American Songwriter

3 Sticky and Sweet Bubblegum Pop One-Hit Wonders That Defined the Genre

This famous and quite upbeat bubblegum pop song is one of the most definitive one-hit wonders of the 1960s. Released in 1969, this hit managed to make it to no. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and in ...
Rolling Stone

Remember All That Silly Bubblegum Pop from the Sixties? A New Box Set Does

There’s a moment on Pour a Little Sugar on It: The Chewy Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 1966-1971, a new box set, that pretty much captures everything wonderfully inane about one of pop’s most ...
The Economist

Brian Wilson and the bliss of bubble-gum pop

CLEAN-CUT, SMILING, wholesome—the Beach Boys ruled the American airwaves in the early 1960s. Their music was as sunny as a Southern California morning: easy to sing along to, but underlaid by complex ...
The New York Times

Jerry Kasenetz, a King of Bubblegum Pop Music, Dies at 82

With his producing partner, Jeffry Katz, he made lightweight ditties like “Yummy Yummy Yummy” that soared up the charts in the late 1960s. By Alex Williams Jerry Kasenetz, a hitmaking record producer ...