Songfacts: What's the story behind that song?įloyd: I wrote a lot of different stuff back then. Songfacts: That was your composition, correct? Songfacts: Who do you think coined the phrase "Bubblegum"?įloyd: I had a song on the first album, it was called " Bubble Gum World." And we've never been able to verify this, but we heard that somewhere in one of the major magazines somebody coined the phrase "Bubblegum Music," directly related to that song, "Bubble Gum World." There's a segment, I think, of kids that really are kind of isolated from all that stuff. Now you have rap and you have kids listening at 10 and 12 years old, there's a lot of heavy content in it. It was more for a naive-er younger group. It was about love, it didn't include a lot of graphic description, and it was kind of up-music, it was fun music. Songfacts: Besides Bobby Vee, are there any other examples of artists that you would have considered Bubblegum before it was called Bubblegum?įloyd: A lot of the girl singers, like Chiffons come to mind, " He's So Fine." Linda Scott, "I Told Every Little Star." There was an awful lot of light music without social commentary. But I can't say any one person, really, was at the forefront of it. You had the Bobby Vees, and people like that doing music that people enjoyed, and it seemed to somehow at one point get a bad name. I think that in the early '60s a lot of the artists were Bubblegum before it was called Bubblegum. I think anything that was lighthearted, that wasn't of a social or very sexual nature in music, it was always kind of bubblegummy. Songfacts: Who do you think started Bubblegum music?įloyd: I think there's always been Bubblegum music. And our songs were covered - like "Indian Giver" was covered by the Ramones - which showed there was some kind of effect on the next generation. We actually had three gold records, which I don't think most Bubblegum people had. Floyd Marcus is the drummer for the 1910 Fruitgum Company, who were one of the mightiest bands of the Bubblegum sound, scoring peppy hits like "Simon Says" and "Indian Giver." We dug in to learn more about the band and the history of Bubblegum: Did they play on their records? Was their image controlled by the record company? What does "Bubblegum" mean? Carl Wiser (Songfacts): You were kind of on the forefront of this whole Bubblegum music explosion, is that correct?įloyd Marcus: In a very short time we had about six releases.
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