It will always make me remember the show Weeds. First season used this version, subsequent seasons used covers.

Fun fact: "Reynolds was a folk singer-songwriter and political activist in the 1960s and 1970s. Nancy Reynolds, her daughter, explained that her mother wrote the song after seeing the housing developments around Daly City, California, built in the post-war era by Henry Doelger, particularly the neighborhood of Southern Hills in Daly City, California on the north side of San Bruno Mountain."

"The song is a social satire about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. It mocks suburban tract housing as "little boxes" of different colors "all made out of ticky-tacky" and which "all look just the same". "Ticky-tacky" is a reference to the inferior material often used in the construction of tract houses."

Cool story about The Animals singer Eric Burdon when he met Nina Simone

The Animals had a big hit with their cover of the song in 1965, just 1 year after her original version.

https://americansongwriter.com/the-story-behind-dont-let-me-be-misunderstood-by-the-animals-and-the-confrontation-between-eric-burdon-and-nina-simone/

https://youtu.be/YMDrTMnm1IE

Raise your hand if this is the first time you heard this song: Mrs Doubtfire: Make-up scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40x3x1B7O_o

The same producers even made a Beatles-only medley.

It was an easy formula to string together hit songs for a medley, but I'm not sure what royalties the original artists got from the producers.

I had some of those cereal box records, but don't remember which ones.

Funny that they're mostly Beatles songs.

One of my all-time favorite bands.

I know the video you've linked... Without clicking

Yeah - none of the later ones really caught on.

Speaking of the Banana Splits though...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=flMS2gHFOH0

That record or cereal box is probably a collectors item today.

Edit: Heh, [$19 bucks]

(https://www.ebay.com/itm/185187155061) I found out from a YT short

I watched the Archies on TV in the 70s as a kid, and I thought all the songs at the end of the shows were meh.

I had no idea some of them actually charted in the US. Well, actually I so young that I wasn't aware what a singles or album sales chart was at the time.

I guess they tried to repeat the formula with other cartoons from that era with songs at the end of the weekly episodes: Josie & The Pussycats for sure, Scooby Doo(?), Sid & Marty Krofft shows like the Banana Splits, and I'm sure there were others.

The first record I ever owned. Sort of.

It was stamped on the back of a cereal box, complete with a dotted line to cut it out on, and I did, and had it for years.

I had no idea this song was from the Archies TV show.

I was only familiar with it as the first sample(?) from the 1981 medley Stars On 45

Such a phenomenally beautiful song. The live version on Aretha in Paris is even better. Hard to believe that's possible. Absolutely no autotune just pure talent and will. Her voice inspired so many singers.