Songfacts: What's the story behind that song?įloyd: I wrote a lot of different stuff back then. Songfacts: That was your composition, correct? Songfacts: Who do you think coined the phrase "Bubblegum"?įloyd: I had a song on the first album, it was called " Bubble Gum World." And we've never been able to verify this, but we heard that somewhere in one of the major magazines somebody coined the phrase "Bubblegum Music," directly related to that song, "Bubble Gum World." There's a segment, I think, of kids that really are kind of isolated from all that stuff. Now you have rap and you have kids listening at 10 and 12 years old, there's a lot of heavy content in it. It was more for a naive-er younger group. It was about love, it didn't include a lot of graphic description, and it was kind of up-music, it was fun music. Songfacts: Besides Bobby Vee, are there any other examples of artists that you would have considered Bubblegum before it was called Bubblegum?įloyd: A lot of the girl singers, like Chiffons come to mind, " He's So Fine." Linda Scott, "I Told Every Little Star." There was an awful lot of light music without social commentary. But I can't say any one person, really, was at the forefront of it. You had the Bobby Vees, and people like that doing music that people enjoyed, and it seemed to somehow at one point get a bad name. I think that in the early '60s a lot of the artists were Bubblegum before it was called Bubblegum. I think anything that was lighthearted, that wasn't of a social or very sexual nature in music, it was always kind of bubblegummy. Songfacts: Who do you think started Bubblegum music?įloyd: I think there's always been Bubblegum music. And our songs were covered - like "Indian Giver" was covered by the Ramones - which showed there was some kind of effect on the next generation. We actually had three gold records, which I don't think most Bubblegum people had.
The album cover featured film strips from a photo shoot of the band members, a design that presumably inspired the cover of Swedish pop group Secret Service's 1979 single "Oh Susie"/"Give Me Your Love." Track listing
This claim is disputed by original drummer Floyd Marcus, who has stated that all five men listed really were behind the instruments. It's been debated whether or not the members of the band actually played on the album since the Ohio Express, another band put together by Super K Productions (headed by Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz), actually consisted of two groups: one that produced the records and another that toured and promoted the name. Released in 1968, it included two songs that appeared on the Billboard Hot 100-the most from any of the group's albums-although it was not their highest-charting album. Simon Says is the debut album by the American bubblegum pop group the 1910 Fruitgum Company on the Buddah Records label.
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