VA - The Sixies Series Bubblegum Gold (2006)

One could quibble about whether everything on this brief ten-song compilation is truly bubblegum at all. Songs like the Five Americans' "Western Union," for instance, seem to fall more under the influence of the Beatles and the British Invasion bands, while "Come on Down to My Boat" by Every Mother's Son is more fun frat rock than bubblegum. That said, this is an undeniably fun disc, truncated as it is, and if it is well short of a survey of 1960s bubblegum pop, it still has some classic tracks, including, most notably, the Archies' "Sugar, Sugar," the song that is pretty much the "Louie Louie" of the genre, the opening salvo from which the whole skewed nursery rhyme world of bubblegum was spawned.