"It sounds like no one involved had any idea what 1981 was supposed to sound like": What happened when the singer from The Archies made an AOR album

Ron Dante - Street Angel cover art.

Much like his fellow comic-book character Howard The Duck, Ron Dante was once trapped in a world he did not make. 

As the lead singer of The Archies, he was one of the primary architects of the relentlessly upbeat, hook-heavy ‘bubblegum’ sound that swept the charts and the airwaves in the late 60s and early 70s.