGY DANCE RECORD! AND FRANKLY, WHILE BINGO WAS A DECENT SINGER OF UP TEMPO TUNES, HE WAS NOT A <i>BOLERISTA </i>BY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">ANY MEANS. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">I WAS DISAPPOINTED BUT NOT SURPRISED WHEN THE ALBUM TANKED; BUT LATER ON, IT BECAME THIS HUGE COLLECTOR'S ITEM! THAT DIDN'T SUPRISE ME, EITHER, BECAUSE THE SONGS AND THE PRODUCTION WERE SO OUTSTANDING. BINGO SAW THE WRITING ON THE WALL AND DECIDED TO GIVE UP HIS SOLO AMBITIONS; BUT A PATH TO STARDOM WAS BEING PAVED FOR OLGUITA! TONY BRISEÑO WAS SO IMPRESSED BY HER TALENTS, HE RECRUITED HER FOR A SPECIAL PROJECT THAT HE AND I WERE WORKING ON. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34421996914/in/dateposted/" title="US OF ARCHIE"><img alt="US OF ARCHIE" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4290/34421996914_c1956c7520.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES' 2003 BEACH HOUSE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CONCERT WAS RELEASED TO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB MEMBERS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">IN DECEMBER OF 2008.</span></div></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"U.S. OF ARCHIE"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">OCTOBER 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">DRAGSTER'S MEDLEY:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">DRAGGIN' WAGON (Berry, Taylor)/</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>RED CORVETTE (Barry, Raleigh)/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>LITTLE DEUCE COUPE (Christian, Wilson)/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>LITTLE HONDA (Love, Wilson)/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>YELLOW VAN (Allan, Dante)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>- unreleased</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">TIME IS ON MY SIDE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">-US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Norman, Ragovoy)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">JUMPIN' JACK FLASH</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Jagger, Richards)*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">IN THE DARK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- unreleased</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Billy Squier)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">DOWN ON THE CORNER</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Armed Forces Radio EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">GREEN RIVER</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Armed Forces Radio EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">WHO'S YOUR BABY?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Barry, Kim)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">TRAVELIN' BAND</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Armed Forces Radio EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">PROUD MARY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Armed Forces Radio EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">MEDLEY:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Instrumental - BLAXICAN SHUFFLE/</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LONELY WEEKENDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Sol Lake/Charlie Rich)*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">BAD MOON RISING </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Armed Forces Radio EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LODI - US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">SUGAR, SUGAR </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Barry, Kim)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">FORTUNATE SON </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Armed Forces Radio EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Chuck Berry)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">BOY FROM CROSSTOWN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- unreleased</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Feldman, Goldstein, Gottehrer)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">MEDLEY:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">RIP IT UP/UP AROUND THE BEND</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Armed Forces Radio EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Blackwell, Marascalco/John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">NADINE (HONEY, IS THAT YOU?) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Chuck Berry)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">START ME UP! - US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Jagger, Richards)***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">WHEN I STOP LEAVIN', I'LL BE GONE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Kent Robbins)****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>SURFER'S MEDLEY:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>DANCE TO THE SURFIN' BAND (Hal Blaine)/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>ON THE BEACH (Marvin, Richard, Welch)/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>SHOOT THE CURL (Blake, Rovell)/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>BEACH GIRL (Johnston, Melcher)/</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>Instrumental - HAWAII 5.0 (Hilton, Stevens)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>- unreleased</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Armed Forces Radio EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">SIMON SAYS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Tony Michaels)*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">LOOKIN' OUT MY BACK DOOR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Armed Forces Radio EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">FINALE: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">AS LONG AS I CAN SEE THE LIGHT</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- US of Archie soundtrack</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(John Fogerty)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/CHUCK CLAYTON,</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS +</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>REY COCHINO w/BIG-ASS BRASS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>CHUCK CLAYTON, VERONICA</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>GERALDINE GRUNDY, *BREE SPELLMAN,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>**JOHN FOGERTY,</i><i>***ARCHIE ANDREWS, </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>****RALFI CHINGAS </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Music Director: </i><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>These tracks date from July of 2003 and were recorded live</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>@ Patrick AFB Beach House in Florida. Most were telecast</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>on an Independence Day cable TV special. While the</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>concert was very well-received (it has achieved</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>legendary status over the years), ratings were dismal!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Archie Records serviced Armed Forces Radio with an eight-</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>track promotional EP, but no thought was given to a</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>soundtrack album. That didn't change until five years</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>later, when delighted Archies Fan Club members were</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>offered a limited-edition 2LP set for Christmas. As</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>a concert document, many fans consider US OF ARCHIE</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>superior to the band's 2004 HOT, SWEET + LIVE! album.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Big-Ass Brass and Big Ethel's Vixens were accompanists </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>on every number; Chuck Clayton had featured solos</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and sang a duet with </i><i>Betty on the big ballad finale. John</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Fogerty was slated to be a special guest but had to cancel;</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>he graciously gave permission for his classic songs to be</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>performed in his absence. </i><i>The Archies will later cut studio </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>versions of "Little Honda" </i><i>(in Japanese) and "Yellow </i><i>Van" </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and in 2038, The New </i><i>Archies will cover "Bad Moon </i><i>Rising" </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>and "Green </i><i>River" </i><i>for their </i>début <i>album.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>SABRINA: NATURALLY, CHEATING WITH EACH OTHER'S HUSBANDS CAUSED A DEEP RIFT BETWEEN BETTY + VERONICA.</span><span> THE TWO OF THEM RE-AFFIRMED THEIR FRIENDSHIP IN 2007, BUT IT WAS TOO SOON! THEIR HEARTS WEREN'T IN THE RECONCILATION. </span><span>IN THE EARLY FALL OF 2008, THEY DECIDED TO BURY THE HATCHET FOR REAL. </span><span>TO SYMBOLIZE THEIR ENDURING BOND, BETTY + RONI BEGAN RECORDING </span><span>A JOINT PROJECT: AN ALBUM TRIBUTE TO MADONNA! ARCHIE WAS </span><span>VERY EXCITED. HE ENVISIONED THEM BECOMING AN </span><span>ARCHIES SPIN-OFF ACT LIKE JUGHEAD + KEVIN KELLER, BUT THAT </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">WAS <i>NEVER </i>GOING TO HAPPEN! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>ON THE CONTRARY, THE ALBUM SESSIONS WERE TENSE, NEEDLESSLY COMPETITIVE AND OCCASIONALLY EXPLOSIVE. @ TIMES, BETTY GOT SO UPSET THAT SHE WANTED TO ABANDON </span><span>THE PROJECT! FORTUNATELY, CO-PRODUCER CHUCK CLAYTON ALWAYS </span><span>MANAGED TO CALM HER DOWN. NOT WITHOUT </span><span>FURTHER DIFFICULTY, SHE + RONI WERE ABLE TO FINISH </span><span>WHAT THEY STARTED.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35663946381/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BEAUTIFUL STRANGER"><img alt="BEAUTIFUL STRANGER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4240/35663946381_12f95cd37d.jpg" width="380" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR THE RARE 2008 BETTY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">+ VERONICA DUET ALBUM</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>BEAUTIFUL STRANGER.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"BEAUTIFUL STRANGER"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">OCTOBER 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FAME RECORDING STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WHO'S THAT GIRL? - Beautiful Stranger LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ciccone, Leonard)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">RESCUE ME - Beautiful Stranger LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ciccone, Pettibone)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GIVE IT 2 ME - Beautiful Stranger LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ciccone, Williams)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SIDEWALK TALK - Beautiful Stranger LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Madonna Louise Ciccone)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JUMP - Beautiful Stranger LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ciccone, Henry, Price)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WHY'S IT SO HARD? - Beautiful Stranger LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ciccone, Pettibone)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">VOGUE - Beautiful Stranger LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ciccone, Pettibone)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">OPEN YOUR HEART - Beautiful Stranger LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ciccone, Cole, Rafelson)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>BETTY + VERONICA</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/MATTY CARMINE</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers/Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>BETTY + VERONICA w/CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>EDDIE ROXCHILD, CADE MURPHY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Between them, Roni Lodge-Andrews + Betty Jones</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>played nearly every musical instrument @ this and the</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>following record date. Deanie Grundy played keyboards,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>helped out with arrangements and sang backing vocals</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>with Big Ethel + The Vixens. Matty Carmine, a member of</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Katz + The Fiddles was the session drummer. In later years,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Matty will found his own family group; The Carmines </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>will record </i><i>and tour with New Archies member Ramsay</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Khalid Sharma.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52519705584/in/dateposted/" title="POP ARCHIE BUNDLES"><img alt="POP ARCHIE BUNDLES" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52519705584_b1e9fc010a.jpg" width="373" /></a></div></span></b><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>VINYL ARCHIES SINGLES WEREN'T</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>UNTIL 2010, WHEN THEY WERE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>MAIL-ORDER MARKETED IN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"POP ARCHIE BUNDLES."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"BEAUTIFUL STRANGER"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER 2008</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>FOUR MINUTES - Beautiful Stranger LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ciccone, Hills, Moseley, Timberlake)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SHOO-BEE-DOO - Beautiful Stranger LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Madonna Louise Ciccone)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>RAY OF LIGHT - Beautiful Stranger LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ciccone, Curtis, Leach, Muldoon, Wainwright)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DON'T STOP! - Beautiful Stranger LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Austin, Ciccone, Wolfe)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'LL REMEMBER - Beautiful Stranger LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ciccone, Leonard, Page)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BURNIN' UP - Beautiful Stranger LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Madonna Louise Ciccone)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LIKE A PRAYER - Beautiful Stranger LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ciccone, Leonard)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BEAUTIFUL STRANGER </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Beautiful Stranger LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ciccone, Wainwright)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>BETTY + VERONICA</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>w/BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>*w/CHUCK CLAYTON</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>w/GERALDINE GRUNDY</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>w/CORKY CLAYTON</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Arrangers/Producers:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BETTY + VERONICA w/CHUCK CLAYTON</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Conductor: CHUCK CLAYTON</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sound Engineers:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>EDDIE ROXCHILD, CADE MURPHY</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Chuck Clayton sang duet vocals with Veronica on “Four Minutes”.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Deanie Grundy sang the high harmony vocal on “Shoo-Bee-Doo”.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Chuck Clayton's younger brother Corky made his </i>début <i>as a</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>sideman at these dates, playing bass. Corky Clayton will </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>become a member of Jozetta, the successor band to Josie </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>+ The Pussy Cats. </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: <i>BEAUTIFUL STRANGER</i> WAS SCHEDULED TO BE THE FIRST ALBUM RELEASED UNDER A REVIVED CHERRY VAGINA LOGO, AND TEST PRESSINGS DO EXIST ON THAT LABEL. HOWEVER, THE RECORDING SESSIONS GREW MORE AND MORE COMBATIVE; BY NOVEMBER, RONI + BETTY WERE TRACKING THEIR PARTS SEPARATELY! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>WHEN BETTY REFUSED TO MAKE ANY PROMOTIONAL APPEARANCES FOR THE ALBUM, A FRUSTRATED ARCHIE WAS READY TO SCRAP THE WHOLE PROJECT. FORTUNATELY, BIG ETHEL CONVINCED HIM TO RELEASE IT AS A FAN CLUB ALBUM, AND THAT'S HOW THE SESSIONS WERE LOGGED. HAD IT GAINED A WIDER RELEASE, <i>BEAUTIFUL STRANGER </i>WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN A BEST-SELLER; PERSONALLY, I ADORE THAT RECORD! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span>OWNERSHIP OF ARCHIES FAN CLUB MASTERS WAS ALWAYS CEDED TO THE ARTISTS WHO CUT THEM, BUT BETTY SIGNED AWAY HER RIGHTS; SHE CALLED HER COLLABORATION WITH RONI "A CREATIVE MISSTEP" </span><span>AND CHOSE TO WASH HER HANDS OF IT! AS FOR VERONICA, SHE NEVER WANTED TO TALK ABOUT <i>BEAUTIFUL STRANGER.</i> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;">TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD, THOSE TWO ALWAYS </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;">APPEARED TO BE BFFs, BUT THE REALITY OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP - WHICH, DESPITE THE TENSIONS, WAS GENUINE - </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: 700;">WAS FAR MORE COMPLICATED.</span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span> </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36426759634/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BILLBOARD CONGRATULATES THE ARCHIES"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="BILLBOARD CONGRATULATES THE ARCHIES" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4402/36426759634_08be4e0fbc.jpg" width="388" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BY DECEMBER OF 2008, THE ARCHIES'</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ÉXITOS EN ESPAÑOL</i> ALBUM HAD</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BROKEN FOR A SOLID SMASH IN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH-</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SPEAKING MARKETS!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;"><b><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"DANCING QUEEN"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DECEMBER 16 - 20, 2008</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPLENDID MEDIA,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>WATERLOO - incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>HONEY HONEY - incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SOS - incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>DANCING QUEEN - incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>(Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>VERONICA</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>w/LES GIGOLETTES</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>w/THE EDEN DAWN STRINGS</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>w/BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS,</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Vocal Arrangements:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>VERONICA</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Arrangers:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>GERALDINE GRUNDY, BREE SPELLMAN</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Conductor: EVA NAMAZZI</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Producer: VERONICA</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sound Engineer:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>CHEVY TIDINGS HOWARD</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Salem da Katt: As far as Archie knew, Veronica had no interest in cutting a second solo album. That wasn’t true! She just wanted to realize her own concept instead of his. In late 2008, Roni acted to make a long-held dream come true: Recording a tribute to ABBA, her favorite band of all-time!</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>It was to be an all-woman project: She booked Splendid Media, the Australian nightclub/recording studio owned and operated by Eva Namazzi. Then she recruited Geraldine Grundy, Midge Mercury's band Les Gigolettes + Sabrina to play and sing on the record with her. Roni also hoped to involve Australian superstar Deb Delman at some point. She envisioned DANCING QUEEN as a feminist-empowerment Disco music extravaganza!</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Somehow, Polar Music, publisher of ABBA’s songs and the gatekeeper of all things pertaining to the Swedish quartet, got wind of her intentions. In her email one morning, Veronica found a message from the high-powered European law firm that represented Polar. The attorneys strongly cautioned her against proceeding with the album, expressing reservations about projects that might “disparage” the supergroup’s legacy.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i>Naturally, Roni was furious! She’d barely begun cutting her backing tracks. Babe wasn’t afraid of legal action, but she’d learned from her late father Ram Lodge to choose her battles wisely. Her ABBA tribute album was postponed but not abandoned! </i></span><i>One way or another, a DANCING QUEEN LP was going to happen. When it was finally tracked six years later, the title would be ABBA-NORMALITY and the artist would be The Archies.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i style="font-size: large;"><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52525389724/in/dateposted/" title="ITALIAN + PORTUGUESE PROMO EPs"><img alt="ITALIAN + PORTUGUESE PROMO EPs" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52525389724_180eaf16d7.jpg" width="375" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BEGINNING IN 2008, DISCOS FUENTES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BEGAN SERVICING SPANISH, ITALIAN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AND PORTUGUESE RADIO STATIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>WITH ONE-SIDED PROMOTIONAL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">EPs! SEVERAL OF THESE HIGHLY</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>COLLECTIBLE VINYL DISCS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FEATURED THE ARCHIES.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT ARCHIE RECORDS LAUNCHED A SUBSIDIARY LABEL CALLED FALCON IN LATE 2012. HOWEVER, FEW KNOW WHO OWNED IT BEFORE ARCHIE + VERONICA DID: NONE OTHER THAN THEIR OLD FRIEND DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO! IN NOVEMBER OF 2008, TONY USED MOST OF HIS SAVINGS TO BUY UP THE REMNANTS OF FALCON, WHICH HAD ONCE BEEN A FAMOUS <i>TEJANO </i>MUSIC OUTLET. HE CHOSE TO RELAUNCH IT IN A MOST AMBITIOUS WAY: WITH THE WORLD'S FIRST TEX-MEX ROCK MUSICAL!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE BOOK FOR <i>MEXOTICA </i>WAS WRITTEN BY CARIDAD "BUFFY" CHINGAS, MOTHER OF ARCHIES PRODUCER RALFI CHINGAS. RALFI WAS THE SHOW'S MUSIC DIRECTOR BUT DILTON WAS FULLY IN CHARGE OF THE PRODUCTION. I WROTE THE MUSIC TO HIS LYRICS AND WAS AN ASSOCIATE PRODUCER OF THE MUSICAL. THOUGH PRIMARILY A VEHICLE FOR QUIXOTIC DANCERS, THE SHOW CONVEYED A STRONG CHICANO PRIDE MESSAGE. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>IRONICALLY, VERY FEW CHICANOS WERE INVOLVED IN ITS CREATION: BUFFY, THE WRITER/DIRECTOR WAS OF CUBAN HERITAGE! HER SON RALFI WAS BORN IN MÉXICO CITY, BUT HE GREW UP IN PUERTO RICO. THE CHOREOGRAPHER, TONI TOPAZ, WAS JAMAICAN; AND I HAVE FRENCH, ENGLISH AND JEWISH ROOTS. ONLY TONY, THE LYRICIST AND PRODUCER, WAS A FULL-BLOODED MEXICAN-AMERICAN.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52331393391/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="MEXOTICA"><img alt="MEXOTICA" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52331393391_aa37c73bb4.jpg" width="369" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A HIGHLY-COLLECTIBLE POSTER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FOR THE CHICANO PRIDE MUSICAL </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>MEXOTICA, </i></span><span>WRITTEN BY BREE </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span>SPELLMAN </span><span>+ TONY BRISEÑO.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NO MATTER: FROM ITS OPENING NIGHT @ THE EL TORREON BALLROOM IN McALLEN, TEXAS, <i>MEXOTICA </i>WAS A SOLID SMASH! PEOPLE TURNED OUT IN DROVES TO SEE THE SHOW, AND IT RAN FOR OVER 50 PERFORMANCES! I HELPED TONY PRODUCE A SUPERB CAST ALBUM AND IT WAS GOING TO BE THE FIRST NEW RELEASE ON FALCON; BUT BUFFY + RALFI CHINGAS URGED HIM TO LICENCE IT TO ANOTHER LABEL. THEY DOUBTED THAT HIS INDIE LABEL HAD THE MARKET CLOUT TO MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL! NATURALLY, ARCHIE RECORDS WAS A POSSIBILITY BUT BUFFY BLAMED ARCHIE FOR THE FAILURE OF HER CHISMOSA IMPRINT. SHE WAS ADAMANT THAT IT SHOULD BE ONE OF THE "BIG THREE" - SONY, WARNER BROTHERS OR UNIVERSAL MUSIC.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ULTIMATELY, SHE CONVINCED TONY TO SELL THE CAST ALBUM TO SONY MUSIC. IT WAS RELEASED ON THEIR EPIC SUBSIDIARY BUT MUCH TO EVERYONE'S DISAPPOINTMENT, IT ONLY DID WELL REGIONALLY: ON THE GULF COAST, AND IN PARTS OF THE CARIBBEAN. I'M STILL PROUD OF OUR WORK ON IT, THOUGH, AND DURING THE TRACKING SESSIONS, TONY BECAME MY MENTOR. (WE WERE ALSO LOVERS FOR A VERY SHORT TIME.) HE TAUGHT ME MOST OF WHAT I KNOW ABOUT MUSIC PRODUCTION!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THERE WAS TALK OF TAKING THE SHOW ON TOUR BUT EVEN AFTER MAKING THEIR DEAL WITH SONY, BUFFY, RALFI, TONY + I DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO KEEP IT GOING. <i>MEXOTICA </i>WAS <i>VERY </i>EXPENSIVE TO PRODUCE! WE TRIED DESPERATELY TO FIND BACKERS, BUT OUR EFFORTS WERE FUTILE. TEXAS HAS PLENTY OF OIL MILLIONAIRES, BUT NONE OF THEM WANTED TO BACK A BILINGUAL MUSICAL STARRING MOSTLY UNKNOWN MEXICAN-AMERICANS. TONY COULD’VE SOLICITED ARCHIE + VERONICA'S HELP, AND I SUGGESTED IT; BUT HE WAS TOO PROUD TO DO THAT!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HOWEVER, FOUR YEARS LATER HE DID AGREE TO SELL THEM THE FALCON LABEL, @ WHICH TIME THE HALLOWED <i>TEJANO </i>MUSIC IMPRINT WAS FINALLY REACTIVATED. IT IMMEDIATELY BECAME A COMMERCIAL JUGGERNAUT POWERED BY SUPERSTAR SONG + DANCE DUO OLGUITA + REGINALD. FITTINGLY, OLGA SAN QUENTÍN HAD BEEN ONE OF THE LEAD ACTORS IN <i>MEXOTICA!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AS FOR THE SHOW ITSELF, IT WILL LAY DORMANT UNTIL TONY AND HIS FUTURE PRODUCTION/LIFE PARTNER ROD MACK SUCCESSFULLY REVIVE IT. LONG BEFORE THAT HAPPENS, THE ARCHIES WILL PUT THEIR STAMP ON SOME OF THE SONGS WE WROTE.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2009.html?zx=846a88ec278fb639" target="_blank">CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE:</a></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35030391196/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 4"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 4" height="390" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4236/35030391196_4905acf87a.jpg" width="500" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>"KING CREOLE"</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>THE ARCHIES ATTEMPT TO RECORD</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>CAJUN STYLE COUNTRY MUSIC</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>IN THE YEAR</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>2 0 0 9 !</b></i></span></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-17629317297975315072023-02-14T07:28:00.006-05:002023-09-17T18:42:15.426-04:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2007<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/23859277994/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="GREATEST HITS OF ALL-TIME LP DESIGN"><b><img alt="GREATEST HITS OF ALL-TIME LP DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1464/23859277994_dec56576c1.jpg" width="385" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><b style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presents</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;">A Journey Through</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">THE GREAT AMERICAN </span></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL </span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">SONG BOOK</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><b><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: IN FEBRUARY OF 2007, THE ARCHIES CAME TOGETHER AGAIN @ THE REQUEST OF JEFF BARRY. JEFF WROTE AND PRODUCED MOST OF THEIR HITS WHEN THEY WERE SIGNED TO KIRSHNER RECORDS IN THE 1980s. A TRIBUTE TO HIS </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;">STELLAR SONGWRITING CAREER WAS BEING STAGED IN SANTA </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">BARBARA @ THE GRANADA THEATER. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">JEFF WOULD ONLY AGREE </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">TO PARTICIPATE IF HIS FAVORITE ARTISTS TOOK PART, TOO, </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">AND THE ARCHIES WERE AT THE TOP OF HIS LIST! THEIR MANAGER, </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">NICHOLAS FREUND ACTED AS GO-BETWEEN, CONVINCING THE ESTRANGED MEMBERS TO RE-UNITE FOR THIS SPECIAL OCCASION. I WAS CHOSEN AS MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR THE EVENT. </b></span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NATURALLY, BIG NIPSY, JEFF </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">+ THE REST OF US WANTED THEIR REUNION TO BE PERMANENT, BUT </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THERE WAS NO GUARANTEE OF THAT! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE CELEBRATION AND CONCERT WAS A BIG SUCCESS, AND THE ARCHIES HELPED MAKE IT SO; BUT THEIR BACKSTAGE </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">RELATIONS WERE AWKWARD </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">@ BEST. ARCHIE WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK IN JUGHEAD'S DIRECTION, MUCH LESS SPEAK TO HIM! THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BETTY + VERONICA </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>WERE ALSO FROSTY, AND IT DIDN'T HELP MATTERS THAT RONI'S </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">NEMESIS FROM LONDON, LAURA PINTO WAS HOST OF THE SHOW!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE SEVENTH YEAR: 2007</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"YOU CAN'T GO HALFWAY"</b></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/29296512674/in/album-72157666935495609/" style="font-family: verdana;" title="JEFF BARRY POSTER"><img alt="JEFF BARRY POSTER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/8550/29296512674_bf704c5750.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR THE ARCHIES'</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2007 CONCERT TRIBUTE TO</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>WRITER/PRODUCER</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>JEFF BARRY.</b></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: IN ADDITION TO THE ARCHIES, THE</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">TRIBUTE FEATURED BIG ETHEL, RALFI CHINGAS,</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">POP DUO ALVASON/CHAMPLAIN + SPECIAL GUEST</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">STAR BRIDGET, ALONG WITH SEVERAL FAMOUS</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SONGWRITER FRIENDS OF JEFF BARRY. THEY</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">INCLUDED THE LEGENDARY TEAM OF JERRY</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">LEIBER + </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MIKE STOLLER, </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">PAUL WILLIAMS + </span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">NORMAN GIMBEL. EL </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MARIACHI LOWRIDER,</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">THE INCREDIBLE DANCING <i>MARIACHI </i>BAND </span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FROM EL PASO WAS FLOWN IN TO PROVIDE</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MUSICAL BACKING. THE EVENT HAD A VERY</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">STRONG LATIN THEME, WITH EVERYONE ON</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">STAGE </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DRESSED IN COLORFUL SPANISH, </span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MEXICAN </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">AND INDIGENOUS </span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">COSTUMES.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"A TRIBUTE TO JEFF BARRY"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A JEFF BARRY INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FEBRUARY 25-29, 2007</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; 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font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Bloom)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>WE GOT A THING GOIN', BABY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- 50 Años de Los Archies LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jeff Barry)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>BOBBY, DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE TONIGHT!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- 50 Años de Los Archies LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jeff Barry)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHAPEL OF LOVE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>GET ON THE LINE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Complete Fuentes Albums box set*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jeff Barry)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>I JUST WANT TO SING WITH MY FRIENDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(JEFF BARRY + ENSEMBLE)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- 50 Años de Los Archies LP****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jeff Barry)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*w/THE ARCHIES, **w/BIG ETHEL,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>***w/GIL ALVASON + KRIS CHAMPLAIN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>****w/JEFF BARRY + FRIENDS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*****w/RALFI CHINGAS + LAURA PINTO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>******w/BRIDGET</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Music Director: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>These are live recordings taken from a 19 February </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>2007 tribute </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>concert to songwriter Jeff Barry. The </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>concert was filmed and a DVD </i></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>and soundtrack release </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>was planned. However, when ballad queen Bridget </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>refused </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>to allow her performance of "I Honestly </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Love You" to be used, </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>the project was derailed; Jeff </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>loved her rendition and refused </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>to proceed without </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>it! Bootlegs will proliferate but only fifteen songs</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>from this excellent show will ever get a legitimate </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>release, and not for many years hence</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/29672792464/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="DID YOU SEE HER EYES"><img alt="DID YOU SEE HER EYES" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/8130/29672792464_15bc3ed950.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE DUO ALVASON/CHAMPLAIN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>WITH MEMBERS OF EL MARIACHI</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>LOWRIDER, PERFORMING AT THE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ARCHIES' 2007 CONCERT TRIBUTE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>TO JEFF BARRY.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"DESTINATION LOVE"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MARCH 15 - 16, 2007</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DESTINATION LOVE - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'M A WOMAN - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MY BOY JOHN - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>KANSAS CITY - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Leiber-Stoller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE BINGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: MIKE STOLLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Archie did many things to re-affirm his love for Veronica after their marital crisis. One of them was to work with her on a new solo album. In March of 2007, dude instructed session contractor Rey Cochino to book The Bingos and Rey’s own brass section for a date @ Roni’s favorite studio: Spanish Eddie’s in New Orleans. Ralfi Chingas’s production services were engaged.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Archie’s intention was to record his wife singing an album tribute to pioneering Rock 'n' Roll songwriters Jerry Leiber + Mike Stoller. He convinced Stoller himself to take part in the tracking sessions; but, still grieving her miscarriage, Roni's enthusiasm for the project could best be described as “lukewarm.” Even so, the playbacks promised an altogether solid album.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: YOU MAY KNOW ABOUT <i>DON'T TOUCH MY GUITAR</i>, A MUSICAL TRAGEDY LOOSELY BASED ON THE STORY OF THE ARCHIES. BETTY JONES WILL WRITE THIS BROADWAY-BOUND SHOW! HOWEVER, THAT WON'T BE THE FIRST ARCHIES-INSPIRED PROJECT TO REACH THE STAGE.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE FIRST ONE WAS A COMEDY CALLED <i>IDOL-NESS IN RIVERDALE,</i> AND IT <i>DÉBUTED </i>@ RIVERDALE'S AWESOME VENUE IN MARCH OF 2007. THE STARS WERE HONOR STUDENTS FROM GERALDINE GRUNDY'S MUSIC SCHOOL. DEANIE CO-WROTE THE SHOW WITH CHUCK CLAYTON, HER MUSICAL AND LIFE PARTNER; SHE WAS A PROLIFIC </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">ARRANGER, BUT TO MY KNOWLEDGE THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME SHE COMPOSED MUSIC.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNFORTUNATELY, <i>IDOL-NESS</i> WAS A TERRIBLE SHOW THAT CAME AND WENT VERY QUICKLY; BUT RIGHT AFTER IT CLOSED, VERONICA OFFERED DEANIE AN ARTIST'S CONTRACT. SHE WAS RELUCTANT, BUT CHUCK CONVINCED HER TO SIGN; SHE'D BEEN A FOLK MUSIC STAR IN THE SIXTIES AND HE FELT SHE WAS RIPE FOR A COMEBACK! HOWEVER, DEANIE'S TIME @ ARCHIE RECORDS PRODUCED NOTHING BUT DEMOS, SOME OF WHICH I SUPERVISED MYSELF.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52299113644/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="DEANIE GRUNDY SINGS"><img alt="DEANIE GRUNDY SINGS" height="371" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52299113644_76d7eebf21.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A DEMO SESSION FOR DEANIE GRUNDY</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">SUPERVISED BY CHUCK CLAYTON +</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ALAN MAYBERRY.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AS BOTH A SINGER AND A PIANO PLAYER, THE WOMAN WAS IMMENSELY TALENTED, BUT WE GOT OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT WITH HER. SHE WAS VERY UNHAPPY WITH OUR PLANS TO REINVENT HER AS A DANCE POP DIVA! IN RETROSPECT, NOT STAYING TRUE TO HER FOLK BALLAD ROOTS WAS A MISTAKE. AFTER TWO FRUSTRATING YEARS, DEANIE OPTED TO RESUME HER PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH ARCHIE: AS A SOMETIME-SESSION MUSICIAN AND BACKING VOCALIST. EVEN SO, HER EXCELLENT DEMOS WOULD PROVE TO BE MORE VALUABLE THAN EVEN I COULD PREDICT!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A JEFF BARRY INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MARCH 21, 22, 2007</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU'RE THE BOSS - Destination Love LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>KANSAS CITY - Destination Love LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Leiber, Stoller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ARCHIE + VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KATZ + THE FIDDLES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: JEFF BARRY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Executive Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>MIKE STOLLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: This pair of selections was intended for Veronica’s new solo LP. However, she would only agree to record them if Archie sang with her! Roni still wasn’t sold on his Leiber-Stoller concept, and by the time these tracks were finished, she was ready to abandon it. Bidding Archie "goodbye and good luck!" Mike Stoller bailed out of the project after this difficult two-day session was over.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The finished masters were reclassified as single tracks. An April promo announced “You’re The Boss/”Kansas City” as a teaser for Veronica’s forthcoming album, but she refused to commit to further recordings! She didn't want to promote a single, either, so the release never got scheduled.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: IN APRIL OF 2007, ALL FIVE MEMBERS OF THE ARCHIES DECIDED TO TRY RECORDING TOGETHER AGAIN. CONVENING IN THE STUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A YEAR, AND WITH KEVIN KELLER BACK AS THEIR MAIN SIDEMAN, THEY CUT SIX NEW TRACKS. MOST OF THEM WOULD APPEAR ON <i>GREATEST HITS OF ALL-TIME, </i>THEIR FIRST SINGLES COMPILATION RELEASED ON THE ARCHIE LABEL. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE RESPONSE TO THEIR NEW MATERIAL CERTAINLY GAVE THEM STRONG INCENTIVE TO REUNITE: EVERY ONE OF THOSE SONGS BECAME HITS IN SOME PART OF THE WORLD! "SOUL DEEP SKA" WENT TOP TEN IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE. "HILL UNDERGROUND" SCORED A MAJOR HIT IN ASIA. REGGIE'S GREAT LEAD VOCALS ON A MEDLEY OF NEIL DIAMOND SONGS NEARLY TOPPED THE CHARTS IN AUSTRALIA; AND "REACH OUT IN THE DARKNESS" BROKE BIG IN SOUTH AMERICA, ESPECIALLY IN GAY DANCE CLUBS. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THE ROCK BALLAD "LADY JANE" IS THE SONG THAT FANS LOVED ACROSS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES. THIS WAS THE BLOCKBUSTER THAT ARCHIE + VERONICA HAD BEEN WAITING FOR; WITH JUGHEAD ON </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">LEAD VOCALS, IT BECAME THE ARCHIES' BIGGEST HIT SINGLE </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">SINCE "SUGAR, SUGAR." THIRTY YEARS LATER, IT WOULD CLIMB THE CHARTS ALL OVER AGAIN IN A COVER VERSION BY THE NEW ARCHIES!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/29672553823/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="LEADER OF THE PACK"><img alt="LEADER OF THE PACK" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/7473/29672553823_6e912ddf9b.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BETTY, VERONICA + BIG ETHEL,</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PERFORMING AT THE ARCHIES'</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">2007 CONCERT TRIBUTE TO</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JEFF BARRY.</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL 27 - 30, 2007</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SOUL DEEP SKA -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>single, Greatest Hits Of All-Time LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Wayne Carson Thompson)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NEIL DIAMOND MEDLEY:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>TWO-BIT MANCHILD/PRACTICALLY NEWBORN -</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>single, Greatest Hits Of All-Time LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Diamond)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HILL UNDERGROUND - single flipside</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lewis-Warwick, Smith)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LADY JANE - Greatest Hits Of All-Time LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(James, King)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LADY JANE (OVERDUB) - single*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">REACH OUT IN THE DARKNESS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside (India)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jim Post)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/TREVOR SANTIAGO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO, *ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Reach Out In The Darkness" was issued as</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>a fan club single flipside; Roni Lodge-Andrews sang</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>lead and Kevin Keller was prominent on backing vocals.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>These were The Archies' most successful recording sessions</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>for singles, and "Lady Jane" was the biggest smash of their </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>adult </i></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>career! Trevor Santiago </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>made his </i>début <i>as a </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>session </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>bass </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>player at these dates, two years </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>before he became an </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>official member of the group.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52357701568/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="AFC STAFF"><img alt="AFC STAFF" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52357701568_5b06502d83.jpg" width="370" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BIG ETHEL, CHUCK CLAYTON +</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ALAN MAYBERRY: THE PRESIDENT +</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A & R STAFF OF ARCHIES FAN CLUB</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">RECORDS!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: BY 2007, THE ARCHIES FAN CLUB HAD BECOME A PROFITABLE ENTERPRISE. LET ME BACKTRACK HERE AND TALK ABOUT ITS EVOLUTION: DURING THE KIRSHNER YEARS, THERE HAD NEVER BEEN AN OFFICIAL ARCHIES FAN CLUB, EVEN THOUGH THE DEMAND WAS THERE. ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS VERONICA DID AFTER THE GROUP REUNITED IN 2001 WAS LAUNCH ONE. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE AFC WAS ALREADY UP AND RUNNING WHEN THE ARCHIES' COMEBACK ALBUM <i>ARCHIE COUNTRY</i> CATAPULTED THEM BACK INTO THE MEDIA SPOTLIGHT. MEMBERSHIP GREW STEADILY: @ ONE POINT THERE WERE OVER 10,000 MEMBERS WORLDWIDE, NOT TO MENTION THOUSANDS MORE SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BIG ETHEL CAME ON BOARD AS ARCHIE'S PRIVATE SECRETARY IN 2005. PART OF HER DUTIES WAS TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT OF THE ARCHIES FAN CLUB. IT WAS ETHEL'S IDEA TO PRESS A LIMITED-EDITION VINYL SINGLE EVERY YEAR AS A MEMBERSHIP PREMIUM; SHE CHOSE THE TITLES, AND THE SINGLE USUALLY WENT ON SALE IN THE</span> <span style="color: #d9ead3;">FALL.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35247103254/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FAN CLUB EPS"><img alt="FAN CLUB EPS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4316/35247103254_3fd4a4dd3a.jpg" width="379" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE EXTENDED-</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PLAY DISCS PRESSED ON THE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB LABEL.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THESE PLATTERS WERE SHOWCASES FOR CURRENT ARCHIES ALBUM TRACKS, AND THERE WERE OCCASIONAL RARITIES, TOO; BUT IN 2007, THE BAND DECIDED TO CUT A CHRISTMAS SINGLE JUST FOR CLUB MEMBERS. "ARCHIE" (BABY, PLEASE COME HOME)" SOLD EXCEPTIONALLY WELL, AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR, THE FIRST FAN CLUB ALBUM WAS ISSUED. FIVE MORE WOULD FOLLOW, AND EP PACKAGES, INCLUDING THE <i>ARCHIES RARE MASTERS </i>SERIES ALSO BECAME AVAILABLE.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>PRESSED ON MULTI-COLORED VINYL, THESE RECORDS WEREN'T CHEAP TO BUY INDIVIDUALLY. FAN CLUB SUBSCRIPTIONS WERE EXPENSIVE, TOO! THERE WAS MUCH GRUMBLING ABOUT THE HIGH PRICES, BUT VERONICA WASN'T HAVING IT. "THESE VINYL PRESSINGS ARE INSTANT COLLECTOR'S ITEMS," SHE DECLARED, "AND THEY'LL BE WORTH EVEN MORE AS TIME PASSES." </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR THE MARKET TO CONFIRM HER ASSESSMENT: JUST TWO YEARS AFTER THE FINAL AFC RELEASE, THE VALUE OF THOSE PRESSINGS MORE THAN DOUBLED! AND IN LATER YEARS, VINTAGE MUSIC DEALERS DEMANDED ASTRONOMICAL SUMS FOR ORIGINAL COPIES.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/29964840001/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE & VERONICA SING SUGAR, SUGAR"><img alt="ARCHIE & VERONICA SING SUGAR, SUGAR" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/8261/29964840001_7334db0c93.jpg" width="386" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ARCHIE + VERONICA WITH MEMBERS OF</span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">EL MARIACHI LOWRIDER, PERFORMING</span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">@ THE ARCHIES' 2007 CONCERT TRIBUTE</span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">TO JEFF BARRY.</span></div><div><br /></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"RARE MASTERS, VOLUME TWO"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUNE 4 - 7, 2007</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>YELLOW SUNGLASSES (Barry, Bloom)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Rare Masters II EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU CAN BET THEY DO! (Barry, Kim)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Rare Masters II EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>THREE TO GET READY (Barry, Bloom)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Rare Masters II EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>I BEEN MOVED (Barry, Kim)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Rare Masters II EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineer: TAYE FAXTOTUM</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: The first volume of ARCHIES RARE MASTERS was very popular, so a second volume for Christmas 2007 was a forgone conclusion. These four selections were tracked during The Archies' initial heyday of 1989-90; all of them are fucking awesome! Big Ethel couldn’t fathom how or why Don Kirshner passed them over for single release. </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>My explanation: "Mr. K" suffered from tunnel vision when it came to repertoire for Archie + Veronica (and he didn't factor the rest of the band into his decisions at all). If the material deviated too much from the New Wave Rock 'n' Roll sound he favored, dude would always reject it! Even so, a number as full of Pop hooks as "Three To Get Ready" is sounds like it should've been right down his alley.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: THEIR OFFICIAL REUNION IN NEW ORLEANS HAD GONE WELL, SO IN JUNE OF 2007, THE ARCHIES RECONVENED IN HOLLYWOOD TO RECORD THEIR FIRST OF TWO HOLIDAY ALBUMS. RALFI CHINGAS WASN'T AVAILABLE, SO RON DANTE PRODUCED THE DATES. </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">AFTER THE DEBACLE OF THE <i>GET IT ON TODAY! </i>ALBUM, RON CERTAINLY HAD REASON TO FEEL APPREHENSIVE! HOWEVER, HE WAS RELIEVED TO FIND THE GROUP MEMBERS NOT ONLY </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">BACK IN PROFESSIONAL MODE BUT @ EASE WITH ONE ANOTHER. HE'D RANK THE </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">CHRISTMAS SESSIONS AS THE BEST HE EVER </span></span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">WORKED ON WITH THEM!</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I ATTENDED A SPECIAL HOLIDAY CONCERT THAT THE ARCHIES GAVE @ RIVERDALE'S AWESOME VENUE; IT'S THE ONLY TIME I KNOW OF WHEN THEY PERFORMED ANY OF THE SONGS FROM THEIR CHRISTMAS ALBUM. NEITHER THAT RECORD NOR THEIR <i>GREATEST HITS OF ALL-TIME </i>LP SOLD AS WELL AS ARCHIE + VERONICA HOPED THEY WOULD, BUT . . . <i>THE ARCHIES WERE BACK IN BUSINESS! </i> THAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING; AND NONE OF US @ THE </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">LABEL DOUBTED THAT THEY’D SOON BE BACK ON TOP AGAIN.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/23911877033/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="ARCHIE'S CHRISTMAS ALBUM LP COVERS"><img alt="ARCHIE'S CHRISTMAS ALBUM LP COVERS" height="396" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1526/23911877033_84f2e2bf43.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>ARCHIE'S CHRISTMAS ALBUM</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>featuring BETTY + VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ARCHIE'S CHRISTMAS ALBUM"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RON DANTE PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUNE 2007</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE CAPITOL TOWER,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>*A CHAPEL OF ROCK PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>in association with</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTAL)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER 2004</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ARCHIE (BABY, PLEASE COME HOME) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- fan club single*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie's Christmas Album LP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Autry, Haldeman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>UP ON THE HOUSETOP </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Benjamin Hanby)***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Johnny Marks)**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Johnny Marks)****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JINGLE BELL ROCK </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Beal, Boothe)***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THAT'S HOW IT GOES - Archiemania LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tony Hatch)***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tommie Connor)****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA, BETTY JONES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*JEFF BARRY, **</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS, </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>***BLUE-EYED SOUL, ****</i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RON DANTE, *TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>TED PERLMAN, SCOTT ERIKSON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>These were initial sessions for The Archies' Christmas album.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Archie (Baby, Please Come Home)" was the first single</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>specially recorded for the Archies Fan Club; Betty Jones</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>sang lead to a backing track that was produced in 2004</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(see the log entry for November of that year). "That's How </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>It </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Goes" was briefly considered for release as a </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Betty + Veronica </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>duet single.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/29754348120/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="REGGIE SINGS BABY, I LOVE YOU"><img alt="REGGIE SINGS BABY, I LOVE YOU" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/8410/29754348120_71fe04acb3.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>REGGIE SINGS A MEDLEY OF "BE MY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BABY" + </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"BABY, I LOVE YOU" </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">@ THE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ARCHIES' 2007 CONCERT TRIBUTE TO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>JEFF BARRY. HE'S ACCOMPANIED BY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>LAURA PINTO + RALFI CHINGAS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ARCHIE'S CHRISTMAS ALBUM"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RON DANTE PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JULY 2007</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE CAPITOL TOWER,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>RUN, RUN, RUDOLPH </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Brodie, Marks)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Coots, Gillespie)**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Blane, Martin)**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SLEIGH RIDE - Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Anderson, Parish)***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ARCHIE'S CHRISTMAS PARTY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ron Dante)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHRISTMAS IN RIVERDALE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Archie's Christmas Album LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ron Dante)**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>COUNTRY 2 THE CITY in Arabic </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single (Saudi Arabia)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ansari, Harper, Poindexter)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- fan club single flipside</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA, BETTY JONES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>*ARCHIE ANDREWS, **BLUE-EYED SOUL,</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>***REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: RON DANTE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>TED PERLMAN, SCOTT ERIKSON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Released in 2008, "Country 2 The City" became a</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>hit in underground Gay dance clubs throughout</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>the Muslim world. A 2009 live version sung in English</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>went Top Ten in the United Kingdom; both feature</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Juggy Jones on lead.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: </b></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUST BEFORE THE ARCHIES GOT BACK TOGETHER, THEY TOOK STOCK OF THEIR MUSICAL ASSETS. THEY COULDN'T FAIL TO SEE A WEALTH OF SKILL AND TALENT! ALREADY, THEY WERE A GROUP OF FIVE LEAD SINGERS, WITH ARCHIE, BETTY + JUGHEAD AS THE STANDOUTS. BY 2007, ALL OF THE MEMBERS PLAYED MORE THAN ONE INSTRUMENT AND COULD WRITE ARRANGEMENTS FOR SONGS. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE ENCOURAGED CROSS-TRAINING; HIS BAD EXPERIENCE WITH DON KIRSHNER MADE HIM WANT A BAND THAT WAS SELF-CONTAINED. AS A RESULT, BOTH VERONICA + BETTY BECAME COMPETENT VOCAL ARRANGERS, ALTHOUGH RONI'S INTEREST WAS GREATER. REGGIE WASN'T AS COMPETENT, BUT HE COULD ARRANGE MUSIC AS WELL AS VOICES. JUGGY DIDN'T LIKE TO ARRANGE, PREFERRING TO IMPROVISE WHAT HE PLAYED; STILL, IN COLLABORATION WITH KEVIN KELLER HE WROTE SOME SUPERB RHYTHM CHARTS. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SO COMMERCIALLY, THE ARCHIES WERE A QUADRUPLE THREAT: A SINGING, SONGWRITING AND ARRANGING INSTRUMENTAL UNIT! THEY COULD DO IT ALL THEMSELVES. YET WHEN THEY HAD SOMETHING AMBITIOUS IN MIND, THEY TENDED TO CALL ON OUTSIDE ARRANGERS: ROD MACK, DEANIE GRUNDY, TONY BRISEÑO, JUSTIN STRICKLAND (WHO THEY WORKED WITH IN LATER YEARS) OR ME.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE ARCHIES USED ARRANGERS FOR LIVE PERFORMANCES, TOO. THAT WAS A HOLDOVER FROM THE KIRSHNER YEARS; ARCHIE WANTED THE SHOWS TO LOOK LOOSE AND SPONTANEOUS BUT BELIEVE ME, THEY NEVER WERE! WHAT THE BAND PLAYED IN PUBLIC WAS ALWAYS LAID OUT BEFOREHAND AND THOROUGHLY REHEARSED. I BEGAN WRITING ARRANGEMENTS FOR ARCHIES CONCERTS IN 2007; VERONICA LIKED MY WORK ON THE JEFF BARRY TRIBUTE AND GAVE ME A CHANCE. THE FIRST TIME THEY USED MY CHARTS WAS @ THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL THAT JULY. THEY GOT A TREMENDOUS RESPONSE! </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THEN IN SEPTEMBER, I TRAVELED TO HAWAII WITH THEM FOR A WORKING VACATION. WE WERE ONLY GOING TO CUT SOME DEMOS, BUT WE ENDED UP LOGGING THE FIRST SESSION FOR AN ALBUM OF MEDLEYS. ON FOUR </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">SIDES OF A TWO-RECORD SET, THE GROUP PLANNED TO SAMPLE THE </b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SONG CATALOGS OF EIGHT ICONIC POP/SOUL SONGWRITERS: BARRY GIBB, JACKIE DeSHANNON, JOHNNY NASH, </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">LAURA NYRO, VAN McCOY, VALERIE SIMPSON, JIM DORIS + VERONICA’S HANDS-DOWN </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">FAVORITE COMPOSER, BURT BACHARACH!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/30048350755/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="WE GOT A THING GOIN', BABY"><img alt="WE GOT A THING GOIN', BABY" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/5168/30048350755_735428da11.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>JUGHEAD + BETTY PERFORM WITH</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>MEMBERS OF EL MARIACHI LOWRIDER</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>@ THE ARCHIES' 2007 CONCERT</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>TRIBUTE TO JEFF BARRY.</b></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"FIFTY SHADES OF SOUL"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2007</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BABY GRAND STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HONOLULU, HAWAII</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">JIM DORIS MEDLEY:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>OH, ME, OH, MY/AFTER ALL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>- Retro box set</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(Jim Doris)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BARRY GIBB MEDLEY:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FANNY BE TENDER/GREASE/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>GIVE AND TAKE A HAND/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU/LONELY DAYS/</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>TO LOVE SOMEBODY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>- Retro box set</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(The Bee Gees)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA, BETTY JONES,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>REGGIE MANTLE, KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES w/ALAN MAYBERRY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, RHETT VALENTYNE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Roni Lodge-Andrews sings lead on the Jim Doris Medley,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>and Betty Jones duets with Reggie Mantle on the Barry Gibb</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Medley. The four incomplete tracks from these sessions were </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>potential singles, not intended for the FIFTY SHADES album;</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>they will be </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>finished in May of 2033.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: I REMEMBER HOW FABULOUS BETTY + REGGIE SOUNDED, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">SINGING TOGETHER ON A BARRY GIBB TRIBUTE! THAT </b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>WAS ONE OF JUST TWO </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>MEDLEYS THAT WE FINISHED TRACKING @ BABY GRAND STUDIOS; BUT DESPITE HIS </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">EXCELLENT VOCALS, REGGIE STRONGLY DISAPPROVED OF THE CONCEPT! </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">HE SAID WE WERE SHORTCHANGING THE WRITERS BY PRESENTING </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">THEIR MATERIAL IN SNIPPETS. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> JUGHEAD AGREED WITH HIM, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">BETTY DIDN’T AND EVERYBODY STARTED ARGUING! BEFORE </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">I KNEW IT, THE PROJECT HAD CRASHED AND BURNED. I WAS </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">DISAPPOINTED AND MORE THAN A LITTLE IRRITATED @ REGGIE - THOUGH NOWHERE NEAR AS UPSET AS ARCHIE WAS! </b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span><b style="font-family: verdana;">HOWEVER, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">I WAS DETERMINED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PRODUCTION OF AN </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">ARCHIES ALBUM, AND I KNEW THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">EVENTUALLY. LATER ON, AS SOLO PERFORMERS, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">ARCHIE DID JUSTICE TO BURT BACHARACH'S CATALOG, AND BETTY HAD HER SOULFUL WAY WITH JACKIE DeSHANNON'S HITS. A DEFINITIVE ARCHIES INTERPRETATION OF </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">LAURA NYRO'S WORK LAY 25 YEARS IN THE FUTURE!</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/26900542654/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="EUNICE DANVERS"><img alt="EUNICE DANVERS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/7384/26900542654_e272a00222.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR REGGIE MANTLE'S CONTROVERSIAL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2007 COUNTRY SINGLE "EUNICE DANVERS".</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHERRY VAGINA RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DECEMBER 8 - 11, 2007</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SUN STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>AIN'T NOTHIN' LIKE A HEARTBREAKER </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jones, Lodge-Andrews)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TRUCK BED LOLITA - single flipside</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Betty + Juggy Jones)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Andrews, Briseño, Mason)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>EUNICE DANVERS - single*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Keller, Lodge-Andrews)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>REGINALD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/LONG TALL WISDOM</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/PENCIL PETE DRYSDALE</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arranger: REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers/Producers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, *VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, VIRGIL BRADLEY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: When he heard Roni + Kelly's original song "Eunice Danvers", a Country murder ballad with a bisexual twist, Gino suspected it might be the hit solo single he'd been waiting for. After singing the demo, dude was absolutely convinced and he insisted that it be released under his name! Subsequently, "Reginald" became the </i>début <i>artist for a short-lived Archie Records subsidiary label.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Memphis tracking sessions included Kevin Keller on keyboards + Long Tall Wisdom</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> + Pencil Pete from Katz + The Fiddles. However, Gino the Perfectionist played most of the instruments himself in order to get exactly the sound he wanted! Veronica was also very </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">particular about the arrangement for “Eunice Danvers,” so that one song took a long time </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">to capture; </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">but the end result was worth it! Country music is not to my </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">taste, but this was one dope-ass record!</span></span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Unfortunately, its subject matter proved too hot for Country radio, and after a nasty fight with Archie over its failure to chart, Gino refused to promote his follow-up single. The entire released catalog of Cherry Vagina Records consists of these four titles, but the music world was destined to hear more from "Reginald" . . . Roni's preferred name for her bandmate will survive into the early years of his solo career.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: AROUND THIS TIME, ARCHIE APPROACHED ME ABOUT BECOMING A SOLO ARTIST </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">FOR THE LABEL. HE EVEN OFFERED TO HAVE THE ARCHIES BACK ME UP ON MY FIRST RECORD, AND THAT KIND OF THING ALMOST <i>NEVER </i>HAPPENED! SALEM URGED ME TO GO FOR IT, BUT I DECLINED. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">I HAVE JUST NEVER CONSIDERED MYSELF A SINGER! NOT THAT I <i>CAN’T </i>SING. I’M A DECENT VOCALIST WHEN IT COMES TO CUTTING AN AD JINGLE, A DEMO DISC OR A BACKGROUND PART; BUT ALL I EVER REALLY WANTED TO DO WAS ARRANGE AND PRODUCE MUSIC FOR MOTION PICTURES! I REALIZED THAT GOAL LATER ON, AND NEVER HAD ANY REGRETS ABOUT HOW I DID IT; BUT I GUESS I’LL AWAYS WONDER WHAT MIGHT'VE BEEN HAD I TAKEN UP ARCHIE’S OFFER!</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2008.html" target="_blank">CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE:</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24591031627/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BETTY RED"><b><img alt="BETTY RED" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4645/24591031627_05fd920294.jpg" width="388" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;">"CAT TALK"</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS' NEW RECORDING</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">DEAL IS THE TALK OF THE MUSIC</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">INDUSTRY IN THE YEAR</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">2 0 0 8 !</span></i></span></b></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-23571242849916107122023-02-14T07:12:00.025-05:002023-12-08T23:39:55.227-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2006<p style="text-align: center;"><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/23911876783/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="GET IT ON TODAY LP COVERS"><img alt="GET IT ON TODAY LP COVERS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1633/23911876783_7f5530e9e0.jpg" width="383" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script> </b></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>POP CULTURE CANTINA</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Presents</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A Journey Through</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE GREAT AMERICAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ROCK ‘N’ ROLL </b></span><b style="color: #cfe2f3;">SONG BOOK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: x-large;"><i>FROM ROD MACK'S ORAL HISTORY </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: x-large;"><i>OF ARCHIE RECORDS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>IN THE EARLY 1990s, I WAS LEAD GUITAR IN THE HOUSE BAND @ THE APOLLO THEATER. THAT WAS ONE OF MY FIRST JOBS AS A BAND MUSICIAN! NO, I WASN'T A NOVICE; I'D BEEN IN THE BUSINESS FOR A WHILE, AND I'D EVEN CUT A RECORD; BUT THIS WAS THE BIG TIME! NEW-YORK-FUCKING-CITY, WITH HOLLYWOOD NEXT ON MY ITINERARY. I WAS YOUNG AND COCKY, AS FULL OF PISS AND VINEGAR AS I COULD BE!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><br /></span></i></div></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>MAY OF 1990 IS WHEN I FIRST MET THE ARCHIES. NOT THE WHOLE GROUP; JUST ARCHIE, BETTY, VERONICA + JUGHEAD. CHUCK CLAYTON WAS SUBBING FOR REGGIE “GINO” MANTLE. I WOULDN'T MEET GINO UNTIL THE FOLLOWING YEAR AND, MUCH LATER, I GOT ACQUAINTED WITH KEVIN KELLER AND TREVOR SANTIAGO; BUT LITTLE DID I KNOW THAT ONE DAY I'D BE </i>PRODUCING <i>THE ARCHIES! AND THAT CHUCKII + I WOULD BE JAMMING TOGETHER FOR YEARS, BOTH IN AND OUTSIDE OF RECORDING STUDIOS.</i></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>THE GROUP HAD COME DOWN FROM NEW ENGLAND TO HEADLINE A MOTOWN SONG FESTIVAL. I REMEMBER SHAKING MY HEAD IN DISBELIEF WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THEM. I TOLD NICKY ÁLVAREZ, MY BOSS AT THE TIME: "THESE WHITE KIDS ARE WET BEHIND THE EARS AND EVERYWHERE ELSE. WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE, TRYING TO PLAY A HARDCORE SOUL MUSIC VENUE LIKE THE APOLLO? THEY'LL BE EATEN ALIVE!"</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52299338845/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="LIGHTS OF NIGHT ALBUM COVER DESIGN"><img alt="LIGHTS OF NIGHT ALBUM COVER DESIGN" height="382" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52299338845_26c5403b13.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED IF</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ROD MACK HAD JOINED THE ARCHIES:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">AN ALBUM DEVOTED TO THE HIT</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SONGS OF BOB CREWE!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>SO I WASN'T IMPRESSED WITH THEM @ ALL, BUT NICKY PREDICTED THAT THEY'D SURPRISE ME. DID THEY EVER! THOSE CHILDREN COULD SING THEIR OFAY ASSES OFF, AND THEY PLAYED THEIR INSTRUMENTS LIKE BITCHES IN HEAT! ARCHIE, BETTY + JUGHEAD IN PARTICULAR HAD MAJOR STAR QUALITY. THOSE FINICKY APOLLO REGULARS ATE THEM UP, ALL RIGHT - WITH A SPOON!</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>THE ARCHIES EVEN ENDED UP SURPRISING NICKY. DUDE WOULD NEVER HAVE GUESSED THAT HE'D LEAVE THE APOLLO, RECLAIM HIS ORIGINAL NAME (NICHOLAS FREUND), AND BECOME THEIR MANAGER; BUT HE HAD YET TO RECKON WITH THE PERSUASIVE POWERS OF A CERTAIN MS. VERONICA LODGE!</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>SO WE BECAME COLLEAGUES AND THEN FRIENDS. AFTER THAT FESTIVAL, WE STAYED IN TOUCH. THE ARCHIES PLAYED ON ONE OF MY SOLO ALBUMS, AND I OCCASIONALLY HOOKED ARCHIE AND JUGHEAD UP WITH SESSION WORK. THEN, WHEN ARCHIE RECORDS LAUNCHED IN EARLY 2001, ARCHIE ASKED ME TO PLAY GUITAR ON THE FIRST RECORD DATE. I CAME UP TO MAMARONECK AND NEVER LEFT! </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>IT WAS SUCH A STIMULATING CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE PAY WAS FANTASTIC. EVEN THOUGH I MOVED TO LONDON IN 2006, I STAYED ON CALL: THE LABEL STARTED CUTTING SESSIONS OVER THERE, AND I WAS ON MOST OF THOSE RECORDS.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">SO I WAS THERE FOR BOTH THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF ARCHIE RECORDS: FOR FOURTEEN FUN YEARS, I TRACKED GUITAR AND VOCALS, ARRANGED, COMPOSED AND PRODUCED MUSIC FOR ALL KINDS OF TALENTED ACTS. THAT SHOULD MORE THAN QUALIFY ME TO WRITE A HISTORY OF THE LABEL WE USED TO CALL . . .</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">SUGARTOWN!</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><i>THE SIXTH YEAR: 2006</i></span></b></div><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: x-large;">"TEAR DROP CITY"</span></div></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SOUNDTRACK SESSIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">“BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN!”</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A MAMARONECK PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JANUARY 15 - 17, 2006</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">LONDON, UK</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">GOODBYE, JESSE - soundtrack LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">KICK A MAN’S ASS - soundtrack LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">DON’T PISS ME OFF! - soundtrack LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN THEME</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- soundtrack LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Archie Andrews)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>ARCHIE</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE SUGARTOWN PIPERS</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/THE ROSCOE SHIRLEY STRINGS</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS,</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Arranger/Conductor:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Producer: LAURA PINTO</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>RONNIE + BUDDY SHELBY</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: Archie’s starring role in BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN was a sensational way to both begin and end a movie career! The film’s promotional campaign saturated the media, spreading his freckle-faced image far and wide. Later on, that same publicity blitz made him a sitting duck for critics: The throwback Blaxploitation flick opened to dismal reviews in early 2007! </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Rolling Stone's<i> reviewer wrote: "The question isn't 'does it suck?' The question is 'how HARD does it suck?'" Archie would later joke: “I won the Golden Raspberry Award that year for Worst Actor. You think I’m not proud of that? I’ve got the fucking trophy mounted on my office wall, right next to my Gold and Platinum records!”</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Whenever BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN was mentioned in later years, it had nothing to do with bad acting. It was about gossip that romantically linked Archie with his leading lady, Benazir Bhooty! Those false rumors would persist right up to the year 2029. That's when the Middle Eastern starlet would murder her billionaire husband, Jason Blossom! </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>And would you believe that, after serving time in jail, Benazir would become a film director and helm a hit biopic of The Archies? This shit is so scandalous, you couldn't make it up! Archie, Benazir + Jason were destined to play pivotal roles in each other’s lives, in a series of events that spanned three decades.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Whenever Archie himself remembered BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN, he’d talk about scoring the soundtrack, which got altogether decent reviews. These dates, where he cut vocals for original songs that he'd written, were his favorites of all the sessions he logged over the years. Judi “Madame Axe” Parisella played lead guitar, and she also remembers those sessions fondly: “Nobody believes me when I say Archie could sing Soul like a White Curtis Mayfield; but anybody who’s heard that soundtrack album knows it's true!”</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52456662580/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN POSTER"><img alt="BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN POSTER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52456662580_7a67325419.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE POSTER</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FOR THE INDIE ACTION FLICK</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">STARRING ARCHIE!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH OF 2006, THE ARCHIES RECORDED THEIR SIXTH ARCHIE ALBUM <i>GET IT ON TODAY.</i> TRACKING STARTED IN LONDON @ THE FAMOUS ABBEY ROAD STUDIO COMPLEX. FEATURING SONGS WRITTEN BY RON DANTE, THEIR FORMER VOCAL COACH AND PRODUCER, IT LEANED TOWARD A PSYCHEDELIC ROCK SOUND. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">BACKDROP TO THE RECORDING SESSIONS WAS BETTY’S DISCOVERY THAT VERONICA + HER HUSBAND JUGHEAD HAD SLEPT TOGETHER! THE ATMOSPHERE BECAME UNBELIEVABLY VOLATILE: ARCHIE + JUGHEAD </span></b><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">WERE SHOUTING @ EACH OTHER, BETTY WAS CRYING AND EVERYBODY WAS THROWING ACCUSATIONS AROUND. THERE WAS EVEN A SHOVING MATCH! SESSION GUITARIST ROD MACK WAS THERE, AND LATER ON HE FILLED ME IN ON THE SORDID DETAILS.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"GET IT ON TODAY!"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FEBRUARY 2006</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">LONDON, UK</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IT'S RAINING SUNSHINE (UNDERDUB) - lost</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SAYONARA, BABY (UNDERDUB) - lost</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">incomplete</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GOD BLESS ROCK 'N' ROLL </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Get It On Today LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Dante, Greenfield)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HEY, BOY (THE GIRL'S IN LOVE WITH YOU) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Get It On Today LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">incomplete</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">A MILLION LIGHTS - Get It On Today LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">RAINING IN MY SUNSHINE </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Get It On Today LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/RON DANTE</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/ROD MACK</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Arranger: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Conductor: ROD MACK</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Producers: </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Sound Engineers: </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, BUDDY SHELBY</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Archies began cutting a Psychedelic Rock album.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Every song was written by Ron Dante; their former producer,</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>studio mentor and vocal coach also played guitar and sang</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>background vocals @ the sessions. Archie's old friend</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Rod Mack subbed for Nicholas Freund as music director. </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>(Both Rod + Nicholas were alumni of the Apollo Theatre</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>house band.) "Hey, Boy (The Girl's In Love With You)!"</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>was issued as a fan club single; Archie Andrews </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>+ Reggie Mantle </i></b><b><i>sang a duet lead.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/37304739942/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE'S VINTAGE VINYL PRICE GUIDE"><img alt="ARCHIE'S VINTAGE VINYL PRICE GUIDE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4412/37304739942_f2c1ea2c67.jpg" width="389" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BY THE 2070s, ORIGINAL PRESSINGS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FROM THE ARCHIE LABEL GROUP WILL</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">HAVE BECOME SO COLLECTIBLE, A PRICE </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>GUIDE </b><b>WILL BE DEVOTED TO THEM. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: THERE WAS A RUMOR THAT ARCHIE TRIED TO KILL JUGHEAD AFTER HIS AFFAIR WITH VERONICA WAS REVEALED; ANOTHER RUMOR HAD BETTY GOING AFTER VERONICA WITH A BUTCHER KNIFE! I WON'T SAY WHETHER THEY'RE TRUE OR NOT; WHAT PURPOSE WOULD THAT SERVE? JUST KNOW THAT THE HURT THE TWO COUPLES SUFFERED WAS ALL BUT UNBEARABLE! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE, BETTY + JUGHEAD MET IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP WAS ONE OF THE STRONGEST I'VE EVER SEEN. WHEN VERONICA'S FAMILY MOVED TO RIVERDALE, SHE BECAME PART OF THEIR CIRCLE. THE FOUR OF THEM WERE AS CLOSE AS PEOPLE CAN BE, BUT WE ALL CHANGE AS WE MATURE. OLD FRIENDS CAN REACH A POINT WHERE THEY FEEL THEY DON'T KNOW EACH OTHER ANYMORE! IN THEIR CASE, THAT HAPPENED IN THE MOST UNPLEASANT WAY IMAGINABLE. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WOUNDS (OLD WOUNDS WHERE BETTY WAS CONCERNED) WERE OPENED THAT WOULD NEVER FULLY HEAL. JUGGY + RONI'S INDISCRETION WAS DEFINITELY GOING TO LEAVE CASUALTIES IN ITS WAKE; AND IN EARLY 2006 THERE WAS EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE ARCHIES WOULD BE ONE OF THEM!</span> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"GET IT ON TODAY!"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH 2006</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">LONDON, UK</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LET'S GET IT ON TODAY! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single, Get It On Today LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Adams, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IT TAKES THE RAIN </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(TO MAKE THE FLOWERS GROW) -</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">Get It On Today LP reissue</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YELLOW VAN (UNDERDUB) - lost</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BUILDING WITH A STEEPLE - Get It On Today LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DON'T CALL IT LOVE! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single (withdrawn from sale),</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">single flipside, Get It On Today LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">incomplete</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/ROD MACK</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/THEEDA MAHARAJ</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Arranger: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Conductor: ROD MACK</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Producers: </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Sound Engineers: </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, BUDDY SHELBY</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Guitarist Rod Mack and sitar master Theeda Maharaj took</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>part in these March dates and witnessed their descent</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>into chaos! Roni Lodge-Andrews' love affair with Juggy</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Jones was accidentally revealed. The members of The</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Archies divided into screaming factions, and work</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>on their new album ground to a dead halt! Theeda </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>was so traumatized, she wouldn't agree to </b><b>work </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>with The </b><b>Archies again for many years.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: WHEN WORK ON THE NEW ALBUM RESUMED @ ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS, THE ONLY GROUP MEMBER IN ATTENDANCE WAS REGGIE MANTLE! WITH HELP FROM RON DANTE, THE ARCHIES’ CONDUCTOR/MANAGER BIG NIPSY FREUND + SOUND MAN ALAN MAYBERRY, HE MANAGED TO COBBLE TOGETHER A FINISHED MASTER. <i>GET IT ON TODAY: THE SONGS OF RON DANTE</i> ONLY WON A GOLD RECORD, IN PART BECAUSE THE ARCHIES REFUSED TO PROMOTE IT. A MAJORITY OF BAND MEMBERS WERE HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34890948743/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="WOMEN OF THE ARCHIES"><img alt="WOMEN OF THE ARCHIES" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4278/34890948743_114cc0ff58.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>"WOMEN OF THE ARCHIES,"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>A HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>POSTER PHOTOGRAPHED</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>BY AMISHA PATEL.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">"GET IT ON TODAY!</span><span style="font-size: medium;">"</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH 2006</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">**A CHAPEL OF ROCK PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">in association with</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTAL)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">NOVEMBER 2004</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">CHAPEL OF ROCK,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MIDNIGHT SHOW </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Get It On Today LP*</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FOLLOW A DREAM - Get It On Today LP*</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YELLOW VAN (OVERDUB) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single, Get It On Today LP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HEY, MOM! HEY, POP! - Retro box set</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Dante, Rossi)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JANIE, JANIE - Get It On Today LP reissue**</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THINK! - Get It On Today LP reissue</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Levinson, Selig)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SAYONARA, BABY (OVERDUB) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Get It On Today LP reissue</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IT'S RAINING SUNSHINE (OVERDUB)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Get It On Today LP reissue</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Allan, Dante)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/RON DANTE</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/ALAN MAYBERRY</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS, *REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Producer: ALAN MAYBERRY</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, TOM MOURGOS</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Reggie Mantle was the only Archies member </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>in attendance </b><b>@ these sessions. Alan Mayberry</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>took a rare turn on keyboards. Ron Dante sang </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>uncredited lead vocals </b><b>on "Hey, Mom! Hey, Pop!", </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>"Janie, Janie" and "Think." </b><b>A Tom Mourgos-</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>produced </b><b>backing track was used </b><b>on </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>"Janie, Janie."</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: "LET'S GET IT ON TODAY", THE LEAD SINGLE FROM THE ARCHIES' FORTHCOMING LP SCORED ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL SMASH; BUT BY THE TIME IT MADE THE CHARTS, ARCHIE OFFICE STAFF WERE IN A STATE OF ALARM. WOULD THIS BE THE LAST SINGLE? WHY HAD THE ABBEY ROAD SESSIONS BEEN SHUT DOWN? WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO THE GROUP? INFORMATION WAS SCANT AND THE RUMOR MILL WAS SPINNING! OFFICIALLY, THE ARCHIES HAD GONE ON HIATUS. THAT STATUS WOULD LAST FOR NEARLY A WHOLE YEAR - THE TIME IT TOOK FOR BROKEN FRIENDSHIPS AND STRAINED MARRIAGES TO MEND! NEEDLESS TO SAY, THIS CRISIS PUT THE FUTURE OF ARCHIE RECORDS IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35464151356/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ONLY IN AMERICA 3"><img alt="ONLY IN AMERICA 3" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4215/35464151356_413d7fbd7b.jpg" width="393" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">KEVIN KELLER + TREVOR SMITH</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BOTH TOOK PART IN ARCHIES</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RECORDING SESSIONS BEFORE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BECOMING MEMBERS OF THE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BAND.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"RARE MASTERS, VOLUME ONE"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH 17 - 19, 2006</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">BLESS MY SOUL - Rare Masters I EP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">WE NEED EACH OTHER </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Rare Masters I EP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">YOUR MUSIC AND MY MUSIC </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Rare Masters I EP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">A LITTLE ON THE HEAVY SIDE </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- Rare Masters I EP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Barry, Bloom)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Remix Producer:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Remix Engineer: TAYE FAXTOTUM</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: If there was anything Archie + Veronica wanted as much as they wanted their indie label to be successful, it was to own The Archies’ early masters. They were able to realize both goals! After purchasing most of the Kirshner Records catalog in late 2005, they turned the tapes over to Fawn “Big Ethel” Mason (by then, Archie’s executive secretary) for cataloguing. As just-named president of the Archies Fan Club label, Ethel had the option of releasing the Kirshner material on AFC Records. The series of ARCHIES RARE MASTERS that she curated would be that label’s most collectible product! Volume One launched its EP line.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">DEMO SESSION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JUNE 7, 2006</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">(I’M YOUR) BACK DOOR DADDY</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">- single flipside (THE ARCHIES), cancelled</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">(Clayton, Tate)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>REGGIE "GINO" MANTLE</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/CHUCK CLAYTON</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Arranger: REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Conductor: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Producers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>CHUCK CLAYTON, ALAN MAYBERRY</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The other sides recorded @ this session</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>were demos written by songwriters contracted</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>to Cherry Vagina Music. "Back Door Daddy" is a</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Cherry Vagina copyright written by Chuck Clayton</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>+ Terry "Pop" Tate; the profanity-laden ditty was</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>pressed on the flipside of a cancelled Archies</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>single, "Don't Call It Love." While the yet-to-</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>be-released "Titty Twister" </i></b><b><i>is very provocative, </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>this was </i></b><b><i>the only Archies record that can truly</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i> be called "dirty" </i></b><b><i>. . . and it wasn’t really by</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Archies! Needless to say, Archie was not</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>amused.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52348088929/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="REGGIE EP"><img alt="REGGIE EP" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52348088929_17421864d9.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR REGGIE'S SMASH</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">HIT AUSTRALIAN EP</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>SUGAR DADDY.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS AUSTRALIA</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"SUGAR DADDY"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SEPTEMBER 2 - 27, 2006</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPLENDID MEDIA,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">(REMIXES)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">OCTOBER 9, DECEMBER 13 - 15, 2006,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">FEBRUARY 4 - 7, APRIL 19, 20, 2007</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SUGAR DADDY - Sugar Daddy EP (Australia)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">NOBODY - Sugar Daddy EP (Australia)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THE LOVE YOU SAVE - Sugar Daddy EP (Australia)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MAMA’S PEARL - Sugar Daddy EP (Australia)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ONE MORE CHANCE - Sugar Daddy EP (Australia)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I WANT YOU BACK - Sugar Daddy EP (Australia)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Gordy, Mizelle, Perren, Richards)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>REGGIE</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE JUMP CHILDREN</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE EDEN DAWN STRINGS</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>REGGIE MANTLE, THE JUMP CHILDREN</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Conductor: EVA NAMAZZI</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Sound Engineer:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>CHEVY TIDINGS HOWARD</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Remix Engineers: </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, TAYE FAXTOTUM</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: In different countries, different members of The Archies were fan favorites. For example, Europe favored Jughead; South America loved Veronica; and Betty was adored across Asia. Australia was crazy about its native son Gino Mantle - yes, he was born in New South Wales - but Aussies always preferred to call him “Reggie!” </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Word reached Gino through sound engineer Alan Mayberry that the Australian Archie label was planning a compilation of his lead vocals. Gino sent word back that he had a much better idea: Dude would cut an EP of all-new solo material for exclusive release “down under!”</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>By 2006, Gino was no longer the Elvis Presley fanatic he’d been in college. His current obsession was vintage recordings by Motown's teenage supergroup: The Jackson Five! Dude was in awe of the young Michael Jackson and, under his influence, he was singing in </i>falsetto <i>more often. </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>However, there’s no truth to rumors that Michael himself urged Gino to cut a Jackson Five tribute; the SUGAR DADDY EP was entirely his own concept. It wasn’t just a tribute record, though: Gino wanted to prove that he didn’t need The Archies to make hits! And this project would provide the evidence.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>What’s more, it was the perfect excuse for staging his first solo concert tour. Veronica’s affair with Jughead had thrown The Archies into a state of flux, and Gino had no idea when or if they’d regroup. “This could the solo opportunity I’ve been waiting for,” he told Alan M. </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Flying down to Newcastle with a bevy of beautiful girls, dude showed off his talent for generating publicity! Gino hired a backing band called The Jump Children and performed a repertoire of Motown oldies; in addition to The Jackson Five, he sang covers of hits by The Commodores, Stevie Wonder, Thelma Houston and The Undisputed Truth. Gino staged a series of sold-out shows along the Eastern and Southern coasts, ending in Melbourne. There he booked Splendid Media with the intention of arranging, producing and playing all the instruments on his J5 tribute EP.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>The early Jackson Five records are Pop/Soul masterpieces: They've got stunning vocals, amazing arrangements and bitchin' instrumentation! Frankly, Gino lacked the chops to re-create them all by himself; dude could do a lot of things musically, but he sucked @ doing some of them! He spent nearly the entire month of September trying to capture “I Want You Back”, “The Love You Save” and other J5 classics without success. Adding Eva Namazzi’s string section made no difference: Playbacks sounded hopelessly mediocre!</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369513823/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="EVA NAMAZZI"><img alt="EVA NAMAZZI" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369513823_afa7628c95.jpg" width="375" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">EVA NAMAZZI WAS THE CONDUCTOR</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">FOR ARCHIE RECORDING SESSIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">HELD IN AUSTRALIA.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Out of desperation, he flew Ralfi Chingas down to help him. @</span> <span style="color: #f4cccc;">Ralfi’s suggestion, The Jump Children joined the sessions and Gino’s synergy with them made the project spring to life. Still, the perfectionist in him wasn’t satisfied; he took the tapes back to Archie Sound Studios (ASS) and huddled @ the mixing board with Alan M + Taye Faxtotum. "Reginald can be a total pain in the ass to work with," Alan told me later. "Unlike Veronica, he doesn't always know what he wants! There's a lot of trial-and-error involved." It took the better part of a year, but Alan + Taye eventually came up with sound mixes that Gino could live with.</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>He’d made Archie Records Australia wait for his music, so they returned the favor: Much to his irritation, SUGAR DADDY wasn’t issued until January of 2009! The wait was worth it, though: Although critical reaction was mixed, his J5 tribute scored a “down under” dance club smash! Its success cemented his resolve to break away from The Archies, even though that wouldn’t happen for three more years.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Gino had yet to accept the limits of his musical skills! The solo album LOVE TO LOVE, issued by Fantasy Records that same year would be another attempt by him to go it alone. However, during that project his stubborn Aussie ass finally realized that he needed collaborators in order to make good music. The most important one was a lady named Olga San Quentín.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: EVEN BEFORE THEY MARRIED IN 1994, ARCHIE + VERONICA HAD TRIED TO CONCEIVE A CHILD, BUT THOSE ATTEMPTS ALWAYS FAILED. IN THE FALL OF 2006, RONI STRUGGLED TO COPE WITH THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF MISCARRIAGES. THIS ONE WAS ARGUABLY THE MOST PAINFUL OF ALL: THE BABY WASN’T FATHERED BY ARCHIE BUT BY <i>JUGHEAD!</i> THE FETUS THAT RONI WOULD LATER NAME "HIRAM" AFTER HER LATE FATHER WAS THE PRODUCT OF THEIR BRIEF AFFAIR.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/29448232410/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="MEN OF THE ARCHIES"><img alt="MEN OF THE ARCHIES" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/8058/29448232410_4b633135c0.jpg" width="384" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">"MEN OF THE ARCHIES,"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">A COLLECTIBLE POSTER</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PHOTOGRAPHED BY</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">VERONICA.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SINGLES SESSIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">UNA PRODUCCIÓN RALFI CHINGAS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NOVEMBER 4 - 8, 2006</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">TELL ME, WHAT CAN I DO? </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Retro box set</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Poliakoff, Pomus, Shuman)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BOBBY, DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE TONIGHT! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Retro box set</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jeff Barry)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/REY COCHINO + BIG-ASS BRASS</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Arranger:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Conductor: REY COCHINO</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: Gino + Juggy got together in late 2006 to cut a new Archies single . . . by themselves! Gino sang lead on a </i>salsa<i>-tinged Tony Orlando cover, and Jug did the honors on a Rock ballad originally waxed by Tommy James. The pair hoped that their bandmates would do overdubs later on, after they reconciled. While the reconciliation did happen, the overdubbing never did; so what might’ve been one of The Archies' finest singles ever was left in an unfinished state. As for harmonious relations in the group, things would get worse before they got better!</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: large;">"HOUSE OF GOLD"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: medium;">A ROD MACK MIX</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: medium;">DECEMBER 27 - 30, 2006</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: medium;">ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: medium;">LONDON, UK</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>*A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>JANUARY, 2002</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>RANCHO CHINGAS,</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>**FEBRUARY 2002</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>WARNER BROTHERS RANCH,</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>BURBANK, CALIFORNIA</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>***FEBRUARY 2003</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS,</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>****MAY/JUNE, 2004</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>*****SEPTEMBER, 2004</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>******AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>APRIL/MAY, 2005</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>SUN STUDIOS,</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>#A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>JUNE, 2005</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>DISCOS FUENTES,</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i>MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><i>##A STEED-PINTO PROUCTION</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><i>AUGUST, 2005</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><i>RED BUS STUDIOS,</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><i>LONDON UK</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><i>###A STUDIO "B" PRODUCTION</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><i>NOVEMBER, 2005</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><i>STUDIO "B",</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><i>EL PASO, TEXAS</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>WALK WITH A WINNER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Colley, Jones, Mannering)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>CAN'T ESCAPE FROM YOU, BABY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Adams, Ragovoy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>COME UNTO ME</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Raúl Malo)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>MARYANN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Anders, Poncia, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>LOVELY LINDSAY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Kimberly Rew)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>STRANGE WORLD</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Chick Carlton)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>TRUE, TRUE LOVE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>BEND ME, SHAPE ME</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France) *****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(English, Weiss)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>I'M INTO LOOKIN' FOR SOMEONE TO LOVE ME</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)</b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;">******</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Bayer-Sager, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>THINGS 2 COME</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)#</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>BRING A LITTLE LOVIN'</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)##</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Vanda, Young)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>ANGELIQUE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France) ###</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>HOUSE OF GOLD</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France) ###</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Barkan, Phillips)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>IT NEVER RAINS IN CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)###</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b>(Hammond, Hazlewood)</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/ROD MACK, guitar</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>TAYE FAXTOTUM</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Executive Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: When Rod Mack relocated from New York to London for residency @ the Scotch of St. James, he devoted much of his free time </i></b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>to checking out British dance clubs. Before long, dude was </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>deep into the legendary Northern Soul discotheque scene! </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>Taking note of how popular "Let's Get It On Today" was with </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>dancers, he alerted Archie. "Why don't you tailor a whole Archies album for Northern Soul fans?" he suggested. "There are plenty of unreleased tracks to choose from." Preoccupied with relationship chaos in the aftermath of the hella disastrous GET IT ON TODAY sessions, Archie begged off. However, he agreed that it was a good idea so he assigned Rod the task of creating a compilation tailored for UK sensibilities. The album, meant to be titled HOUSE OF GOLD, was remixed and overdubbed @ these post-Christmas Abbey Road sessions; it was Rod's first documented production work for Archie Records. Ultimately destined for release in France under the title DISQUE D'OR, its début will be delayed for </i>25 fucking years! <i> However, the platter will score a solid cult hit on both sides of the English Channel.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: THE REVELATION OF VERONICA’S INFIDELITY THREATENED TO DRIVE HER HUSBAND AWAY, BUT HER EXTREME FRAGILITY AFTER LOSING YET ANOTHER BABY DREW ARCHIE CLOSER. AS HE WRAPPED PROTECTIVE ARMS AROUND HIS WIFE AND STRUGGLED TO REPAIR THE BROKEN THREADS OF THEIR LOVE, THEIR FRIEND AND BANDMATE BETTY JONES DEALT WITH A MATERNITY CRISIS OF HER OWN.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">EARLIER IN 2006, BETTY HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT! FORTUNATELY SHE WASN'T SERIOUSLY HURT BUT DURING HER CONVALESCENCE IN THE HOSPITAL, SHE GOT SOME SHOCKING NEWS: SHE WAS PREGNANT! THAT REVELATION PROVED TO BE MORE TRAUMATIC FOR HER THAN JUGHEAD'S INFIDELITY AND THE CAR CRASH COMBINED - SHE AND JUGGY HADN'T HAD CONJUGAL RELATIONS FOR A LONG TIME, SO THERE WAS ONLY ONE EXPLANATION.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">ALONE ON THE WEST COAST IN THE FALL OF 2006, OSTENSIBLY ON A “LONG” VACATION, BETTY AWAITED THE SUCCESSFUL BIRTH OF ARCHIE’S BABY. THEIR MARCH AFFAIR HAD BEEN RETALIATORY IN NATURE. THE EXISTENCE OF DEAN CHRISTOPHER ANDREWS - WHO WAS PUT UP FOR ADOPTION IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING HIS BIRTH IN DECEMBER - WAS A SECRET THAT BETTY + JUGHEAD WOULD KEEP FROM EVERYONE FOR OVER TWO DECADES!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2007.html" target="_blank">CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE:</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36205673336/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 6"><b><img alt="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 6" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4298/36205673336_166da5294a.jpg" width="500" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"YOU CAN'T GO HALFWAY</span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>THE ARCHIES MOVE TENTATIVELY TOWARD</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>A GROUP REUNION IN THE YEAR</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><i>2 0 0 7 !</i></span></b></div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36205673336/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 6"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></a></span>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-29851484695330108372023-01-01T08:58:00.029-05:002023-09-17T18:42:15.426-04:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2005<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/29703887416/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="HEAVEN HELP 2098"><b><img alt="HEAVEN HELP 2098" height="385" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/8232/29703887416_c30e069310.jpg" width="500" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><b style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presents</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;">A Journey Through</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">THE GREAT AMERICAN </span></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">SONG BOOK</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: IN JANUARY OF 2005, RAJ PATEL CONVINCED JUGHEAD + KEVIN KELLER TO STAR IN A CABLE TV SPECIAL. IT WAS A TRIBUTE TO MOTOWN LEGEND MARVIN GAYE, SHOT ON LOCATION IN NEW ORLEANS AND DETROIT. KELLY HAD LITTLE ACTING EXPERIENCE AND JUGGY DIDN'T HAVE ANY TO SPEAK OF; BUT RAJ SAW A POWERFUL, NATURAL CHARISMA IN THEIR PAIRING THAT ALL BUT BEGGED TO BE FILMED! "DON'T WORRY ABOUT TRYING TO BE STARS," HE TOLD THEM. "JUST DO WHAT COMES NATURALLY! FORGET ABOUT THE CAMERAS AND ENJOY YOURSELVES." THEY PERFORMED AS A DUO CALLED BLUE-EYED SOUL, WITH SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDING JOSIE + THE PUSSY CATS AND THE TONI TOPAZ DANCERS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE TV SPECIAL SCORED A SURPRISE RATINGS HIT, AND AN ARCHIES' SPINOFF ACT WAS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED! LIKE JUGHEAD’S SOLO ALBUM, THE SOUNDTRACK CD FOR "MARV-ELOUS!" WAS A PEERLESS RECORDS RELEASE, BUT THIS ONE WAS FAR MORE SUCCESSFUL: IT CRACKED THE TOP THIRTY ON <i>BILLBOARD'S </i>POP ALBUMS LIST! JUGGY AND KELLY REALLY DID MARVIN'S LEGACY JUSTICE SINGING CLASSICS LIKE "PRIDE AND JOY", "AIN'T THAT PECULIAR", "I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE", AND "INNER CITY BLUES".</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE BADLY WANTED BLUE-EYED SOUL FOR HIS ARTIST ROSTER, BUT KEVIN KELLER BALKED @ BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL SINGER. HE WASN'T INTERESTED IN DOING ANY MORE MUSICAL VARIETY SHOWS; FOR HIM, THE GAYE TRIBUTE WAS JUST A ONE-OFF PROJECT. KELLY SAID HE WAS CONTENT STAYING BEHIND THE SCENES, PLAYING KEYBOARDS AND SINGING BACKGROUND VOCALS ON ARCHIES ALBUMS. THIS LEFT HIM WITH PLENTY OF TIME TO PURSUE THE ACTING CAREER HE CRAVED!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE + VERONICA DIDN’T HAVE TIME TO BROOD OVER THEIR INABILITY TO SIGN BLUE-EYED SOUL. IN EARLY 2005, THEY WERE IN A CELEBRATORY MOOD AFTER PURCHASING THE ARCHIES' EARLY MUSIC CATALOG! THE COUPLE WAS ALSO BUSY INTRODUCING AN EXCITING NEW ACT THAT RONI HAD DISCOVERED.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE FIFTH YEAR: 2005 </i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"LITTLE WILLY"</b></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"MOTOWN FOREVER"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JANUARY 14, 15, 17 - 23, FEBRUARY 4 - 10,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MARCH 1, 2, 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE’S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BABY, DON’T YOU DO IT! - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BACK IN MY ARMS AGAIN - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THIS OLD HEART OF MINE - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>COME SEE ABOUT ME - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU LOST THE SWEETEST BOY - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WITHOUT THE ONE YOU LOVE - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>QUICKSAND - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ASK ANY GIRL- unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MICKEY’S MONKEY - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ROCK ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I’LL TURN TO STONE - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NOTHING BUT HEARTACHES - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SOMETHING ABOUT YOU, BABY - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Dozier, Holland)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE CANDYHEARTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE BINGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>THE CANDYHEARTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: REY COCHINO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Spanish Eddie’s Bar + Grill was located on the top floor of a seedy Gay bar in New Orleans' French Quarter. Believe it or not, the place doubled as an audio facility during daytime hours! A hovel of a studio, it was the last place you’d expect to find The Archies. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>They used it for the first time out of necessity, when a fire gutted the studio they’d originally booked. As unlikely as it seems, Veronica fell in love with the grungy ambiance and especially the crystal-clear acoustics of “Spanish” Eddie Roxchild’s music room. From 2004 on, it became a regular scene for Archies recording activities.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>That first booking was a demo session in July of 2004; The Archies were on tour and it was more convenient to track in New Orleans than fly back to Mamaroneck. As the band was leaving, Roni saw Eddie’s security guard shooing three Filipino girls away from the back door. “I keep telling you, asshole,” one of them screamed, “we’re </i>singers! <i>Why won’t you let us audition?” The guard wasn’t buying it: “On what planet? You’re just three skank hoes from the neighborhood. Haul ass!”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>But Veronica thought they deserved a chance to prove their claim. Telling them who she was, she challenged the girls to audition for her right on the spot! Fearlessly, the sisters broke into a soaring rendition of an old Diana Ross + The Supremes hit called “Forever Came Today.” The harmonies were perfect, and the lead singer was simply phenomenal!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The Archies’ flight out of New Orleans had three extra passengers on board: Sherry “Sugar Walls”, Edna “Aqua Vulva” and Francine “Flame” Evangelista! They sang background for the band on their remaining concert dates. Then The Evangelista sisters flew back to Mamaroneck with Archie + Roni, where they were signed as a girl group to Archie Records. It was the label's first major signing since The Archies.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The Evangelistas had a real-life Cinderella story that Archie's publicity machine exploited the hell out of, all except for a very important detail: The women hadn’t just been </i>mistaken <i>for prostitutes - they actually were! That’s why Aqua Vulva, Flame and Sugar billed themselves as “Poon Tang Posse!” A name change was obviously in order!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Archies tour manager Arsenio "Kix" Panunzio re-christened them The Candyhearts. “It’s because of those candy heart necklaces you all wear,” Kix told them. Lead singer Flame howled in protest: </i>“Candyhearts? <i>That’s the corniest name I ever heard.” All the same, it ended up being the one they put on their contract. “We can always change it later,” Archie assured them; but events started happening so fast, there wasn’t time!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369513708/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE CANDYHEARTS"><img alt="THE CANDYHEARTS" height="325" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369513708_2af115e71e.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE CANDYHEARTS STAYED TOGETHER</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">JUST LONG ENOUGH TO RECORD</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">AN ARCHIE RECORDS ALBUM.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The next few months were like a non-stop rollercoaster ride for the Evangelistas: Rehearsing songs and cutting demos; getting fashion makeovers and being fitted for stage costumes; doing publicity photo shoots and interviews; choosing concert repertoire; learning choreography; and finally, making personal appearances booked for them by Big Nipsy Freund, The Archies’ manager. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>That’s what they did when they weren’t out partying hard and running the New York streets with a rough crowd! What Big Ethel described as "ghetto scum" started hanging around the office, claiming to be friends of the group. “Are you sure signing these girls was a good idea?” Archie asked his wife. “They damn sure ain’t angels!” Roni shrugged: “They sing like angels, and that’s all I care about.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>But she had to care about how unreliable The Candyhearts were becoming; one of them (most often, Francine) would always disappear just before a show! No-nonsense Veronica laid down the law, and they seemed to get the message. After the sisters began exhibiting professional work ethics, Roni made plans for their </i>début <i>album. “We don’t sing anything better than we sing Motown,” they insisted, and she took note: MOTOWN FOREVER would be a double-length tribute to Detroit’s powerhouse writer/producer team Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland, Jr!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Producer Ralfi Chingas would remember The Candyhearts as the most talented female singers he'd ever worked with. The sisters made Holland-Dozier-Holland oldies like "Rock Me For A Little While", "Nothing But Heartaches" and "You Lost The Sweetest Boy" sound like nobody else had ever sung them! Francine in particular knew how to own a song: Babe was masterful at phrasing with her southern-accented vibrato. Sherry Evangelista was also a strong vocalist, and all three of them took to the studio like old pros.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>After the office was declared off-limits for street hoodlums, the sisters seemed to have turned over a new leaf, but looks were deceiving. Returning to New Orleans for album sessions put them back in contact with bad influences! Before they could finish cutting the final tracks, police raided the studio: Aqua Vulva, Flame and Sugar Walls were served with drug dealing and solicitation warrants. The drug charges got thrown out, but the other evidence against them was overwhelming!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>They were convicted, and Roni was livid: "How dare those hoochies turn tricks on my time?" She could’ve pulled strings to get them off but decided against doing so. Archie agreed that it was best to let them serve their sentences. “They'll only be locked up for a few months, and maybe it will teach them a lesson,” he reasoned. “When the Evangelistas get out of jail, we’ll give them one more chance to show us they’re serious about a music career!”</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34939130941/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SUGARBRITCHES"><img alt="SUGARBRITCHES" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4261/34939130941_525ec6c84b.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE "SUGARBRITCHES" TRIO</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">SANG BACKGROUND VOCALS</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ON ARCHIES RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">IN THE EARLY 2000'S.</span></div></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: FROM FEBRUARY TO MAY 2005, THE ARCHIES RECORDED ANOTHER COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUM IN MEMPHIS. RALFI CHINGAS WAS BUSY WITH ANOTHER PROJECT, SO THEY DECIDED TO PRODUCE THE RECORD THEMSELVES; BUT "HEAVEN HELP THE NON-BELIEVER" WOULD BE SHELVED AMID A BOOTLEGGING INCIDENT! THE BAND HIRED A LOCAL ENGINEER TO SUBSTITUTE FOR AN AILING ALAN MAYBERRY, AND HE PROVED UNTRUSTWORTHY!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISCOS FUENTES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUCCIÓN ARCHIE AMERICANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FEBRUARY 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SUN STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'M INTO LOOKIN' FOR SOMEONE TO LOVE ME </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(UNDERDUB) - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Bayer-Sager, Wine)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOUR HUSBAND, MY WIFE (UNDERDUB) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>- lost </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">(Levine, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers: THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: ISAK CHAUDHURY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The Archies commenced recording an album that celebrated</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>the songs of Toni Wine, one of the primary background</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>singers on their early recordings. Toni herself was present in the</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>studio as music supervisor. @ the last minute, she decided</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>against cutting any up tempo songs for the LP, so these tracks</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>were re-imagined as a non-album single.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISCOS FUENTES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"HEAVEN HELP THE NON-BELIEVER"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUCCIÓN ARCHIE AMERICANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FEBRUARY/MARCH 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SUN STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers: THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: ISAK CHAUDHURY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>These were the only Archies recording sessions</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>that produced no usable sides.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34472317706/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="MAGIC TOWN"><img alt="MAGIC TOWN" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4170/34472317706_b4c07f565d.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>NON-DOMESTIC PROMO SINGLES </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>PRESSED </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>FOR THE SOUTH-</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">AMERICAN </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">AND CANADIAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">MARKETS.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISCOS FUENTES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"HEAVEN HELP THE NON-BELIEVER"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUCCIÓN ARCHIE AMERICANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SUN STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THAT'S WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Heaven Help The Non-Believer LP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Levine, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE ME LAH-DEE-DAY - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Levine, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I WANNA SEE MORNING WITH HIM -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Heaven Help The Non-Believer LP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Levine, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I LOVED HIM LIKE I LOVE MY VERY LIFE (UNDERDUB)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>- lost </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">(Levine, Spector, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE ME LIKE YOU'RE GONNA LOSE ME (UNDERDUB)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>- lost </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">(Levine, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I THINK I LOVE YOU AGAIN (UNDERDUB) - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Levine, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/LONG TALL WISDOM</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/FRENCHY SKAGGS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers: THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: ISAK CHAUDHURY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>There are no surviving tapes from these sessions.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: TRY AS THEY MIGHT, THE ARCHIES COULDN'T CAPTURE THE TRADITIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC SOUND THAT SONGWRITER TONI WINE INSISTED ON! IN DESPERATION, ARCHIE FLEW TONY BRISEÑO </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">DOWN TO MEMPHIS TO SALVAGE THE SESSIONS. TONY DID JUST THAT, </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;">BRINGING WITH HIM A PAIR OF AUTHENTIC HILLBILLY FIDDLERS AND GUITAR PICKERS: WILBUR "LONG TALL" WISDOM + FERDINAND "FRENCHY" SKAGGS! </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">THEY WERE </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">MEMBERS OF KATZ + THE FIDDLES, RIVERDALE’S MOST </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">POPULAR COUNTRY MUSIC BAND.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISCOS FUENTES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"HEAVEN HELP THE NON-BELIEVER"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUCCIÓN ARCHIE AMERICANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL/MAY 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SUN STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'M INTO LOOKIN' FOR SOMEONE TO LOVE ME </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(OVERDUB)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside (withdrawn from sale), </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Disque D'Or (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IF WE BOTH HOLD ON </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single (withdrawn from sale),</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>End Of A Century box set</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HOLLY, GO SOFTLY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Heaven Help The Non-Believer LP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Levine, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HEAVEN HELP THE NON-BELIEVER -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Heaven Help The Non-Believer LP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bayer-Sager, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A GROOVY KIND OF LOVE (UNDERDUB) -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b> Heaven Help The Non-Believer LP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bayer-Sager, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAKE A LITTLE TIME OUT FOR LOVE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(UNDERDUB) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>- lost </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">(Levine, Wine)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/LONG TALL WISDOM</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/FRENCHY SKAGGS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers: THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: ISAK CHAUDHURY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Only the withdrawn-from-sale single masters survive</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>from these sessions. Toni Wine sang background vocals</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>with Kevin Keller. The Archies' 2088 END OF A CENTURY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>box set, featuring the original version of “If We Both </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Hold On” </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>will only be released in Japan.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34472318156/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="I FOUGHT THE LAW"><img alt="I FOUGHT THE LAW" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4163/34472318156_a4f4aaee8b.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">NON-DOMESTIC PROMO SINGLES </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">PRESSED </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">FOR THE VIETNAMESE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AND AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISCOS FUENTES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"HEAVEN HELP THE NON-BELIEVER"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUCCIÓN ARCHIE AMERICANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARDENT STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A GROOVY KIND OF LOVE (OVERDUB) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- discarded</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAKE A LITTLE TIME OUT FOR LOVE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(OVERDUB) -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Heaven Help The Non-Believer LP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE ME LIKE YOU'RE GONNA LOSE ME </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(OVERDUB) -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Heaven Help The Non-Believer LP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I LOVED HIM LIKE I LOVE MY VERY LIFE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(OVERDUB) -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Heaven Help The Non-Believer LP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOUR HUSBAND, MY WIFE (OVERDUB) -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Heaven Help The Non-Believer LP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I THINK I LOVE YOU AGAIN (OVERDUB) -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Heaven Help The Non-Believer LP (Asia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/LONG TALL WISDOM</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/FRENCHY SKAGGS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: ISAK CHAUDHURY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>There are no surviving tapes from these sessions. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Veronica caught the engineer, Isak </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">Chaudhury </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">in the act of </b></i><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">bootlegging Archies tracks! When she</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">fired him, he took </b></i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>revenge by maliciously </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>sabotaging the session </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>tapes. As a result, the </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>group's Toni Wine project was scrapped, and</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>only </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>an acetate of potential song mixes was </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>left to document it. That acetate will be </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">the basis </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>of a reconstructed album, to be released in </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>the year 2098.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: THE ARCHIES DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO RE-DO THE ALBUM SESSIONS; THEY HAD A SUMMER TOUR SCHEDULED IN SOUTH AMERICA! IN JUNE 2005, THEY BOOKED A TRACKING DATE </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">IN MEDELLÍN, COLUMBIA AND </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">CUT A SINGLE CALLED “TITTY TWISTER.” DESTINED TO BE A COUNTRY HIT FOR THE CADILLAC THREE, THIS ARCHIE/JUGHEAD/BIG ETHEL COMPOSITION WILL ALSO BE A POSTHUMOUS CHART-TOPPER FOR THE ARCHIES. THAT SONG WAS ALWAYS A SOURCE OF EMBARASSMENT FOR CO-WRITER BIG ETHEL: SHE WAS ADAMANT THAT SHE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TITLE!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>THE ARCHIES ALSO TOOK TIME OUT FROM THEIR CONCERT TOUR TO DO SOME ACTING! SINCE THE KIRSHNER YEARS, THEY'D MADE CAMEO APPEARANCES ON TV SHOWS, BUT THIS WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL:</b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"> A MINISERIES STARRING RITA PHOENIX, THE QUEEN OF COLOMBIAN <i>TELENOVELAS! </i>REGGIE + BETTY LANDED FEATURED ROLES, ALTHOUGH REGGIE'S TIME ON CAMERA WAS LATER REDUCED. "LA DIOSA DEL AIRE" SCORED A RATINGS SMASH AS WELL AS MULTIPLE AWARDS; IT ALSO YIELDED A HIT SOUNDTRACK ALBUM </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">TO WHICH MEMBERS OF THE ARCHIES CONTRIBUTED VOCALS. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE SOUNDTRACK SONGS WERE ALSO THEIR CONTRIBUTION: SPANISH TRANSLATIONS OF BALLADS INTENDED FOR</b><b style="font-family: verdana;"> THEIR ABORTED COUNTRY LP! A STICKY LEGAL SITUATION WITH SONGWRITER TONI </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">WINE RESULTED AND UNFORTUNATELY, IT PREVENTED THE GROUP FROM </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">COMPLETING THAT TRIBUTE RECORD.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>WHILE IN COLOMBIA, ARCHIE + VERONICA DECIDED TO LET LAPSE THEIR CURRENT MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTON DEAL FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. CAPITOL RECORDS WAS THE WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTOR FOR ARCHIE, BUT THEY AGREED: "CAPITOL-EMI JUST ISN'T GIVING US THE REGIONAL SALES FIGURES WE WANT!" THEY SIGNED A NEW PACT WITH DISCOS FUENTES, THE OLDEST AND MOST POWERFUL RECORD LABEL IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD. THE ARCHIES' ABORTED</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>COUNTRY ALBUM WAS GOING TO BE THE FIRST FUENTES RELEASE. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>RUMOR HAD IT THAT FUENTES WAS AFFILIATED WITH DRUG CARTELS! BIG NIPSY FREUND SHRUGGED OFF THE ALLEGATION: "WHAT MAJOR RECORD LABEL <i>HASN'T </i>HAD TIES WITH ORGANIZED CRIME @ SOME POINT?" HE TOLD ARCHIE + RONI NOT TO WORRY. "GANGSTERS ARE VERY GOOD @ SELLING MUSIC. I COME FROM AN OLD MAFIA FAMILY THAT OWNED SONG PUBLISHING HOUSES, SO I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!" FUENTES EXECUTIVES STRONGLY DENIED HAVING CRIMINAL CONNECTIONS BUT PROMISED TO DELIVER A STRING OF GOLD RECORDS SOUTH OF THE BORDER. THOSE HITS DIDN'T START FLOWING UNTIL THE FOLLOWING YEAR, BUT THE ARCHIE-FUENTES CONNECTION WOULD PROVE TO BE BOTH VERY LUCRATIVE AND EXCEPTIONALLY LONG-LASTING!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>KEVIN KELLER ACCOMPANIED THE ARCHIES + BIG NIPSY TO SOUTH AMERICA. WHILE TOURING IN A COASTAL AREA, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">KELLY + NICHOLAS RENTED A LAND ROVER AND TOOK SOME TIME TO SIGHTSEE. WHILE EXPLORING A REMOTE BEACH, THEY WANDERED ONTO A GAY PORN SET AND WERE FILMED IN VERY COMPROMISING POSITIONS! THIS FILM FOOTAGE WOULD COME BACK TO HAUNT THEM A FEW YEARS LATER. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISCOS FUENTES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNA PRODUCCIÓN RALFI CHINGAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUNE 14, 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISCOS FUENTES,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TITTY TWISTER - single</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Andrews, Chase, Jones, Mason)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THINGS 2 COME </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Conductor:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>MIRABELLA de ORGANZA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Featuring Juggy Jones on lead, the "Titty Twister" single</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>will be released in the 22nd century and become</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>one of The Archies' biggest international hits! Jughead</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>wrote the music and Archie collaborated on the</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>lyrics with Big Ethel; it's one of just a handful</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>original songs that the group recorded in the </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>21st century.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369592954/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FIRST ALBUM 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="FIRST ALBUM 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369592954_589e5f22c2.jpg" width="373" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">A COMMEMORATIVE VINYL EDITION</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">OF THE ARCHIES' VERY FIRST ALBUM</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">WILL BE ISSUED ON THE 100th</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ANNIVERSARY OF ITS RELEASE.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ARCHIE IN LONDON"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A STEED-PINTO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AUGUST 20, 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>RED BUS STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, ENGLAND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BRING A LITTLE LOVIN' - Disque D'Or (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Vanda, Young)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME TONIGHT </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>(UNDERDUB) </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">- Complete Fuentes Albums box set</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Vanda, Young)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: LAURA PINTO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MYETTE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Reggie Mantle sang lead on both </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"Bring A Little Lovin'" </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>and "Gonna Have A Good </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Time Tonight," but his vocals </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>on the latter song were </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>never completed. Retained in </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>the archive as an </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>instrumental, it will be used as </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>the backing track </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>for an unreleased 2013 single </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>by The Vixens.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: LAURA PINTO RAN AN INDIE LABEL THAT REGGIE WAS SIGNED TO BEFORE REJOINING THE ARCHIES. WHEN HE LEARNED THAT SHE'D MOVED BACK TO HER HOME TOWN OF LONDON, HE SUGGESTED THAT THE ARCHIES ASK HER TO PRODUCE AN UPCOMING SESSION SCHEDULED IN THE UK. UNFORTUNATELY, THAT SESSION ENDED ABRUPTLY WHEN</b></span><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> VERONICA GOT </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">INTO A FIST FIGHT WITH MS. PINTO! </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">I DON'T THINK IT </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">WAS ABOUT ANYTHING BUT A PERSONALITY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">CLASH, BUT FOR THOSE TWO, IT WAS HATE @ </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">FIRST SIGHT! HOWEVER, </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">AS THE FOLLOWING </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">LOG ENTRY SHOWS, RONI'S ANTIPATHY FOR LAURA DIDN'T </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">PREVENT ARCHIE FROM WORKING WITH HER </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">ON </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">HIS OWN.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35336532882/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ONLY IN AMERICA BOX SET DESIGN"><img alt="ONLY IN AMERICA BOX SET DESIGN" height="398" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4277/35336532882_37f573e323.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ARGUABLY THE BEST ARCHIES BOX</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SET EVER RELEASED, THE SIX-</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RECORD <i>ONLY IN AMERICA </i>WILL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BE CURATED BY </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">DON SEÑORITO </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CARTOON! FOR SEVERAL YEARS,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">HE WILL HOST THE POP CULTURE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CANTINA PODCAST.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SOUNDTRACK SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>“BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN!”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A MAMARONECK PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 3 - 7, 9 - 12, 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, UK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SMACKDOWN INTRO - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>BOLERO FOR RITCHIE + KARMA - soundtrack LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>AN UNMADE BED - soundtrack LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SMACKDOWN CODA - soundtrack LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SMACKDOWN IN NEW YORK - soundtrack LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>WATERFRONT MONTAGE - soundtrack LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>TRAINING ROOM PACHANGA - soundtrack LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>STAND IT LIKE A MAN - soundtrack LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>RITCHIE MEETS JESSE - soundtrack LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU ARE THAT BITCH - soundtrack LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Archie Andrews)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE SUGARTOWN PIPERS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE ROSCOE SHIRLEY STRINGS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: DAVE BASSETT</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: LAURA PINTO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, BUDDY SHELBY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Archie’s interest in Soul music encompassed “Blaxploitation” cinema from the 1970s. There wasn’t a movie scene from that era starring Pam Grier that dude hadn’t committed to memory! And listening to soundtracks from films like "Shaft", "Super Fly" and "Black Caesar" was about as close to musical ecstasy as it got for him; so naturally, when the opportunity arose to not only score but also star in an homage to the Blaxploitation era, Archie couldn’t resist! Never mind that he was a red-headed, freckle-faced Irish/Italian dude that not even a blind man would mistake for Black!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>That said, scoring "Black Belt Smackdown" gave Arch the chance to stretch his music arranging skills. Future Archies recordings would benefit from his having done so! His studio guide was none other than Veronica’s new nemesis, Laura Pinto; but Laura was well-qualified, with a history in film and TV music production dating back to the actual Blaxploitation era. Babe also produced the early hits of iconic Soul trio Josie + The Pussy Cats! </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The musicians who'd be credited on the record label as "Sugartown Pipers" were some of the finest session players in Great Britain, including members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. However, there initially were no Black players in the mix, </i></b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>and Archie objected: "A Black cast movie with soundtrack music played by nothing but White people? That ain't happening up in here!"</i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i> The four Afro-Caribbean sidemen who </i></b><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>subsequently got recruited were destined for an ongoing relationship with Archie and his label. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52347771561/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="VERONICA: DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT"><img alt="VERONICA: DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52347771561_9dfa2413f6.jpg" width="390" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>VERONICA'S ONLY SOLO ALBUM</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FOR ARCHIE RECORDS WAS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BOTH A CRITICAL AND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A COMMERCIAL FAILURE.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 22 - 24, 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, UK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>EVERY FACE TELLS A STORY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Allison, Black, Sills)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Snow, Vastano)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HOPELESSLY DEVOTED TO YOU </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(John Farrar)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MAGIC - Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(John Farrar)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LET ME BE THERE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(John Rostill)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A LITTLE MORE LOVE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(John Farrar)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I HONESTLY LOVE YOU </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Allen, Barry)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>COME ON OVER </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry + Robin Gibb)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KATZ + THE FIDDLES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RONNIE + BUDDY SHELBY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Fans were constantly telling Veronica how much her </i>soprano <i>singing voice reminded them of Seventies superstar Olivia Newton-John. It was just a matter of time before Roni cut one of ONJ’s hits; that happened in 2002 when she covered “If Not For You”, Olivia’s first international hit single. It was one of the highlights of ARCHIE COUNTRY! Archie + Betty were so impressed, both of them urged her to consider cutting an entire album of ONJ material.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Babe finally got around to doing it in 2005 during a business trip to London. An avowed Disco devotee, Roni gravitated toward dance-oriented tunes like “Physical”, "Twist Of Fate" and "Landslide." Babe wasn’t so crazy about ONJ’s string of Country/Pop hits - they were too sugary for her taste - but Betty warned that she’d ignore them at her own peril! “Her fans will want to hear them,” she predicted, “and yours will, too.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Just to get it out of the way, Roni decided to cut the "twee" Country material first. Ironically, the only songs that critics would single out for praise would all come from these September dates! Not trusting British musicians to give her an authentic Country sound, Veronica flew in Riverdale’s finest hillbilly band, Katz + The Fiddles, to accompany her. The members were </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Katz Rockland, guitar; Long Tall Wisdom, steel guitar, harmonica </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>and fiddle; Pencil Pete Drysdale, mandolin and fiddle, Frenchy Skaggs, </i></b></span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>fiddle and accordion; </i></b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>+ Matty Carmine, drums.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52324905234/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BETTY SINGS BILLY SUNSHINE"><img alt="BETTY SINGS BILLY SUNSHINE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52324905234_892d89d52b.jpg" width="387" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BETTY'S NEVER-RELEASED</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>TRIBUTE TO EVIE SANDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>IS LEGENDARY!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIES FAN CLUB RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"BILLY SUNSHINE"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A SWEET PEACHES PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 24 - 28, 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>STUDIO "B",</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL PASO, TEXAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ANY WAY THAT YOU WANT ME </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">- lost</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Chip Taylor)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ANGEL OF THE MORNING - lost*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Chip Taylor)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I CAN’T LET GO - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gorgoni, Taylor)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BILLY SUNSHINE - lost**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gorgoni, Taylor)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- lost***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Trade Martin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PICTURE ME GONE - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gorgoni, Taylor)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>BETTY JONES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/ MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE NASTY BOYS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS, *BETTY JONES,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>**FOOLKILLER, ***ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: FOOLKILLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BETTY JONES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>PUNK E. GUTIÉRREZ</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: @ the same time that Veronica was tracking her album in London, her BFF was cutting an EP back in the States. The Archies’ contract with Archie Records specified that members could make solo records for any label they wanted to; this clause was especially important to Betty Jones + Gino Mantle, who wanted to establish independent musical identities.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The Archies Fan Club label was a subscription-only music service launched back in 2003. For a rather hefty fee, fan club members could receive limited-edition singles, albums and EPs pressed up especially for them! Of course, The Archies were AFC’s primary act but Archie + Veronica urged their bandmates and other musician friends to cut solo records. The bait they dangled was ownership of their master tapes! Very often, the bait was snapped up but not always.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>For instance, when Veronica asked Gino to record something for AFC, he flat-out refused! So did Betty; but when Archie asked her to do so, she reconsidered. There was a condition attached, though: That she produce the record herself!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The BILLY SUNSHINE EP is Betty’s only documented solo production effort, and one that almost nobody heard. By all accounts, her tribute to Sixties cult singer Evie Sands was fabulous; not only did she sing up a storm, babe played keyboards, rhythm guitar and sax with just a little help from the latest version of The Nasty Boys: Rod Mack + Harvey “Foolkiller” Schwartz on lead and bass guitars, respectively, with Archie on drums. Of course, they also provided vocal backing. In addition, Tex-Mex brass accompaniment came courtesy of Mariachi Lowrider, the house band @ Dilton Doiley Briseño’s Studio “B”.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Mixing the tracks for playback, soundman Punk E. Gutiérrez screamed like a teenage girl! Dude said he felt "chills!" It wasn't the flu: For him, that was a premonition of hits waiting to happen. Nobody doubted that the EP would be a smash; so nobody could understand why it subsequently got shelved!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Decades later, Rod Mack (who subbed for a vacationing Dilton @ the sessions) finally cleared up the mystery. “While cutting those Chip Taylor songs, Betty + Archie discovered that they had . . . well, I'll call them unresolved personal issues," he told me. There were rumors of an affair, but Rod insisted that they weren't true. All the same, their unrequited lust for each other torpedoed the project! Scrapping the BILLY SUNSHINE EP was a symbolic "gesture of faith" to their respective spouses.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>According to Rod: "I couldn't believe it: They mutually agreed to erase the tapes, and those wonderful performances were lost forever. I thought it was a damn shame!” So do I. What's wrong with a booty call between friends every now and then?</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Rod made copies of the sound mixes for his own enjoyment. Then, without his knowledge, somebody (yours truly!) made copies of the copies, and they circulated in music business circles for years. In 2066, New Archies member Ramsay Khalid Sharma will cut his own versions of these songs after hearing the bootleg mixes. Long before then, Punk E's premonition would pan out: Several of the tunes sung at these El Paso dates will indeed become hits, and Betty will sing them! But that's in the future.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Rod Mack moved to England after this session; dude took a long-term residency @ London’s Scotch of St. James nightclub. Rod later took part in the troubled sessions for The Archies’ GET IT ON TODAY album @ Abbey Road Studios. That's where another case of extramarital lust - this time, acted upon - would be even more disruptive to recording activities!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34890949003/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE GRANDSON"><img alt="THE GRANDSON" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4018/34890949003_e76eb97d26.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CELEBRITY DEEJAY DON SEÑORITO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CARTOON WILL CLAIM TO BE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>VERONICA'S BIOLOGICAL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>GRANDSON, EVEN THOUGH SHE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>NEVER GAVE BIRTH TO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A CHILD!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 29, 30, OCTOBER 1, 2, 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LONDON, UK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PHYSICAL - Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Kipner, Shaddick)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHAT IS LIFE? - Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(George Harrison)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HEART ATTACK - Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bliss, Kipner)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TWIST OF FATE - Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Beckett, Kipner)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>XANADU - Deeper Than The Night LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jeff Lynne)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TOTALLY HOT - single B-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(John Farrar)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE SUGARTOWN PIPERS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE ROSCOE SHIRLEY STRINGS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Producer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>VERONICA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: PAUL PRESTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, BUDDY SHELBY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: <i>DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT</i> SCORED NEITHER A COMMERCIAL NOR MUCH OF A CRITICAL SUCCESS; BUT IT’S AN ESSENTIAL AND PIVOTAL ALBUM IN THE ARCHIE RECORDS CATALOG. THREE IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS WERE ESTABLISHED DURING THE RECORDING SESSIONS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE MOST IMPORTANT WAS BETWEEN JUGHEAD + KEVIN KELLER, WHOM VERONICA FLEW IN TO SING BACKGROUND VOCALS FOR HER. THE TWO OLD FRIENDS ENDED UP DOING MUCH MORE THAN THAT: WRITING NEARLY ALL THE RHYTHM ARRANGEMENTS AND CONDUCTING THEM, TOO, ALTHOUGH THEY DIDN’T TAKE CREDIT. EFFECTIVELY, THEIR PERFORMING DUO EVOLVED INTO A PRODUCTION UNIT! THIS WAS BLUE-EYED SOUL’S FIRST APPEARANCE ON RECORD AS SUCH, BUT NOT THE LAST.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52525587805/in/dateposted/" title="A BUTTNAKED TRACKING SESSION @ ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS!"><img alt="A BUTTNAKED TRACKING SESSION @ ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS!" height="378" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52525587805_c920b03310.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A BUTT-NAKED TRACKING SESSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>@ ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE NEXT MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP WAS BETWEEN VERONICA + GUITARIST JUDI PARISELLA. RONI TOLD HER BRITISH SESSION CONTRACTOR TO BOOK THE BEST FEMALE GUITARIST IN THE UK, AND JUDI ANSWERED HIS CALL. NICKNAMED “MADAME AXE”, SHE WAS REPUTED TO BE THE FEMALE ANSWER TO JIMI HENDRIX! SHE CERTAINLY HAD CHOPS TO BACK UP THE CLAIM; BUT JUDI + RONI DIDN’T HIT IT OFF SO WELL. IT'S A FUNNY STORY THAT I ONLY EVER TOLD TO SALEM, BUT I'M GOING TO TELL IT TO YOU NOW!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FRUSTRATED WITH ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS THAT SOUNDED TOO STIFF, @ ONE POINT VERONICA DIRECTED THE OTHERWISE MALE CREW TO STRIP NAKED. “I WANT Y'ALL TO FEEL THE MUSIC <i>TOTALLY!"</i> SHE DECLARED. "TAKE OFF EVERYTHING. I DON'T WANT ANYTHING COMING BETWEEN YOU, YOUR INSTRUMENTS AND THE RHYTHM.” AN OUTRAGED JUDI PARISELLA REFUSED TO DISROBE, AND THERE WERE SOME TENSE MOMENTS! BUT RONI RESPECTED THAT MADAME AXE HELD HER GROUND, AND BESIDES, SHE HAD NO QUARREL WITH HER GUITAR PLAYING. IT WAS SUPERB!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUDI SUBSEQUENTLY BECAME A FIXTURE @ ARCHIE SESSIONS CUT IN THE UK, BUT ON ONE CONDITION: THAT SHE’D NEVER AGAIN HAVE TO PLAY IN A STUDIO FULL OF STARK NAKED SIDEMEN! I GOT TO KNOW HER WELL, AND WE OFTEN LAUGHED ABOUT THAT FIRST SESSION WITH RONI. "I DEFINITELY HAVE HAD OCCASION TO WORK WITH DICKHEADS," SHE JOKED, "BUT THAT WAS JUST A BIT <i>MUCH!"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52298844936/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ROSCOE SHIRLEY SINGS"><img alt="ROSCOE SHIRLEY SINGS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52298844936_e8e5311013.jpg" width="378" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ROSCOE SHIRLEY + HIS STRING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ENSEMBLE COULD ADAPT THEIR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PLAYING TO ANY AND ALL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>KINDS OF MUSIC.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE LAST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP INVOLVED THE ROSCOE SHIRLEY STRINGS, A CHAMBER ENSEMBLE COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF ANGLO-CARIBBEAN MUSICIANS. SALEM HAS TALKED ABOUT THEM A LITTLE BIT: THEY GOT BOOKED FOR THESE SESSIONS WHEN RONI NOTICED THAT THE SUGARTOWN STRING SECTION HAD DEVELOPED A HABIT FOR EXTENDING THEIR TEA BREAKS. “Y’ALL CAN TAKE A <i>PERMANENT </i>BREAK,” THE INFURIATED HEIRESS INFORMED THEM. “I DON’T TOLERATE LAX WORTH ETHICS FROM ANYBODY!”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SUGGESTED THAT SHE REPLACE THE SLACKERS WITH A STRING SECTION THAT HE WAS USING ON HIS <i>BLACK BELT SMACKDOWN</i> SOUNDTRACK. “THERE ARE ONLY FOUR OF THEM,” HE TOLD HIS INCREDULOUS WIFE, “BUT WHEN HERSCHEL, NELSON, BROOKSY AND ROSCOE PLAY, THEY SOUND LIKE A THIRTY-PIECE SYMPHONY! YOU JUST WON’T BELIEVE HOW GOOD THEY ARE.” RONI LOVED HOW THE SHIRLEYS INTERPRETED HER MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS, AND THAT WAS THE DECIDING FACTOR IN THEM BECOMING BRITISH SESSION REGULARS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RELATIONSHIP ALSO <i>ENDED </i>@ THESE DATES: AN EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR THAT VERONICA HAD BEGUN WITH JUGHEAD IN MEMPHIS A FEW MONTHS EARLIER. IF ARCHIE + BETTY HAD BROKEN THEIR MARRIAGE VOWS, IT SURELY WOULD'VE BEEN NO MORE THAN A ONE-NIGHT STAND; BUT THIS WAS A SERIOUS CASE OF CHEATING! IT NEVER SHOULD'VE HAPPENED! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>TO HEAR THEM LOCK HORNS OVER THE YEARS, YOU'D THINK JUGGY + RONI DIDN'T LIKE EACH OTHER BUT THE OPPOSITE WAS TRUE: THERE WAS AN UNREQUITED ATTRACTION BETWEEN THEM. ARCHIE NEVER NOTICED IT, BUT I CERTAINLY DID! SO</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE INEVITABLE FINALLY HAPPENED, AND IT WAS ABOUT MORE THAN PHYSICAL LUST. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUGGY HADN'T HAD SEX WITH BETTY FOR MONTHS DUE TO A PAINFUL MEDICAL CONDITION SHE PERIODICALLY SUFFERED FROM; AND RONI WAS STRUGGLING WITH INFERTILITY ISSUES! THEY BOTH HAD DEEP EMOTIONAL NEEDS THAT THEIR MARRIAGES HAD FAILED TO SATISFY; BUT INFIDELITY WASN'T THE ANSWER.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THEY REALIZED THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS, BUT DID SO TOO LATE TO STAVE OFF NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES: BELATEDLY, THEIR AFFAIR BECAME KNOWN TO THEIR RESPECTIVE SPOUSES. IT WOULD BE THE GREATEST TEST THAT ARCHIE, RONI, JUGGY + BETTY'S FRIENDSHIP HAD EVER WEATHERED!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER 8 - 11, 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>STUDIO "B",</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL PASO, TEXAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'D LOVE YOU TO WANT ME </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- End Of A Century LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Roland Kent LaVoie)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ANGELIQUE - Disque D'Or (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Mann, Weil)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HOUSE OF GOLD - Disque D'Or (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barkan, Phillips)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IT NEVER RAINS IN CALIFORNIA </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Disque D'Or (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hammond, Hazlewood)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: FOOLKILLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>PUNK E. GUTIÈRREZ</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Betty Jones sang duet vocals with Reggie Mantle</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>on "I'd Love You To Want Me" and </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"It Never Rains</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> In California" (a snippet of which is heard in the 2006</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Can-Am film PASTERNAK.) Betty sang lead on "House Of</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Gold" and Reggie’s lead voice featured on "Angelique."</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Roni</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lodge-Andrews didn'</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">t attend this session and didn't hear </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">the tracks </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">until early 2006. @ that time, she judged </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">them "too </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tejano" for The Archies' Country Pop </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">fan base. Betty </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">+ Kevin Keller will cut a second </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">version of "I'd </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Love You To Want Me" in </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">September of 2033.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35336534822/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ONLY IN AMERICA 2"><img alt="ONLY IN AMERICA 2" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4235/35336534822_fae1413e06.jpg" width="392" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AS A RESULT OF THE ARCHIES'</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>REGULAR USO TOURS, BOTH</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BETTY + VERONICA BECAME</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>POPULAR "PIN-UP" GIRLS</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>WITH US MILITARY</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PERSONNEL.</b></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: AS A HUSBAND-AND-WIFE SINGING DUO, </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">BETTY + JUGHEAD HAD LOADS OF APPEAL! THEY SOUNDED AS GREAT TOGETHER ON STAGE AS THEY DID ON WAX: THEIR SPECIALTY NUMBER WAS THE ROLLING STONES OLDIE "TIME IS ON MY SIDE." SINCE MARKETING BLUE-EYED SOUL HAD PROVEN TO BE A NON-STARTER, ARCHIE HOPED TO SIGN THE JONESES AS AN ARCHIES SPINOFF ACT. THIS TIME, BETTY WAS THE OBSTACLE! SHE DIDN'T THINK THEIR VOICES BLENDED WELL. "MY ALTO NEXT TO HIS BARITONE," SHE COMPLAINED, "SOUNDS LIKE TWO GUYS WITH DROOPY MUSTACHES HARMONIZING IN AN OLD-TIMEY BARBERSHOP QUARTET!" </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SHE MUCH PREFERRED REGGIE AS HER DUET PARTNER. THE NOVEMBER SESSION IN EL PASO WAS SCHEDULED @ HER REQUEST SO THAT ARCHIE COULD HEAR HOW COMMERCIAL THEIR VOCAL BLEND WAS. WHILE THE DUET PLAYBACKS WERE GOOD, THEY WEREN'T OUTSTANDING, EITHER; THE BAND CONSENSUS WAS THAT REGGIE'S VOICE DIDN'T COMPLEMENT BETTY'S PARTICULARLY WELL. YET SHE CONTINUED TO RESIST SINGING WITH JUGGY! IN FACT, SHE GREW EVEN MORE RETICENT. TONY BRISEÑO CONFIDED TO ME THAT, IN HIS OPINION, T</b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">HERE WAS MORE TO HER RETICENCE THAN MUSICAL CONSIDERATIONS. DID SHE SUSPECT WHAT </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WAS GOING ON BEHIND HER BACK?</span> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"MOTOWN FOREVER"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN A LO LATINO PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER 16 - 19, 2005</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>STUDIO “B”,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EL PASO, TEXAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LEAVING HERE - unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IN AND OUT OF LOVE - unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHEN THE LOVE LIGHT STARTS SHINING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>FOREVER CAME TODAY - unreleased****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE CANDYHEARTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>(BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS)</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/MARIACHI LOWRIDER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>SHERRY EVANGELISTA, FAWN ETHEL MASON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*ROD MACK, **BREE SPELLMAN,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>***DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>****ROD MACK, BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: FOOLKILLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>PUNK E. GUTIÉRREZ</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: When you want to be famous, there’s really no such thing as bad publicity. I mean, look @ all the rappers with known criminal records; it makes them </i>more <i>popular, not less! Veronica was sure that news of The Candyhearts’ incarceration wouldn't hurt their marketability; but unfortunately, the group went to prison and never came back! While serving their time, the Evanglista sisters gave up on their soulful diva dreams, each for different reasons.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Angry @ Arch + Roni for not bailing them out, Francine "Flame" Evangalista declared that she was no longer interested in being an Archie Records artist. She flat-out refused to return to the studio, and so did “Aqua Vulva.” Edna Evangelista was dreaming of a domestic life: A former pimp had promised to marry her, and she believed him (much to her later regret)! As for Sherry "Sugar Walls" Evangelista, she left prison a spiritually-transformed woman. Having converted to Islam behind bars, she decided to turn her back on Rock ‘n’ Roll; but unlike her sisters, the woman soon to be known as Reyhanna Muhammad felt obliged to honor her recording contract.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>That meant completing the unfinished Candyhearts album. Sherry sang on the final four selections, but not as lead vocalist: She found the song lyrics "un-Islamic!" Big Ethel sang lead instead; Sherry joined Ember Roslindale and Jelli Jones-Torres of The Vixens + Sabrina on background harmonies. Then, sadly, she walked out of the recording studio and never set foot in one again! The Andrews chose not to litigate, releasing all three women from further contractual obligations.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Even though there was now no group to promote the LP, Archie felt strongly that MOTOWN FOREVER should be released: “Nobody’s got a voice like Flame Evangelista, and the sisters' harmonies are unreal. Radio will eat this album up with a spoon!” Roni was less certain of that. She opted to designate the record a tax write-off! “We spent so much money on The Candyhearts,” she argued, “it’s the only sure way to recoup our investment.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The decision was taken out of their hands when the sisters’ vocal tracks mysteriously went missing! It was as if somebody had wiped them right off the master (and actually, somebody had). Archie audio tapes were kept in the securest of locations, so sabotage was unlikely; there must've been some kind of recording malfunction, but nobody could fathom how or when it had happened!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Over the years, other Archie artists tried to cut new vocal tracks but something always went wrong: Bad timing, wrong pitch, inexplicable volume problems! And nobody could match Flame Evangelista’s original phrasing. There was talk of auditioning a new Candyhearts group, but it came to nothing. Much later, the post-Big Ethel Vixens would fill the girl group void on Archie Records' roster; but as good as they were, they couldn’t measure up to The Candyhearts!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The former Sugar Walls went on to become a female imam for a reform mosque. Tragically, Edna “Aqua Vulva” Evangelista was put back on the streets by her pimp</i><i>; she ended up the victim of a brutal murder in 2012, committed by a crazed "john." Younger sister Francine came under the influence of a voodoo priestess in prison, who informed her that she possessed latent witchcraft powers. Little did Archie or Veronica suspect that one of her early spells was responsible for the sabotaged album master!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Only one person who took part in the MOTOWN FOREVER sessions knew, and she had the power to reverse that malicious spell; however, Sabrina chose not to do so. You'll understand why when you reach the end of this musical journey!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: FRANCINE "FLAME" EVANGELISTA BECAME THE MADAM OF A NOTORIOUS NEW ORLEANS BROTHEL, AS WELL AS THE GIRLFRIEND OF LOCAL MOBSTER JACK SERNA. FRANCINE + JACK'S DAUGHTER WILL GROW UP TO BE A POWERFUL SORCERESS; CARMEN SERNA WILL ALSO BE A <i>SALSA </i>MUSIC QUEEN WHO TURNS TRICKS ON THE SIDE! IN THE YEAR 2048, BILLIONAIRE JASON BLOSSOM WILL BE REVEALED AS HER REAL BIOLOGICAL FATHER. (JASON'S FREQUENT INVOLVEMENT IN ARCHIE-RELATED EVENTS IS NOTHING LESS THAN BIZARRE!) I WILL PERSONALLY AUDITION AND REJECT CARMEN FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE NEW ARCHIES, WITH DIRE CONSEQUENCES FOR BOTH THE GROUP + MYSELF . . . BUT THAT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT STORY!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2006.html" target="_blank">CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE: </a></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/38749061304/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE BLUE"><b><img alt="ARCHIE BLUE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4687/38749061304_199a3acc9d.jpg" width="388" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">"TEAR DROP CITY"</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">THE ANDREWS AND THE JONESES DEAL</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">WITH THE AFTERMATH OF MARITAL</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">INFIDELITY IN THE YEAR</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">2 0 0 6 !</span></i></span></b></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-47944541633206152002023-01-01T08:49:00.013-05:002024-02-15T13:07:13.017-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2004<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/23931733724/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="JEFF + ELLIE SONGBOOK ALBUM COVERS"><b><img alt="JEFF + ELLIE SONGBOOK ALBUM COVERS" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1583/23931733724_d2e08086aa.jpg" width="500" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><b style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presents</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A Journey Through</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">THE GREAT AMERICAN </span></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL </span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">SONG BOOK</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: THE ARCHIES’ FIRST TWO MILLION-SELLING ALBUMS FEATURED COVERS OF CLASSIC ROCK AND COUNTRY SONGS FROM BEGINNING TO END. I ADVISED VERONICA TO NOT DEVIATE FROM A CONCEPT THAT HAD PROVEN SO SUCCESSFUL; SHE AGREED WITH ME, SO FROM MARCH TO JUNE OF 2004, THE BAND RECORDED ITS THIRD SMASH HIT COVERS LP IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>JEFF + ELLIE SONGBOOK</i> (LATER RENAMED <i>HITS OF THE SIXTIES,</i> VOLUME TWO) WAS MOSTLY DEVOTED TO VINTAGE GIRL GROUP MUSIC. IT WAS A NOD TO THE ARCHIES' POP ROCK ROOTS, BUT UPDATED WITH THE HARD ROCK EDGE THEY'D INTRODUCED ON THEIR ROLLING STONES TRIBUTE. RALFI CHINGAS ARRANGED MOST OF THE MUSIC BUT ARCHIE HAD BEGUN WRITING ARRANGEMENTS ON THE LAST ALBUM AND HE CONTINUED TO DO SO. </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">THE REST OF THE GROUP</span></span></b><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> GOT INVOLVED AS CO-PRODUCERS FOR THE FIRST TIME. RALFI WASN'T TOO THRILLED ABOUT THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO. THE ARCHIES HAD CREATIVE CONTROL WRITTEN INTO THEIR CONTRACT! AND HAVING THEIR INPUT ARGUABLY MADE THE MUSIC EVEN BETTER: </span></span></b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">THIS ALBUM YIELDED A BUMPER CROP OF INTERNATIONAL HITS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><i>THE FOURTH YEAR: 2004</i></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY"</b></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"JEFF + ELLIE SONGBOOK"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MARCH 2004</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'LL STILL LOVE YOU - Hip Shaker EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">YOU DON'T KNOW - Hip Shaker EP</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Morton)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I WONDER - Hip Shaker EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THEN HE KISSED ME/THEN I KISSED HER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SHE HANGS OUT - Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Leiber, Stoller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHAPEL OF LOVE (UNDERDUB) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties, Volume II LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THAT'S ALL I EVER WANT FROM YOU, BABY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP, Nobody But You EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BE MY BABY - Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/REY COCHINO + BIG-ASS BRASS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS, *REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: REY COCHINO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The Archies began recording a tribute album to Brill Building</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>legends Jeff Barry + Ellie Greenwich. The Chapel of Rock,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>located on the site of an abandoned church, was owned and</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>operated by Jeff Barry. The underdub of "Chapel Of</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Love" featured a duet vocal by Veronica + Betty Jones.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34885467906/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="HIP SHAKER"><img alt="HIP SHAKER" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4271/34885467906_7921dba61c.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR THE ARCHIES'</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2004 EXTENDED PLAY DISC</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>HIP SHAKER.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"JEFF + ELLIE SONGBOOK"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL 2004</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HIP SHAKER </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LEADER OF THE PACK </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Morton)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DOO WAH DIDDY DIDDY (FULL-LENGTH VERSION)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties, Volume II LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GOODNIGHT, BABY (FULL-LENGTH VERSION)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties, Volume II LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Venet)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS - Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TRAIN FROM KANSAS CITY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Hawkins)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/REY COCHINO + BIG-ASS BRASS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/PAUL WILLIAMS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/JEFF BARRY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Producer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: REY COCHINO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Roni Lodge-Andrews sang all the leads @ these</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>sessions, which produced the hit single "Hip Shaker."</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Songwriters Jeff Barry + Paul Williams played </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>percussion </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">and piano, respectively. "Heaven Only </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Knows" is different </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">from a song with the same </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">title recorded in </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">April of 2002.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34352726292/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="RIVER-DEEP, MOUNTAIN-HIGH"><img alt="RIVER-DEEP, MOUNTAIN-HIGH" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4194/34352726292_387ceb21fc.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES RE-EMERGED IN THE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2000s AS A POWERHOUSE ROCK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ENSEMBLE WITH FIVE LEAD</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SINGERS!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"JEFF + ELLIE SONGBOOK"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY 2004</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I WANT YOU FOR MY SWEETHEART </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Venet)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I WISH I NEVER SAW THE SUNSHINE -</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>single flipside, Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHAT'S A BOY SUPPOSED TO DO? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Nobody But You EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I CAN HEAR MUSIC </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BABY, I LOVE YOU (FULL-LENGTH VERSION)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties, Volume II LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HOLD ON, BABY - single</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DA DOO RON RON (FULL-LENGTH VERSION)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hits Of The Sixties, Volume II LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHY DON'T THEY LET US FALL IN LOVE?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside, Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/REY COCHINO + BIG-ASS BRASS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, *REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: REY COCHINO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"I Want You For My Sweetheart" was issued as a</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>fan club single flipside. Juggy Jones sang lead.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY/JUNE 2004</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I'LL TAKE YOU WHERE THE MUSIC'S PLAYING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jeff Barry)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>STRANGE WORLD</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside (BLUE-EYED SOUL)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Chick Carlton)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NOBODY BUT YOU </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MEDLEY:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DOO WAH DIDDY DIDDY (EDIT)/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DA DOO RON RON (EDIT)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MEDLEY:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GOODNIGHT, BABY (EDIT)/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BABY, I LOVE YOU (EDIT)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHAPEL OF LOVE (OVERDUB)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single*, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*BLUE-EYED SOUL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/REY COCHINO + BIG-ASS BRASS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/AMBROSE NIXON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger/Producer: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: REY COCHINO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Nobody But You" was the first international smash </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>hit single </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">for The Archies since “Sugar, Sugar.” </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Reggie Mantle sang </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">lead vocals; Sabrina's cousin</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">Ambrose Nixon played percussion and sang harmony</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">vocals with Veronica + Kevin Keller. Blue-Eyed Soul </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">was </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">an Archies spin-off </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">group comprised of Juggy </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Jones + Kevin Keller.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><span><b style="font-family: verdana;">SABRINA: AS A CONDITION OF HIM COMING BACK </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">TO THE ARCHIES, REGGIE WANTED A LEGAL </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">AGREEMENT THAT HE SING A CERTAIN NUMBER OF </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">LEAD VOCALS! HE NEVER </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">GOT IT IN WRITING, BUT THERE WAS A TACIT </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">UNDERSTANDING THAT HIS VOICE WOULD </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">BE SHOWCASED ON EVERY ALBUM. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;">THIS </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">UNOFFICIAL POLICY </b></span><span><b style="font-family: verdana;">RESULTED IN REGGIE </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">BEING OUT FRONT ON SEVERAL BEST-</b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">SELLING SINGLES. ONE OF THEM WAS "NOBODY BUT YOU," A SMASH HIT FROM THE <i>JEFF + ELLIE</i> SESSIONS. </b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>@ HER HUSBAND JUGHEAD'S </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">INSISTENCE, BETTY</b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"> HAD THE SAME </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">UNDERSTANDING. THAT WAS TO THE ARCHIES' BENEFIT AS WELL, BECAUSE SHE WAS BORN TO SING THE BLUES! HER VOICE WAS OFTEN COMPARED TO THAT OF THE LATE, GREAT COUNTRY SINGER PATSY CLINE; OTHERS HEARD HER AS CHER'S VOCAL TWIN. AN IMPRESSIVE COMPARISON EITHER WAY! </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">BETTY HELD FORTH ON SEVERAL TRACKS THAT SCORED HIT SINGLES, INCLUDING "HE AIN'T NO ANGEL", "DON'T EVER LEAVE ME" AND "HOLD ON, BABY."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>JUGHEAD EMERGED AS A POWERFUL </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">LEAD SINGER, TOO. </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">AS YOU </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><span>KNOW, HE WAS THE BAND'S ORIGINAL LEAD BACK WHEN </span></b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><span>IT WAS CALLED "THE JUGGZ". </span></b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><i>JEFF + ELLIE SONGBOOK</i> FEATURED HIS BOOMING BARITONE ON THE TRACKS "I WANT YOU FOR MY SWEETHEART," "I'LL TAKE YOU WHERE THE MUSIC'S PLAYING" AND "THAT'S ALL I EVER WANT FROM YOU, BABY." THAT LAST NUMBER SCORED A MAJOR HIT IN AUSTRALIA AND BECAME ONE OF JUGGY'S SIGNATURE SONGS IN CONCERT!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34762157182/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="NOBODY BUT YOU"><img alt="NOBODY BUT YOU" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4195/34762157182_e80085773a.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR THE ARCHIES'</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>2004 EXTENDED PLAY DISC</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>NOBODY BUT YOU.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"JEFF + ELLIE SONGBOOK"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUNE 2004</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TRUE, TRUE LOVE - single flipside (Thailand)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ALL GROWN UP - Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DON'T EVER LEAVE ME </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside, Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HOLD ON, BABY! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside, Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I KNOW IT'S ALL RIGHT </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>RIVER-DEEP, MOUNTAIN-HIGH</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside, Jeff + Ellie Songbook LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>w/CHUCK CLAYTON</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/BIG-ASS BRASS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/JEFF BARRY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: GERALDINE GRUNDY </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The "Hold On, Baby" title recorded @ these sessions features</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Betty Jones on lead, and is an entirely different song from the</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>one recorded in May. That song has a lead vocal by Archie Andrews.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Outside of North America, "River-Deep, Mountain-High" became</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>an international smash; it featured an ensemble group vocal led by</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Betty + Veronica. Chuck Clayton subbed for an ailing Rey Cochino,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>conducting Big-Ass Brass in his absence; his partner Deanie</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Grundy added her distinctive keyboard licks to "Don't Ever</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Leave Me". Jeff Barry played percussion and sang</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>background vocals @ these dates.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 12, 2004</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BEND ME, SHAPE ME - Disque D'Or (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(English, Weiss)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>STOP! AND YOU’LL BECOME AWARE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Glitter + Gold LP (Australia)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Roger Okin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ARCHIE ANDREWS, *REGGIE MANTLE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Members of The Archies and Josie + The Pussy Cats will re-record</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>"Stop! And You'll Become Aware" in September of 2011. This first version</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>features Reggie Mantle on lead vocals. Spanish Eddie's was a Gay</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>nightclub with a full-service recording studio on the top floor.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: WHILE TOURING THEIR <i>SONGBOOK</i> ALBUM IN AUGUST OF 2004, THE ARCHIES CUT THEIR FIRST-EVER LIVE LP IN NEW ORLEANS. CHUCK CLAYTON, THEIR MUSIC DIRECTOR FROM THE KIRSHNER YEARS, WAS CALLED IN TO WORK WITH THEM ON IT, AND THEIR ORIGINAL ARRANGER DEANIE GRUNDY WROTE SOME OF THE CHARTS</b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">. <i>HOT, SWEET + LIVE! </i>WAS MARKETED IN </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">BOTH EP AND LP FORMATS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;">BY THE WAY, ARCHIE RELEASES WERE NEVER, <i>EVER </i>SOLD IN THE COMPACT DISC FORMAT! ANY THAT YOU MAY FIND ARE BOOTLEGS. ARCHIE + ESPECIALLY VERONICA FELT THAT CD TECHNOLOGY ROBBED RECORDED MUSIC OF ITS WARMTH. ALL ARCHIE TRACKS WERE MASTERED FOR VINYL PLAYBACK, AND ALTHOUGH MOST ALBUM AND EP SALES CAME </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">FROM DIGITAL DOWNLOADS, THE LABEL </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">BECAME KNOWN FOR SELLING LPS @ A TIME WHEN </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BELIEVED THERE WAS NO LONGER </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">ANY MARKET FOR VINYL. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">ARCHIE RECORDS ACCURATELY </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">PREDICTED THE RESURGENCE OF THAT FORMAT, AND UNLIKE MOST OTHER VINYL RELEASES IN THE CD ERA, </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">ITS PRESSINGS WERE PRISTINE! RECORDING MANAGER ALAN MAYBERRY WAS A FANATIC ABOUT AUDIO FIDELITY, WHICH IS WHY THE ARCHIE LABEL INVESTED IN ITS OWN PRESSING PLANT. A WOMAN NAMED JAMIE ROTANTE WAS IN CHARGE OF THAT FACILITY, AND HER QUALITY CONTROL STANDARDS WERE RIGOROUS: GOD FORBID THAT YOU EVER HEARD TELL OF AN ARCHIE RECORD SKATING OR SKIPPING DURING PLAYBACK!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34762159802/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="HOT, SWEET AND LIVE"><img alt="HOT, SWEET AND LIVE" height="389" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4195/34762159802_2eaf5cde36.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR THE ARCHIES' 2004</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>DOUBLE EXTENDED PLAY DISC</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>HOT, SWEET + LIVE!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>REMIX SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"HOT, SWEET + LIVE!"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SEPTEMBER 20 - 22, 2004</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SPANISH EDDIE'S BAR + GRILL,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SOUL DEEP - Hot, Sweet + Live! EP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Wayne Carson Thompson)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hot, Sweet + Live! EP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Andersson, Ulvaeus)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>TEX-MEX MEDLEY:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>TAKE A LETTER, MARIA/MAMACITA/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LIVIN' LA VIDA LOCA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Australian Singles Collection box set***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(RB Greaves/Mann, Weil/Child, Rosa)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>BIG CITY MISS RUTH ANN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hot, Sweet + Live! EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tom Lazoros)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>HOLD ON, BABY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hot, Sweet + Live LP reissue****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>GOOD DEAL, LUCILLE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hot, Sweet + Live! EP***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Miller, Theriot)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>HIP SHAKER - Hot, Sweet + Live! EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>THAT'S ALL I EVER WANT FROM YOU, BABY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- End Of A Century LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>NOBODY BUT YOU - Hot, Sweet + Live! EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LONELY WEEKENDS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hot, Sweet + Live LP reissue</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Charlie Rich)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>WHO'S YOUR BABY? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hot, Sweet + Live! EP****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Kim)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SUGAR, SUGAR </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Hot, Sweet + Live! EP****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Kim)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>HAPPY - Hot, Sweet + Live! EP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SUNSHINE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Hot, Sweet + Live! EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Bloom)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, *ARCHIE ANDREWS,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>**ROD MACK, ***REGGIE "GINO" MANTLE,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>****GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Music Director:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>CHUCK CLAYTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS, THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Remix Engineer: EDDIE ROXCHILD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The songs remixed @ these sessions were captured live</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>@ Congo Square in New Orleans by Alan Mayberry.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>They were first released in late 2004 on a double EP set.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The LP version of The Archies' first live album, released</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>in early 2005, featured different edits</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>of these mixes.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: THE SAME WEEK THAT THE ARCHIES CUT THEIR LIVE ALBUM, JUGHEAD SIGNED A SOLO DEAL WITH PEERLESS RECORDS. BEFORE LEAVING THE BIG EASY, HE RECORDED A COMPACT DISC OF LATIN JAZZ INSTRUMENTALS; BETTY, KEVIN KELLER + RALFI CHINGAS ASSISTED HIM, AND THE TRACKING SESSIONS FEATURED DISTINGUISHED GUESTS LIKE WYNTON MARSALIS! WYNTON ENJOYED JAMMING WITH JUGGY, AND HE PROMISED TO SIT IN ON A SESSION WITH THE ARCHIES @ SOME DATE. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">RAJ PATEL WAS ALSO IN ATTENDANCE AS AN OBSERVER. JUGGY + ARCHIE HAD KNOWN RAJ IN HIGH SCHOOL; BACK THEN, HE WAS AN AVID FILM BUFF AND A BUDDING AMATEUR CINEMATOGRAPHER. NOW HE WAS A SUCCESSFUL FILM PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR BASED IN "NOLA".</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DESPITE EXCELLENT TRACKS LIKE "SPANISH EDDIE", A TRIBUTE TO SOUND ENGINEER EDDIE ROXCHILD FEATURING BETTY'S VOCALS, JUGGY’S <i>KING OF LATIN SOUL</i> FAILED TO SELL IN SIGNIFICANT QUANTITIES. HOWEVER, HIS LIVELY STUDIO INTERACTIONS WITH KELLY MADE A STRONG IMPRESSION ON RAJ. THE OLD FRIENDS WERE A NATURAL TEAM, AND HE FELT THAT THEIR STRONG CHEMISTRY HAD UNEXPLORED COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51912936979/in/dateposted/" title="CHEER ME UP ALBUM DESIGN"><img alt="CHEER ME UP ALBUM DESIGN" height="397" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51912936979_b58a84c9d7.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AUDIO FROM THE 2004 "ECHO VALLEY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>CHRISTMAS BALL" </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">WILL BELATEDLY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">BE RELEASED ON </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">VINYL IN THE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">YEAR 2129.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>PODCAST SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"ECHO VALLEY'S CHRISTMAS BALL"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A CHAPEL OF ROCK PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>in association with</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER 19 - 20, 2004</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CHAPEL OF ROCK,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>MORE TODAY THAN YESTERDAY - unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Patrick Upton)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>JULIE, DO YA LOVE ME? - unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tom Bahler)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY - unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Levine, Resnick)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>JANIE, JANIE - unreleased***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Allan, Dante)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>TEMPTATION EYES - unreleased****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Price, Walsh)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>SOONER OR LATER - unreleased****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bottler, McNamara, Paris, Zeckley)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>MY BABY LOVES LOVIN' - unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Cook, Greenaway)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>VENUS - unreleased*****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Robbie Van Leeuwen)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHARMER - unreleased*****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Tim Moore)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>BAND OF GOLD - unreleased******</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Dozier, Dunbar, Holland)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LAY A LITTLE LOVIN' ON ME </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased******</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Cretecos, McNamara)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>WE CAN'T DANCE TO YOUR MUSIC </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Williams)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHERRY, CHERRY - unreleased*****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Neil Diamond)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHEER ME UP - unreleased****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Carr, Dante)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>BE MY BABY (vocals only) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased*****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVE THAT LITTLE WOMAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased*****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Kim)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>JINGLE BELL ROCK - unreleased****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Beal, Boothe)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>HAVE YOURSELF A ROCK 'N ROLL CHRISTMAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Brooks, Kasha)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHRISTMAS (BABY, PLEASE COME HOME)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>- unreleased*****</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barry, Greenwich, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;">MONY MONY- unreleased#</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana;">(Bloom, Cordell, Gentry, James)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>REY COCHINO w/BIG-ASS BRASS</i></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>*w/DEVON, **w/THE BINGOS, ***w/VERONICA,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>****w/BLUE-EYED SOUL,*****w/THE ARCHIES,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i> ******w/KATY KEENE,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>#w/THE ARCHIES + THE BINGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Music Director: JEFF BARRY</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer/Sound Engineer:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>TOM MOURGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Salem da Katt: The Archies began a long string of appearances on </b></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the "Echo Valley" </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">radio show back in the early 1990s. By 2004, it was a </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">podcast, but they </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">were still favorite musical guests of the host, </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Professor Bubblegum. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Naturally, when the Prof decided to throw an </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">online holiday bash, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Archies headlined his show! </span></span></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><span><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Appearing </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">with them were </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">their friends The Bingos; Archies spinoff </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">duo </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Blue-Eyed Soul; </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">and two artists under consideration for Archie </span></b><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">recording contracts: </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Actress and fashion model Katy </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Keene </span></span></b></i><b><span><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">(who'd cut a single with </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Archies in Germany, back when they </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">were called </span></i></span></b><b><span><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Juggz) and Kevin </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Keller's ex-fuck buddy </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Devon (who was </span></i></span></b><b><span><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">opening act for the band's </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">2004 Summer </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">tour)! </span></i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Both Katy + Devon had </span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">drop-dead gorgeous looks, but </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">they also had </span></b></i></span><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">weak-ass voices. If you listen closely to this record, you'll hear </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Veronica </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">+ Kelly </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">doing most of </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">their singing for them!</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Predictably, neither </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">one ended </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">up joining the </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Archie </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Records </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">roster. Devon would soon switch gears and make a name for himself as a Gay porn star, using the name Devon Sweetbottom. I'll have more to say about him later on!</span></span></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>On every selection, all of the acts sang and played together; </i></b></span><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>the only distinction was different lead vocalists. "Be My Baby" utilized </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">a backing track recorded for The Archies' JEFF + ELLIE SONG</b><b style="font-family: verdana;">BOOK album (see the entry for March 2004). The backing tracks </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">for "Janie Janie" and "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" were later </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">recycled as an unreleased album track and an Archies Fan Club </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">single, respectively.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">Professor Bubblegum hosted the festivities remotely from his home studio in Shawnee Mission KS; they were also televised @ that location, and viewers were treated to drag queens in holiday finery, wiggling and prancing to the music! "The Echo Valley Christmas Ball" aired in two parts on November 24 and December 1st, 2004. It won't be released commercially until the late 22nd century, when The Walt Disney Company controls both the Archie masters and the "Echo Valley" audio archive. Other podcast pre- recordings exist, but this is the only one that session information is available for. </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24461311916/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="HOT, SWEET + LIVE LP DESIGN"><img alt="HOT, SWEET + LIVE LP DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1716/24461311916_5ede7d59bb.jpg" width="385" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>HOT, SWEET + LIVE!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE 2005 LP VERSION OF THE ARCHIES'</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FIRST LIVE-IN-CONCERT RELEASE.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: THE NARRATIVE OF ARCHIE RECORDS FEATURES A LOT OF SUPPORTING CHARACTERS; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT A FEW OF THEM. RAJ PATEL BECAME THE ARCHIES’ GO-TO- DIRECTOR FOR MUSIC VIDEOS. I WAS ONE OF JUST A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE WHO KNEW THAT HE HAD A SECRET SIDELINE: FILMING SEX TAPES! VERY LUCRATIVE FOR HIM! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THERE’S NO TRUTH TO RUMORS THAT MIDGE MERCURY WAS ONE OF HIS “STARS.” WHEN A GIRL IS AS SEXY AS SHE WAS, PEOPLE WILL SAY ALL KINDS OF THINGS! IN THE EARLY YEARS, MIDGE ALTERNATED AS A SESSION DRUMMER WITH BUDDY LENNOX OF THE BINGOS. SHE’S BISEXUAL LIKE ME, AND WE DATED BRIEFLY; THAT WAS LONG AFTER SHE DATED ALGERNON “BIG MOOSE” MASON. OF COURSE, MOOSIE ENDED UP MARRYING BIG ETHEL!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MY HALF-TRINIDADIAN COUSIN, AMBROSE NIXON FANCIES HIMSELF A GREAT SINGER! I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT, BUT HE'S A DECENT VOCAL ARRANGER. FOR A FEW YEARS, AMBROSE WAS THE MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR CHERRY VAGINA'S ADVERTISING JINGLE DIVISION. SOMETIMES HE ALSO CONTRIBUTED BACKING VOCALS AND PERCUSSION TO ARCHIES SESSIONS. KNIGHTED BY QUEEN ELIZABETH FOR HONORABLE SERVICE IN THE FALKLANDS WAR, "ROSIE THE NIX" (HIS NICKNAME) WENT ON TO BE A SUCCESSFUL THEATRE DIRECTOR, AND AS SUCH HE PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE FORTUNES OF THE NEW ARCHIES!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FORMERLY KNOWN AS JELLYBEAN, ANJELICA “JELLI” JONES-TORRES WAS A MEMBER OF THE VIXENS. THAT'S THE GIRL GROUP THAT BIG ETHEL FOUNDED AFTER GIVING UP HER RAP CAREER. MAYBE YOU REMEMBER JELLI AS JUGHEAD’S LITTLE SISTER? WELL, THAT SCRAWNY TEENAGER GREW UP TO BE A BIG, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, AND HER SINGING VOICE WAS BIG AND BEAUTIFUL, TOO! SHE WAS ANOTHER ONE OF ARCHIE’S REGULAR DEMO SINGERS.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>TERRY “POP” TATE WAS A VETERAN JAZZ MUSICIAN WHO TOOK A BREAK FROM MUSIC FOR SEVERAL YEARS. HE RAN A POPULAR DINER IN RIVERDALE WHEN ARCHIE AND HIS FRIENDS WERE TEENAGERS. LATER, POP DECIDED TO SELL HIS BUSINESS (TO JUGHEAD + BETTY, WHO TURNED IT INTO A SUCCESSFUL RESTAURANT CHAIN) AND RETURN TO SESSION WORK. HE TOOK PART IN AN AWFUL LOT OF ARCHIE SESSIONS, AND AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, HE WAS ALSO A STAFF SONGWRITER.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34890949283/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ROGUES GALLERY"><img alt="ROGUES GALLERY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4287/34890949283_dab075a460.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ARCHIE'S MEANS OF SUPPORT:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>RAJ PATEL, BIG ETHEL, MIDGE MERCURY,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>ALEXANDRA, ALAN MAYBERRY, SIR </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>AMBROSE NIXON, </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>BREE SPELLMAN, JELLI </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>JONES-TORRES, </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>JOSIE JAMES, DILTON </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>DOILEY BRISEÑO, </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>TERRY "POP" TATE </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">AND CHUCK CLAYTON.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>ASIDE FROM ARCHIE, VERONICA, ALAN M, BIG NIPSY FREUND + CHUCK CLAYTON, DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO WAS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN ARCHIE </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">RECORDS’ SUCCESS. HE WAS MY MENTOR AS WELL AS A DEAR FRIEND! A GENIUS IN BOTH THE MUSICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL FIELDS, TONY INEVITABLY CHOSE TO CONCENTRATE ON MUSIC, WHICH WAS ALWAYS HIS GREATER LOVE. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">HE WAS WITH THE ARCHIES WHEN THEY WERE CALLED THE JUGGZ, AND GOT TREATED BADLY WHEN DON KIRSHNER TOOK OVER THE GROUP’S MANAGEMENT. TONY WAS FORCED OUT, BUT HE DIDN’T HOLD A GRUDGE. HE WAS A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR TO ARCHIE SESSIONS AND A PROLIFIC SONGWRITER, AND HE CO-PRODUCED SEVERAL IMPORTANT RECORDING DATES FOR THE ARCHIES. PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, HIS DAUGHTER GARCY WAS DESTINED TO BECOME PRINCIPAL LEAD SINGER FOR THE NEW ARCHIES!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/33839131520/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="RALFI CHINGAS AT WORK"><img alt="RALFI CHINGAS AT WORK" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4194/33839131520_00e1c9b92f.jpg" width="386" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PRODUCER RALFI CHINGAS IN THE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">STUDIO WITH THE ARCHIES.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">RALFI CHINGAS WAS ARCHIE’S <i>DE FACTO</i> A + R CHIEF FOR A WHILE, BUT HE HAD LOTS OF IRONS IN THE FIRE OUTSIDE THE COMPANY. WHEN HE DIDN’T HAVE TO BE THERE, HE USUALLY WASN’T! I DIDN’T GET TO KNOW RALFI TOO WELL, BUT I DID BEFRIEND HIS ENGINEERING STAFF, WHICH INCLUDED TOM MOURGOS, TAYE FAXTOTUM, VIRGIL BRADLEY + ESPECIALLY “SPANISH” EDDIE ROXCHILD, WHOM RALFI LATER MARRIED. I ALSO BECAME CLOSE TO JONNIEMAE TROUTEN, THE PHENOMENAL <i>FLAMENCO </i>GUITARIST HE DISCOVERED. MAE MAE WAS A PROUD TRANSWOMAN AND LOTS OF FUN TO WORK WITH! SHE AND I LATER BECAME BANDMATES, AND I’LL TALK ABOUT THAT WHEN I DOCUMENT THE FINAL YEARS OF ARCHIE RECORDS.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-year-2005.html" target="_blank">CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE:</a> </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35129521503/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 5"><b><img alt="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 5" height="379" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4302/35129521503_21f7b2bd90.jpg" width="500" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">"LITTLE WILLY"</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">BRITISH SESSION GUITARIST MADAME AXE</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">OBJECTS TO THE MALE MEMBER</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">IN THE YEAR</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">2 0 0 5 !</span></i></span></b></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-82903246921390075632023-01-01T08:16:00.006-05:002024-02-12T01:25:40.976-05:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2003<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24119744149/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="LIKE A ROLLING STONE LP DESIGN"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="LIKE A ROLLING STONE LP DESIGN" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1541/24119744149_02b840d5e4.jpg" width="382" /></span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><b style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presents</span></div><div><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;">A Journey Through</span></div><div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">THE GREAT AMERICAN </span></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SONG BOOK</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span>SABRINA: SOCIAL MEDIA WAS STILL IN ITS INFANCY IN 2003, BUT WHAT EXISTED WAS AFLAME WITH RUMORS ABOUT THE ARCHIES’ NEXT ALBUM PROJECT: WAS IT REALLY GOING TO BE A DOUBLE- LENGTH TRIBUTE TO THE ROLLING STONES? IT WAS INDEED! AND THE OUTRAGE AMONG LONGTIME STONES FANS WAS SO OVERWHELMING, IT WAS LIKE A TIDAL WAVE! THE CONSENSUS REACTION WAS: HOW <i>DARE </i>SUCH A LIGHTWEIGHT GROUP DESECRATE THE HITS OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST ROCK BAND?</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE THIRD YEAR: 2003</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"I JUST CAN'T HELP IT"</b></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="SINGING VOICES 4 THE ARCHIES" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4247/34422066104_cc1f7c6e1c.jpg" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" width="396" /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>WHOSE SINGING VOICES ARE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CLOSEST TO THOSE OF</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FEBRUARY 3 - 8, 2003</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOU'RE MY BABY - single flipside (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Anders, Poncia, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MARYANN - single flipside (India)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Anders, Poncia, Spector)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE CHEATER - single flipside (Australia)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(John Krenski)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LOVELY LINDSAY - Disques D'Or (France)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Kimberly Rew)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>An earlier Archies recording of "The Cheater" exists,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>dating from the Don Kirshner era. This second version</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>featured Juggy Jones on lead vocals. "You're My Baby"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>(led by Reggie Mantle) and "Maryann" (featuring</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Roni Lodge-Andrews + Betty Jones) were issued</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>as fan club single flipsides.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34272274550/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FAN CLUB SINGLES"><img alt="FAN CLUB SINGLES" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4168/34272274550_2e494bc552.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>ARCHIES SINGLES RELEASED ON THE</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CUSTOM ARCHIES FAN CLUB</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RECORD LABEL.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SABRINA: FANS OF CLASSIC ROCK 'N' ROLL WERE APOPLECTIC: NOT ONLY HAD MICK JAGGER PERSONALLY APPROVED THE ARCHIES’ COVERING HIS SONG CATALOG, HE WAS ALSO <i>ASSISTING </i>WITH IT! ROCK CRITICS DECLARED THAT HE'D LOST HIS MIND; BUT WHEN DID THEY EVER UNDERSTAND MICK? HE ALWAYS LIKED TO GO HIS OWN WAY. "I LOVED THEIR COMEBACK ALBUM <i>ARCHIE COUNTRY,</i>" HE TOLD THE PRESS. "IT PROVED THAT THEY AREN'T A TWEE BUBBLEGUM BAND ANY MORE. RECORDING OUR SONGS WILL OBLITERATE THAT IMAGE, AND IT'S ABOUT TIME, ISN'T IT? WHEN VERONICA SUGGESTED THIS PROJECT, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">I WAS JUST AS EAGER TO START RECORDING AS SHE WAS! RIGHT NOW, WE'RE CUTTING DEMOS."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MICK NEVER DOUBTED THAT THE ARCHIES COULD PLAY HIS KIND OF EDGY ROCK 'N' ROLL, BUT HARDLY ANYBODY ELSE WOULD GIVE THEM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. A LOT OF PEOPLE MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO HATE THE NEW ALBUM NO MATTER HOW IT TURNED OUT; LET ME TELL YOU, WHEN <i>LIKE A ROLLING STONE</i> HIT THE STREETS, THE REVIEWS WERE ABSOLUTELY SCATHING! BETTY WAS SO UPSET, SHE QUESTIONED WHETHER REMAKING THE ARCHIES' IMAGE WAS WISE; BUT ARCHIE + VERONICA SHARED A STRONG VISION FOR THE GROUP. I FULLY SUPPORTED THEM, TOO!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>THE BAND REALLY DID NEED TO GO OUT ON TOUR THIS TIME; THEY HAD TO KNOW IF THEIR NEW ALBUM </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">SOUNDED AS BAD AS THE CRITICS CLAIMED! BUT POSITIVE AUDIENCE RESPONSE DISABUSED THEM OF THAT FEAR: NEARLY ALL OF THEIR CONCERT VENUES SOLD OUT, AND THE GENEROUS OUTPOURING OF LOVE THEY GOT FROM FANS OLD AND NEW </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">NEUTRALIZED THE REVIEWERS' BILE!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>AND DESPITE ALL THE NEGATIVE PRESS, THE STONES TRIBUTE ALBUM WAS A STONED SMASH! </b></span><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">IT WAS IN THE TOP FIVE AFTER JUST ONE WEEK, AND IT STAYED THERE FOR NEARLY A MONTH. </b><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">A BEST-SELLING TRIBUTE EP WAS ALSO RELEASED. PERSONALLY, I DIDN'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THE REVIEWS; I DON'T NEED ROCK CRITICS TELLING ME WHAT I SHOULD OR SHOULDN'T LISTEN TO! EXCEPT FOR THE ALBUM THEY WORKED ON WITH ME, <i>LIKE A ROLLING STONE</i> IS MY FAVORITE ARCHIES RECORD.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34762154682/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE LAST TIME"><img alt="THE LAST TIME" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4273/34762154682_05eac32afa.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR THE 2003 ARCHIES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>EP <i>THE LAST TIME.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EP SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"THE LAST TIME"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MARCH 2003</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE LAST TIME - The Last Time EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IT'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SHATTERED! - The Last Time EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IT'S ALL OVER NOW </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside (Japan)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bobby + Shirley Womack)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TIME IS ON MY SIDE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jerry Ragovoy)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>w/MICK JAGGER</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>w/ROD MACK</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Arranger: ROD MACK</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sound Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"It's All Over Now" was issued as a fan club single flipside.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Archie Andrews + Reggie Mantle sang a duet lead.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mick Jagger attended this date and played percussion</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>on the tracks.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35030393006/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORDS CATALOGS"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS CATALOGS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4259/35030393006_165b6303dd.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>PRINT CATALOGS FOR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORD</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">LABEL.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"LIKE A ROLLING STONE"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL 2003</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>START ME UP! - unreleased</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BROWN SUGAR - Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I CAN LOVE YOU - Retro box set</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jeff Barry)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HONKY TONK WOMEN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside, Like A Rolling Stone LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>RUBY TUESDAY - Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SUMMER IN THE CITY (underdub) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside (Philippines)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Boone, Sebastian)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>THE ARCHIES</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>w/CHUCK CLAYTON</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Arrangers: RALFI CHINGAS, *ARCHIE ANDREWS</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sound Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>“I Can Love You” was intended as a single but Veronica</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>changed her mind about it. "Summer In The City" was issued</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>as a fan club single; Reggie Mantle sang lead. Chuck</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Clayton played rhythm guitar on this date.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/39941144542/in/dateposted/" title="HONOR ROLL OF SONGWRITERS"><img alt="HONOR ROLL OF SONGWRITERS" height="385" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4623/39941144542_e0720afbbf.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES' RECORDED REPORTOIRE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">WAS MAINLY DRAWN FROM THE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">"BRILL BUILDING" MUSIC</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CATALOG OF THE 1960s.</span></div></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"LIKE A ROLLING STONE"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>APRIL/MAY 2003</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE CAPITOL TOWER,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Like A Rolling Stone LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GET OFF MY CLOUD! - Like A Rolling Stone LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NINETEENTH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Like A Rolling Stone LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>UNDER MY THUMB - single flipside</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DANDELION - Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JUMPIN' JACK FLASH - Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TUMBLING DICE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>THE ARCHIES</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>w/KEVIN KELLER</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Arrangers:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>RALFI CHINGAS, *ARCHIE ANDREWS</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sound Engineer: ZACHARY THAXTON</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"Jumpin' Jack Flash" was issued as a fan club single.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Betty + Veronica sang a sizzling duet lead.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35030385896/in/dateposted/" title="FAN CLUB FAVORITES"><img alt="FAN CLUB FAVORITES" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4210/35030385896_5cf85c4210.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A COMPILATION OF ARCHIES SINGLES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THAT WERE ORIGINALLY RELEASED </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>ON THE </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">ARCHIES FAN CLUB </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">LABEL.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"LIKE A ROLLING STONE"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY 2003</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BABY GRAND STUDIOS,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HONOLULU, HAWAII</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>STATE OF SHOCK </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, SHAD ROWE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Hansen, Jackson)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>START ME UP! - Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>BEAST OF BURDEN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>STREET FIGHTING MAN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single flipside, Like A Rolling Stone LP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GIMME SHELTER - Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PAINT IT BLACK - Like A Rolling Stone LP***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>EMOTIONAL RESCUE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single, Like A Rolling Stone LP***</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THE LAST TIME - Like A Rolling Stone LP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HAPPY - single, Like A Rolling Stone LP**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jagger, Richards)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LIKE A ROLLING STONE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Like A Rolling Stone LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bob Dylan)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>THE ARCHIES</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>w/KEVIN KELLER</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Arrangers:</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>RALFI CHINGAS, *ROD MACK,</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>**ARCHIE ANDREWS,</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>***REGGIE "GINO" MANTLE </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Conductor: ARCHIE ANDREWS</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sound Engineer: RHETT VALENTYNE</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Kevin Keller sang guest lead vocals on "State</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Of Shock" </b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>with Veronica singing harmony.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A later recording scored a South-American hit </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>for The Archies in the year 2015. The original</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>version didn't surface until 2017, on the flipside</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>of a single deceptively credited to "Shad Rowe" - the</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>alleged younger brother of Kelly! (For details, see the entry</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>dated August of 2014.) Featuring Betty Jones on lead, </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"Happy"</b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> </b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>was the biggest hit culled from these </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>album </b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>sessions.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34939132401/in/dateposted/" title="FAN CLUB FAVORITES GATEFOLD"><img alt="FAN CLUB FAVORITES GATEFOLD" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4241/34939132401_57f4fa6aa8.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">INSIDE GATEFOLD ARTWORK FOR THE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">VOX SOUND + IMAGE COMPILATION</span></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>FAN CLUB FAVORITES.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: ON JULY 1, 2003, THE ARCHIES TAPED A LIVE TV SPECIAL FROM PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE IN FLORIDA. SHARING THE BILL WERE SPECIAL GUESTS CHUCK CLAYTON, REY COCHINO + BIG-ASS BRASS AND BIG ETHEL WITH THE VIXENS. I WAS THERE, TOO, BUT NOT AS A FEATURED PERFORMER.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THE BAND HAD APPEARED BEFORE ENLISTED PERSONNEL ONCE BEFORE BACK IN 1989, BUT @ THAT TIME THEY RECEIVED A LUKEWARM RESPONSE. THIS TIME, THEY WERE DETERMINED TO DRIVE THE GRUNTS WILD! THEY DID JUST THAT WITH A BLUESY REPERTOIRE DOMINATED BY CHUCK BERRY AND CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL SONGS. SELECTIONS FROM THEIR </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ROLLING STONES TRIBUTE ALBUM WERE ALSO WELL-</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">RECEIVED. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35464154796/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BETTY JONES LIKE TINA TURNER"><img alt="BETTY JONES LIKE TINA TURNER" height="393" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4215/35464154796_a962e8c04b.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BETTY SINGS AND DANCES FOR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">US MILITARY TROOPS!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">POOR TV RATINGS WERE NO REFLECTION ON THE QUALITY OF THIS CONCERT; ARCHIE WOULD REMEMBER IT AS HIS BAND’S BEST LIVE SHOW, AND VERONICA WOULD ALWAYS REGRET NOT RELEASING IT ON LP. (IT EVENTUALLY <i>DID </i>APPEAR IN THAT FORMAT, BUT SOLD EXCLUSIVELY TO ARCHIES FAN CLUB MEMBERS.) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GOING FORWARD, THE ARCHIES HAD A SOLID MILITARY FAN BASE! USO DATES BECAME A REGULAR PART OF THEIR TOUR ITINERARY. LATER IN THE DECADE, MILITARY PX STORES STARTED CARRYING VINYL ARCHIES SINGLES AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THEY SOLD OUT! THE ONLY OTHER PLACES WHERE </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YOU COULD BUY THEM IN THAT FORMAT WERE CONCERT VENUES OR TH</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">E ARCHIE RECORDS WEBSITE.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52357463581/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="HOT DOG BUDDY BUDDY POSTER"><img alt="HOT DOG BUDDY BUDDY POSTER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52357463581_d0e060863d.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">POSTER FOR A 2003</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">DOLLYWOOD MUSICAL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PRODUCTION STARRING</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">KEVIN KELLER.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">DOLLYWOOD RECORDS</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CAST ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: large;">"HOT DOG BUDDY BUDDY"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">in association with</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">INCA HOOTS PRODUCTIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AUGUST 30, 2003</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FALCON STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EL PASO, TEXAS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">POSSUM IN THE POT</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Randy Parton)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">ROCK THE JOINT</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Bagby, Crafton, Keene)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Bill Haley)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">FANNY FIVE AND DIME</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Parton, Stallings)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">DIM, DIM THE LIGHTS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Dixon, Ross)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">SEE YOU LATER, ALLIGATOR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album*****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Bob Guidry)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">HOT DOG BUDDY BUDDY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Bill Haley)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">SQUEEZE ME LIKE A SQUEEZE BOX</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Gabrielle Stallings)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">TWO HOUND DOGS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Haley, Pingatore)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">ROCK-A-BEATIN’ BOOGIE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Bill Haley)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">CHICKEN LEGS ‘N’ CHITLINS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Parton, Stallings)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album*****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Jesse Stone)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">BURN THAT CANDLE!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(Winfield Scott)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">- Hot Dog Buddy Buddy cast album******</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">(DeKnight, Freedman)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE KINFOLKS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>*w/BIG ETHEL + THE VIXENS,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>**w/CHERYL BLOSSOM, ***w/KEVIN KELLER,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>****w/CHUCK CLAYTON, *****w/GERALDINE GRUNDY,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>******w/KEVIN KELLER, CHERYL BLOSSOM + CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>GERALDINE GRUNDY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Executive Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>DOLLY + RANDY PARTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RANDY KLING, PUNK E. GUTIÉRREZ</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: In 2013, Archie Records marketed a smash hit cast album from a musical, but it wasn't the first time they tried. Every heard of a show called HOT DOG BUDDY BUDDY? This off-the-wall project came to be when Veronica approached her godmother with a business proposal. Most people don't interact with godparents that way, but most people aren't Roni Lodge-Andrews, and most godparents aren't the legendary</i> Dolly Parton!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Word! For a minute, Dolly had a hot 'n' heavy thing going with Roni's father, Ram Lodge! After it cooled down, Dolly introduced Ram to her best friend, who later became Roni's mother, and a godparent situation resulted. It was such a close relationship, Dolly even took Roni out on tour with her once! So her god-daughter felt totally comfortable making </span></i><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">this proposal: “What about Archie Records releasing cast albums for your musical productions?” Of course, she was talking about productions mounted @ Dollywood, the Country music theme park located in Knoxville, Tennessee. Roni wanted to create a custom label just to market music from those stage shows.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">They made a handshake deal, and Dolly brought Roni a yet-to-be-produced musical written by her brother, Randy Parton. Several people affiliated with Archie Records ended up getting cast in the show: Chuck Clayton, former Folk music star Geraldine Grundy, and erstwhile Gangsta rapper Big Ethel. She brought along her friends Ember Roslindale + Annabette MacDonald, with whom she'd formed a vocal group called The Vixens. Jughead’s pal Kevin Keller was the leading man.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">The marquee star was actress, model and wannabe singer Cheryl Blossom. This would be Cheryl's only work connecting her to the Archie organization; but her billionaire brother Jason loomed large in its future!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">HOT DOG BUDDY BUDDY celebrated the classic Rock ‘n’ Roll catalog of Bill Haley + The Comets, and it also featured four original songs. Chuckii, Kelly, Ethel + Dilton Doiley Briseño co-wrote them with Randy using the collective pseudonym “Gabrielle Stallings”. In addition, they augmented an authentic Bluegrass band called The Kinfolks in the studio. With strong material and great musicians, the cast album was, and is, well worth hearing!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Fortunately, that cast album was tracked </i>before <i>the show opened. I mean to tell you: This hybrid skateboard/hot rod/Bluegrass Rock musical bombed big-time! Oh, the indignity of audience members throwing fried pork rinds @ the stage! Randy Parton was so embarrassed afterwards, he didn’t even want to discuss his failed musical, much less try to salvage it. </i></span><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Sadly, some exceptionally good tracks (except for a misbegotten ballad called “Chicken Legs ‘n’ Chitlins”) were all but forgotten about. Nothing else got recorded or released under the Dollywood imprint; Dolly Parton’s custom label ended up being just a footnote in the Archie Records session logs.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Fortunately, Dolly + Randy didn’t hold the show’s dismal reception against its vocal arranger. Randy raved to his sister about Chuck Clayton's work, and Dolly thought he was somebody she’d like to have on staff. She made him a job offer in 2005, but by then he’d been drawn into the administrative operations of Archie Records. Not until the label had finished its run did Chuckii hire on @ Dollywood. He was music director for the theme park from 2015 to 2027.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35464153486/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="LEGENDARY 2003 CONCERT"><img alt="LEGENDARY 2003 CONCERT" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4255/35464153486_36f019f9dc.jpg" width="379" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES STAGED A LEGENDARY INDEPENDENCE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">DAY CONCERT </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">@ PATRICK AIR FORCE</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BASE IN 2003.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">OVERDUB SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NOVEMBER 9 - 14, 2003</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A VA-VA-VOOM PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">in association with</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CRANBERRY STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">*(INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">APRIL 2003</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;">**(INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;">MARCH, MAY 2002</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;">RYMAN OPRY HOUSE, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;">NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">SUMMER IN THE CITY in Dutch (overdub) - lost*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">BIG CITY MISS RUTH ANN in Dutch (overdub) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- Archie Around The World**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">EVERYBODY in Dutch (overdub) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- single (Netherlands)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">WHEN I STOP LEAVIN', I'LL BE GONE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">in Dutch (overdub)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">- single (Netherlands)**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS, NETTA VOORHIES</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>JOHANN PAPAGEORGIOU</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Archies' second foreign-language release was</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>no more successful than their first one. However,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Archie remained committed to multi-lingual tracking;</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>he saw it as an ideal way to connect with fans around</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>the world. "Sooner or later, we'll score a hit that isn't</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>sung in English," he predicted, and he was right! A</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Dutch single of "Summer In The City"/"Everybody" by</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>THE DONUT HOELZ was actually an Archies</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>bootleg taken from these sessions.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52323676257/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="JUNGLE BOOK"><img alt="JUNGLE BOOK" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323676257_a97f421f1d.jpg" width="388" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">GANGSTA RAP GROUP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JUNGLE BOOK!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"PARTRIDGE GANGSTAS"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">DECEMBER 19 - 24, 2003</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BABY GRAND STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">HONOLULU, HAWAII</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MEDLEY:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SINGING MY SONG (FARRELL, HILDEBRAND)/</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DOESN’T SOMEBODY WANT TO BE WANTED?</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(APPEL, CRETECOS, FARRELL)/</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I CAN FEEL YOUR HEARTBEAT </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(APPEL, CRETECOS, FARRELL)/</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I’LL MEET YOU HALFWAY </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(GOFFIN, FARRELL)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- incomplete</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MEDLEY:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ONE NIGHT STAND (ANKA, FARRELL)/</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(FARRELL, JANSSEN)/</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I’M ON MY WAY BACK HOME </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(HART, KELLER)/</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WHEN WE’RE SINGIN’ </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(FARRELL, HILDEBRAND)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- incomplete</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>JUNGLE BOOK</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>featuring TREASURE WOO</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/THE VIXENS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arrangers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>TREASURE WOO, VERONICA</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS, ALAN MAYBERRY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: RHETT VALENTYNE</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: Right up until the end of 2003, Archie Records was open to signing Hip-Hop artists. However, by then Archie + Veronica had started to follow Big Ethel’s example. “We won’t be marketing Gangsta Rap anymore,” Roni informed </i>Billboard.<i> “It’s become toxic! Too much violence and vulgarity! We only want rappers who are safe for kids to listen to.” She didn't realize it, but that one statement ended Archie's relevance to the Rap music industry!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Rhett Valentyne was the owner of Baby Grand Studios in Honolulu. Dude got to know The Archies back in 1992, when he helped them track an unreleased album in The Bahamas. In November of 2003, Rhett alerted The Andrews to a promising local Hip-Hop act. Treasure + The Bigga Niggas had an “old school” Rap vibe and an avid following in the Hawaiian Islands! </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">However, the three members were often @ odds with each other: Lead singer/rapper Treasure Woo had a strong Pop orientation, but MC Shere Khan was a stoned Gangsta rapper at heart. Deejay Mowgli served as the group’s peacemaker, willing to go either way. (A fourth member, Baboo, only appeared with them onstage.) Archie Records signed them on condition of a name change, after which they were known as Jungle Book.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">When the trio visited Archie Sound Studios (ASS), Treasure Woo noticed the sizable collection of Partridge Family albums that Veronica kept in her office. She asked Roni if she could play one, liked what she heard and started singing along. Overhearing her, sound engineer Alan Mayberry got a sudden inspiration: An album of Partridge Family songs performed in a Hip-Hop style! Well, why the fuck not?</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Shere Khan could cite any number of reasons why not! Dude was firmly opposed to the concept, but his objections only managed to get it downsized to an EP. Veronica liked Alan M's idea, and she wasn't going to be dissuaded! </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Treasure set the pitch with a single piano chord and sang; the guys rhymed; Ralfi Chingas played percussion; and Ember + Annabette of The Vixens joined Roni clapping hands to the beat. Despite Khan's hostile attitude, PARTRIDGE GANGSTAS turned out to be a brilliant, cutting-edge recording; everyone who heard the raw tracks raved about how dope they sounded!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">But instrumental recording had barely begun when Mowgli had to quit the group for health reasons; dude suffered from sickle cell disease. He was replaced by Hista the Snake, a Honolulu hoochie mama who shared Shere Khan’s Gangsta Rap leanings. Both of them refused to do any more work on PARTRIDGE GANGSTGAS! Treasure very much wanted to finish the project, but she was outvoted.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Hista brought in lots of new ideas, and Archie was open to them; but the music that the group started making was so violent, racist and misogynistic, he was grossed out. Dude told them bluntly: “I won’t release this shit!” A standoff resulted. Shere Khan was foolish enough to make threats, and Archie responded by cancelling Jungle Book’s recording contract. Much to Veronica + Alan M’s disappointment, the EP was shelved!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;">Treasure Woo quit the group to pursue a solo career but soon left the music business to marry and raise a family. As a duo composed of Shere Khan + Hista, Jungle Book went on to achieve some success recording hardcore Gangsta Rap. Terrified that Khan’s PARTRIDGE GANGSTA vocals might surface and destroy their all-important “street cred”, their manager acquired the raw tracks in 2006 for an undisclosed sum. They’re believed to have been destroyed, but bootlegs exist . . .</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF JUNGLE BOOK FROM ARCHIE’S ROSTER, WE CLOSED THE BOOK ON HIP-HOP AND RAP! THE ARCHIES’ HITS WERE STEERING THE LABEL IN THE DIRECTION OF CLASSIC ROCK, COUNTRY AND SOUL. THAT WASN’T WHERE THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WAS GOING, BUT ARCHIE + VERONICA HAD SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH MICK JAGGER: THEY HAD NO QUALMS ABOUT CHARTING THEIR OWN MUSICAL PATH. THEY WERE LEADERS INSTEAD OF FOLLOWERS OF TRENDS, AND FRANKLY, IF THEY HADN'T BEEN I WOULDN’T HAVE WORKED FOR THEM AS LONG AS I DID!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-year-2004.html" target="_blank"><i>CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE:</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35085614751/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 3"><img alt="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 3" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4264/35085614751_b0af813602.jpg" width="393" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;">"BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>WYNTON MARSALIS PROMISES TO WORK</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>WITH THE ARCHIES</i></span><i style="font-size: large;"> IN THE YEAR</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><i>2 0 0 4 !</i></span></div></b></span>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-43766554358187279622023-01-01T08:15:00.007-05:002023-09-17T18:42:15.427-04:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2002<div style="text-align: center;"><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24600382806/in/album-72157719420037972/" title="ARCHIE COUNTRY LP COVERS"><img alt="ARCHIE COUNTRY LP COVERS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1646/24600382806_a8af036844.jpg" width="385" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presents</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;">A Journey Through</span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">THE GREAT AMERICAN </span></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SONG BOOK</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></b><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>SABRINA: THE ARCHIES GOT BACK TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THE SEPTEMBER 11 DISASTER! THEY PLAYED OVER A DOZEN BENEFIT SHOWS FOR VICTIMS AND FIRST RESPONDERS. IT WAS SERIOUS WORK, DONE UNDER SOMBER CIRCUMSTANCES; BUT THE MEMBERS ENJOYED BEING ON STAGE TOGETHER AGAIN. IT WAS THE IMPETUS THAT ARCHIE + VERONICA NEEDED TO MAKE A REUNION HAPPEN! THEY SOLD THEIR BANDMATES ON THE BENEFITS OF </span><span>SIGNING WITH AN INDIE LABEL AND THEN SWEETENED THE DEAL WITH GUARANTEES OF CREATIVE FREEDOM, OWNERSHIP OF SOLO MASTERS, SUBSTANTIAL ROYALTIES AND PROFIT SHARING - NONE OF WHICH THEY'D HAD AS KIRSHNER </span><span>RECORDS ARTISTS!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">THE BAND INKED A TEN-YEAR CONTRACT WITH ARCHIE RECORDS ON NOVEMBER 12, 2001. WITH AN A + R CHIEF YET TO BE NAMED, A PRIORITY WAS PUT ON FINDING A PRODUCER FOR THE GROUP'S NEW PRODUCT. CANDIDATES AUDITIONED FOR THE JOB OVER A PERIOD OF FOUR WEEKS; I WAS ONE OF THEM, BUT THEY WERE NERVOUS ABOUT MY LACK OF EXPERIENCE. DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO WAS ALSO REJECTED, EVEN THOUGH BY THAT TIME HE WAS BUILDING A STRONG TRACK RECORD WORKING WITH <i>TEJANO </i>ACTS. FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER, NOBODY SEEMED RIGHT! ALL THE ARCHIES KNEW FOR SURE WAS THAT THEY WANTED TO START FRESH; THEIR NEW PRODUCER WASN'T GOING TO BE ANYBODY THEY'D WORKED WITH BEFORE.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>HOW CAROLE KING GOT INVOLVED IS A LONG STORY THAT I WON'T BORE YOU WITH; BUT IN EARLY DECEMBER, ARCHIE MET WITH HER REPRESENTATIVES IN A CONFERENCE THAT LASTED ALL DAY! CAROLE WAS NEVER GOING TO BE THE ARCHIES' REGULAR PRODUCER, BUT THEY WERE EAGER TO WORK WITH HER ON A SPECIAL PROJECT. IN MID-DECEMBER, THEY CUT DEMOS FOR A PROPOSED ALBUM OF HER CLASSIC SIXTIES HITS. THAT HAPPENED @ LEGENDARY SUN STUDIOS IN MEMPHIS. I MET CAROLE DURING THOSE SESSIONS, AND SHE WAS VERY ENTHUSIASTIC </span><span>ABOUT COLLABORATING WITH THE ARCHIES; </span><span>HER DAUGHTER LOUISE GOFFIN WAS SLATED TO PRODUCE THE RECORD. HOWEVER, THE TRIBUTE ALBUM WAS OPPOSED BY CERTAIN PEOPLE CLOSE TO CAROLE, AND </span><span>THE NEXT THING I KNEW, IT WAS CANCELLED!</span></span></div></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SO, PRODUCER AUDITIONS STARTED ALL OVER AGAIN, BUT THEY DIDN'T LAST LONG. REGGIE MANTLE RECOMMENDED A CANDIDATE WHO IMPRESSED EVERYBODY: A LATIN MUSIC VETERAN WHO'D SUPERVISED A SOLO ALBUM THAT HE'D CUT THE PREVIOUS YEAR. RALFI CHINGAS WAS QUITE VERSATILE MUSICALLY AND INTERESTED IN WHAT EACH MEMBER BROUGHT TO THE GROUP. HE COULD BE A REAL TASKMASTER IN THE STUDIO, BUT HE WAS ALSO FUN TO WORK WITH AND BURSTING WITH IDEAS. MOST IMPORTANTLY, HE GOT ALONG WELL WITH BOTH ARCHIE + VERONICA (FOR A WHILE)! IN JANUARY OF 2002, RALFI SUPERVISED THE FIRST OF MANY ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>THE SECOND YEAR: 2002</i></span></div></span></b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"STANDING IN THE NEED OF LOVE"</b></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52423247025/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE ARCHIES ARE BACK"><img alt="THE ARCHIES ARE BACK" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52423247025_c8aae9257d.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR THE ARCHIES' <i>DÉBUT</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">ON THE ARCHIE LABEL.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SINGLES SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JANUARY 16-21, 2002</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EL RANCHO CHINGAS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WALK WITH A WINNER - Disque D'Or (France)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Colley, Jones, Mannering)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">CAN'T ESCAPE FROM YOU, BABY!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Disque D'Or (France)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Adams, Ragovoy)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">NIKI HOEKY - Big Noise From Riverdale box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ford, Vegas)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ROCK IT! - fan club single</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Goetzman, Piccirillo)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger/Producer: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: MIGUELITO SKEEN</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Archies now featured Betty Jones on saxophone,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>an instrument that her husband Jughead taught her</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to play. Of course, Juggy was on drums, Reggie </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Mantle played bass, </i><i>Roni Lodge-Andrews played </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>keyboards and Archie Andrews was the guitarist.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>These were the first finished masters that the</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>reformed group cut with their new producer. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>A successful </i><i>demo session prompted Archie + </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Veronica to </i><i>schedule this singles session; </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>however, years will </i><i>pass before </i><i>any of these </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>songs see light of day. An alternate take of</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Can't Escape From You, Baby" will surface</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>on the 2097 ARCHIES AUSTRALIAN </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>SINGLES COLLECTION box set.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52357463631/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="DEBDELMAN PROMO"><img alt="DEBDELMAN PROMO" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52357463631_b19f8ab741.jpg" width="390" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR THE AUSTRALIAN HIT </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span>SINGLE </span><span>"MY DREAM" BY </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">DEB DELMAN.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">CAPITOL RECORDS AUSTRALIA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"YOUR OTHER LOVE"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">JANUARY 19 - 25, FEBRUARY 3 - 5, 2002</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPLENDID MEDIA,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WE HAVE SOMETHING MORE - Your Other Love LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Brignolo, Daniele, Gentile, Lambert)*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FALLIN’ - Your Other Love LP**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">from the Cathay film <i>Dreamboat</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Greenfield, Sedaka)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">NO BETTER OFF </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Your Other Love LP*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Kahan, Keyes)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HILL UNDERGROUND </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Your Other Love LP*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Lewis-Warrick, Smith)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SEND FOR MY BABY - single B-side*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">from the San Pacifico motion picture </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><i>Edsel Summer</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Heath, Rose)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LOVE IS ME, LOVE IS YOU </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Your Other Love LP*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tony Hatch)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ROUNDABOUT </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Your Other Love LP***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tony Hatch)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MY DREAM </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single A-side***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Deb Delman)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SPANISH NIGHTS AND YOU </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Your Other Love LP***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Albanese, Merrell)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IT WOULD STILL BE WORTH IT</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Your Other Love LP***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ballard, Tobias)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YOUR OTHER LOVE </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Your Other Love LP***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Ogermann, Raleigh)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IT’S A DIFFERENT WORLD</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Your Other Love LP***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jimmie Crane)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LOVE EYES -</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">from the Broadway musical <i>Whoop Up</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Your Other Love LP**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Charlap, Gimbel)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DANCE MY TROUBLES AWAY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">from the Fox film <i>Zorba The Greek</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Your Other Love LP*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Stillman, Theodorakis)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>DEB DELMAN</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">w/THE EDEN DAWN STRINGS</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>w/THE NASTY BOYS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Vocal Arranger: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arrangers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>*GERALDINE GRUNDY, **ROD MACK,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>***BREE SPELLMAN</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: EVA NAMAZZI</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producer: CHUCK CLAYTON</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>PHILIPPE TIMOTHÉE, CHEVY TIDINGS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Salem da Katt: When executives @ Capitol Records Australia heard about the wonders Archie’s production staff had worked with Harris Gardner, they got in touch with Veronica. Former child star Deb Delman, now an Alt Rock singer/songwriter, was clearly an act destined for great things! Admirers called her Australia’s Barbra Streisand, but perhaps a more apt comparison would’ve been Aretha Franklin. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Like Aretha in the early 1960s, she’d released several critically-acclaimed records but nothing had caught fire. Now her husband and manager was itching to ditch Capitol and land her a new record deal! Desperate to keep Deb in their stable, Capitol commissioned its American indie “sister label” to come up with a long-delayed hit. That's how Chuck Clayton bagged his first production job; but setting a studio date proved difficult.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Deb Delman had so many prior commitments, it made scheduling a stateside session all but impossible. After three months of cancellations, she suggested that they record in Australia. Capitol flew Chuck + his session crew over to Melbourne. The production staff included Sabrina on keyboards, Rod Mack on guitar, Pop Tate on sax, drummer Midge Mercury and a new version of backing vocal trio The Nasty Boys, with Chuck’s baritone replacing Archie’s tenor. Former music teacher Geraldine Grundy came along, too, in order to provide a female backing voice. Before she entered the teaching profession, Deanie was a Folk singer of some renown; Deb's husband Mark Gyurina was a fan and thrilled to meet her!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Deb Delman’s preferred recording locale was Splendid Media, better known as the Eden Dawn nightclub. Much like Spanish Eddie’s Bar + Grill, where The Archies would later cut many sessions, the Eden was a Rock club that functioned as a tracking studio in the daytime. Its owner was symphony musician Eva Namazzi, whose seven-piece string section was sometimes available for record dates. Chuckii thought it was a shame that Deb had yet to use strings on a studio session, and he decided to change that!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Her original songs were on the edgy side, but he wanted to take a more Pop-oriented approach. Dude asked if she had an old-fashioned ballad in her songbook, whereupon she played him one called “My Dream”. Chuckii was hella impressed! “That sounds like a Connie Francis song,” he raved. Deb informed him that her mother was a major Connie Francis fan. “Would you believe she once asked me to cut a tribute album to Connie?” she laughed. “Imagine me, singing music like that!” Chuckii didn’t think the idea was funny @ all. “You can write that kind of music,” he reasoned, “so why not? @ least for this one album. What have you got to lose?”</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>She took some convincing, but once it was decided that “My Dream” would be the centerpiece of her new project, Deb was on board. That song would break for a massive hit in Australia, and her LP salute to Connie Francis would chase it to the top of the down-under charts! </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Babe was fully involved in track selection: She dug deep into Connie’s catalog for choice Jazz, Latin, Rockabilly and even Folk material. “Anybody expecting me to warble ‘Where The Boys Are’ is going to be disappointed,” she told the music press, “but I think they’ll be pleasantly surprised. This album shows off a very different side of me.”</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i>Its </i>retro <i>sound was a one-off project: Never again would Deb Delman sing “that kind of music.” However, she did keep writing frothy ballads like “My Dream!” In the future, when her cutting-edge musician friends would ask why, she’d just say: “Because my fans love them so much!” The success of YOUR OTHER LOVE helped Oz’s Precious Little Sweetheart finally make the transition from child star to Pop diva.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: THIS ALBUM WAS A FIRM FAVORITE OF VERONICA’S, AND OVER THE YEARS SHE WOULD URGE OTHER ARTISTS TO COVER ITS SONGS. THE ARCHIES LATER CUT A VERSION OF “HILL UNDERGROUND” AND SESSION GUITARIST MADAME AXE (WHOM YOU’LL MEET ON THE FIFTH STOP OF THIS JOURNEY) WOULD HAVE HER METALLIC WAY WITH “WE HAVE SOMETHING MORE” AND “NO BETTER OFF”. NO SURPRISE, THEN, THAT RONI DECIDED TO RELEASE DEB’S ALBUM STATESIDE; IT HAD THE HONOR OF BEING ARCHIE RECORDS’ FIRST DOMESTIC LP!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">UNFORTUNATELY, SALES WERE DISAPPOINTING BUT ARCH + RONI STILL MADE MONEY FROM IT. THEY LICENSED THE SELECTIONS "FALLIN'" AND "SEND FOR MY BABY" TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FOR A PAIR OF MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS. BOTH FILMS WERE SET IN THE 1950S, SO THE <i>RETRO </i>SOUND OF THOSE NUMBERS WAS PERFECT FOR THEM. ROYALTIES CAME ROLLING IN WHEN FIRST <i>DREAMBOAT </i>AND THEN <i>EDSEL SUMMER</i> BECAME BIG BOX OFFICE HITS! THOSE TWO SONGS INAUGURATED DEB DELMAN’S CATALOG OF MOTION PICTURE MUSIC, WHICH WOULD GROW TO BE QUITE LARGE.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24828661356/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES + CAROLE KING IN MEMPHIS"><img alt="ARCHIES + CAROLE KING IN MEMPHIS" height="394" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1616/24828661356_a05826f90e.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES IN THE STUDIO WITH</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">LEGENDARY SINGER/SONGWRITER </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">AND MUSICAL ARRANGER </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">CAROLE KING!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">REMIX SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"SO MUCH LOVE"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FEBRUARY 11-16, 2002</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">YOU'RE A SWEET SWEETHEART (overdub) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">- single flipside</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">HI-DE-HO (overdub) - Retro box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">SO MUCH LOVE (overdub) - Retro box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">ONE FINE DAY (overdub) - Retro box set</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(Goffin, King)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Remix Producer: RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This was an overdub session for four demos </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>recorded in late 2001 </i><i>with Carole King. A </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>proposed extended-play </i><i>album was never</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> released. These demos </i><i>will be remixed twice</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>more in the year 2030</i><i>, for a poorly-selling</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>compilation and a best-selling album whose</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>release will be delayed until the year 2127.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34226808454/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES @ RYMAN OPRY HOUSE"><img alt="ARCHIES @ RYMAN OPRY HOUSE" height="392" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4231/34226808454_b7414a0c4b.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES @ NASHVILLE'S</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RYMAN OPRY HOUSE IN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">MARCH OF 2002.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span>SABRINA: RIGHT AFTER THE ARCHIES OFFICIALLY SIGNED RALFI CHINGAS AS THEIR PRODUCER, THEY WORKED WITH RAÚL MALO, </span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span>LEAD SINGER/SONGWRITER OF COUNTRY BAND THE MAVERICKS. RAÚL WAS A </span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">FAN AND HE RECRUITED THE GROUP FOR A TV PROJECT HE WAS WORKING ON. </span><i style="color: #d9ead3;">UNDER A TEXAS MOON </i><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WAS A WESTERN-THEMED MINISERIES THAT RAN ON COUNTRY MUSIC TELEVISION IN LATE 2002. THE BAND APPEARED IN A BARROOM BRAWL SCENE, AND THE SONG THAT THEY PERFORMED LATER BECAME A HIT MAVERICKS SINGLE. NO SOUNDTRACK ALBUM WAS MARKETED, SO THE ARCHIES' ORIGINAL VERSION OF "COME UNTO ME" WON'T BE RELEASED UNTIL THE YEAR 2035, LONG AFTER ARCHIE RECORDS HAS CLOSED</span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SOUNDTRACK SESSIONS</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"UNDER A TEXAS MOON"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A WARNER BROTHERS PRODUCTION</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">FEBRUARY 21 - 24, 2002</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">THE WARNER BROTHERS RANCH,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">BURBANK, CALIFORNIA</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-size: medium;">COME UNTO ME - Disque D'Or (France)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-size: medium;">(Raúl Malo)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-size: medium;">COME UNTO ME, INSTRUMENTAL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-size: medium;">- unreleased</span></div></span></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>w/RAÚ</i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>L MALO</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Arranger/Producer: </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Music Director:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>RAÚL MALO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, VIRGIL BRADLEY,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>COCO KENSINGTON, TARLETON GOTH</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Executive Producer </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>for Archie Records:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>These tracks were captured on one of Warner Brothers' legendary </i></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>soundstages! Betty Jones was chosen to sing lead voice. For a band that had never before played Tex-Mex-style, The Archies acquitted themselves admirably; Latin music expert Ralfi Chingas firmly but patiently coaxed authentic performances out of them. In addition to acting as composer and music </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>director, Raúl Malo sang harmony with Kevin Keller. The instrumental track was intended to have a Spanish </i></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>vocal, but after over a dozen attempts Malo couldn't get a "take" he was satisfied with. Not until well into the decade would The Archies be competent recording in foreign languages!</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></b></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52563198146/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIES @ WARNER BROTHERS"><img alt="ARCHIES @ WARNER BROTHERS" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52563198146_d0302aefa9.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">THE ARCHIES w/ KEVIN KELLER + </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">RAÚL MALO </span><span style="color: #fce5cd;">IN 2002, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">TRACKING MUSIC @ WARNER BROTHERS STUDIOS. THEIR </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">VERSION OF MALO'S SONG "COME UNTO ME" WAS </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">FEATURED IN A TV MINISERIES.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span>THE ARCHIES' WORK<i> ON UNDER A TEXAS MOON </i>DIRECTLY INFLUENCED THEIR CHOICE OF A COMEBACK ALBUM THEME. "WHY DON'T WE CUT A WHOLE COUNTRY MUSIC LP?" BETTY SUGGESTED. RALFI CHINGAS THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA, AND HE CONVINCED ARCHIE + VERONICA TO GO WITH IT. FROM MARCH TO JUNE 2002, THE GROUP CUT THEIR MILLION-SELLING <i>ARCHIE COUNTRY </i>LP IN MEMPHIS AND NASHVILLE. ITS BLEND OF ROCKABILLY AND HONKY TONK NUMBERS WITH "NASHVILLE SOUND" COUNTRY FAVORITES WOULD PROVE TO BE JUST WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTED TO HEAR; @ LONG LAST, ARCHIE RECORDS WAS ON THE VERGE OF SCORING ITS FIRST SMASH HIT! AND EVERYBOD</span>Y </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">KNEW IT.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ARCHIE COUNTRY"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH 2002</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">RYMAN OPRY HOUSE,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">EYES OF A NEW YORK WOMAN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">GOOD DEAL, LUCILLE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">A SATISFIED MIND</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">LONELY WEEKENDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">PRETTY ANNA BELLE - discarded</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">I DON'T WANNA LOVE YOU</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">MY MARIA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">JUST SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">PARTY DOLL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">MY HEART SKIPS A BEAT</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">RUBY ANN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">IF YOU AIN'T LOVIN, YOU AIN'T LIVIN'</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">BIG CITY MISS RUTH ANN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">SWEET CITY WOMAN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">DIESEL ON MY TAIL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">ROSALIE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">PLAIN AND SIMPLE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger/Producer: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: RANDY KLING</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Archies began recording a double-length Country</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>music album! Their old friend Dilton was on hand to</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>play fiddle and accordion. The band cut all of </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>the instrumental tracks @ Nashville's Ryman</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> Opry House; it </i><i>was home to the legendary Grand </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Ole Opry for </i><i>many years.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34472318396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="JUGHEAD IS F*CKING AWESOME"><img alt="JUGHEAD IS F*CKING AWESOME" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4185/34472318396_ddc7b92b0e.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JUGGY WAS THE ARCHIE'S NOT-SO-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SECRET WEAPON: ONE OF THE BEST</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PERCUSSIONISTS IN THE MUSIC</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BUSINESS!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ARCHIE COUNTRY"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MARCH 2002</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SUN STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MY MARÌA - Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Moore, Stevenson)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I DON'T WANNA LOVE YOU </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Mann, Weil)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">LONELY WEEKENDS </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single, Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Charlie Rich)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">GOOD DEAL, LUCILLE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single, Return To Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Miller, Theriot)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DIESEL ON MY TAIL </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Return To Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jimmy Fagan)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">JUST SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Jack Clement)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger/Producer: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, CINDY ST. JOSEPHS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Lonely Weekends" was the first hit single </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>for The Archies on their new label. "I Don't Wanna </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Love You" became a regional hit in 2005. A third </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>selection from these dates, "Good Deal, Lucille" </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>scored big in 2009. Reggie Mantle sang lead </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>on all three sides.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35464152286/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ONLY IN AMERICA 1"><img alt="ONLY IN AMERICA 1" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4237/35464152286_89181f582b.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">SELECTIONS FROM THE ARCHIES' TWO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">COUNTRY ALBUMS WILL BE SOME OF</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">THE MOST POPULAR SIDES WITH</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">US MILITARY PERSONNEL.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ALBUM SESSIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"ARCHIE COUNTRY"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">A RALFI CHINGAS PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">APRIL 2002</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SUN STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">PARTY DOLL - Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Bowen, Knox)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">ROSALIE - single, Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Linda Hargrove)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Joe South)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MY HEART SKIPS A BEAT </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Buck Owens)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">RUBY ANN - Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Roberta Bellamy)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">A SATISFIED MIND </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Hayes, Rhodes)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">IF YOU AIN'T LOVIN', YOU AIN'T LIVIN' </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Return To Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tommy Collins)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Return To Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Freddie Hart)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">PLAIN AND SIMPLE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Return To Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Geld, Udell)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">BIG CITY MISS RUTH ANN </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tom Lazoros)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger/Producer: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, CINDY ST. JOSEPHS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Down In The Boondocks" and "Plain And </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Simple" were issued as fan club singles. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Archie Andrews sang lead on </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>both sides.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34885467096/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="LONELY WEEKENDS"><img alt="LONELY WEEKENDS" height="390" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4273/34885467096_ed97d47ea4.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">PROMO FOR THE ARCHIES'</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; 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font-size: medium;">MAY 2002</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SUN STUDIOS,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">REASON TO WORRY </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Return To Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(David Russo)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">SLEEPY-EYED JOHN </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Return To Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tex Atchison)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">I AIN'T NEVER! - Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Pierce, Tillis)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">EYES OF A NEW YORK WOMAN </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Mark James)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">PRETTY ANNA BELLE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single, Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Levine, Thomas)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">NO LOVE AT ALL </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Christopher, Thompson)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">EVERYBODY - Lonely Weekends EP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Tommy Roe)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WHEN I STOP LEAVIN', I'LL BE GONE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single, Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Kent Robbins)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger/Producer: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, CINDY ST. JOSEPHS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Forsythe "Juggy" Jones sang all the leads </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>at these </i><i>sessions except for "Reason To </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Worry", which was </i><i>sung by Roni Lodge-</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Andrews. 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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single flipside, Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Lee Hazlewood)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">WAITING FOR YOU - single flipside</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Barry, Greenwich)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">MY BOY ARCHIE - Return To Archie Country LP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Fitting, Rockingham)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>w/KEVIN KELLER</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger/Producer: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>RALFI CHINGAS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineers:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, CINDY ST. JOSEPHS</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Either Betty or Veronica or both women</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>together sang all the lead vocals at this</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>session. The high background voice</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>belonged to Kevin Keller.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span><span>SABRINA: ONE OF THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THE ARCHIES AGREED TO REGROUP WAS THAT THEY WOULDN'T TOUR CONSTANTLY </span><span>LIKE MOST OTHER BANDS DID. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE WAS </span><span>NO CONCERT TOUR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE RELEASE </span><span>OF </span><i>ARCHIE COUNTRY!</i><span> THE ALBUM WAS PROMOTED WITH </span><span>MUSIC VIDEOS, HIGH-PROFILE PERSONAL APPEARANCES AND </span><span>LOTS OF WORD-OF-</span><span>MOUTH. VERONICA LATER BELIEVED THAT </span><span>NOT HEADING </span><span>OUT ON THE ROAD WORKED IN THE </span><span>ARCHIES' FAVOR; IT ALLOWED THEM </span></span><span>TO BUILD A </span><span>MYSTIQUE WITH THE PUBLIC. EVERYBODY THOUGHT </span><span>THAT WAS A BIG MISTAKE, UNTIL THE </span><span>ALBUM WON A </span><span>PLATINUM SALES AWARD</span><span>!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34352730832/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="DISCO QUEEN"><img alt="DISCO QUEEN" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4161/34352730832_a89978a72f.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BETTY JONES CAME INTO HER OWN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">AS A LEAD SINGER ON ARCHIE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">RECORDS RELEASES.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">EP SESSION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">"HOT CHOCOLATE ARCHIE"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AN ISLAND PACIFIC PRODUCTION</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">in association with</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTIONS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">(INSTRUMENTALS + VOCALS)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">AUGUST 19 - 22, 2002</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">SPLENDID MEDIA,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YOU SEXY THING! in Chinese </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Brown, Zhang) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- unreleased</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">EVERY ONE'S A WINNER in Chinese </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Brown, Zhang) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- unreleased</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">COULD'VE BEEN A LADY in Chinese </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Brown, Wilson, Zhang) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- unreleased</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">DISCO QUEEN in Chinese </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">- single (Asia)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">(Brown, Wilson, Zhang)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Arranger: PAM-PAM</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Conductor: EVA NAMAZZI</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Producer: BARCLAY SINGH</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sound Engineer: </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>CHEVY TIDINGS HOWE</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Betty Jones sang lead on all four of The Archies' first and</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>only Chinese-language recordings, which were also the first</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>sides they cut specifically for a foreign country. It was</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>logical to feature Betty because in Asia, the tracks from ARCHIE</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>COUNTRY with her lead vocals had been the most popular.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Although an EP tribute to iconic British band Hot Chocolate</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>was recorded @ these sessions, only one side ever got</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>released. It was not successful, but the group continued</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>to work with Punjabi producer Barclay Singh on all</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>sides recorded for Asian markets.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/35175431606/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="END OF A CENTURY CANCELLED"><img alt="END OF A CENTURY CANCELLED" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4246/35175431606_e5a34cdde6.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">IN THE YEAR 2088, AN ARCHIES</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">BOX SET TITLED <i>END OF THE</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><i>CENTURY</i> WILL BE SOLD TO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">JAPANESE FANS IN VERY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">LIMITED QUANTITIES.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>SABRINA: NO MORE MASTERS WERE CUT IN 2002, BUT THAT DIDN'T MEAN THE COMPANY WAS IDLE. IN SEPTEMBER, ARCHIE + VERONICA LAUNCHED CHERRY VAGINA MUSIC, THE SONG PUBLISHING ARM OF ARCHIE RECORDS. NAMING THE FIRM SOMETHING SO PROVOCATIVE </span><span>WAS QUESTIONABLE, TO SAY THE LEAST; BUT THEY WANTED </span><span>A NAME THAT WAS BOTH UNUSUAL AND MEMORABLE. "CHERRY VAGINA" WAS WHAT THEY CAME UP WITH! I NEVER LIKED IT, BUT I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT </span><span>CHUCK CLAYTON'S DESIGN FOR THE COMPANY INSIGNIA - AN ABSTRACT RENDERING OF THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT - </span><span>WAS REALLY QUITE BEAUTIFUL.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><span>@ THIS EARLY STAGE, THE ARCHIES INTENDED TO RECORD ORIGINAL </span><span>MATERIAL WRITTEN BY GROUP MEMBERS. ARCHIE, BETTY, JUGGY, RONI + </span><span>KELLY (KEVIN KELLER'S NICKNAME) WERE ALL SIGNED TO THE FIRM. SO WAS I, WITH MY WRITING PARTNER TIMOTHY GARLAND, AS WELL AS TERRY "POP" TATE + DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO. CHUCK CLAYTON WAS CONTRACTED TO ANOTHER SONG PUBLISHER @ THE TIME, BUT WHEN THAT CONTRACT RAN OUT A FEW YEARS LATER, HE SIGNED UP, TOO. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">BIG ETHEL ALSO CAME ON BOARD; IMPATIENT WITH JUST BEING A PREACHER'S WIFE, SHE WANTED TO TRY HER HAND @ WRITING STANDARD SONG LYRICS. SHE + REGGIE (WHO ARRANGED MUSIC BUT DIDN'T COMPOSE IT) WERE OUR PRIMARY DEMO AND JINGLE SINGERS. NOT ONLY DID WE WRITE FOR ARTISTS, WE ALSO COMPOSED, SANG AND PRODUCED RADIO, TV AND WEB COMMERCIALS.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">ALAN MAYBERRY WAS THE DEFAULT DEMO PRODUCER BUT REALLY, ALL OF US WERE PRODUCERS AS WELL AS WRITERS. WE DEMO'D SONGS FURIOUSLY ALL THROUGH THE FALL AND WINTER, LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR A MUSIC STOCKPILE THAT WOULD BE ONE OF SUGARTOWN'S MOST VALUABLE ASSETS!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-2003.html" target="_blank"><i>CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE: </i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/49512248356/in/dateposted/" title="HEY, MAMBO!"><img alt="HEY, MAMBO!" height="324" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49512248356_55581542fd.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;">"I JUST CAN'T HELP IT"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>MICK JAGGER SHRUGS OFF FAN CRITICISM</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>FOR WORKING WITH THE ARCHIES</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: medium;"><i>IN THE YEAR</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><i>2 0 0 3 !</i></span></div></span></b>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-34675437589199534572023-01-01T08:12:00.007-05:002023-09-17T18:42:15.427-04:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: THE YEAR 2001<div style="text-align: center;"><b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52669142098/in/dateposted/" title="SO MUCH LOVE ALBUM COVER"><img alt="SO MUCH LOVE ALBUM COVER" height="374" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52669142098_42ef8a044d.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presents</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;">A Journey Through</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">THE GREAT AMERICAN </span></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SONG BOOK</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>FROM ROD MACK'S ORAL HISTORY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>OF ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">JANUARY, 2015 . . . </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">THE PLACE WAS ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, LONDON, UK.</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>A STUDIO CREW WAS SETTING UP THE PENTHOUSE FOR A NEW RECORDING SESSION, SCHEDULED FOR THE NEXT DAY. THE SCHEDULED ARTISTS WERE THE VIXENS, A TRIO OF FORMER OFFICE WORKERS. CLYDENE, MIMI + PIPPA HAD PROVEN THEMSELVES REPEATEDLY ON STAGE AND AS A BACKING VOCAL GROUP. NOW THEY WERE READY FOR A SHOT @ THE BIG TIME! I HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO PRODUCE THEM. MY NAME'S ROD.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>THE ALBUM MY CO-PRODUCER + I PLANNED TO RECORD WITH THE VIXENS FEATURED SELECTIONS BY NOTABLE SONGWRITERS LIKE LEE HAZLEWOOD, BARRY MANN + CYNTHIA WEIL, NEIL DIAMOND, AND LENNON + MCCARTNEY. SOME OF ENGLAND’S FINEST ROCK MUSICIANS HAD BEEN BOOKED TO ACCOMPANY THEM.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52312658843/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BookScanCenter"><img alt="BookScanCenter" height="322" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52312658843_ffbf8a70f2.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE VIXENS AND THEIR NEVER-</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PRODUCED FIRST ALBUM.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>THIS ALBUM WAS GOING TO BE CALLED </i>VIXENS IN SUGAR TOWN, <i>BUT IT WAS NEVER RECORDED, AND THE SINGLE THAT WAS TO PRECEDE IT WAS NEVER RELEASED. LATER THAT DAY, ABBEY ROAD’S STUDIO CREW CAME AND DISMANTLED THE EQUIPMENT. THE PENTHOUSE WAS LEFT OPEN FOR A NEW BOOKING, BUT NOT BY THE RECORD COMPANY WHOSE DATE HAD BEEN CANCELLED.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>THE VIXENS’ ABORTED ALBUM SESSION AND SINGLE RELEASE SIGNALED THE END OF ARCHIE RECORDS! IT WAS ARGUABLY THE MOST AMAZING INDIE RECORD LABEL EVER: A 21st CENTURY LABEL THAT SOLD BEST-SELLLING REVIVALS OF CLASSIC POP AND ROCK SONGS FROM THE 20TH CENTURY. I SHOULD KNOW BECAUSE I WAS THERE: SINGING, PLAYING GUITAR, ARRANGING AND PRODUCING, ALL OF THE FOURTEEN YEARS IT WAS IN EXISTENCE.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>ASIDE FROM ITS ARTISTS, FOUR PEOPLE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LABEL’S SUCCESS: MY DEAR FRIENDS ARCHIE ANDREWS, HIS WIFE VERONICA LODGE-ANDREWS, SOUND ENGINEER ALAN MAYBERRY AND MY FORMER BOSS, NICHOLAS “BIG NIPSY” FREUND. WITH ALAN M, THE ANDREWS OWNED THE LABEL, AND WITH BIG NIPSY THEY FORMED A PRODUCTION PARTNERSHIP THAT WAS ITS PARENT COMPANY.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>TOGETHER, THEY STEERED A COURSE THROUGH THE MUSIC INDUSTRY THAT RELIED PRIMARILY ON VINTAGE SONGS INSTEAD OF ORIGINAL MATERIAL. FOR MOST RECORD COMPANIES, THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A WACK STRATEGY AS WELL AS A DOOMED ONE; BUT ARCHIE RECORDS WAS NO ORDINARY LABEL. IT WAS EXTRAORDINARY IN EVERY WAY: ITS STAFF, ITS ARTISTS AND DEFINITELY ITS PRODUCT! EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING ABOUT ARCHIE WAS TOP-NOTCH; THERE WAS NO HYPE AND NEVER ANY NEED FOR IT.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>BECAUSE ARCHIE WAS SO UNIQUE, COMPARISONS WITH OTHER GREAT RECORD LABELS ARE HARD TO MAKE. THE CLOSEST PRECEDENT IS MOTOWN. @ THE HEIGHT OF ITS SUCCESS IN THE SIXTIES, BERRY GORDY, JR’S POP MUSIC EMPIRE ACQUIRED A NICKNAME: </i>HITSVILLE USA! <i>ARCHIE RECORDS ALSO HAD A NICKNAME: IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IT WAS COINED BY BIG ETHEL, ARCHIE'S FIRST HIT RECORDING ARTIST. THE NAME WAS IDENTICAL TO THE TITLE OF THE VIXENS’ NEVER-RECORDED </i>DÉBUT <i>ALBUM: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>SUGARTOWN!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369279396/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORS 100th ANNIVERSARY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369279396_6a3637f013.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><i><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE FIRST YEAR: </b><b style="font-family: verdana;">2001</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"THAT'S THE WAY </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">WE GET BY"</b></span></div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">SABRINA: YOU KNOW ME! DEPENDING ON HOW WELL YOU KNOW ME, YOU MIGHT CALL ME "BREE". I’M A FAIRLY WELL-KNOWN RECORD PRODUCER AND THE OWNER OF A FAMOUS RECORDING STUDIO. FROM READING THIS BLOG, YOU MAY ALSO KNOW THAT I'M A WICCAN; BUT DURING THE TIME PERIOD I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT, I WAS MORE INTO MUSIC THAN MAGIC.</span></b></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS FROM NOW, I'M GOING TO PUT TOGETHER A ROCK GROUP: THE NEW ARCHIES! MAYBE YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT; BUT YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THAT MY INVOLVEMENT WITH ARCHIE’S LEGACY GOES BACK MUCH FARTHER.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I KNEW MOST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ARCHIES IN HIGH SCHOOL, <i>BEFORE </i>THEY WERE A ROCK GROUP; AND THAT MEANS I KNEW ARCHIE + VERONICA LODGE-ANDREWS LONG BEFORE THEY MARRIED AND STARTED A RECORD COMPANY TOGETHER.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>IN JANUARY OF THE YEAR 2000, THEY PURCHASED AN ABANDONED TRAIN DEPOT IN MAMARONECK, NEW YORK. BY DECEMBER, THEY'D TRANSFORMED IT INTO AN OFFICE COMPLEX AND RECORDING STUDIO. THEY ALSO INCORPORATED A RECORD LABEL WITH THEIR FRIEND ALAN MAYBERRY AS A PARTNER. THE PAPERWORK WAS FINALIZED ON DECEMBER 31st OF THAT YEAR.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>LIKE MOTOWN, ARCHIE WAS A FAMILY COMPANY. I WAS ON STAFF, BUT MOST OF THE REST WERE RELATIVES OF RONI OR ARCHIE. HER COUSIN LEROY WAS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER. HER COUSIN MARCY HEADED THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT. ANOTHER COUSIN, HARPER, WAS IN CHARGE OF ART DIRECTION AND PRODUCT DESIGN.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE PROMOTION DIRECTOR (ARCHIE'S UNCLE DUFFY, WHO'D BEEN IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS SINCE THE SEVENTIES), HARPER LODGE JOY CREATED THE LABEL'S EYE-CATCHING GRAPHICS. MY FRIEND CHUCK CLAYTON, A CREATIVE TALENT IN MANY WAYS, HAD A HAND IN THAT, TOO: HE DESIGNED THE "ARCHIE" LOGO.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I'VE KNOWN ALEXANDRA CABOT-MAYBERRY FOR YEARS; SHE'S A STUDENT OF THE OCCULT, AND I BEGAN TUTORING HER AS A TEENAGER. XANDIE WAS HIRED TO HEAD ARCHIE'S A + R DEPARTMENT, AND SHE BROUGHT ME IN AS THE LABEL'S UNOFFICIAL MUSIC DIRECTOR. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>@ THE TIME, I WAS A PIANIST WITH THE RIVERDALE SYMPHONY. THAT WASN'T AN EASY JOB TO GET, AND I WAS GRATEFUL FOR IT; ALL THE SAME, A STEADY DIET OF CLASSICAL AND POPS HAD ME BORED STIFF! I WANTED TO PLAY MORE EXCITING MUSIC, SO I JUMPED AT XANDIE'S INVITATION. I NEVER REGRETTED MY DECISION.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS WAS DESTINED TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL INDIES OF THE 2000s. IT LED THE WAY IN REVIVING CLASSIC ROCK ‘N’ ROLL, FIGHTING ITS WAY INTO A MUSIC MARKETPLACE DOMINATED BY ALT ROCK AND HIP-HOP. THE ARCHIE LABEL PIONEERED A REVOLUTION IN POPULAR MUSIC THAT WOULD LATER BE CALLED <i>RETRO;</i> HOWEVER, YOU MAY BE SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT IT BEGAN LIFE AS A GANGSTA RAP LABEL!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/24487386209/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BITCH BETTER BRING MY PIZZA"><img alt="BITCH BETTER BRING MY PIZZA" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1688/24487386209_cd73ca27ba.jpg" width="392" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE FIRST HIT SINGLE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FOR ARCHIE RECORDS!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">ARCHIE RECORDS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SINGLES SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JANUARY 6 - 13, 2001</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CROOKED TAMPON RAP - single B-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Cabot, Muggs)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;">BITCH BETTER BRING MY PIZZA!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- single A-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Cabot, Muggs, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>BIG ETHEL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MUGGS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: ALEXANDRA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineer: ALAN MAYBERRY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: Fawn Ethel Muggs was briefly a classmate of Archie @ Riverdale High. She was a shy, awkward girl who had trouble making friends. She didn’t begin to blossom until her family moved to Dorchester, Massachusetts. Fawn fell in love with Hip-Hop, and gravitated to inner-city kids who could rhyme. Her acceptance among them was assured when she demonstrated superior rhyming skills of her own! Soon, babe was winning poetry slams and Rap showdowns all over New England.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>White girl MCs have always been a novelty and not much in demand, but Big Ethel (her Rap handle) was in a class all her own. She earned a reputation that drew interest from several major record labels! Wary of being taken advantage of, Ethel held out for years until finally she was approached with a recording deal that felt right. That turned out to be an offer to join Archie and Veronica’s new indie label. Big Ethel became their very first signing!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Babe was paired with Alexandra Cabot-Mayberry, Archie Records’ first Chief of Artists and Repertoire. The </i>début <i>single that they co-wrote with Sabrina never charted, but it seemed to be on every turntable in the Spring of 2001! “Bitch Better Bring My Pizza” became a massive underground cult record, and it established the Archie label as one to watch on the 21st century Hip-Hop scene.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52324905169/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="A BOY NAMED SUE"><img alt="A BOY NAMED SUE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52324905169_b79bebee1b.jpg" width="389" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR ARCHIE'S NEVER-</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RELEASED FIRST SOLO ALBUM.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"A BOY NAMED SUE"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>FEBRUARY 1 - 16, 2001</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ITCHY TWITCHY FEELIN’ - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Jimmy Oliver)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SHE PUT THE HURT ON ME - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Larry Nelson)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I KNOW - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Barbara George)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>I CAN’T STAND IT - lost*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Smokey McAllister)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>A FOOL IN LOVE - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Ike Turner)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MOCKINGBIRD - lost**</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Charlie + Inez Foxx)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>THAT’S HOW HEARTACHES ARE MADE - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Halley, Raleigh)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SO FAR AWAY - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Andrews, Clayton, Harris, Jacobs)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DON’T START ME TALKIN’ - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Sonny Boy Williamson)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>VENGEANCE - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Johnny Garfield)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>STICK SHIFT - lost</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Andrews, Bellinger, Muggs)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>IT’S GONNA WORK OUT FINE - lost*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Lee, Seneca)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ARCHIE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE BINGOS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE NASTY BOYS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>*w/BIG ETHEL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arranger: ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: ALEXANDRA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, VIRGIL BRADLEY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: @ this point, Archie Records had barely been in operation for two months. The label only had one artist signed - Big Ethel - and Arch + Roni were trying hard to get their college group, The Archies, back together. Otherwise, there were no signings on the horizon. They had a desperate need for product, so Archie decided to fill it his damn self! As everybody knows by now, dude was a stoned Soul/Rhythm + Blues devotee. His first solo album was bound to reflect those leanings.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Archie’s old friend, Jazz guitarist Rod Mack augmented The Bingos, who served as Archie Records’ house band during this time. That group was led by husband-and-wife team Bingo and Sami Wilkin, who played bass and keyboards, respectively. Bingo was Jughead's cousin. Zelda Maxwell played guitar, Buddy Lennox played drums, and Teddy Armitage was on Latin percussion. Backing vocal unit The Nasty Boys was a one-off trio of Archie, Rod and sax soloist Terry “Pop” Tate; however, they'd survive beyond these record dates with a regular shuffling of members.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>With Archie taking a rare turn at the piano, they tracked a tribute to Sue Records, an important New York City-based label. Sue's heyday was the early Sixties, so dude covered choice selections taken from the catalogs of Barbara George, Inez + Charlie Foxx, Baby Washington and Ike + Tina Turner, among others. Big Ethel sang duet vocals with him on “I Can’t Stand It” and “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine”. Collaborating with Ethel + Chuck Clayton, Archie added lyrics to two iconic Sue instrumentals: "Stick Shift" and "So Far Away."</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Dude really put his all into this project! Unfortunately, his hard work was fated to go unheard by the public. </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">When Veronica got an earful of the hardcore R +B record Alexandra had produced, babe exercised her veto power. Archie was heartbroken, but nothing could ever make Roni market anything that she felt wasn’t commercial; and she held the purse strings!</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The album master mysteriously went missing years ago, so there’s no way to evaluate A BOY NAMED SUE in retrospect. Suffice it to say that, had it been sold as the first Archie Records LP, the label might’ve gone in a much different stylistic direction.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52369699490/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="HARRIS GARDNER POSTER"><img alt="HARRIS GARDNER POSTER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369699490_61a538c32a.jpg" width="390" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PARISIAN BALLADEER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>HARRIS GARDNER!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DISQUES PATHÉ</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"CHANSONS D’AMOUR"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>UNE PRODUCTION D'ARCHIE AMERICANA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>JUNE 15 - 19, 21, 2001</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>JE T’AIME/FOREVER - Le Héros de la Ballade EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Killen, Rouvroyh)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>UN DOIGT DE CHAMPAGNE/</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CAN’T GET OVER THE BOSSA NOVA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- French single A-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gins, Gormé, Lawrence)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>OUBLIE, OUBLIE TOUT/JUDY, JUDY, JUDY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Chansons d’Amour LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Aber, Pomus, Shuman, Tillotson)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>AIMEZ-MOI PARFOIS/UNSER LIEBESTRAUM</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Chansons d’Amour LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gardner, Nicholas, Niessen)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CLAQUEZ VOS DOIGTS/SNAP YOUR FINGERS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- French single B-side*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Aber, Martin, Zanetis)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DEUX FEMMES EN COLÈRE/WIE EIN MANN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Chansons d’Amour LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gardner, Hilderbrand, Loose)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PAPAYER/MANGOS - French single B-side</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Delanoë, Libby, Wayne)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>NE JOUES PAS/WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO ME?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Chansons d’Amour LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Constantin, Hemric, Marotta)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>FOU DE TOI - Chansons d’Amour LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Chevalier, Delanoë)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>LA JOIE D’AIMER/THE UNFORGIVEN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Chansons d’Amour LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Broussolle, Tiomkin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>QUE TON COEUR ME SOIT FIDÈLE/SECOND-FIDDLE GIRL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Le Héros de la Ballade EP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Carrère, Lynn, Salvet)*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>PARCE QUE C’EST BON/DU BIST SO SCHÖN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- French single A-side*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Bonifay, Courcel, Simon)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GARDE-MOI TA DERNIÈRE DANSE/SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Chansons d’Amour LP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Llenas, Pomus, Salvet, Shuman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>CHANSON D’AMOUR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Gardner, Shanklin)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>- Chansons d'Amour LP*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>HARRIS GARDNER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/THE MAMARONECK COLLEGE PLAYERS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>w/LES BAINS PUBLICS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Vocal Arranger: VERONICA</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>BREE SPELLMAN, *ROD MACK</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: HARRIS GARDNER</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: ALEXANDRA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, VIRGIL BRADLEY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: When they weren’t scouting talent, Archie + Veronica spent much of 2001 securing international distribution agreements for their indie label. Capitol-EMI in Hollywood was their worldwide distributor @ that time. However, Roni knew better than to leave international business entirely up to a partner; she felt it was important to develop personal relationships with every affiliated label. On their “get acquainted” tour, Arch + Roni schmoozed record executives all over Asia, South America, Australia and Europe.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>When they visited Disques Pathé in Paris, CEO Claude Canaille asked them for a favor: Could they take a problem artist off his hands? A powerful French politician’s grandson fancied himself a singer, and Canaille had been pressured to sign him. His A & R department pronounced 18-year-old Harris Gardner “talentless” after numerous attempts to record him. “If your people can cut a hit with this boy,” Canaille said, “be my guest. </i>Alors, Il est à vous. <i>He’s yours!”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Harris flew back to Mamaroneck, New York with The Andrews. Soon he was huddling in the studio with Alexandra + Sabrina. Bree always did go for younger men, and she took a fancy to this French Jewish hunk. They had a hot little romance for a while! In the process of putting a project together for him, she discovered that Harris actually did have singing talent. Dude was also a classically-trained pianist, and he could write songs, too.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Xandie determined that the real problem was the Hip-Hop and Hard Rock material Pathé had offered him; it just wasn’t his kind of music! “Harris Gardner is an old-fashioned, Fifties-style crooner,” she declared, “so I’m going to record him in a </i>retro <i>style.”</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Veronica + Sabrina were walking textbooks of classic ‘50s and ‘60s Pop songs! They chose most of the selections - golden oldies from the likes of Steve + Eydie, Johnny Tillotson, The Drifters + The Manhattan Transfer - and sang background vocals credited as “Les Bains Publics.” @ the sessions, Harris sang, played piano and conducted a string orchestra on loan from the Mamaroneck College of Music. The “problem artist” ended up being the easiest Xandie would ever work with, except for one complication: Singing in English, Harris Gardner's accent was </i>stank!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Rather than waste precious studio time, Xandie decided to let him sing in French. Most of the songs were available in translated versions, and Harris + Sabrina translated those that weren’t. “We’ll overdub you in English later,” Xandie told him, but the French playbacks were so outstanding, she changed her mind. Bree agreed: “These performances can’t be bettered!” Everyone was pleased by what they heard except Veronica, who complained about the sound quality. Alan M had to repeatedly remix the tracks until she was satisfied!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>When Archie contacted Claude Canaille and played the finished album to him over a speakerphone, the Disques Pathé CEO begged to have Harris back! Canaille immediately scheduled his </i>début <i>album CHANSONS D’AMOUR for release in France. It scored a smash hit and spun off a best-selling EP, too. An elated Harris Gardner returned to Paris and launched a very successful singing career; nicknamed </i>Le Héros de la Ballade, <i>he subsequently worked with top European producers.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Archie Records earned production royalties for his </i>début <i>album and had the right to market it in the States. Roni decided not to chance it; but the success of CHANSONS D’AMOUR influenced the label’s future output in a very important way: It sold her on the commercial appeal of vintage Pop songs!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52323676332/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="THE NASTY BOYS + THE BINGOS"><img alt="THE NASTY BOYS + THE BINGOS" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323676332_18b1fdb3aa.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE NASTY BOYS + THE BINGOS:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>EARLY ARCHIE SESSION REGULARS!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>SABRINA: UNTIL THE ARCHIES SIGNED WITH THE LABEL, ARCHIE RECORDS WASN'T MOVING @ FULL SPEED. HOWEVER, BY LATE 2001/EARLY 2002, THE COMPANY FRAMEWORK WAS IN PLACE. ARCHIE WAS PRESIDENT, VERONICA + ALAN M WERE CO-VICE-PRESIDENTS, REY COCHINO WAS THE SESSION CONTRACTOR, AND HIS SEVEN-PIECE “BIG-ASS” BRASS SECTION WAS ALWAYS ON CALL. IN ADDITION TO ARCHIE’S UNOFFICIAL HOUSE BAND THE BINGOS, HIS OLD FRIENDS CHUCK CLAYTON, GERALDINE GRUNDY, ROD MACK + TERRY “POP” TATE WERE SESSION FIXTURES. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AS YET, NICHOLAS "BIG NIPSY" FREUND ONLY HAD ARCHIE + BIG ETHEL AS MANAGEMENT CLIENTS, BUT HIS BACKGROUND AS A BANDLEADER QUALIFIED HIM TO CONDUCT MUSICIANS. HE DID SO ON A REGULAR BASIS! HE ALSO HAD A LOT OF INFLUENCE OVER WHAT WENT INTO THE ARCHIE RECORDS CATALOG; EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD AN ALMOST ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE OF 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC, VERONICA WOULD CONSULT HIM REGULARLY ON SONG CHOICES. WHAT'S MORE, BIG NIPSY WAS THE CEO OF ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTIONS, MAKING HIM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF ALL RECORDING ACTIVITIES. HOWEVER, HE DECLINED PRODUCTION CREDIT ON THE RECORD LABELS. NICHOLAS WAS A MODEST AND VERY SWEET MAN, DESPITE HIS MAFIA CONNECTIONS!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52386157790/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="BIG ETHEL POSTER"><img alt="BIG ETHEL POSTER" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52386157790_52b486497f.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RAP QUEEN BIG ETHEL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ABANDONED HER HIP-HOP</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CAREER IN 2002.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b>BY THE MIDDLE OF 2001, RUMOR HAD IT THAT THE ARCHIES WERE GOING TO GET BACK TOGETHER. WHEN THEY STARTED PLAYING BENEFIT CONCERTS FOR THE VICTIMS OF 9/11, THERE WAS NO LONGER ANY DOUBT ABOUT THAT. NICHOLAS, ARCHIE + VERONICA AGREED THAT THE BAND NEEDED A PERFORMANCE SPACE ALL THEIR OWN, WHERE THEY COULD REBUILD THEIR FAN BASE, </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">DÉBUT </i><b>NEW MATERIAL AND MAKE A LITTLE MONEY ON THE SIDE. ARCHIE WANTED THE CLUB LOCATED IN RIVERDALE SO THAT IT COULD ALSO SERVE AS A SHOWCASE FOR PROMISING LOCAL ACTS. THAT WAS THE IMPETUS FOR OPENING THE LEGENDARY AWESOME VENUE: A COMBINATION ROCK CLUB, <i>DISCOTHÈQUE</i>, MEXICAN RESTAURANT AND CASINO. IT REALLY PUT RIVERDALE ON THE MAP! </b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">EVERYBODY THOUGHT IT BELONGED TO THE ARCHIES, AND THE MEMBERS DID DERIVE INCOME FROM ITS OPERATION; BUT BIG NIPSY WAS THE ACTUAL OWNER. HE HIRED A CHILDHOOD PAL OF ARCHIE NAMED AMBROSE PIPPS TO MANAGE IT. AMBROSE HAD FALLEN AFOUL OF THE LAW A FEW TIMES, HAD TROUBLE LANDING A STEADY JOB, AND COULDN'T HOLD ONE DOWN WHEN HE DID; BUT VERONICA SAW UNTAPPED POTENTIAL IN HIM. SHE RECOMMENDED AMBROSE TO BIG NIPSY, AND HER FAITH IN HIM WAS RICHLY REWARDED! HE + HIS WIFE CHERYLANNE TREATED THE AWESOME VENUE AS IF IT WERE THEIR OWN CLUB (AND EVENTUALLY, IT WAS). IN JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS, THEY BUILT IT INTO A THRIVING MONEYMAKER! OF COURSE, THE ARCHIES HAD A LOT TO DO WITH THAT, TOO.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #d9ead3;">THE VENUE HAD AN INNOVATIVE DESIGN THAT INCLUDED ROTATING WALLS AND A STAGE MOUNTED ON A FLOOR-TO-CEILING HYDRAULIC LIFT; BUT WHAT REALLY SET THAT CLUB APART WAS ARCHIE'S DECISION THAT IT BE "UNPLUGGED." YOU COULDN'T BRING ANY ELECTRIC OR ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS IN THERE; NO POWER OUTLETS WERE LOCATED NEAR THE STAGE! AN ACT HAD TO BE ABLE TO PLAY ACOUSTICALLY, AND THEY HAD TO KNOW HOW TO PROJECT VOCALS. A LOT OF GROUPS WERE UNABLE TO MEET THOSE REQUIREMENTS, BUT THOSE THAT DID CONSIDERED IT A WORTHWHILE CHALLENGE! THE ACOUSTIC-ONLY POLICY WAS ARCHIE'S WAY OF PRESERVING THE KIND OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL SKILL HE GREW UP ADMIRING.</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52569621115/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIES @ AWESOME VENUE"><img alt="ARCHIES @ AWESOME VENUE" height="379" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52569621115_5af5852d32.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES APPEARING @ RIVERDALE'S</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AWESOME VENUE IN 2011.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE RECORDS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ALBUM SESSIONS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"JABBERROCK"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>AN ARCHIE AMERICANA PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(VOCALS + INSTRUMENTALS)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAY 1 - 8, 2001, FEBRUARY 16 - 28, JUNE 27,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOVEMBER 4 - 12, 2002</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ARCHIE SOUND STUDIOS (ASS),</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>MAMARONECK, NEW YORK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>SLITHY TOVES JAM - incomplete*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>MOME RATHS UPSIDE YOUR HEAD - incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>KISS MY BANDERSNATCH - incomplete*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>DOPE-ASS TUMTUM TREE - incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>TULGEY WOOD ON FIRE - incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>ELECTRIC VORPAL BLADE - incomplete*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>GETTIN’ JIGGY (ON A) FRABJOUS DAY - incomplete</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>HELLA FUNKY JABBERROCK - incomplete*</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana;"><b>(Carroll, Muggs, Spellman)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BIG ETHEL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Vocal Arranger:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>FAWN ETHEL MUGGS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Arrangers: </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ROD MACK, *BREE SPELLMAN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Conductor: NICHOLAS FREUND</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Producer: ALEXANDRA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Sound Engineers:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>ALAN MAYBERRY, VIRGIL BRADLEY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Salem da Katt: By the summer of 2001, Fawn Ethel Muggs had begun dating Algernon Marmaduke Mason. Back when he was known as varsity football star Big Moose, dude had been a classmate of Ethel’s during the brief time she attended Riverdale High. Now he was a non-denominational minister, well on his way to becoming one of America's most popular televangelists! Under his influence, she began moving way from Gangsta Rap. "Secular Rock 'n' Roll is of the Devil," Brother Mason believed, "but Rap, with its pornographic, racist and violent language, is the most Satanic expression of all!"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Her Hip-Hop crowd didn’t approve of how she was evolving, but they had no right to criticize. She was more talented and versatile than all of them put together! And unlike them, Big Ethel didn’t need violent or X-rated imagery to rock the room; she was blessed with an overflow of verbal creativity. For her proposed first LP, she, Sabrina + Jazz guitarist Rod Mack conceived an elaborate improvisation on the Lewis Carroll poem “Jabberwocky”.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Unfortunately, this ambitious project never quite came together; the JABBERROCK album would remain unfinished, although between May 2001 and November 2002 Ethel made several attempts to complete it. Babe even previewed it @ Riverdale's Awesome Venue; but then, in February of 2003, she + Brother Mason got engaged. @ his urging, she swore off performing Hip-Hop altogether! Archie Records lost a very gifted artist; but a few years later, she returned to the label. Fawn Ethel Mason would prove more valuable as Archie’s executive secretary than she’d been as a Rap artist!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The November sessions with Big Ethel were Alexandra Cabot-Mayberry’s last as A & R Chief of Archie Records; she resigned to go independent. I opted to stay with the company. Veronica took over Xandie's job title but @ this early stage, she wasn’t producing sessions. Roni delegated the work to other producers, and the first one was Chuck Clayton. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Thus far, Chuckii had only produced demonstration recordings, but back in the day he'd been The Archies' first music director. She was confident that he could cut finished masters. Dude was assigned to produce an album for Archie Records' first female Pop vocalist - although she was actually never on its artist roster!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-2002.html" target="_blank"><i>CONTINUE YOUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HERE:</i></a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34371317874/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 2"><b><img alt="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS 2" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4276/34371317874_8ee2fb74c5.jpg" width="394" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;"><i><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;">"STANDING IN THE NEED OF LOVE"</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>FORMER AUSTRALIAN CHILD STAR DEB</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>DELMAN NEEDS A HIT RECORD</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>IN THE YEAR</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana;">2 0 0 2 !</span></i></span></b></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-84928077316032708672022-12-01T09:10:00.026-05:002023-10-19T22:53:34.973-04:00ARCHIE IN THE STUDIO: PROLOGUE<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52297861992/in/dateposted/" title="DESTINATION SUGARTOWN INTRO"><b><img alt="DESTINATION SUGARTOWN INTRO" height="321" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52297861992_dc06e0b346.jpg" width="500" /></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>PROLOGUE:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"I'M A BELIEVER"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Salem da Katt: The album called THE SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES was first released in the year 2011. A compilation of live performances, it contains the oldest recordings credited to The Archies. There's no album of theirs that I like better, because it captures them when they were young, hungry and raw as fuck! If you've heard it, you know what I mean: Just listen to how Archie bears down on two Monkees songs, "Tear Drop City" and "I'm A Believer!" Or Jughead killing it with Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself", or Gino giving Elvis a run for the money on "King Creole." Yet even in that early Punk Rock phase, and with just the three founding members, you can hear a spark of greatness. Right from the start, The Archies had something special!</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a a="" data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36863358596/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FAKE REGGIE"><img alt="FAKE REGGIE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4405/36863358596_2a2efce5b2.jpg" width="373" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">REGGIE "GINO" MANTLE</span></b></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The Archies started as a way for three guys to blow off steam. College classes can be intense, so what better way to wind down than with music? Both Jerome "Juggy" Jones + Reggie "Gino" Mantle had been high school "band kids," and they played multiple instruments. Gino had also had some private instruction. They'd been jamming together off and on since attending Riverdale High together. It was all but inevitable that they would start a band @ some point. </i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Juggy chose the bass guitar as his instrument, and Gino settled in behind a drum kit. Today, two people or even just one can make a band, but that isn't how it was done back in the day! They needed a lead guitarist. Gino had a few candidates in mind, but Juggy felt strongly that another high school buddy, Archie Andrews, would fit the bill. Archie never took band: Dude was self-taught, but he could really </i>burn <i>on guitar! They auditioned him, and . . . </i>forget about it! N<i>obody else could touch him. Gino + Archie had never gotten along, but they resigned themselves to being bandmates. The price Juggy paid for teaming them up was having to play peacemaker; but musically, it was worth the aggravation.</i></b></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/37051356245/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FAKE BETTY"><img alt="FAKE BETTY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4355/37051356245_ea406132c1.jpg" width="388" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>BETTY JONES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>They called themselves The Juggz! Juggy never considered himself the bandleader, but early on, he was singing most of the leads. @ one show, he, Gino + Archie switched off instruments. Jug felt more comfortable behind a drum kit, and Gino took to the bass like beef to broth; so the switch became permanent. The three of them had more music skills than the average garage band Punk, and truth be told, they were never Punk rockers! They just said they were. Hey, it was the Eighties, and if you played Rock music in college, that's how you identified.</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Dilton Doiley Briseño definitely wasn't a Punk, and dude never tried to pass himself off as one. Tony's biggest love was Latin music, but he also loved the Blues, Jazz, Reggae, Rockabilly and Disco. He'd been a musical child prodigy, and he could play more instruments than Juggy, Gino + Archie combined; but dude was also exceptional @ science and math. Tony was chasing an engineer's degree @ MIT when he heard about about this Boston University band called The Juggz. First he became a fan, and then dude decided that he wanted "in"! But the guys weren't looking for a fourth member.</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36216670724/in/album-72157666935495609/" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" title="FAKE ARCHIE"><img alt="FAKE ARCHIE" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4359/36216670724_3afcd68d79.jpg" width="385" /></a></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">ARCHIE ANDREWS</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Archie was looking for something else, though: A repertoire to distinguish them from other Punk bands in Boston, and Tony knew a lot of songs! His eclectic music knowledge was his ticket into The Juggz, and Archie used it to broaden the band's range. "Just because we're rockers doesn't mean we can't play a Soul song," he'd argue. "WTF? Are you afraid to try?" Hell, no, they weren't afraid: So they started adding Soul and Rockabilly and New Wave and Reggae to their set list. They even tried Gospel music on for size, performing an adaptation of a Negro spiritual; Tony called it "Standing In The Need of Love." Would you believe they passed it off as a Punk Rock tune? </i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Bookings improved after Tony became The Juggz's </i>de facto<i> music director and manager. People took note of their revamped sound and started diggin' it! In just a few months they had a solid fan base in New England. Standing ovations became routine, and that made them feel ambitious. "Why don't we get serious about this music thing?' Gino asked. By then, dude knew he wanted to be a Rock star! But Arch, Juggy + Tony wanted it just as much.</i></b></span></div><div><br /><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36216659574/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FAKE JUGGY"><img alt="FAKE JUGGY" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4381/36216659574_5626b58a8c.jpg" width="376" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>JUGGY JONES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Gino's family had different ambitions for their baby boy: They'd always wanted him to attend Yale, and he was able to transfer there from BU in his sophomore year. Keeping the band together was a challenge after that, but The Juggz were determined to do it! They started playing a lot of shows near Yale, in Connecticut, southern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York. Their fan base grew, and they got bookings that took them even farther away from home.</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>In the summer of 1987, they accepted an offer to play a gig in Hamburg, Germany @ The Star Club; that's where The Beatles first tasted fame! Unexpectedly, the venue closed and the gig fell through; but while they were over there, The Juggz took advantage of a chance to cut a record. If they'd had any doubts about going "pro", they vanished once they heard themselves on a playback: Archie was in seventh heaven, hearing his power chords isolated on their own track! </i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36963920231/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FAKE REGGIE, KELLY + RONI"><img alt="FAKE REGGIE, KELLY + RONI" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4354/36963920231_b22037d3bd.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">REGGIE MANTLE + KEVIN KELLER</span></b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">w/VERONICA</span></b></div></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>When the group got back to Boston, Tony put into words what they were all thinking: "We gotta bear down on copping a recording deal!" By that time, they were calling themselves The Archies. It made sense, because Archie had a grand vision for the band; but when he became the leader @ Juggy's suggestion, Gino sure wasn't down with it! That's when dude first set his sights on a solo career. However, he sensed that The Archies were gonna go places, and the sensible thing to do was ride along for awhile. </i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>So . . . Archie had a rich girlfriend. Veronica Lodge urged him to use her family's name to his advantage! Being the ethical kind of dude he was, he refused; but she did convince him to make a demo tape for the band. Tony was the ideal person to supervise that record - he'd already begun taping performances that would appear on THE SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES - but dude had to cram for a big exam the day they cut it. Roni Lodge produced the recording, and not surprisingly, it sucked! In later years, she'd be a competent producer, but in 1988 babe didn't have a clue! Her primitive production values even made The Archies' boss version of "I'm A Believer" sound like shit!</i></b></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></b><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52483353017/in/dateposted/" title="DILTON IN THE STUDIO"><img alt="DILTON IN THE STUDIO" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52483353017_d1021d686f.jpg" width="372" /></a></div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>DILTON DOILEY BRISEÑO</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>w/THE VIXENS</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Roni begged her father, media mogul Ram Lodge, to circulate the demo amongst his music business friends. Dude had no intention of doing that; as you can imagine, promoting the music of his daughter's boyfriend wasn't exactly a priority! Then he happened to hear a copy of the record The Juggz had made in Germany; it was the soundtrack of an indie film that flopped. </i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>One of the songs was the old Beatles tune "In My Life" with Archie on lead. Ram didn't dig Rock 'n' Roll, not even The Beatles; but dude was partial to ballads with a Latin feel, and he liked that one enough to tape it for his Walkman (remember those?). His golfing buddy Don Kirshner overheard him listening to it, and asked who was singing. That set off a chain reaction of events!</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Kirshner was big-time: A Rock impresario, record label owner and song publisher with a track record stretching back to the late Fifties! He met up with The Archies and auditioned them. They got together on an artist's contract, and things started happening very fast.</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i> </i></b></span></div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/37304739772/in/dateposted/" title="REAL ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS"><img alt="REAL ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS" height="388" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4369/37304739772_3c1f82cea0.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>THE ARCHIES, CIRCA 1990</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>RECORDING INSIDE THE CAPITOL TOWER </i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>@ HOLLYWOOD + VINE</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The first thing Kirshner wanted was Tony Briseño out of the band! Dude thought Dilton was too short, too pudgy, too ethnic-looking and much too opinionated; and he was cold-blooded enough to tell him so. Not wanting to jeopardize his bandmates' golden opportunity, Tony stepped aside. It broke his heart, but he stood it like a man!</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The next thing Don Kirshner wanted was a girl in the group. "The Archies aren't visually interesting enough," he said. "You need some sex appeal!" Veronica was his choice; she was a gorgeous brunette, and it didn't hurt that she could play keyboards. </i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Her best friend, Mary Elizabeth Cooper came to watch her audition. Betty didn't sing and she couldn't play any instruments; but when Kirsh saw this buxom blonde shakin' her big, sexy ass to Roni's music, naturally he wanted to hire her, too! "She'll be your dancer on stage", he told the guys. Babe ended up being much more than that - she actually could sing, even better than she danced - but Kirshner never cared about the potential of individual group members. Dude was caught up in how he could mold The Archies into a New Wave Pop act! </i></b></span></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/36709266710/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="FAKE JUSTIN, KELLY + TREV"><img alt="FAKE JUSTIN, KELLY + TREV" height="387" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4345/36709266710_0abccdd043.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">KEVIN KELLER + TREVOR SMITH</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">w/MUSIC ARRANGER JUSTIN </span></b><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">STRICKLAND</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>By the end of 1988, they were fitting his mold so perfectly, they were all but unrecognizable as the Punk band they once were. Name brand musical instruments! Top designer clothes! The latest in salon hair styles! Even minor plastic surgery to make Archie + Juggy look like teen idols! Don Kirshner gave them a sound that was just as contrived as their look: Songs written and produced by Jeff Barry, one of the unsung titans of Rock 'n' Roll. And to make sure the songs were sung right, voice coaching from Ron Dante + Toni Wine, two of Madison Avenue's top jingle singers. Kirsh also created an animated "Archie" TV series that aired </i></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>on the Fox Network.</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Word on the street was that The Archies didn't play on their records! They did, but Kirsh loaded their tracks with so many session players, it was damn hard to tell. Archie + Veronica were the only band members allowed to sing in the studio; Ron, Toni and Jeff dubbed in the harmonies. Needless to say, Gino was none too happy with this set-up but Juggy + Betty felt frustrated, too. @ least Kirshner allowed Tony Briseño to play keyboards on their sessions every now and then.</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></b></span></div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52525587775/in/dateposted/" title="THE JUGGZ + HOT DOG"><img alt="THE JUGGZ + HOT DOG" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52525587775_5147f206f6.jpg" width="375" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>THE JUGGZ, CIRCA 1987</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>w/JUGHEAD'S PET, HOT DOG</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The atmosphere was looser when the revamped band made personal appearances. One of their high school music teachers, Geraldine Grundy wrote concert arrangements for them, and a former classmate named Chuck Clayton taught Arch + Roni the basics of Gospel singing. Once they came off the road, though, Don Kirshner was back in control. Dude never allowed Deanie or Chuckii to take part in studio dates; but on stage, The Archies started sounding like Archie wanted them to sound: Gritty and soulful! Audiences heard a band that came across better than they did on their records, which isn't to say that the records weren't good; they were! T</i></b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>he stripped-down live versions just left a stronger impression.</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>It wasn't long before Archies singles and albums were hitting the charts. When they released a song called "Sugar, Sugar" in the summer of 1989, everything exploded: Fame and fortune on a grand scale! Just what Gino Mantle had dreamed of; but it was so overwhelming, the group had to take leaves of absence from college! In the midst of all the sold-out live shows, interviews, video and photo shoots, product endorsements and TV appearances, The Archies were left wondering just who the fuck they were? These kids had been put through so many changes, they really didn't know anymore.</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Four years into this rocket ride, engine trouble manifested in the form of creative differences. Repeated conflicts torpedoed the band's relations with Don Kirshner. </i></b></span><b style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><i>Dude was irritated with them, and they were totally pissed off @ him - especially Archie + Gino! Things got so bad, they decided to fund their own album session. Kirsh refused to even listen to what they'd recorded! By then (early 1992), The Archies had all but stopped selling records, so he cut them loose and focused his attention on a replacement act. (Do you remember Nothing Painted Blue? Two babes and three dudes from the Canary Islands? No, I didn't think you would).</i></b></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52491722070/in/dateposted/" title="TONI TOPAZ SESSIONOGRAPHY PHOTO"><img alt="TONI TOPAZ SESSIONOGRAPHY PHOTO" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52491722070_d38cb89612.jpg" width="372" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">TONI TOPAZ </span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">w/ROSCOE SHIRLEY </span></b><b><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">+ RALFI CHINGAS</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Without strong management, the group found themselves @ loose ends and disbanded soon afterward. Juggy + Betty married up and started a restaurant chain. Archie + Roni got married, too, and joined Lodge Industries as executives. Only Gino stayed the course: Truth be told, dude had less singing talent than any of the other members but he had the most drive! He kept pushing toward that solo career he craved. As for Tony Briseño, who'd stayed on the periphery of the Archies scene, he wasn't done with music, either!</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i> </i></b></span></div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52695829137/in/dateposted/" title="CRYSTALS A GO GO"><img alt="CRYSTALS A GO GO" height="371" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52695829137_1269734ef4.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>CALL ME HIS + CRYSTALS À GO-GO:</i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>TWO LATE NINETIES ALBUMS THAT</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>FEATURE MEMBERS OF THE </b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ARCHIES AS BACKING</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>MUSICIANS</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>As it turned out, neither was the rest of the group. In December of 1999, Archie + Veronica quit Lodge Industries to concentrate on launching an indie record label. In January of 2000, they began renovating the former subway station that would house their offices and audio recording facility. The December opening of Archie Sound Studios (ASS) set the stage for a hella fascinating story! The Archie Express departs now from Blogger's Pop Culture Cantina. Climb on board for a dope-ass ride! It's a Rock 'n' Roll night train that's bound for . . .</i></b></span></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">DESTINATION: SUGARTOWN!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIE RECORDS STORY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A Journey Through</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE GREAT AMERICAN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>ROCK ‘N’ ROLL </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">SONG BOOK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/53271180284/in/dateposted/" style="font-family: verdana;" title="ARCHIE/FALCON ANTHOLOGY"><img alt="ARCHIE/FALCON ANTHOLOGY" height="373" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53271180284_9945ae4d25.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><i>starring the world's greatest recording artists:</i></b></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ARCHIE + VERONICA, </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BEAU JACQUES, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>BIG ETHEL, </span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;">BINGO, </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><span><b style="font-family: verdana;">THE CANDYHEARTS, </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>CHUCK CLAYTON, </b></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;">LOS HERMANOS COCHINADA,</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>REY COCHINO + BIG-ASS BRASS,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>DEB DELMAN, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">HARRIS GARDNER,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>LES GIGOLETTES, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">DEANIE GRUNDY,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BETTY JONES, JUGGY JONES, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">JOSIE +</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>THE PUSSY CATS, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">JUNGLE BOOK,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>KATZ + THE FIDDLES, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">KEVIN KELLER,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>THE MACK DADDYS, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">MADAME AXE,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>MARIACHI LOWRIDER, THE NASTY BOYS,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>OLGUITA + REGINALD, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">TREVOR SMITH w/</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>SAVOY SOUND, </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;">POP TATE, TONI TOPAZ,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: medium;">THE VIXENS</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>and featuring</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">THE ARCHIES</span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52580835740/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="MAMBO ITALIANO VIDEO STILL"><img alt="MAMBO ITALIANO VIDEO STILL" height="372" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52580835740_12a2d3e64c.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">IN HOLLYWOOD MAKING A</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> MUSIC VIDEO, CIRCA 2012</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>SUGARTOWN TRAIN ROUTES:</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>ALBUM, EP AND SINGLES RECORDINGS</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>REMIXES</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b><i>UNDERDUBS</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><b><i>OVERDUBS</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-size: large;"><b><i>SOUNDTRACKS</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-size: large;"><b><i>DEMOS</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Engineer's notes written by </span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">STUFFED ANIMAL </span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">YOUR SUGARTOWN TRAIN CONDUCTOR:</span></b></div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>SABRINA THE SORCERESS!</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b>YOUR TRAIN ENGINEER:</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>LUCHA LIBRE SENSATION</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>SALEM DA KATT!</i></b></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52348197975/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="SABRINA WITH SALEM"><img alt="SABRINA WITH SALEM" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52348197975_6f02ab87c5.jpg" width="364" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">SUGARTOWN TRAIN STOPS:</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-2001.html" target="_blank">2001: THAT'S THE WAY WE GET BY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-2002.html" target="_blank">2002: STANDING IN THE NEED OF LOVE</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-2003.html" target="_blank">2003: I JUST CAN'T HELP IT</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-year-2004.html" target="_blank">2004: BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/01/archie-in-studio-year-2005.html" target="_blank">2005: LITTLE WILLY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2006.html" target="_blank">2006: TEAR DROP CITY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2007.html" target="_blank">2007: YOU CAN'T GO HALFWAY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2008.html" target="_blank">2008: CAT TALK</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2009.html" target="_blank">2009: KING CREOLE</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/02/archie-in-studio-year-2010.html" target="_blank">2010: DANCING WITH MYSELF</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2011.html" target="_blank">2011: FABULOUS</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2012.html" target="_blank">2012: KISSIN' COUSINS</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2013.html" target="_blank">2013: THE CHICKEN AND THE HAWK</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2014.html" target="_blank">2014: 11:59</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2023/03/archie-in-studio-year-2015.html" target="_blank">2015: EVERYBODY</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMguW_cJFaJfqVe0U3JWTM1n4UHyij4Pu" target="_blank">Click here for the SAVAGE YOUNG ARCHIES</a></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMguW_cJFaJfqVe0U3JWTM1n4UHyij4Pu" target="_blank">YouTube Playlist!</a></span></i></b></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: x-large;">A L L A B O A R D !</span></i></b></div></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><s a="" data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/34259495823/in/album-72157666935495609/" title="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS INTRO 1"><b><img alt="ARCHIES RECORDING SESSIONS INTRO 1" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4247/34259495823_d74284244c.jpg" width="500" /></b></s></div><b><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></b><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>"THAT'S THE WAY WE GET BY"</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>ARCHIE + VERONICA STRUGGLE TO KEEP</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>THEIR RECORD LABEL AFLOAT IN</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>THE YEAR</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>2 0 0 1 !</i></b></span></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-38780557482645974172022-06-06T06:52:00.011-04:002023-12-09T01:00:13.479-05:00THE SMOKE STACK MURDERS (Part Six)<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> <span><b>WEEZY NELSON . . .</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52038264454/in/dateposted/" title="WEEZY NELSON PORTRAIT"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="WEEZY NELSON PORTRAIT" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52038264454_bc837a94cc.jpg" width="391" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span><b>. . . A HOMICIDE DETECTIVE WHO VERY MUCH TAKES HER WORK PERSONALLY! HER BROTHER, FOLK SINGER LOVER RAMOS, WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED GANGLAND STYLE! LOVER'S EX-SINGING PARTNER NICHOLAS FREUND HAS GANGLAND TIES; HE WAS CONVICTED OF BEING AN ACCESSORY TO THE CRIME AND IMPRISONED. HOWEVER, HE'S BACK ON THE STREETS AFTER HAVING HIS SENTENCE REDUCED. NEW MURDERS ARE BEING COMMITTED, AND WEEZY THINKS NICKY IS RESPONSIBLE! DESPITE A LACK OF EVIDENCE, CAN SHE TRACE THE CRIMES BACK TO HIM AND PERMANENTLY END HIS KILLING SPREE? OR IS NICKY INNOCENT? HAS WEEZY'S HATRED FOR HIM THROWN HER OFF THE TRAIL OF THE REAL KILLER?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> POP CULTURE CANTINA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>presents</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A MARVELOUS LIE PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"THE SMOKE STACK MURDERS"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A Novelette in Six Parts</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>featuring the Songs of</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SMOKEY ROBINSON</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52021847171/in/dateposted/" title="SMOKE STACK HERALD 6"><img alt="SMOKE STACK HERALD 6" height="324" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52021847171_96763c2f83.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>CONCLUSION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"I'll Be Doggone"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>THE TIME: THE YEAR 2063 </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>(with flashbacks to the early 1990s)</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>THE PLACES: NEW YORK CITY and NASHVILLE</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>THE NARRATOR: MARGYEE WENZEL</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>News that a second murder had been committed at the Apollo Theater - and that a famous comedian had committed the first one - sparked a media frenzy! Not only was there saturation coverage in New York City, it was a headline story all over the world. Long before police investigators finished their work, more security guards had to be hired; the building was besieged by gawkers, souvenir hunters and thrill seekers! Teenagers tried to sneak into the theatre and access the crime scenes. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Smokey Robinson songs had been performed on both nights when the murders happened, so some not-so-clever tabloid writer started talking about the "Smoke-Stax" murders. How the hell could he confuse a Motown Records tribute with a<i> Stax Records </i>tribute? Maybe the <i>dummkopf </i>thought Black-owned indie labels in the Sixties were interchangeable? </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b>That name made no sense at all, but it caught on and kept getting repeated. Over time, it evolved into “Smoke <i>Stack </i>Murders”. Smokey Robinson couldn't have been happy about his music being linked to homicide! </b></span><b style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;">I heard every songwriter tribute performance except the one by Bootsy's Rubber Band, and they were all excellent. That’s what that week of May 27th, 1990 should’ve been remembered for; instead, those great shows were superseded by lurid news coverage. I guess that’s why The Apollo never had another Motown Festival.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>When I returned to the theater after being hospitalized, I went back to the dressing room where I’d been held captive. I saw that the police had taken all of Hudson’s belongings away, so I gathered my own stuff together. Jughead came in to help me and Hot Dog was there, too. Puppy put a smile back on my face, God rest his shaggy soul . . . </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>When we finished packing up, I went by myself to check on Toni Topaz; she was still pretty shaken up from Windsor Joy’s murder. Toni left the Apollo Theater the following year to launch a successful career as a choreographer. Eventually, she'd emulate Paula Abdul and transform herself into a Pop diva! Born in Jamaica, the vivacious singer, dancer and actress was destined to become The Archies' final new member.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>It was nearly time for the group to leave town. I bid <i>auf wiedersehen</i> to Juggy, Archie, Betty, Veronica, Deanie and Chuck; that was the last time I saw all of them together in one place. “I’m going to have good memories of this old theater,” Betty said as she gave me a hug, “but with a murderer on the loose, honey, I can’t get out of here fast enough!” Her bandmates were just as eager to go, but Geraldine Grundy had to stay for the inquest; that's because she'd discovered Hudson's body. Chuck Clayton was staying behind, too, so that she wouldn’t be alone.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>On my way out of the Apollo, I made a detour so that I could walk past the taped-off crime scene. I was still processing the reality of being liberated from Hudson Beecher’s cruelty; I'd had to deal with it for too long! Also, I couldn’t stop wondering: <i>Who </i>had done her in? It must've been someone she had wronged that I didn’t know about; but I owed a debt to whoever it was. That person had saved my life!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The police investigation revealed everything about Nicky Álvarez that he’d tried to hide: His criminal record, his real name and his true relationship to Glammus Vidal. Regrettably, Glammus’s biological gender was also revealed! That was the reason Hudson Beecher had been blackmailing her. There were consequences for both father and daughter: Nicky lost his job as Apollo bandleader, both for lying on his <i>résumé </i>and for failing to divulge that Glammus was his daughter when he helped her get hired as MC.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span>The Apollo’s management didn’t hold his deception against <i>her</i>, though, and they didn’t care that she was transsexual, either. Glammus had the kind of star quality that you couldn't ignore! Nicky encouraged her to stay on, and she remained an Apollo employee for a year or so. Ultimately, she decided to leave New York City to try her luck in Hollywood. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span>However, it was still the 20th century, and back then Tinseltown wasn’t so understanding of gender diversity or welcoming to gender-diverse talent! Glammus did find work here and there, but she never achieved the successful movie career she’d dreamed about. </span><span>Fortunately, many doors have opened for transsexual actors since then!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>As for her father, The Apollo Theater may have had no further use for him but The Archies did. During rehearsals for the Motown Festival, they’d bonded strongly with Nicky; Archie and Veronica in particular. When they heard about his job loss, they contacted him and inquired about his future plans. "I'm not sure what I'm going to do," he replied. "Right now, I just want to spend time with my daughter. She's been through a lot!"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>When Nicky told them he had no immediate plans to continue in music, Arch had a suggestion: "Why don’t you go into artist management, then? You’d be great! Most managers are lawyers or corporate dudes who have zero rapport with musicians. We’ve got one of those now, and he’s a total pain in the ass!” </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Veronica thought it was a great idea but Nicky was hesitant. “It’s flattering that the two of you feel that way", he protested, "but I don’t have any experience in that area. I wouldn’t know what to do!” Roni corrected him: “You don’t know now, Nicky, but you <i>will </i>know! Just leave the training to me.”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>There’s nothing like a woman with connections, especially when it's a rich and powerful, take-charge woman like Veronica Lodge! Within days, Roni had arranged for Nicholas to apprentice at Cabot Management, one of the best talent agencies in the country. Nicky proved to be a hard worker and a quick study. Even so, his apprenticeship lasted for two years, and by the time it was finished The Archies had broken up! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>In 1992, the band's creative differences with Don Kirshner reached a breaking point. They decided to buy out the remainder of their recording and management contract; but without Kirshner's strong direction, The Archies floundered. "We never intended to go our separate ways", Betty told me later, "but that's what happened."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Nicholas Freund moved to Nashville in 1993 and took on several Country music artists as clients. They included some of the biggest stars of that era: Trisha Yearwood, Shenandoah, Lee Ann Womack and Ty Herndon. Nicky was well on his way to becoming a big wheel on Nashville's Music Row; but when The Archies reformed in the year 2000, Veronica called on him again. Much to the regret of his all-star client roster, he dropped them all in order to devote full time to his benefactor!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Roni gave Nicky the <i>faux </i>gangster nickname "Big Nipsy", which he decided to use professionally. "A whimsical reference to Mafia ties certainly can't hurt when it comes to negotiating contracts," he joked. "Besides, it's no use trying to run away from my past." </span><span>Under the management of Nicholas "Big Nipsy" Freund, The Archies became a </span><i>gigantisch </i><span>super group, selling out huge venues and racking up Gold and Platinum discs galore! As their occasional studio music director, Nicky helped them cut a few of those hits, too. He lived up to Archie and Veronica's expectations and then some. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Those two were excellent judges of human potential; they also predicted my success as a comedian. Archie urged me to stop writing for other people, and it was the best advice I ever got! In 1991, I launched my solo career and began a slow but steady climb up the ladder of success.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I played Zanie's Comedy Club in Nashville while Nicky was living down there. One night he was in the audience and after the show, he came backstage. We had a long talk and really got to know each other. He'd just returned from Massachusetts, where he visited Geraldine Grundy at her music school in Haverhill. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The old friends had a lot of catching up to do, having missed the opportunity to do so during the Motown Festival. "When she arrived at The Apollo, Deanie recognized me as Nicholas Freund, just like Hudson Beecher had done," he revealed. "When she called me by my real name, I played dumb! I'm ashamed of having done that, but I was determined to leave my early life behind. Not that I wanted to leave her friendship along with it, but I didn't think I had any choice."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>He and Deanie sat down to do some musical reminiscing. "In the late Sixties, Geraldine Grundy was Riverdale's answer to Judy Collins," he recalled, "and she had a much bigger following than Freund and Lover did; but she liked to work with us on stage. We used to appear together at Folk music clubs up in Cambridge: Deanie, Lover Ramos and I. At my suggestion, we sang some of the old songs; I guess I was trying to recapture that past I'd been running from for so long. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"So, we were harmonizing to 'The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage'. That was a Smokey Robinson ballad that Deanie adapted for performing on acoustic guitar; it was one of her most popular numbers. All of a sudden, I began to cry! She said it was because I had never properly grieved Lover's death. Maybe I hadn't! All I know is, I felt that a tremendous weight had been lifted off my shoulders."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51978505620/in/dateposted/" title="SEVENTEEN AIN'T YOUNG"><img alt="SEVENTEEN AIN'T YOUNG" height="393" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51978505620_b2110c0b23.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b>AFTER THEIR 1990 MOTOWN FESTIVAL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b>APPEARANCE, THE WELL OF HIT</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b>SINGLES BEGAN TO RUN DRY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b>FOR THE KIRSHNER-</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b>ERA ARCHIES</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b>Nicky opened up to me about his real background. Just like me, he has</b></span><b style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"> an extended family with more than its share of visual and performing artists! Among other well-known people, it includes Country Rock queen Linda Ronstadt and Latin Pop diva Gloria Estefan! So Hudson was wrong about Nicky not having any Hispanic heritage, but not about his Mafia birthright.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b>Nicky's grandfather was the notorious Cool Papa Freund, head of a vast New England crime syndicate! Gangland families protect their own, so when a pre-transition Hudson fingered Nicky as the likely murderer of Lover Ramos, she put herself in danger of mob retaliation! </b></span><b style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;">Nicky personally asked the Freund "enforcers" to leave Hud Beecher alone. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I didn't want witness intimidation or worse on my conscience", he told me. "Besides, I was strictly into music; I've never been involved with anything shady! When I launched my career, I used my own resources, not my family’s influence.” Ironically, it was Lover Ramos who ended up getting involved with organized crime: <i>Drug smuggling! </i>And Nicky found out about it.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;">“I withheld evidence from the Feds so that Lover’s family wouldn’t be shamed and his memory sullied,” he admitted, “and that’s why I ended up going to prison as an accessory to murder! The high-powered attorney that Grandpa hired got my sentence reduced; but after I was released, I learned what it meant to be an ex-convict suspected of a Mafia killing: Nobody wanted to hire me! I faced having to go to work for my family in order to earn a living.” </span><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;">Rather than do that, he distanced himself from the Freunds more than ever by adopting a new identity and starting his music career all over again. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>As to who killed Lover Ramos, Nicky never even suspected Hudson: “Lover hinted that he was planning to double-cross the gangsters he was dealing with, and I desperately warned him not to! But he just wouldn’t listen; by then, our personal relationship had ended. When he turned up dead, I was devastated but not surprised. I knew that Mafia hit men had done him in!”</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Nicky still thought so: "The Hud Beecher I knew was definitely evil, but not crazy!" He refused to believe she had anything to do with Lover's death, but that didn't mean he considered her innocent of wrongdoing. "I never did trust Hud," Nicky declared. "She was a bad influence on Lover, and I've long suspected that Freund and Lover's fan club president had a Mafia entanglement of her own. What if it finally caught up to <i>Hudson</i> Beecher . . . backstage at the Apollo Theater? That's my guess as to why she was killed." </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;">I agreed with Nicky; I told him that was as good an explanation as any, and then I changed the subject. However, if I'd wanted to, I could have shot down his mob hit theory - if you'll pardon my provocative choice of words! </span><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;">I didn’t tell him what I found that day at The Apollo, when I went back to look at the murder scene.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><span><b>Just inside of the taped line, I saw something gleam in the half-light; it was partially obscured by a stage curtain. I reached down and picked it up: A gold guitar pick on a chain! Hudson’s necklace, the one with the word “Lover” engraved on the back. The one she took from Lover Ramos! </b></span></span><b><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;">I knew it well because that was always the last thing she put on when I dressed her for the stage. But then I realized I was wrong: This </span><i style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;">wasn’t </i><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;">Hudson’s necklace. For one thing, the chain link was broken. For another, there was a different name engraved on this pick: <i>"Luisa".</i> How had the police missed seeing it?</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A loud noise startled me, and the broken necklace dropped from my hand. I turned to see Hot Dog looking up at me. His sudden bark had taken me off guard! "You've got to stop following me around, <i>liebchen</i>," I scolded. "Jughead is probably looking for you right now!" Before I could retrieve the necklace, puppy grabbed it in his mouth and bounded off! I ran after him, but of course, he outdistanced me. He seemed to know where he was going, and it wasn't back to Juggy.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I turned a corner in time to see him approach Police Detective Weezy Nelson. I hadn't realized that she was still there; however, she was lead investigator for both of the Apollo murders, so it made sense for her to still be hanging around. Hot Dog drew up on his haunches with the necklace hanging from his teeth. He was r<i>eturning </i>it! That necklace must’ve belonged to her. Hudson did tell me she was Lover Ramos's sister. There must've been <i>two </i>gold guitar picks, then: One engraved with his name, and another with hers!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>When Detective Nelson bent down to take the necklace, I saw the expression on her face. It froze my blood! There was a mixture of rage and terror in her eyes; and she was furious at Hot Dog! <i>“¡Perro maldito!”</i> she hissed, striking him hard on his snout. “Get the fuck away from me! <i> ¡Váyate!</i> And don’t you <i>dare </i>come near me again!” The poor sheepdog ran off crying, and the detective hurried away in the opposite direction, stuffing that necklace into her jacket pocket. She glanced fearfully over her shoulder but she didn't see me; I was standing in the shadows.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Her reaction stunned me; why would the dog bringing her necklace back make Weezy Nelson react so savagely? She should've been glad to have it. Then another question flashed in my mind: <i>What was she doing when she lost it?</i> Almost immediately, I knew the answer: The police said Hudson had struggled with someone just before she died . . . she must have grabbed at Weezy’s neck chain! <i>That’s </i>how it broke! And Hot Dog saw it all happen!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51931423400/in/dateposted/" title="DILTON GOES FOR HIMSELF"><img alt="DILTON GOES FOR HIMSELF" height="325" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51931423400_99c4836ca5.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR THE FIRST MANTEQUILLA ALBUM,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A BRISEÑO-MACK PRODUCTION FEATURING </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><b>LEAD VOCALS BY </b></span><b>DILTON DOILEY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BRISEÑO</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EPILOGUE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"The One Who Really Loves You"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>There was no need for Nicky to know about that broken necklace. I didn’t tell him how Hudson Beecher admitted killing Lover Ramos and stealing the guitar pick off his body. I didn’t tell him how I'd come to believe that Hudson’s murder confession was overheard through that cracked-open wardrobe door; and I didn’t tell him what I saw when Hot Dog returned the necklace to its rightful owner, Luisa Ramos Nelson.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana;"><b>I’ve never told anybody these things until now. My evidence is circumstantial, so why go to the police with accusations that probably can't be proved? Besides, does it really matter after all these years? </b></span><b style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana;">Everyone concerned in the case they call “The Smoke Stack Murders” is long dead now, and frankly, I do think justice was served. I believe in the death penalty, and Hudson deserved it for her horrible crimes! Who had more right to carry out that sentence than the sister of her first victim?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana;"><b>I prefer to focus on good things that happened at the 1990 Motown Festival. That show yielded several lasting romances: Jughead got engaged to Betty the following year, and they married up in 1992. Two years later, Archie and Veronica tied the knot. </b></span><b style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana;">I attended both nuptials; Arch and Roni's were the most elaborate but Jug and Betty's were the most fun! <i>L'chaim! </i>There's nothing like a Jewish wedding when the in-laws get a little tipsy! Unfortunately, their marriage didn't last but they stayed on the best of terms with each other. Betty even attended Juggy's wedding to Toni Topaz in 2022! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Chuck Clayton and Deanie Grundy were also a couple. I don't think they ever got married, but shortly after they appeared at The Apollo they went public with their secret relationship. Their May/December romance had been blossoming ever since Chuck was Deanie's star music student at Riverdale High School! Not that they acted on it back then. It took years for that love to burst into full bloom, but after it did they shared a deep bond that lasted until his unfortunate early death in the year 2035.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The most surprising relationship to come out of that show involved someone who wasn't there. As I told you, Jazz guitarist Rod Mack established an ongoing relationship with The Archies and played on several of their recording sessions. At a date for their last studio album, recorded in 2031, Rod met up with Dilton Doiley Briseño. Dilton had started sitting in on Archies sessions toward the end of their Kirshner period, and after the group reformed in 2000, his input into their music increased. He co-produced several hit singles and albums for them.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Both Rod and Dilton worked sessions for Archie Records but somehow, they'd never worked together. They'd never even met! When they finally did, a strong mutual admiration sprung up between them. Then they became friends, and Rod confided that he wanted to break into the production end of the music business. Dilton suggested that they form a partnership. The first Briseño-Mack credit appeared on a Rod Mack solo album (his last). It wasn't a hit, but their next project was: A studio group called Mantequilla, whose début album dropped in 2034. The partners followed up with a string of Latin Pop smashes. Along the way, their business relations turned personal and they fell in love! I know all this because I kept in touch with Rod over the years.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"One night we were mixing tracks for a rapper named Iron-Fist Boricua," Rod told me, "and the next thing we knew, Tony was laying naked in a dungeon sling and I was fisting him . . . it seemed to happen just that fast! But we're not just a BDSM couple, we're best friends; and what's better than making music with the man you love? I can't imagine feeling any happier than I do now." So, just like Chuck and Deanie, and Archie and Veronica, Rod Mack and Dilton Doiley Briseño became soulmates for life! That's why I remember The Apollo Theater as a love nest rather than a house of horrors - a love nest with a lover's serenade of superb Smokey Robinson songs.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>There's a reason why I've led you on this lengthy trip down memory lane. For the 75th anniversary of The Archies' first recording session, their Motown Festival concert is finally going to get a legitimate release! Reissue label Vox Sound + Image has asked me to contribute to their deluxe album package; that's one of the perks of being a comedy legend! These festival memories that I’ve jotted down will be condensed and edited into liner notes. However, I’m going to preserve the full text for my memoirs, which I’m in the process of writing.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52032954232/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIES ARRIVE IN NEW YORK"><img alt="ARCHIES ARRIVE IN NEW YORK" height="325" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52032954232_2d28fd419f.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE 2065 COMPILATION <i>ARCHIE SINGS </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b><i>SOUL</i> WILL </b></span><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;">BE THE FIRST LEGITIMATE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;">ALBUM TO FEATURE </b><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;">MOTOWN </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">FESTIVAL RECORDINGS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Sadly, Margyee Wenzel won't live to complete her memoirs; she will die in late 2063. The Vox album will be delayed but released as a compilation two years later. Due to licensing problems, only three Motown Festival tracks are featured; and one of them, "Archie's Motown Medley" appears in a heavily edited version. Fans eager to hear the Apollo concert in its entirety are disappointed with </span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Archie Sings Soul,</span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> and sales are tepid!</span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Four decades will pass, during which time The Walt Disney Company acquires The Archies' music catalog from Vox. Finally in the year 2165, exactly 100 years after the release of </span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Archie Sings Soul,</span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> the complete </span><span style="color: #ffe599;">Archie @ The Apollo</span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> recordings and Margyee's liner notes will see light of day! They'll be included in a vinyl box set that collects all of the band's LP recordings for the Kirshner label. </span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Until that time, the bootleg album </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Smoke Stack</span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> will weather over a dozen new pressings and survive all attempts to pull it off the market. It's destined to become one of The Archies' most famous recordings, and its popularity will never wane!</span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51818954306/in/dateposted/" title="ARCHIE AT THE APOLLO"><img alt="ARCHIE AT THE APOLLO" height="325" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51818954306_b4a55bc5e6.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"THE SMOKE STACK MURDERS"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A MARVELOUS LIE PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>starring</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>THE ARCHIES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;">ARCHIE ANDREWS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;">CHUCK CLAYTON</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;">BETTY COOPER</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;">JUGGY JONES</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;">VERONICA LODGE</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;">with</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>NICHOLAS FREUND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>GERALDINE GRUNDY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>TONI TOPAZ</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>featuring Jughead's pet</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">HOT DOG</b><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>introducing</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>HUDSON BEECHER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ROD MACK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">WEEZY NELSON</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #ff00fe;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">GLAMMUS VIDAL</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>and</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">MARGYEE WENZEL</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>special cameo appearances by</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">WANDA SYKES</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>and</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CLAUDETTE ROBINSON</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE FIRST LADY OF MOTOWN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>Music Consultation by TARQUIN GARRISON</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>Story Concept by MICHAEL V. SKEEN</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>Text by HAMPTON JACOBS</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>Costumes by HENRIETTA la del BARRIO</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span><i>in the design style of </i></span><i>BOYD CLOPTON</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>Art by STUFFED ANIMAL</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52043600170/in/dateposted/" title="SMOKE STACK GATEFOLD"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="SMOKE STACK GATEFOLD" height="323" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52043600170_ed149d5226.jpg" width="500" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: verdana;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>This mock screenplay is dedicated to </b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>William "Smokey" Robinson</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>Thanks to MARGIE WENZIL, MIMOZA VREKA,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>JUDY PARISELLA and RODERICK MACK!</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>Special thanks to DARYL HALL and JOHN OATES</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>for additional inspiration.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-smoke-stack-murders-part-five.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">CLICK HERE FOR PART FIVE</span></a></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-30686335675472782522022-06-05T07:06:00.007-04:002023-04-17T14:54:09.872-04:00THE SMOKE STACK MURDERS (Part Five)<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>MARGYEE WENZEL . . .</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52034512900/in/dateposted/" title="MARGYEE WENZEL PORTRAIT"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="MARGYEE WENZEL PORTRAIT" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52034512900_e8871cf5f6.jpg" width="388" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span><b>. . . JUST A GIRL WHO WAS BORN TO ENTERTAIN! MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION, MUSICAL TALENT AND STAGE PERFORMANCE GENES WERE PASSED DOWN TO MARGYEE FROM AN ABUNDANTLY GIFTED FAMILY. NUMEROUS CREATIVE PATHS BECKONED, BUT STAND-UP COMEDY WAS HER CHOICE! AFTER APPRENTICING HERSELF TO HUDSON BEECHER, A RISING COMEDY STAR, SHE GETS A CRASH COURSE IN SHOW BUSINESS CRAFT, MERCURIAL ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT . . AND <i>MURDER! </i>HUDSON IS SECRETLY A PSYCHOPATH, AND SHE'S BENT ON FRAMING HER YOUNG APPRENTICE FOR A RECENT KILLING! MARGYEE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME A GREAT COMEDY STAR BUT THAT WON'T HAPPEN UNLESS SHE SURVIVES HUDSON'S LETHAL PLANS FOR HER!</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>POP CULTURE CANTINA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>presents</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>A MARVELOUS LIE PRODUCTION</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"THE SMOKE STACK MURDERS"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A Novelette in Six Parts</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>featuring the Songs of</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>SMOKEY ROBINSON</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52021884088/in/dateposted/" title="SMOKE STACK HERALD 5"><img alt="SMOKE STACK HERALD 5" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52021884088_fe368c1507.jpg" width="323" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>PART FIVE:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>"Take This Heart Of Mine"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>THE TIME: THE YEAR 2063 </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>(with flashbacks to the year 1990)</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>THE PLACE: NEW YORK CITY</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>THE NARRATOR: MARGYEE WENZEL</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Some teenagers have no idea what they want to do as a profession. My problem was that I had too many choices! My family was active in the arts, and I grew up surrounded by creative people. All of them influenced me to some degree: My older brother was an opera singer. I can sing a little bit! My younger sister was a budding ballerina. I can dance, too. My father was a stage actor, and we used to rehearse his roles together. My mother was involved in all kinds of musical projects: Concerts, musicals, films and TV shows, most of which she directed or produced. Mama thought I showed promise as a movie director, and she was grooming me in that direction; but <i>oh, no! </i> Margyee had to go her own way! </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> I wanted to be a stand-up comedian, and it seemed like a good idea to apprentice under one who was already successful. That's how I ended up working for Hudson Beecher. It was just my <i>verdammt </i>dumb luck that she ended up being a psycho killer! So now, after I'd stumbled across her hideous secret, Hudson had me at her mercy: Gagged, hogtied and helpless inside a dressing room wardrobe at the Apollo Theater! Let that be a lesson to all of you: This is what can happen when you don't listen to your mother!</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Hudson smiled that awful smile at me, the one that resembled a crocodile’s grimace! “Windsor Joy's killer will commit suicide and leave a note explaining that her motive was jealousy,” she explained. “That killer will be <i>you, </i>Margot! And tagging you as the murderer of Glammus Vidal's boyfriend won’t be difficult. It's been obvious to everyone how infatuated you are with her; that disgusting look of Lesbian perversion was all over your face, every time the two of you were in the same room! I’ll make sure the police are convinced of your guilt: The nude pictures I secretly took of Glammus will be found among your belongings!”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Mein Gott!</i> And that bitch had the nerve to call <i>me </i>a pervert! I was numb with shock and pain, but a surge of adrenaline shot through me as I saw the wardrobe door budge behind her. Was someone coming in? Somebody must have heard what Hudson had said to me; but my heart sank when I saw that nobody was there. The door was only cracked open slightly; it had never closed properly, and a gust of wind from the open window in the dressing room must have blown it ajar.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Hudson didn't even notice. She kept talking to me, in a wheezy, hoarse whisper: “Since you’re such a nosy little dyke, I might as well tell you everything; you won’t live to repeat what I’m going to say! For once, Nicholas Freund told the truth. He didn’t kill Lover Ramos; but what Nicholas did do is poison him against me. <i>Me,</i> who adored the ground that Lover walked on! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"I offered him my mind, my body and my very soul but he laughed in my face! And then he said such cruel things, Margot. Things he had no doubt heard that despicable Kraut say about me! They'd had a violent argument and broken up, but Lover told me he was going to go crawling back to Nicholas. I just couldn’t allow that, so . . . I hit him. Again and <i>again!</i> I was trying to knock some sense into his head!"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Hudson began to sob softly. “I didn’t want Lover to die", she insisted, "but I didn't know my own strength! I slapped him so hard that he fell over backwards and broke his neck. That’s how my precious one lost his life, by accident! It happened about half an hour before that freight train ran over him.” </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I groaned, and she viciously jammed the gag further back in my throat! But she kept on talking to me in that same raspy drone: “As Lover fell, his signature gold guitar pick fell from his pocket. I’ve worn it on a neck chain ever since, as a testament to my eternal love for him! I told everybody that it was his gift to me. I had asked him for it several times, and I'm sure he would have given it to me . . .<i> eventually . . .</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"Oh, Margot! It nearly destroyed me to drag Lover's corpse to those train tracks, tie it down, and then watch his gorgeous Puerto Rican body turned into hamburger!" A sob caught in her throat. "That bastard Nicholas," she hissed, "He was to blame for it all! He had to be <i>punished.</i> That unpleasant task was necessary, so that I could make him pay for destroying my happiness. How delicious it was when, largely on my testimony, Nicholas took the fall for what they thought was a ‘gangland’ crime!”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Hudson's face was horribly distorted as she told me this story, but it softened when she began speaking about Glammus Vidal. “It’s amazing, isn’t it, that all these years later I would fall in love with Nicholas's daughter?" she swooned. "And that she would be transsexual, too? Fate has finally seen fit to replace the love I lost so long ago. I know that Glammus is a half-nigger, but the girl is so beautiful, I don't even care! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"Already, Margot, I’ve held her tight in my arms. That surprises you, doesn’t it? She tried to resist me, the little tease! Playing hard-to-get; but I’ve known from the first time I saw Glammus that we were meant to be together. I’ll make her understand that, no matter what it takes! And Nicholas had better not stand in our way.”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Hudson’s face hardened again, and she glared down at me with a look of pure contempt! “I’m doing what you wanted to do with Glammus; but you never had a chance, you pathetic rug-muncher! You're better off dead than spending the rest of your life pining after what you aren't meant to have. So yes, Margot, you're going to <i>die!</i> And you'll take the blame for killing Windsor Joy; but not until I finish doing my set tonight. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b>"This dressing room is close enough to the stage that you'll be able to hear the laughs I get with those last jokes you wrote for me. Your <i>last </i>laughs!” The thought seemed to delight Hudson no end, and for a minute, she was overcome by a grotesque fit of giggles! </b></span><b style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;">Then she bent close, and I was nauseated by the smell of her reeking salmon breath: Just as rancid and evil as she was! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I’m going to miss doing your material," she rasped, "even though it always needed my magic touch before it was truly funny! We made a great team; but sometimes one team member has to be sacrificed in order to reach an important goal. That’s what’s going to happen a few minutes from now, when I come back here and twist a noose around your fat neck! But there’s my cue . . . it’s showtime again. <i> Auf Wedersehen,</i> Margot!”</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Before leaving, Hudson changed her mind about letting me hear her do one last comedy routine. She grabbed her barbell and whacked me in the head again! No doubt the maniac wanted me unconscious so I wouldn’t struggle or make any noise; but I didn’t black out a second time. I just lay there in agony, bruised and bleeding, with my heart racing and my mind in turmoil.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Hudson Beecher was mad - stark raving <i>mad!</i> Why hadn’t I seen it before? It’s because I'd been a fool, always writing off her erratic, disturbing behavior as eccentricity. Not for one minute did I believe she killed Lover Ramos by accident; that bitch snuffed him out <i>on purpose,</i> just like she schemed to murder Windsor Joy. And now I was about to become her <i>third </i>victim! Her plan to make it look like I hanged myself could never work; the police were sure to notice the wounds on my head. She’d probably be caught this time, but that wouldn’t change my fate: I’d <i>still </i>be dead!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>But obviously, I didn't die that night. I'm still very much alive at age 93! I never heard Hudson Beecher deliver that last comedy monologue. She never showed up to perform it! Glammus Vidal, Wanda Sykes and The Apollo Dancers had to improvise to cover her absence. While I lay there, a prisoner inside that wardrobe, what I did hear was The Archies’ closing night performance. Maybe as a coping mechanism, I focused on their music instead of on my physical pain and dread of what Hudson would do to me. The sound of that closing night show got seared into my memory!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The audience began cheering when they heard the iconic guitar opening of The Temptations’ world-famous hit “My Girl”. That was the first song in Rod Mack's Motown Medley, and Jughead sang it. His baritone growl was the perfect substitute for Temptations lead singer David Ruffin’s voice, and Juggy tore up the place with a back-to-back quartet of Temptations covers: His “My Girl” segued into “Since I Lost My Baby” which ran up against "Beauty's Only Skin Deep" and then morphed into an explosive performance of “(I Know) I’m Losing You". He gave Ruffin’s original interpretations a solid run for the money! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Archie was the next featured singer, and he swung right into Martha Reeves + The Vandellas' smash hit "Dancing In The Street!" With its whiplash <i>boogaloo </i>beat and hard Rock edge, this song was perfect for Arch; but he handed off the mike to Chuck Clayton for the second verse, who then segued into a pair of Four Tops classics. Chuck convincingly evoked lead singer Levi Stubbs on excerpts of “Ask The Lonely” and “Standing In The Shadows Of Love.” Then Chuck leaned hard into </span><span>"There's A Ghost In My House", a cult favorite originally written and recorded by Motown singer/songwriter R. Dean Taylor.</span><span> </span><span>Archie returned for duet vocals on this dynamic dance rocker, and his lead guitar really rang out while he and Chuck sang. That guitar had to be loud for me to hear it, because the SRO crowd was going wild!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Salsa Soul Brothers kept a wicked rhythm churning as Veronica introduced The Archies' special guest star: Rod Mack! The audience grew quiet as the Brothers' lead guitarist lay his version of “What Becomes Of The Broken-Hearted” on them. That silence might've signaled displeasure, but Rod's rendition was definitive; I soon realized that listeners were awestruck by his performance! That particular Motown standard will always belong to Jimmy Ruffin, but The Apollo's answer to George Benson staked a claim on it that night; I was told later that Rod brought many people in the crowd to tears! I was sniveling myself, but frankly, that had less to do with his singing than the dire predicament I was in!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The applause for him still hadn’t died down when Veronica tore into a hot <i>merengue </i>arrangement of "Let Me Go The Right Way". This song had been The Supremes' very first hit 'way back in 1962, and Roni's energetic reading evoked the raw appeal of a young Diana Ross, hungry for fame! She wailed the coda to a crescendo of <i>bongó </i>drums, and then the big band launched into a swinging <i>samba </i>treatment of “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me”. That's a non-Motown number that was popularized by The Supremes and The Temptations in 1969.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>This time, the crowd showed its appreciation by singing along and punctuating the verses with fervid shouts of <i>“sing, children!” </i> I heard loud whistling and cooing at the end of Arch and Roni's duet performance; that must have been the moment when he kissed her on stage. Then the whistles got even louder, and I didn't have to guess why: "Miss Thing", better known as<i> </i>Mary Elizabeth Cooper, had the honor of closing out the Medley!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Apollo's huge brass section played the famous fanfare that opened "My Guy". Those horns were so sharp and tight, they were almost like a duet partner for Betty, but she wasn’t overshadowed. Her bold, resonant alto grabbed hold of that beloved Mary Wells oldie and never let go! And from all the commotion men in the audience were making, she must've been rolling her shapely hips in that special way of hers as she sang. Betty had one of the sexiest wiggles since Marilyn Monroe, and she certainly learned how to use it to advantage at the Apollo. After she sang the last chorus, the cheers seemed to go on forever!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Finally, Jughead reclaimed the mike to lead the Motown Festival's closing number: A floor-shaking revival of the 1965 Contours hit "First I Look At The Purse!" The street classy sneer in Juggy's phrasing was perfect for this song: A gigolo's boast set to a wicked <i>denbow </i>beat! Archie and Chuck kicked the song into high gear by yelling <i>sugar mamas rule,</i> <i>go for yourself, dude!</i> and other humorous asides between verses. Their combined efforts made the performance of this great Smokey Robinson tune a major crowd-pleaser. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span>By then, the audience was so pumped up, they didn't want the show to end; they screamed for The Archies not to leave! After an extended encore of "Goin' To A Go-Go", security men had to escort them off stage. </span><span>I saw this later, in film footage taken by the Apollo Theater's staff photographer. The group looked </span><i>Fantastich </i><span>in provocative stage costumes; I recall that they were designed by Boyd Clopton, a </span><i>couturier </i><span>who was popular with Seventies R & B acts. If only I’d been there to see them in person! But I couldn't even enjoy listening to the show.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I’m not sure how long I stayed trussed up in Hudson's dressing room before I was finally rescued. A beautiful Black angel found me! By then I had probably slipped into delirium and was hallucinating; but somehow I knew this angel was <i>real!</i> She was dressed to the nines, dripping with diamonds, and she had a very regal bearing. What's more, my rescuer had sparkling brown eyes, honey-blonde hair and was almost as stunningly beautiful as Glammus Vidal.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>I later learned that her name was Claudette Robinson. She had been Smokey Robinson’s first wife, but most important she was a founding member of his band The Miracles. As such, she was the first female artist ever signed to Motown. That’s why they called her Motown’s First Lady! The Archies were honored to have Ms. Robinson visit them backstage that night; she’d attended the festival finale just to see them perform.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Lady Motown was passing by Hudson’s dressing room when she noticed Hot Dog whimpering loudly and scratching at the door. She sensed that something was wrong and went for help. I remember staring into Claudette Robinson's sweet, worried face as somebody else removed my gag and cut loose my wrists; but then everything went black again! I guess I fainted. When I came back to my senses, I was in the hospital.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/51912716428/in/dateposted/" title="CLOSING NIGHT MOTOWN FESTIVAL"><img alt="CLOSING NIGHT MOTOWN FESTIVAL" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51912716428_d2fc7e6a21.jpg" width="325" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES KILL IT DURING THEIR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>CLOSING NIGHT PERFORMANCE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>@ THE MOTOWN FESTIVAL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Hudson had left me with a concussion, and I was hospitalized overnight. It was at Bellevue where I found out why she never came back to finish me off. Somebody had finished <i>her </i>off! I couldn't believe it. Detective Weezy Nelson came to interview me in my hospital bed, and after I gave her my statement, she confirmed that Hudson was dead. Then she reconstructed the events leading up to my late boss's demise. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span>"The festival's comedy segment had been expanded for closing night," she explained. "In addition to a comedian, there was a skit." </span><span>I already knew that. The Apollo Theater was famous for its Amateur Night shows, when prospective singers, dancers and jokesters tried their luck in front of the notoriously hard-to-please Harlem crowd. If they bombed, a tall man would snatch them off the stage with a big, long hook! It was a decades-old tradition dating back to vaudeville. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Well, this closing night skit was a mini-version of Amateur Night, and there was a change: Instead of a hook, the guy was going to use a toy machine gun to “rub out” the no-talent performer. <i>Lieber Himmel!</i> Can you even <i>imagine </i>them doing something like that on stage today? They wouldn’t dare; but the Nineties was a very different era. Lots of people still thought mock violence was funny! In fact, I briefly considered having Hudson use that same toy gun as joke prop. Ironically, the joke concept I had in mind didn't appeal to her so I tossed it.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Anyway, back to Detective Nelson's explanation: "That modified skit was supposed to segue into Hudson Beecher's spot. Geraldine Grundy, one of the festival's music arrangers, portrayed an audience member who came up on stage to sing." I knew about <i>that,</i> too. Deanie Grundy could really sing, but she played along with the ruse. She pretended to be this arrogant White lady who thought she could do justice to a Motown classic! As Deanie deliberately mangled The Supremes' 1964 hit “Where Did Our Love Go?" I heard a chorus of boos, hisses and catcalls from my backstage prison. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"When Ms. Grundy got to the third verse," the detective continued, "a dancer costumed like the Mardi Gras character Baron Samedi stepped forward and aimed the prop gun at her. After getting 'shot', she staggered off into the wings. That's where she found the victim, Hudson Beecher, laying on the floor in a pool of blood!" Hudson was mere seconds from death when Deanie stumbled across her body. In a grim tone of voice, Detective Nelson confirmed that "Ms. Beecher died gasping and murmuring incoherently."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Someone had shot Hudson through the heart! Investigators would later conclude that the sound of the fake machine gun drowned out the blast that killed her. When The Apollo’s stage manager saw the body, he made the questionable decision not to raise an alarm. He had it carried into his office - something he later got in trouble for doing - and nobody on stage or in the audience knew what had happened until after the show! Glammus Vidal was told that Hudson had suddenly taken ill, so she ad-libbed a monologue of her own until Wanda Sykes could be summoned from backstage.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>But later, Glammus was shocked to find herself a murder suspect! Evidently, Hudson had whispered her name just before dying. Under Detective Nelson's questioning, she admitted that the victim had tried to blackmail and sexually assault her; so she <i>did </i>have sufficient motive for murder. Then, when Nicky Álvarez was revealed as Glammus's father and he admitted that he'd threatened Hudson, Nicky became a suspect, too! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span>But there was no way either one of them could have killed her: Both were on stage in full view of hundreds of people when she got shot! </span><span>The dancer who impersonated Baron Samedi wasn't guilty, either, because his prop gun had no loading chamber. It wasn't even equipped to hold blank cartridges! The investigation stretched on for weeks but the NYPD ultimately failed to identify any other suspects; an unidentified intruder got blamed for the crime. Hudson's killer was never apprehended! <i>But I know who it was.</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52009025385/in/dateposted/" style="font-family: verdana;" title="ARCHIE RECORDS PROMO '22"><img alt="ARCHIE RECORDS PROMO '22" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52009025385_1619c94de9.jpg" width="325" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PROMO FOR THE INDEPENDENT ARCHIE </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><b>RECORDS LABEL, OWNED BY </b></span><span><b>ARCHIE </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">AND VERONICA AND ACTIVE </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BETWEEN 2000 </b><b>AND 2015</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>END OF PART FIVE</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-smoke-stack-murders-part-six.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Click here for the Conclusion:</span></a></span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>"I'll Be Doggone" </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-smoke-stack-murders-part-four.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">CLICK HERE FOR PART FOUR</span></a></b></i></span></div></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21598978.post-45376318038387319442022-06-04T08:34:00.004-04:002023-04-17T14:53:46.868-04:00THE SMOKE STACK MURDERS (Part Four)<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;">NICHOLAS FREUND . . .</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52033996731/in/dateposted/" title="NICHOLAS FREUND PORTRAIT"><img alt="NICHOLAS FREUND PORTRAIT" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52033996731_e04ff87d65.jpg" width="391" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>. . . HANDSOME AND CHARISMATIC LEADER OF THE RED-HOT HOUSE BAND AT HARLEM'S WORLD-FAMOUS APOLLO THEATER. NICKY CHARMS BOTH WOMEN AND MEN, BUT RUMOR HAS IT THAT ONLY MEN STAND A CHANCE WITH HIM! DUDE IS SEEN AS A PRIME CATCH; BUT WOULD ANYBODY THINK SO IF THEY KNEW HIS SHOCKING PAST? A PAST HE'S TRYING DESPERATELY TO HIDE! DURING THE APOLLO'S MOTOWN FESTIVAL, BOTH AN OLD FRIEND AND AN OLD ENEMY WANDER BACK INTO NICKY'S LIFE. IF THEY TELL ALL THAT THEY KNOW ABOUT HIM, WILL NICKY'S CAREFULLY RECONSTRUCTED WORLD COME CRASHING DOWN? AND WHAT DOES HE KNOW ABOUT THE MURDER OF DANCE CAPTAIN WINDSOR JOY?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b> </b></span><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">POP CULTURE CANTINA</span></b></span><span><br /><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: medium;"><b>presents</b></span><br /><span><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: large;">A MARVELOUS LIE PRODUCTION</span></b></span><br /><span style="color: #e69138;"><span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"THE SMOKE STACK MURDERS"</span></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>A Novelette in Six Parts</b></span><br /><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>featuring the Songs of</b></span></span><br /><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>SMOKEY ROBINSON</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52022097949/in/dateposted/" title="SMOKE STACK HERALD 4"><img alt="SMOKE STACK HERALD 4" height="326" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52022097949_8be074d9c7.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: medium;"><b>PART FOUR</b></span><br /></span><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"The Tracks Of My Tears"</span></b></span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>THE TIME: THE YEAR 2063 </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>(with flashbacks to the year 1990)</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">THE PLACE: NEW YORK CITY</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-size: medium;">THE NARRATOR: MARGYEE WENZEL</span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><b><div>Harlem's Apollo Theater opened its doors to Black music, dance and comedy acts in 1934, at the height of the Great Depression. Back then, most showplaces were segregated - Whites only! So The Apollo filled a huge void for marginalized performers of color. By the dawn of the Forties, the famous building on West 125th Street had become what Nashville's Ryman Auditorium was to Country music: The "mother church" of Black entertainment!</div><div><br /></div><div>Surviving long past the era of segregation, the Apollo stage hosted many legendary performers of all ethnic backgrounds. Several of their most popular shows went down in history: Nat "King" Cole and his Trio in 1943! Buddy Holly + The Crickets in 1956! James Brown, recording famous live-in-concert albums in 1962, 1967 and 1971. Aretha Franklin, also in '71. Sold-out comedy shows by the likes of Bill Cosby, Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor throughout the Seventies; and the King of Reggae, the great Bob Marley headlined in 1979.</div><div> </div></b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Just before Mariah Carey made her Apollo debut in 1990, another unforgettable show entered the history books. Believe it or not, that show was staged by The Archies, headlining The Apollo's first and only Motown Festival! But their unexpected triumph was destined to carry a taint: It was overshadowed by a grisly backstage murder! A lead dancer named Windsor Joy was dead, his neck broken and his body mutilated! The performers and theater staff were terrified, and the dancer's girlfriend, also the festival MC, was in a state of hysteria. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The hovering presence of my former boss, comedian Hudson Beecher, did nothing to soothe Glammus Vidal. On the contrary, it only upset her more! Finally, a nurse was summoned and poor Glammus was led away, covered in blood from her late boyfriend's wounds! </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><b>About fifteen minutes after Windsor Joy was found dead, the police arrived to seal off the crime scene and start their investigation. Hudson's compassionate <i>façade </i>vanished when she wasn't near Glammus; she came to me with a look of sheer elation on her face. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say she was overjoyed! “You’ll never guess who’s in charge of investigating the dance captain's murder,” she cooed. “Police Detective Weezy Nelson!” I looked at her blankly and asked, <i>“Who?</i> Am I supposed to know who that is?”</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Exasperated, she grabbed me by the arm and yanked me into The Apollo Theater's lounge area. “Yes, you little dumbass!" she snarled. "Remember me telling you about Weezy Ramos, Lover Ramos’s sister? After Lover died, she joined up with the police academy. She was determined to bring her brother’s killer to justice! But when Nicholas Freund was convicted and sent to jail, she wasn’t satisfied; just like me, Weezy didn’t think his punishment was adequate. And I heard she had a four-alarm shit fit when he got an early release!”</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">A peal of laughter made the turkey wattles on Hudson's throat bounce up and down; she plopped herself into a chair and clapped her hands with delight. “This shit is too good to be true, Margot!" she squealed. "Weezy hates him like <i>poison!</i> And now, she’s the lead detective in another murder case that involves Nicholas. What do you bet that he’s her prime suspect?”</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">I shook my head. "What reason would Nicky Álvarez have to kill Windsor Joy? As far I could tell, they were friends.” Hudson flew into a rage! Her eyes got crazy, and for a second, I thought she was going to slap my face. “Don’t be such a ridiculous cunt!" she yelled. "That was just an act to deceive people while he plotted that poor boy's demise. Once a murderer, <i>always </i>a murderer! The State of New York should never have turned his Kraut ass loose; but of course, his Mafia family’s shyster lawyers got him off easy.”</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">After her fit of temper had subsided, she took a sip of the coffee I’d brought her and smiled. It was a nasty <i>Grimasse </i>that made her even more unpleasant to look at than usual! “He won't beat the rap a second time,” she chuckled, “because it’s yet another gangland-style killing. That Mafia brat just couldn’t help reverting to type! No, Margot, this time Nicholas-<i>fucking</i>-Freund is going to go down <i>permanently;</i> and you’d best believe that Hudson Beecher’s gonna do her part to make it happen!” Sure enough, Hudson made it her business to corner Detective Nelson and cast as much suspicion on Nicky as she could.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Naturally, Windsor Joy’s murder and the subsequent investigation cast a pall over the rest of the Motown Festival. "Windy" had been a popular dance captain, and his troupe members were devastated at his loss; not to mention the excessively gruesome way he died! Toni Topaz had dated Windsor before he fell for Glammus Vidal; she was so overwhelmed with shock and grief, she couldn’t go onstage the next night! But other than Toni's absence, there was no hint that anything was amiss. </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">“The show must go on,” the stage manager declared, and it did: Everyone put on a brave face and performed to the best of their abilities. Of course, the public knew that a murder had been committed; there was no way to suppress such sensational news. Morbid as it sounds, the killing actually <i>increased </i>ticket sales! The rest of the Motown Festival was completely sold out - standing room only! There's no doubt in my mind that some of those gore groupies were hoping for another crime to be committed. Unfortunately, they'd soon get their wish . . .</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Members of The Archies were quickly cleared of suspicion in the murder, and on Tuesday morning they were preparing to return to New England. They were backstage adding their names to the Apollo's famous Wall of Signatures when news broke that another festival headliner had cancelled! William “Bootsy” Collins, the closing night act, sent word that he couldn’t make it. He’d accidentally been overbooked and had a conflicting gig that was too important to miss.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The festival producers weren't happy about Bootsy's intent to cancel, and all morning they negotiated with his management to avoid taking legal action. </span><span>The compromise they reached that afternoon resulted in a split bill, with Bootsy's Rubber Band only playing the first half of the last show.</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">They had to get someone else to close the festival on short notice! The Archies eagerly volunteered to fill the vacuum. Why not? They’d turned the place out on opening night! I’m not privy to everything that went down on the business end but, long story short, they bagged that closing gig; and Betty told me they also bagged a hefty portion of Bootsy’s appearance fee! "It's never about the money," she laughed, "except for when it <i>is!" </i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span>We spoke just before I had to run out and buy lunch for Hudson. That day she was craving a certain kind of <i>kosher </i>smoked salmon, and I must've visited half the Jewish delicatessens in New York before I found it. </span><span>By the time I got back to Hudson’s dressing room, all hell had broken loose! </span><span>Nicky Álvarez was in there. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>He and Hudson had squared off against each other, and they were going at it so hard, neither one realized that I was in the room! That smoked salmon was destined to be Hudson's <i>dinner;</i> her confrontation with the former Nicholas Freund was so stormy, she forgot all about eating lunch!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52054353373/in/dateposted/" title="BOOTLEG SINGLES"><img alt="BOOTLEG SINGLES" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52054353373_b2104b88ec.jpg" width="323" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE ARCHIES' MOTOWN FESTIVAL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PERFORMANCES WILL BE SOLD</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ON BOOTLEG SINGLES AND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>EPs AS WELL AS ON A</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>VINYL ALBUM</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Like a feral cat, she spat at him: “How <i>dare </i>you talk to me like that? <i>Fuck you!”</i> Nicky wasn’t intimidated. “I mean it, Hudson!,” he said. “Leave Glammus alone. She isn't interested in you and she’s still traumatized by what happened to Windsor Joy.” Hudson snapped her fingers in Nicky’s face. “As if you didn't know anything about that killing!" she hissed. "Who do you think you're fooling, bitch? <i>You're </i>the cause of her trauma! You're the one who should stay away from Glammus." </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>She took perverse pleasure in baiting him! Her eyes narrowed as she defiantly stood her ground. "I have every right to comfort her," she declared. "What fucking business is it of yours if I do?” Nicky skipped a beat before replying: “I’m her friend, you know. I’m concerned about her.”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Hudson threw back her head and laughed, with that contemptuous laugh I’d grown to hate! “What an <i>idiot </i>you are,” she roared. “I guessed your true identity; did you really think I wouldn’t guess hers, too? I know about Annie Mae Cherry, that Black woman you married. She promised to cure you of your homosexuality! What happened, Nicholas? Did she find out what a dedicated cocksucker you are and kick your ass to the curb? Yes, and she divorced you, but not before getting pregnant. Glammus Vidal is your <i>daughter! </i>The family resemblance is so obvious, I can't believe nobody else noticed it."</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Nicky saw that it was useless to deny the truth. “All right,” he admitted, “she <i>is </i>my daughter. And that's why I came here! I love Glammus too dearly to stand by and watch you drive your hooks into her, like you did with Lover Ramos.” At the mention of her late boyfriend’s name, Hudson’s eyes blazed! “That’s why you <i>killed </i>him, isn’t it?,” she accused. <i>“Jealousy! </i> Because he threw you over for me.” Now it was Nicky’s turn to be amused. <i>“On what planet?”</i> he scoffed. “You’re demented, Hudson! Lover wouldn’t have touched you with gloves on, and you know it.”</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">At those words, Hudson Beecher threw a blue and purple fit! Every obscenity known to man flew out of her filthy mouth. Then she screamed: “You queer Kraut <i>bastard! </i> I could have you fired on the spot! Your bosses wouldn’t think so highly of you if they knew your background: Jailbird! Gangster! <i>Murderer!</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Nicky maintained a glacial cool under her onslaught of verbal abuse. “I've never killed anybody, and certainly not the man I loved,” he stated firmly. “They used circumstantial evidence to hang that murder charge on me, and I got convicted of being an accessory; but I served my time! Besides, there are other people on the Apollo staff with prison records. My bosses aren’t as close-minded as you think they are.”</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Hudson’s icy gray eyes narrowed again. “Maybe not,” she reasoned, ”but what about Glammus? What would they think of their new MC if they found out her father is a cold-blooded killer?” A grim smile creased Nicky’s face. “You’re a cold bitch, Hudson," he declared. "You probably <i>would </i>try to smear Glammus that way, but you'd be wasting your time. Everybody here loves her. They wouldn’t hold her responsible for my past!”</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Then Hudson pulled her ace in the hole. “Ah, but that isn’t her <i>only </i>secret is it?” she cackled. “Glammus is just like me . . . <i>she’s a Transwoman! </i>Did you think I wouldn’t know, Nicky? Betcha when they find out missy is packing a penis, her brilliant career will be over before it even starts!”</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">That statement shattered Nicky’s cool for sure! “So it’s true,” he gasped. “You <i>have </i>been threatening to blackmail her! Well, if you try, it will be your word against hers <i>and </i>mine! But you’d better not try, you vulture! If you do anything to hurt my daughter, I'll commit murder for <i>real!</i> You won’t live to ruin anyone else’s life.” </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Hudson leapt at him, punching, kicking and scratching! That’s when I finally intervened. At great risk to my own personal safety, I separated them and pleaded: “Calm down, both of you! Do you want to get the security guards up here?” Nicky quickly regained his composure, but Hudson was completely out of control. <i>“You little prison bitch!”</i> she bellowed. “You’ll regret saying that to me, I swear you will! <i>Now, get the fuck out of my dressing room!”</i> The cold rage in Hudson’s voice chilled me to the bone; I knew that she meant business! But Nicky Álvarez’s threat sounded no less serious. I sensed trouble ahead!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">The Archies didn’t know about any of this, and even if they had known they were too busy to care. Once again, the group had a brief window of time in which to get a show together. Friday was Motown Revue night, and no specific songwriter was being honored. They had free choice of concert repertoire but what should they sing? More Smokey Robinson songs? Maybe Betty and Veronica could do a Diana Ross + The Supremes tribute? Or how about a musical “pot luck” made up of Archie’s personal Motown favorites? Deanie Grundy suggested a tribute to some of Hitsville's female writers: Valerie Simpson, Brenda and Patrice Holloway, Sylvia Moy or Pam Sawyer.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The group was undecided until arranger Rod Mack came to the rescue with an idea for a twelve-song medley. It included several Smokey Robinson compositions but also featured smash hits by some of the other great Motown writers: Norman Whitfield, Ivy Jo Hunter, and Holland-Dozier-Holland. Rod chose all the songs, with an ear for tunes that would be a good fit for The Archies. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>He put the medley together on Wednesday night and sang it for them the next morning, accompanying himself on guitar. I was there with The Archies, taking a much-needed break from Hudson's temper tantrums! All of us loved it; even Hot Dog seemed pleased, wagging his tail and prancing excitedly.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">One song, which Rod had intended for Jughead to sing, was the Jimmy Ruffin fave “What Becomes Of The Broken-Hearted?” When the group heard the passionate way he phrased those sad lyrics, they agreed that he had to perform it on stage with them. “I couldn’t top that rendition,” Juggy told Rod, “and I wouldn’t even<i> try!” </i>If there was an encore, and everyone expected that there would be, The Archies would reprise “Going To A Go-Go”, the number that had gone over so big on opening night. Rehearsals began immediately and lasted well into the evening.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dchamptonjacobs/52022362470/in/dateposted/" title="APOLLO REHEARSAL"><img alt="APOLLO REHEARSAL" height="391" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52022362470_da281f52ca.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><b><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE ARCHIES REHEARSE A SONG </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">ARRANGEMENT BY </span></span></b><b><span><span><span style="font-size: large;">GERALDINE GRUNDY </span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana;"><b><span><span><span style="font-size: large;">FOR THE APOLLO </span></span></span></b><b><span><span><span style="font-size: large;">THEATER'S </span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">MOTOWN FESTIVAL</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><b>Hudson had to rehearse, too, and I thought she needed some fresh material. By Friday morning, I had conceived a new comedy routine for the finale, based on an early joke I’d written. The problem was, I couldn’t remember the punchline! Back then, I had one of those early laptop computers; I searched my files for the joke but with no luck. Then I remembered that Hudson had kept some of my older material on notecards. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">She never liked me going into her personal things, but if I could find that joke and turn it into a great monologue, it was worth risking her volatile temper. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">While searching for her box of notecards, I found something surprising hidden behind her suitcases: A large box of <i>Deutsche schokolade</i> - German chocolates! The Silbersee brand. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>They aren’t manufactured anymore, but for many years they were some of the finest candies in the world! You had to import them from Münich, and they weren’t cheap. Hudson certainly had expensive tastes but she never ate chocolates; she was allergic. They gave her a skin rash! Why in the world was she keeping a box of them?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">She may not have been a chocoholic, but I certainly was and I still am. I knew for sure she wasn’t going to eat those delicacies, so I decided to ask her to sell me whatever was left in that box. But I just couldn’t wait; I had to taste one of those Silbersee nuggets right then and there! In my defense, I’d worked through both my breakfast and lunch breaks so I was very hungry. I slid open the box, eager to sample that gooey goodness; but much to my disappointment, there was no candy inside. All I found was a coiled-up length of rope.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">I remember exclaiming <i>Was zum Teufel,</i> which is German for <i>what the fuck</i>? And then I realized that this rope looked familiar. <i>Mein Gott!</i> It looked identical to the rope that Windsor Joy was found hanging from! I didn’t have time to put two-and-two together, though. I heard a footstep, and when I turned around all I saw was one of Hudson’s hand barbells coming at me. I momentarily felt an excruciating pain in my head, and then I blacked out!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">I came to with an awful headache, a painful bruise over my left eye, a gag stuffed in my mouth and the feeling of something tight around my ankles and wrists. I gradually perceived that I was laying inside the dressing room wardrobe; I'd been unconscious for a couple of hours. The first thing I saw clearly was Hudson Beecher bending over me with that wild look in her eyes!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">She was binding my hands, legs and feet with her panty hose, pulling the knots tight enough to cut off my circulation! All the while, she was babbling with glee: <i>“Fat, fat, the water rat!</i> Overeating will be the death of you, Margot! Haven’t I always told you so? But today I'm grateful for your ravenous appetite. It's going to make you more useful to me than you've ever been before! The mystery of Windsor Joy’s murder can be solved quickly now.”</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="COSTUMES 4 ARCHIE @ THE APOLLO" height="322" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51861305252_fb79a0cc4b.jpg" width="500" /></span></b></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></span><div><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">MAD FREAKY COSTUME DESIGNS </span></span></b><b><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">WORN ON </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">STAGE </span></span></b><b><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">BY THE ARCHIES @ THEIR APOLLO </span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">THEATRE </span></span></b><b><span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">APPEARANCE</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>END OF PART FOUR</b></i></span></div><div><i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-smoke-stack-murders-part-five.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Click here for Part Five: </span></a></b></span></i></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;">"Take This Heart Of Mine"</span></span></i><br /><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-smoke-stack-murders-part-three.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">CLICK HERE FOR PART THREE</span></a></span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>DC HAMPTON JACOBShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.com