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Bubblegum Music is Sweeping the States

Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 3 August 1968

BUBBLEGUM music is making a lot of money for New York record producers Jeffrey Katz and Jerry Kasenatz. Yes, that's right, bubblegum music. That's what the American industry is calling the music of Katz and Kasenetz groups like the 1910 Fruitgum Company ('Simon Says') and Ohio Express ('Yummy Yummy Yummy').

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