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The Strangeloves - I Want Candy: The Best Of The Strangeloves flac album

The Strangeloves - I Want Candy: The Best Of The Strangeloves flac album
  • Performer The Strangeloves
  • Title I Want Candy: The Best Of The Strangeloves
  • Date of release 2007
  • Country US
  • Style Garage Rock, Pop Rock, Novelty
  • Other formats AIFF MOD AAC AU WMA MIDI VQF
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1842 mb
  • Size FLAC 1789 mb
  • Rating: 4.6
  • Votes: 614

I Want Candy ‎(8-Trk, Album). OLLP 5231 AS. The Strangeloves. I Want Candy ‎(LP, RE). Line Records. Germany.

Part of the Strangeloves' signature sound was the loud, quick unison "heys" and strong tom-tom beats at the bridges. Candy" had great jazzy, repeating guitar riffs; "Cara-Lin" had a powerful honking sax, somewhat like early Dave Clark Five tunes. Best known for one hit wonder I Want Candy. Rest of album is done mainly in same style as I Want Candy. These were actually behind the scenes music people who hit it big with this song.

I Want Candy: The Best Of The Strangeloves.

When The Strangeloves recorded this, it started out as a cover of the song "Bo Diddley. They made it into an original with the help of songwriter Bert Berns, who wrote "Twist And Shout" as well as songs for The Drifters and Van Morrison. Lyrical inspiration for the song came from the 1958 book Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. The book is about a young naif who has a series of adventures with older men.

The Strangeloves were a fictional band created in 1964 by a New York-based American songwriting production team who pretended to be from Australia. Consisting of Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, and Richard Gottehrer, The Strangeloves most successful singles were "I Want Candy," "Cara-Lin", and "Nigh. ore .

Listen to music from The Strangeloves like I Want Candy, Night-Time & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from The Strangeloves. According to the press releases, the Strangeloves were three brothers named Giles, Miles and Niles Strange that had grown up on an Australian sheep farm.

Altri album di The Strangeloves. I Want Candy: The Best Of The Strangeloves. only publishes for promotional use and/or for press use images, as delivered and/or authorized by record labels, press offices, promotional agencies

Tracklist

1 Cara-Lin 2:42
2 Sendin' My Love 2:29
3 (Roll On) Mississippi 2:29
4 I Want Candy 2:57
5 It's About My Baby 2:30
6 Just The Way You Are 3:12
7 Night Time 3:23
8 No Jive 2:30
9 Rhythm Of Love 2:15
10 Satisfaction 3:45
11 I Gotta Dance 3:01
12 Hang On Sloopy 3:53
13 New Orleans 3:11
14 Hand Jive 2:45
15 Out In The Sun (Hey-O) 2:35
16 Love, Love (That's All I Want From You) 2:30
17 I'm On Fire 2:19
18 Honey Do 2:17
19 I Wanna Do It 3:00
20 Quarter To Three 2:31

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 0 74644 70752 6

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
ZK 47075 The Strangeloves I Want Candy: The Best Of The Strangeloves ‎(CD, Comp, Mono) Legacy, Epic Associated, Bang Records ZK 47075 US 1995