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1968 studio album by The Archies

The Archies

Released

1968

Recorded

1968

Length

28:28

The Archies
(1968)

Everything's Archie
(1969)

Singles from The Archies

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Allmusic

The Archies is the debut studio album by The Archies, a fictional bubblegum pop band from Archie Comics. It was produced by Jeff Barry, co-produced by Don Kirshner and released on the Calendar Records label in 1968. The album includes the band's debut single, "Bang-Shang-A-Lang", which peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song "Seventeen Ain't Young" became a Top 40 hit in Australia for Frank Howson. The album peaked at No. 88 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Track listing

Side 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Archie's Theme (Everything's Archie)"	Jeff Barry	1:31
2.	"Boys and Girls"	Barry	2:14
3.	"Time for Love"	Ritchie Adams Mark Barkan	2:22
4.	"You Make Me Wanna Dance"	Barry	2:22
5.	"La Dee Doo Down Down"	Barry	2:12
6.	"Truck Driver"	Barry	2:54

Side 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"Catchin' Up on Fun"	Adams Barkan	2:18
8.	"I'm in Love"	Barry	2:24
9.	"Seventeen Ain't Young"	Barry	2:19
10.	"Ride, Ride, Ride"	Barry	2:13
11.	"Hide and Seek"	Adams Barkan	2:30
12.	"Bang-Shang-A-Lang"	Barry	2:34

Album

Year	Chart	Peak Position
1968	Billboard Top LPs	88

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Peak Position
1968	"Bang-Shang-A-Lang"	Billboard Hot 100	22

The Archies at AllMusic
The Archies, The Archies Retrieved September 7, 2013
^ Whitburn, Joel (2009).Top Pop Singles 1955–2008 (12th ed.). Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p.47
Ross Laird, (1999?), The Sixties: Australian rock & pop recordings, 1964–1969 held at the National Film and Sound Archive, accessed on-line at: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2008-03-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) PDF p 134
^ Whitburn, Joel (1996).Top Pop Albums 1955–1996 (4 ed.). Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. p.40
^ The Archies, The Archies Chart Position Retrieved September 7, 2013
The Archies, "Bang-Shang-A-Lang" chart position Retrieved May 19, 2015

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