The Josie and the Pussycats songs were recorded by Motown session musicians. The show producers wanted to replace Patrice Holloway with a white singer. The music producer refused. Motown musicians rewarded him by performing for a reduced rate.
The Pussycats move in a very natural way while performing and playing their instruments. Clearly they used actual performers (perhaps the voice actors themselves) to film and then rotoscoped the animation over it.
Great song and memories of this show as a kid growing up. Just picture a twenty something smoking hot Patrice holloway, Cheryl Ladd and Cathy dougher singing this tune in the studio. One thing that gets lost in all this is the terrific flute playing in most of their songs.
Amazing! I started humming this song out of the blue, after 50 years! I could remember just enough of the lyrics to find the song on YT. Just goes to show how influential and long-lasting music can be. Watching Saturday morning cartoons when I was 7 was the greatest! I miss those days. Good times 😌
Which girl is "Valerie"? Playing guitar?? Is this really Patrice Holloway's voice? Is this a famous program in US or UK??? I'm a "Patrice Lover" from Tokyo.
It's not really clear who's supposed to be voicing who. The speaking and singing voices of the characters were done by different people. They hired 2 white singers and one black singer to match the composition of the animated group, but since Patrice was the strongest singer, she wound up singing lead on most of the songs even though Josie was supposed to be the lead character.
Javier Cantu, esto fue hecho por Filmation, los mismos de He-Man original y eran famosos por reciclar animacion y fondos para ahorrar dinero en sus producciones... (This was made by Filmation, the same people as the original He-Man and infamously were known to recycle animation and backgrounds to save money on their productions) One thing, are you related to the Cantu brothers? (The ones who managed the singing part of the Jem and The Holograms cartoon "Latino" dub down there in Mexico...)
