Friday Music

According to the interweb this song, performed by the virtual band the ‘Archies’, was produced by Jeff Barry – and originally released on the album Everything's Archie.  The final product was the result of a collection of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner. 
 
Lead vocals were by Ron Dante along with Andy Kim and Toni Wine and only by the miracle of studio multitracking was this catchy tune held together by a thread.   Released in late May of 1969 the song achieved small success on the charts in the early summer in some radio markets.  It was re-released mid-July 1969, on the Kirshner label.  From there it went viral (before viral was a thing) spending four weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.  The song eventually rose to the 1969 US number-one single of the year.  It persists - ranked at number 78 - on Billboard's Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Singles. 

Not a poor showing for a fake band.  

Sorry for the earworm folks, but it's heartwarming to see people posting dance videos nowadays, choreographed to something that is 55 years old...