Archie may refer to:

People[link]

• Archie Karas (1950-), a Greek gambler known for turning $50 into $40 million before losing it all
• Archie Brown (1938-), a British political scientist and historian
• Archie Macpherson, Scottish sports broadcaster
• Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
• Archie Manning, former National Football League quarterback, father of Peyton and Eli Manning
• Archie McLean, an association football player known for his contributions to the Brazilian game
• Archie Kao, a Chinese-American actor
• Archie Panjabi, an Indian actress
• Archie Moore, World champion boxer

Fictional characters

• Archie Comics, a comic book publisher
  • Archie Andrews (comics), the main character in Archie Comics
• Archy and mehitabel, a serialized work of fiction by Don Marquis
• Archie Andrews (puppet), ventriloquist Peter Brough's dummy
• Archie Bunker, a television sitcom character
• Archie Mitchell, fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Archie Carpenter, fictional character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
• Archie Goodwin (fictional detective), assistant of the fictional detective Nero Wolfe
• Archie (Pokémon), leader of Team Aqua in the Pokémon series
• Archie Simpson, a character in the Degrassi franchise
• Archie (The Land Before Time), a turtle-like creature in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
• Archie Ryan, pseudonym of Lincoln Burrows, a fictional character from the television show Prison Break
• Archie (Archimedes), a flying ship seen in the Watchmen series
• Robot Archie, a character in Lion comics

Other[link]

• Archie's law, in petrophysics
• Archie, Missouri, a town in the United States
• Archie (meteorite), a meteorite which fell in Missouri, United States in 1932
• Archie (squid), an 8 metre long giant squid preserved in the Natural History Museum in London
• Archie search engine, a search engine for FTP sites
• Archie (Linux), a version of Arch Linux
• anti-aircraft fire, referred to as "archie" by the British Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
• Archy, a computer user interface
• Archie (robot), a human-like robot, developed in Technical University of Vienna

See also[link]

• Archibald (name), similar name

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Bubba Sparxxx
Cologne/Germany 2002
Background information
Birth name	Warren Mathis
Also known as	Bubba
Born	(1977-03-06) March 6, 1977 (age 35) LaGrange, Georgia
Genres	Hip hop, Southern rap, Country rap
Years active	1993-present
Labels	New South Entertainment
Associated acts	Attitude, Ying Yang Twins, Timbaland
Website	www.bubbasparxxx.com

Warren Anderson Mathis (born March 6, 1977), known by his stage name Bubba Sparxxx, is an American Southern rapper. His biggest hit is "Ms. New Booty" featuring The Ying Yang Twins which peaked at #7 in the United States. He is also noted for his hit singles "Deliverance" and "Ugly".

Personal background[link]

Born Warren Anderson Mathis on March 6, 1977, Sparxxx is of French descent, and grew up in a rural area north of LaGrange, Georgia, a town 65 miles southwest of Atlanta.^[1] His father was a school bus driver, and his mother was a grocery store cashier.^[2] His closest neighbor, who lived half a mile away, introduced Mathis to rap music through mixtapes mailed from New York City. The music of 2 Live Crew was his introduction to hip-hop; he began listening to West Coast gangsta rap such as N.W.A and Too Short and the Atlanta duo OutKast. With rapping as a hobby, Mathis was a tight end and linebacker for his high school's football team and earned All-Region honors in his senior year.^[1] Steve Herndon, a former offensive lineman for the NFL teams Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos, played football with Mathis during high school, according to an interview with Down-South.com.^[1][2] In 2007, he moved from Atlanta to Tampa.^[3]

Music career[link]

After high school Sparxxx moved to Athens, Georgia in 1996. In Athens, he met industry veteran (and now manager and business partner) Bobby Stamps. Stamps noticed Sparxxx rapping after a University of Georgia football game. Stamps arranged for Sparxxx to work with many artists in Athens and Atlanta to complete his first CD. His first commercial CD release saw some success in Georgia, and the album Dark Days, Bright Nights caught the attention of Jimmy Iovine of Interscope Records. Sparxxx signed to Interscope Records and began working with record producers Timbaland and Organized Noize.^[1] The major-label reissue of Dark Days, Bright Nights, released via Timbaland's Beat Club Records imprint, which now included five collaborations with Timbaland and two with Organized Noise, debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. In 2002, he had a minor hit being featured on Archie Eversole's "We Ready", which became popular for being played at sport events, such as football and basketball games. His 2002 London debut was described by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian music critic, as the worst gig she had been to.^[4] In late 2003, he returned with his second album, Deliverance, which was critically acclaimed but sold poorly.^[1]

Sparxxx signed a recording contract with Virgin Records in 2004; under Virgin, Sparxxx released The Charm with singles "Ms. New Booty" and "Heat It Up". He left Virgin to establish his own label, New South Entertainment, which is distributed by E1 Records. In 2007, he released a mixtape with DJ Burn One titled Survive Till Ya Thrive. He stated in an interview that he planned on releasing an album to be called Miracle on Gamble Road, in 2012. He is supposed to appear on Lil Wyte's album Still Doubted.

Non-musical work[link]

Sparxxx has also appeared in the video games Def Jam: Fight for NY and Madden NFL 2004. His song "Back in the Mud" was used by ESPN's "College Gameday" as the 2003 and 2004 theme song. He has participated in a number of television productions and collaborated with the popular "Girls Gone Wild" brand to shoot two DVDs detailing life as a rap star. Sparxxx has featured on MTV's My Super Sweet Sixteen (Kristy Landers episode) and was a mentor in MTV's Celebrity Rap Superstar. He has been a guest on each major late-night show, including Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In 2003, Sparxxx donated his time to travel to Kuwait and Iraq to perform for U.S. troops along with Blink-182, Wayne Newton and Kid Rock amongst others.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Singles[link]

Guest appearances[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bubba Sparxxx on Myspace
• Bubba Sparxxx discography at Discogs
• Bubba Sparxxx discography at MusicBrainz
• Ms New Booty Video & lyrics

Archie Campbell
Archie Campbell in 1977
Background information
Born	(1914-11-07)November 7, 1914 Bulls Gap, Tennessee
Origin	Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Died	August 29, 1987(1987-08-29) (aged 72) Knoxville, Tennessee
Genres	Country
Occupations	Musician, Comedian, Actor
Labels	RCA

Archie Campbell (November 7, 1914 – August 29, 1987) was an American writer and star of Hee Haw, a popular long-running country-flavored network television variety show. He was also a recording artist with several hits on the RCA label in the 1960s.

Biography[link]

Early career[link]

Campbell studied art at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, North Carolina, after which he began a radio career at WNOX in Knoxville. After a year alongside Roy Acuff on their Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round, he relocated to WDOD in Chattanooga, where he stayed until joining the United States Navy in 1941. At the end of World War II, Campbell returned to WNOX. He left that station for rival WROL where he helped start Knoxville's first country music television show (on WROL-TV), Country Playhouse, that premiered in 1952 and ran until 1958.

At the close of that show, he moved to Nashville to replace Rod Brasfield on the nationally-syndicated Prince Albert segment of the Grand Ole Opry. Shortly after, he signed a contract with RCA Victor and one of his early singles, "Trouble in the Amen Corner" reached the 1960 country music Top 25. After an unsuccessful stint with the Starday label, Campbell returned to RCA in 1966 and had three Top 30 singles: "The Men in My Little Girl's Life" (1966), "The Dark End of the Street" (1968), and "Tell It Like It Is" (1968). He was named "Comedian of the Year" in 1969 by the Country Music Association.

Routines[link]

One of Campbell's 'signature' routines was to tell stories in "Spoonerism" form, with the first letters of words in some phrases intentionally switched for comic effect. The best-known of these stories was "RinderCella," his re-telling of the fairy tale "Cinderella," about the girl who "slopped her dripper" (dropped her slipper). Campbell once told the "RinderCella" story on an episode of the game show Juvenile Jury. At the conclusion of the story, host Jack Barry said "That's one of the funniest stories Carchie Ampbell tells." All of Campbell's spoonerism routines borrowed heavily from comedy routines performed by Colonel Stoopnagle on the radio show Stoopnagle and Budd in the 1930s. ("Colonel Stoopnagle" was the stage name of F. Chase Taylor, 1897-1950.)

Campbell also performed a routine with various partners generally known as "That's Bad/That's Good." Campbell would state a troublesome occurrence; when the partner would sympathize by saying, "Oh that's bad," Campbell would quickly counter, "No, that's good!", and then state a good result from the previous occurrence. When the partner would say, "Oh that's good!", Campbell would immediately counter with "No, that's bad!" and tell the new result, and so on.

Hee Haw[link]

In 1969 Campbell joined Hee Haw on CBS-TV as a chief writer and on-air talent. His regular characterizations included the Barber, in which he performed his Spoonerism stories and his "That's Bad/That's Good" routines; the Doctor; and, "Justus O'Peace," his version of the classic "Judge" routine of Pigmeat Markham. One of his most well-known segments was the "Where Oh Where" song in which he would perform a short verse of original comedy followed by a standard "Where oh where are you tonight" chorus which would lead he and a singing partner, often Gordie Tapp, into blowing a raspberry at one another or at the camera.

During his Hee Haw years Campbell also recorded several comedy-music albums such as Bull Session at Bull's Creek with Junior Samples and Archie Campbell (Elektra 1976). He frequently performed duets with singer Lorene Mann.

Later life and death[link]

In 1984, Campbell hosted TNN's Yesteryear interview show. Campbell was an accomplished amateur golfer and built one of the earliest lighted golf courses in the United States. An avid painter, he also owned an art gallery and served on the school board in Knoxville, where he lived until he suffered a fatal heart attack in 1987. He is buried near the town of Powell, Tennessee.

Legacy[link]

Campbell's childhood home on Main Street in Bull's Gap has been preserved as a memorial, and has been expanded into a "tourism complex and museum" which hosts annual "Archie Campbell Days" each September.

Following Campbell's death, U.S. Highway 11E through Bulls Gap was renamed "Archie Campbell Highway" in his memory.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

Guest singles[link]

Notes[link]

References[link]

• CMT.com profile
• HeeHaw.com profile
• Archie Campbell at the Internet Movie Database
• Jones, Loyal (1998). "Archie Campbell". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 75–6.
• http://www.rissystreasures.com/heehaw/archie.htm