Bubblegum Classics, Vol. 1 (1995)

About this title: Nineteen tracks of pure bubblegum music. The songs aren't bad, just unbelievably silly. If you didn't care for "Yummy Yummy Yummy" by Ohio Express when it first came out, you won't like it any better in CD format. Some tunes are more innocuous than others, like Rare Breed's "Come and Take a Ride in My Boat," "Capt. Groovy and His Bubblegum Army" by Capt. Groovy & His Bubblegum Army, and "Jam Up and Jelly Tight," by Tommy Roe, which is actually better than its title suggests. But others, including Edison Lighthouse's "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes," Dawn's "Knock Three Times," and the ... read more

Tracks:

1. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy [Levine/Resnick]
2. Alice Long (You're Still My Favorite Girlfriend) [Boyce/Hart]
3. Tracy [Vance/Pockriss]
4. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead [Arlen/Harburg]
5. Abra-Ca-Dabra [Meskell/Martin]
6. Jennifer Tomkins [Vance/Holmes/Florio]
7. Jam up and Jelly Tight [Roe/Weller]
8. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) [Macaulay/Mason]
9. Laugh, Funny Funny [Hudson/Hudson/Hudso]
10. Knock Three Times [Levine/Brown]
11. Sunshine Games [Woolfson]
12. Ain't Gonna Lie [Powers/Fischoff]
13. Indian Giver [Gentry/Cordell/Bloo]
14. Will You Be Staying After Sunday? [Kasha/Hirschhorn]
15. Baby Take Me in Your Arms [Macaulay/MacLeod]
16. Come and Take a Ride in My Boat [Farrell/Goldstein]
17. Julie, Do Ya Love Me? [Bahler]
18. I Think I Love You [Romeo]
19. Abergavenny [Manston/Geller]
20. Capt. Groovy and His Bubblegum Armsy [Trimachi/Cordell/Ka]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.