Sunshine (The Archies album)

Sunshine is the fourth studio album by The Archies, a fictional bubblegum pop band from Archie Comics. It was released on the Kirshner Records label in 1970. All tracks were produced by Jeff Barry, with the exception of four songs ("Mr. Factory", "Dance", "Comes The Sun" and "One Big Family"), which were written and produced by Neil Brian Goldberg; they were mistakenly credited to Barry, as Goldberg was a staff writer working under Barry's supervision at the time.[1] The album's first single, "Sunshine", peaked at No. 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[2] The album's second single, "A Summer Prayer For Peace", was only released overseas and topped the charts in South Africa. The album peaked at No. 137 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.[3]

Sunshine
Studio album by
Released1970
Recorded1970
GenreBubblegum pop
Length29:48
LabelKirshner
ProducerJeff Barry
The Archies chronology
Jingle Jangle
(1969)
Sunshine
(1970)
The Archies Greatest Hits
(1970)
Singles from Sunshine
  1. "Sunshine"
    Released: June 20, 1970
  2. "A Summer Prayer for Peace"
    Released: July 1971

Track listing

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Side 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Sunshine"3:16
2."Who's Gonna Love Me"
1:49
3."Mr. Factory"
  • Neil Brian Goldberg
  • Barry
2:33
4."Love and Rock 'n Roll Music"
  • Barry
  • Dante
  • Allen
2:18
5."Over and Over"
  • Barry
  • Dante
2:21
6."Waldo P. Emerson Jones"2:42
Side 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."A Summer Prayer for Peace"Barry2:50
8."Dance"
  • Goldberg
  • Barry
2:20
9."Comes the Sun"
  • Goldberg
  • Barry
2:23
10."Suddenly Susan"
  • Barry
  • Dante
  • Allen
2:16
11."One Big Family"
  • Goldberg
  • Barry
1:53
12."It's the Summertime"
  • Barry
  • Kim
2:48

Charts

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Chart (1970) Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs[3] 137

References

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  1. ^ popculturecantina.blogspot.com, "The Archies, Part Two"
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2009).Top Pop Singles 1955-2008 (12th ed.). Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p.47
  3. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (1996).Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 (4 ed.). Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. p.40