Jingle Jangle (The Archies song) explained

"Jingle Jangle" is a song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, produced by Barry^[2] and recorded by The Archies, a fictional bubblegum pop band from Archie Comics.^[3] It was released as the group's fourth single on the Kirshner Records label in November 1969, and included on their third album, Jingle Jangle.^[4] It reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 27 on the U.S. Easy Listening chart in 1969.^[5] In January 1970, it went to number 1 for one week in Canada.

Chart performance

Chart (1969–1970)	Peak position
Canada RPM Top Singles[6]	1
New Zealand (Listener)[7]	10
South Africa (Springbok)[8]	15
US Billboard Hot 100	10
US Billboard Easy Listening[9]	37

Popular culture

• In the television show Riverdale, based on the Archie comics, Jingle-Jangle is introduced as a potent recreational drug.^[10] The Archies' version of the song is briefly heard in the episode "Chapter Thirty-Eight: As Above, So Below".^[11]

Notes and References

1. Book: Smay, David. Kim . Cooper. David. Smay. 2001. Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth. The Candy Ass Charisma of the Archies. Feral House. Los Angeles. 43.
2. http://www.discogs.com/Archies-Jingle-Jangle/release/1232981 The Archies, "Jingle Jangle"
3. http://www.45cat.com/record/635002 The Archies, "Jingle Jangle"
4. http://www.discogs.com/Archies-Jingle-Jangle/release/1246500 The Archies, Jingle Jangle
5. http://musicvf.com/song.php?id=41070&artist=The+Archies&title=Jingle+Jangle The Archies, "Jingle Jangle" chart positions
6. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 1970-01-24 . 2019-02-24.
7. http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=search%20listener&qartistid=758#n_view_location Flavour of New Zealand, 20 February 1970
8. Web site: SA Charts 1965–March 1989. 1 September 2018.
9. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn . 1993 . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993 . Record Research . 18.
10. https://web.archive.org/web/20220818234917/https://www.mtv.com/news/lqh3hg/riverdale-jingle-jangle-drug-archie Bell, Crystal. "Riverdale's New Street Drug Jingle Jangle Is Actually A Trippy Archie Throwback," MTV.com, Thursday, October 19, 2017.
11. https://medium.com/@kara.szam/riverdalerecap-s3-e3-as-above-so-below-3f47cfbb8a02 Szamborski, Kara. "#RiverdaleRecap S3 E3: As Above, So Below," Medium.com, Thursday, October 25, 2018.