However, the fist incident took place in early 1967, whereas "Sugar, Sugar" was written in early 1969. Don Kirshner has said that Mike Nesmith put his fist through the wall of the Beverly Hills Hotel refusing to do "Sugar, Sugar". The song is said to have been earlier offered to The Monkees, although songwriter Jeff Barry denies this. In 2014, "Sugar, Sugar" was used in the documentary Fed Up during a montage demonstrating the correlation between the large qualities of sugar in processed foods and obesity in the United States. "Sugar, Sugar" is also considered to be the most produced recording ever after the breakfast cereal company Post Cereal placed millions of the records on the back of their Super Sugar Crisp cereal boxes. The Archies' hit wound up as one of the biggest (and most unexpected) number-one hits of the year, one of the biggest bubblegum hits of all time, in America thanks partly to association with the hit CBS-TV Saturday morning cartoon series. Only after most of the DJs liked the song were they told that it was performed by a cartoon group. Upon its initial release, Kirshner had promotion men play it for radio station execs without telling them the name of the group (due to the disappointing chart performance of the Archies' previous single, "Feelin' So Good (S.k.o.o.b.y-D.o.o.)", which only went to number 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts). The song was initially released in late May 1969, on the Calendar label (the same label as the two previous Archies singles), achieving moderate chart success in the early summer in some radio markets, and was re-released mid-July 1969, on the Kirshner label, whereby it then attained massive success nationwide by late summer/early fall. Together they provided the voices of the Archies using multitracking. Ron Dante's lead vocals were accompanied by those of Toni Wine (who sang the line "I'm gonna make your life so sweet"), and Andy Kim. The album is the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner. "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies was produced by Jeff Barry, and the song was originally released on the album Everything's Archie. The song became a hit again in 1970 when rhythm and blues and soul singer Wilson Pickett took it back onto the charts. It was also number one on the UK Singles chart in that same year for eight weeks. It reached number one in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1969 and stayed there for four weeks.
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It was originally recorded by the Archies, a bubblegum pop band formed by a group of fictional teenagers in the television cartoon series The Archie Show. "Sugar, Sugar" is a pop song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim.
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