In the late 1960s, The Monkees were one of the biggest bands in the country. Fueled by their hit, self-titled NBC TV show, the band, which featured Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones, set a still-unbroken record when they had four No. 1 albums in one year in 1967.
There have been rumors that Kirschner wanted The Monkees to record the bubblegum pop song “Sugar, Sugar,” which would go on to become a massive hit for the fictional comic book band The Archies.
"It's hilarious, isn't it?” Dolenz said in the 2012 interview. “Don Kirschner presented that as the next Monkee tune. I was going to record it. That's when Mike Nesmith led the palace revolt, and we fought for the right to have at least some sort of control over the music. I didn't go to the session - I'd gone to England, and that's when I met The Beatles. Don Kirschner got fired, but then he recorded the song with The Archies. He said, 'That way, nobody can talk back to me.'”
The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1969 and remained at No. 1 for 4 weeks. It also ranked No. 1 on Billboard’s Year-End Hot 100 Singles list that year, according to Rolling Stone.
In addition, singer Dante told Goldmine magazine that the story about The Monkees being offered “Sugar, Sugar” first was simply a rumor.
“I had been with Don since I was 17 years old,” Dante added. “He had the hottest publishing firm with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, and Tony Orlando. I was a staff demo singer, and I got to sing some of my stuff, too.”
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Dolenz later recorded 'Sugar, Sugar' his own way
And while “Sugar, Sugar” may or may not have been offered to The Monkees in the late 1960s, Dolenz ultimately came to record it—his way. The singer included a cover version of the song on his 2012 solo album, Remember, and it sounds nothing like the Archies' bubblegum pop.
“I said, 'You've got to be kidding me. There's no way I can record ‘Sugar, Sugar,’” Dolenz recalled. ”But he came up with one of my favorites, this very dark, almost Coldplay-ish version of it. It's a rude song! I love it. It's one of my favorite tracks now."
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