[78-L] Yummy, yummy, yummy [cont]

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <fnarf at comcast.net>
> "Yummy Yummy Yummy" (the song's actual name) did appear in a Monty Python 
> episode, but despite the credit in that episode to "Jackie Charlton and 
> the Tonettes", that group doesn't exist; it is actually by The Ohio 
> Express, who had the major hit with it. It was written (and sung) by Joey 
> Levine, who worked on a lot of records for the Kasenetz-Katz production 
> team that made so many bubblegum hits.
>
> Bubblegum gets little respect today but was an important force in sixties 
> pop, and the genre encompasses a ton of great records, as good as or 
> bettern than a lot of the "serious" music by "real groups" (many of whom 
> used similar assemblages of studio musicians and songwriters too).
>
BUT...?!

Bubblegum music was a quickly-thrown-together variety of pop music...meant
for the 10-to-13 (mostly female) audience...which is how/why it acquired its
intended-derisive name!

Since (especially to-day!!) the pre-teen demographic has/had BUNCHES of
spending money, this music DID...DOES...and WILL sell in huge quantities...
and coherence was/is/will be NOT a requisite value!

Those who enjoy it (for NON-nostalgic reasons...?!) might also enjoy
listening to music from current TV commercials...which is written for the
same reasons and in a very similar style...?!

...stevenc