01	Achie's Theme (Everything's Archie)						01:40
	02	Boys and Girls						02:35
	03	Time for Love						02:15
	04	You Make me Wanna Dance						02:20
	05	La Dee Doo Down down						02:28
	06	Truck Driver						02:13
	07	Catchin' up on Fun						02:56
	08	I'm in Love						02:16
	09	Seventeen ain't young						02:25
	10	Ride, Ride, Ride						02:20
	11	Hide and Seek						02:13
	12	Bang-Shang-a-Lang						02:30

In 1964, Ronnie fell in with the successful songwriting team of Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss ("Catch a Falling Star," "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini"), who'd just written a hilarious parody of the current Shangri-La's hit "Leader of the Pack." It was called "Leader of the Laundromat." Ronnie joined Danny Jordan and Tommy Wynn as the Detergents, recording a whole album's worth of parody songs and touring the country with Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars. Ronnie had a blast that summer, meeting other stars and honing his performing skills.



During subsequent years, Ronnie (who by this time had shortened his name to Ron) Dante was making a name for himself doing jingle work; that is, singing commercial jingles for television and radio. In 1968, Don Kirshner, whom Ron knew from his old Brill Building days, was tapped as music supervisor for an upcoming Saturday-morning cartoon, The Archie Show. A decision had been made to create a rock band out of the show's five principal characters (Archie, Betty, Veronica, Reggie and Jughead), and to this end Don was searching for someone to be the lead voice of the group. Ron auditioned and got the part. Along with songwriter-producer Jeff Barry, Ron would eventually crank out more than a hundred songs, doing the lead on all and the backgrounds on most. Other singers on the Archies sessions (Toni Wine, Donna Marie) would come and go, but Ron would remain the constant presence for the group's nearly three-year career. When The Archies' third single, "Sugar, Sugar," became the #1 hit of 1969, Ron knew that his position in music history was solidified.

Also during 1969, Ron was approached by his old collaborators, the songwriting team of Vance/Pockriss, who asked Ron to record some new songs they had written. The result was an entire album's worth of material, with Ron doing both the lead and background vocals. The songs were released under the name "The Cuff Links," and the album's title track, "Tracy," made it into the Top Ten on the U.S. charts at the same time that The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" was Number One. A decision was made to put together a real-live group of Cuff Links, but by this time Ron was involved in other projects and unable to tour with a group, so seven other guys banded together as The Cuff Links and picked up the baton.



In 1970, Ron released his first solo album, Ron Dante Brings You Up. The titular song was an upbeat number penned by "Sugar, Sugar" songwriters Jeff Barry and Andy Kim called "Let Me Bring You Up." During 1971, Ron recorded the lovely "That's What Life is All About," co-written by his Archies partner Toni Wine along with Irwin Levine (the duo also wrote the song "Candida," a hit for Dawn). The Archies were on their way out by this time, and Ron was setting his sights to the future. In 1972, he did the singing voice of Spiderman on the Webspinners LP, and from 1972-74 he provided lead vocals for another Don Kirshner-produced cartoon group, The Chan Clan (spawned from the Hanna-Barbera show "Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan").