1910 Fruitgum Company

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1910 Fruitgum Company
1910 Fruitgum Company in a live performance on November 17, 2007
1910 Fruitgum Company in a live performance on November 17, 2007
General information
Genre (s) Pop , bubblegum
founding 1966
resolution 1970
Website www.1910fruitgumcompany.com
Founding members
Pat Karwan
Guitar , keyboard , vocals
Mark Gutowski
Guitar, vocals
Frank Jeckell
Steve Mortkowitz
Floyd Marcus
Last occupation
Chuck Travis
Lawrence Ripley
Bruce Shay
Rusty Oppenheimer

1910 Fruitgum Company was an American pop band . It was founded in 1966 by the music producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz for their bubblegum sound.

Career

Kasenetz and Katz decided in the mid-1960s to produce music that was specifically aimed at teenagers as buyers. The result was a simple beat rhythm that was enriched with nursery rhymes as refrains. They put together a few studio musicians to record the song Simon Says .

The name of this "retort tape" came from the wrapping paper of an old chewing gum that they found by accident. So the name for this new style of music was found: Bubblegum Music . Other representatives of this were, for example, the Partridge Family , The Music Explosion , The Archies or Ohio Express .

When Simon Says became a million seller , a band had to be put together for touring. By the end of 1970 several successful records with changing musicians were released, then this band broke up again.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
US US
1968 Simon Says US162 (8 weeks)
US
1, 2, 3, red light US163 (12 weeks)
US
1969 Indian Giver US147 (8 weeks)
US

More albums

  • 1968: Goody Goody Gumdrops
  • 1969: Hard Ride
  • 1970: Juiciest Fruitgum
  • 1993: Juiciest hits
  • 2001: The Best of the 1910 Fruitgum Company: Simon Says

Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1968 Simon Says
Simon Says
DE6 (18 weeks)
DE
UK2 (16 weeks)
UK
US4 (14 weeks)
US
May I Take a Giant Step (Into Your Heart)
Simon Says
- - US63 (8 weeks)
US
1, 2, 3, Red Light
1, 2, 3, Red Light
- - US5 (13 weeks)
US
Goody Goody Gumdrops
Goody Goody Gumdrops
- - US37 (9 weeks)
US
1969 Indian Giver
Indian Giver
- - US5 (13 weeks)
US
Special Delivery
Indian Giver
- - US38 (9 weeks)
US
The Train
Hard Ride
- - US57 (10 weeks)
US

More singles

  • 1969: When We Get Married
  • 1970: Go Away

See also

swell

  1. a b Chart sources: DE UK US

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