This Gummy Award hit was No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, No. 5 in the United Kingdom, and No. 1 in Canada.
“Yummy, Yummy, Yummy” is a bubblegum pop hit recorded by The Ohio Express and released in April 1968 on Buddah Records. Written by Joey Levine and Arthur Resnick and produced by Levine, Resnick, Jerry Kasenetz, and Jeffry Katz, the song became one of the defining records of the late-1960s bubblegum music craze.
‘Bubble-gum’ was riding high, in early 1968, and ‘Simon Says’ was a fine example of it.
“Simon Says” by the 1910 Fruitgum Company, the group’s breakout hit that firmly established them in the bubblegum pop movement of the late 1960s. Released in January 1968, “Simon Says” was written by Elliot Chiprut, though it was brought to mass appeal by producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz, the masterminds behind Super K Productions and Buddah Records.
I’ll be inducting some of the pioneers of bubblegum music and awarding them “Gummy Awards”.
One of my favorite types of music has always been Bubblegum. I remember getting Mother to take me to the Sandy Springs, Georgia, K-Mart[1] (the closest one to Alpharetta at the time) to buy the first Archies album on its release day.
