Sunshine
Studio album by
Released1970
Recorded1970
GenrePop, bubblegum pop
Length29:37
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

Sunshine is the fourth studio album released by The Archies, a fictional bubblegum pop band of The Archie Show and the Archie Comics universe. The album includes 12 tracks and was issued on Kirshner Records. All tracks were produced by Jeff Barry with the exception of four songs ("Mr. Factory", "Dance", "Comes The Sun" and "One Big Family") that were written and produced by Neil Brian Goldberg. All four were mistakenly credited to Barry; Goldberg was a staff writer working under Barry's supervision at the time.[1] The album features the single "Sunshine". The song peaked at number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] Another single, "A Summer Prayer For Peace", was only released overseas and topped the charts in South Africa. The album peaked at number 137 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.[3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Sunshine"Jeff Barry, Bobby Bloom3:18
2."Who's Gonna Love Me"Gene Allan, Barry, Ron Dante1:50
3."Mr. Factory"Neil Brian Goldberg2:32
4."Love and Rock 'N Roll Music"Allan, Barry, Dante2:18
5."Over and Over"Barry, Dante2:20
6."Waldo P. Emerson Jones"Barry, Andy Kim2:43
7."A Summer Prayer for Peace"Barry2:50
8."Dance"Goldberg2:21
9."Comes the Sun"Nancy Calcagno Barry, Goldberg2:25
10."Suddenly Susan"Allan, Barry, Dante2:18
11."One Big Family"Calcagno Barry, Goldberg1:53
12."It's the Summertime"Barry, Kim2:49

Charts

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

References

  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