Ron Dante - “Sugar Sugar”

Jan 17

Ron Dante is a music legend. He’s the singer on two massive hits, “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies and “Tracy” by The Cuff Links. He produced Barry Manilow’s first nine albums including his #1 hit “Mandy”. And he also produced Cher and Pat Benetar. We talk about his career, including his time doing jingles, and we do a Songfest with his greatest hits.

My featured song in this episode is “Ode To Jerry”, from the Project Grand Slam album Play. In Ron’s honor I renamed the song for this occasion as “Ode To Ron”. Spotify link:

https://open.spotify.com/track/3viacMoZutWUm1BlrvXAN9?si=Vr-RTPKYSSaEh4WVaGWTeg

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In this episode Ron and I discuss:

Hitting the top of the charts twice in 1969
Becoming a producer
Working with Barry Manilow
The “Sugar Sugar” recording session
Singing jingles
Don Kirschner
The Turtles’ Happy Together tour
Working with Cher and Pat Benetar

In the Songfest we play and discuss:

“Sugar Sugar”

“Tracy”

“Mandy”

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