Three CD set. Anthology of late '60s American bubblegum pop. Hit singles, cult collectables and obscure album tracks. Featuring The Archies, The Monkees, Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Co., The Lemon Pipers, and Crazy Elephant. In the late summer of 1966, manufactured pop quartet The Monkees - a Beatles-inspired concept inevitably nicknamed the Prefab Four - made their TV and vinyl debut. Overseen by industry veteran Don Kirshner, whose Brill Building-honed team supplied most of the songs, The Monkees was aimed at the pre-teen market effectively disenfranchised by the increasingly sophisticated nature of mid-60s pop. The venture's runaway success encouraged numerous other backroom songwriting/ production teams to step forward, with the New York-based Kasenetz-Katz partnership coining the term 'bubblegum' as shorthand for the manufactured pop process. Pour A Little Sugar On It examines the bubblegum phenomenon in forensic detail, with a comprehensive look at all of the featured acts and beyond. It's gonna make your life so sweet.

• Genre: Pop
• Label: GRAPEFRUIT