Posted on 12/19/2021 2:43:21 PM PST by simpson96
"I Want Candy" is a song written and originally recorded by the Strangeloves in 1965 that reached No. 11 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
English new wave group Bow Wow Wow released their version as the first and only single from their EP The Last of the Mohicans. For many in America, "I Want Candy" was their first introduction to young lead singer Annabella Lwin and the band. The song barely scraped the Top 50, but became an enduring new wave classic
Bow Wow Wow - "I Want Candy" (1982)
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The guys who sang the original were singing about a girl named Candy.
Times and morals change though, I guess.
Good stuff! BWW combined Lwin (my second favorite teen crush— behind Clare Grogan) with Spaghetti Western guitars and a Burundi beat, My favorite from them was Go Wild (in the country). Their debut single, C30C60C90 GO! was written by Malcolm McLaren and was a shot across the record industry’s bow a generation before Napster.
McLaren was all over the New music scene in those days.
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This is another:
The lead in song for Friday Night Videos
They performed live at Ida Noyes Hall at University of Chicago back in ‘83-’84. I went and stayed for about 20 minutes, because it was free. No seating, so I was about 10 feet from the stage. The lead singer’s long mohawk was off-putting. I was familiar with “I Want Candy” because of heavy MTV rotation. Personally, I found their material musically uninteresting.
I didn’t know that either. But then I never dug that deep, just dug the music. 🙂
Yeah. It was all about pirating music by taping it off the radio
Great version of a pretty good song. But for a good laugh, read up on The Strangeloves - Giles, Miles & Niles Strange!
Met her at an autograph show about a year ago - and she was a real sweetie to me.
Yes- kind of a personal anthem for me. I burned through boxes of C90s. We didn’t get MTV or cable but there was a college radio station out here in the hinterland that played a new album in its entirety at 10PM several times a week. I’d tape it off the radio and listen to it after school the next day. If i didn’t like it, I’d tape over it. Those I really liked, I’d have the terrible record store in the mall order it. I’ve been a music obsessive since I was a seventh grader. My wife and kids don’t share the interest…
Does anyone else here HEAR the Judy Garland-like tonality in her voice? Especially the young "Dorothy" Judy Garland?
"Run, Toto, Run!!" Sounds JUST like her.
Have a link? Can't find it on youtube.
LOL, no wonder I couldn’t find it. I thought it was a Bow Wow Wow song that I had never heard of. 😋
Stand and Deliver!
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