Andrew Hickey
speaker
2,253 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Andrew Hickey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But of course, as we heard in the episodes on the monkeys, they soon enough started to take control of their own music, and by season two, instead of recording songs like Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears, they were recording Daily Nightly, a song with elliptical lyrics which, depending on who you believe, are either a protest against the police repression during the Sunset Strip riots or about sex work.
But as we heard in the episode on the locomotion, Don Kirschner, the original music supervisor for the monkeys, worked with other people making children's TV.
And for example, Little Eva has a guest appearance singing on Hannah Barbera's Miguel Guerilla cartoon.
And when the monkeys became too difficult for him to work with.
Kirchner had the idea of creating a cartoon rock band.
If there were no real band members at all, just cartoon characters, they could never do anything that he didn't want them to.
And for a while the archies worked as well as he could have dreamed.
But Kirschner wasn't the first one to have the idea of a rock band that was just a cartoon.
Hanna Barbera had made a few attempts at things like that, though it took them a while to get anything off the ground.
In nineteen sixty-five, as we heard in the episode on Vince Taylor, Hanna Barbera Records started up as its own label.
For years there had been records released of the characters from their cartoons, but now they were becoming a proper record label, putting out tracks by people like Louis Primer and Les Baxter, as well as attempts at creating bubblegum pop, usually performed by Danny Hutton, a session singer who had come to Hanna Barbera through Kim Fowley, and who would later go on to be one of the lead singers of Three Dog Night.
The first of these singles that Hanna Barbera put out was by a studio group called The Creations for Dance in the Sand.
That was plugged on an episode of The Flintstones, as was one of the few things that was close to a success for the label, Roses and Rainbows, which was released under Hutton's own name and made number seventy three on the charts.
And one of their potential projects was to create a cartoon series called The Bats, about a band of that name.
Nothing much is known about that series which never got made, and I've not even been able to find any concept art for it.
But they did release one single under the bat's name, both sides of which were entirely the work of Hutton, who wrote the songs, sang, and played all the instruments.
But they also wanted to have a band that could perform as the bats if need be, so they invited in a local band who had released one R and B single on A and M records and were making a few waves.
They were, for example, booked on the bottom of the bill on the Beach Boys Summer Spectacular Below the Birds, The Loving Spoonful, Chad and Jeremy, and Love.
Their drummer Vic Mortenson later told the story.
We set up and started knocking out a few of our tunes, which in those days would have preceded Call On Me.
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