Rare Treats: An Archies album you didn't know existed (1976-2006)

 After US of Archie was cancelled for good by CBS in 1976 (the series moved to Sundays for its rerun cycle), Filmation decided to package the earlier series from 1968-73 into a syndicated package under the umbrella title, The Archies. Even though there was plenty of music to be had from 1969's Archie Comedy Hour, it went unused, as Filmation skipped past most of it, instead asking actor Dallas McKennon (Archie, Hot Dog) to record some new tracks, and we have to assume for now that the instrumentals were from studio music director Ray Ellis, as Don Kirschner was long gone by this point, fronting his weekly, syndicated Rock Concert series.

So Dallas recorded 13 new tracks, most of them as Archie, making him the 3rd vocalist, after Ron Dante and the Doodletown Pipers' Tom McKenzie. Here's one that Dallas recorded as Hot Dog, "Animal House", 90 seconds of spoken word silliness.

30 years later, the tracks were collected for an album, "Drive The Boulevard", as shown in the thumbnail. This was not an authorized release, but a bootleg. Good luck trying to find this on the convention circuit.