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Coffee Break: Bubblegum Pop

What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?
What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?J Kivinen, Flickr [CC BY-SA 2.0]

February 03, 2017

The first Friday in February means it's Bubblegum Day. We're going to take a spin on this theme for today's Coffee Break and focus on music that is categorized as "bubblegum pop".

Bubblegum pop is music with a repetitive, upbeat sound, singalong choruses, simple chords and harmonies. It's dancy, it's fun, it's light, and it had its heyday in the '60s and '70s. Whether the songs were one hit wonders or lighthearted moments in a more significant band's career, let's get poppy.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what bubblegum pop songs do you want to hear?

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Songs played

The Archies - Sugar Sugar
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
The Posies - Solar Sister
Jackson 5 - ABC
Tommy Roe - Dizzy
The New Pornographers - Dancehall Domine
The Ohio Express - Chewy Chewy
Redd Kross - Bubblegum Factory
The Partridge Family - I Think I Love You
The Monkees - Daydream Believer