This week in 1969
1 Sugar, Sugar The Archies 2 I’ll Never Fall In Love Again Bobbie Gentry 3 I’m Gonna Make You Mine Lou Christie 4 Je T’aime..Moi Non Plus Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg 5 He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother The Hollies 6 Space Oddity David Bowie 7 Nobody’s Child Karen Young 8 Oh Well Fleetwood Mac 9 Lay Lady Lay Bob Dylan 10 A Boy Named Sue Johnny Cash One of the biggest hits of the bubblegum pop genre, ‘Sugar, Sugar’ was the product of fictional band The Archies, stars of the animated TV series The Archie Show, based on the Archie comic books originally created back in 1941. The song was written by a duo with considerable songwriting and performing pedigree - Jeff Barry (who co-wrote sixties superhits ‘Then He Kissed Me’, ‘Be My Baby’, ‘Baby I Love You’ and ‘River Deep Mountain High’) and Andy Kim (who reached No. 1 in 1974 with the classic ‘Rock Me Gently’). A million seller, ‘Sugar, Sugar’ spent four weeks on top of the Billboard charts in the US and eight weeks at No. 1 in the UK.