From: drkerns@sony7.sdrc.com (sean kerns)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,alt.rock-n-roll,alt.rock-n-roll.classic
Subject: Re: Lyrics Help Wanted: I Want Candy (Strangeloves)
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:55:52 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.misc
Organization: SDRC

In article <C1K3rF.Ku6@sci.kun.nl>, freddy@sci.kun.nl (Frantic Freddy) writes:
|> fineston@pop.cis.yale.edu (Jason Finestone) writes:
|> 
|> >> THE STRANGELOVES - I WANT CANDY
|> 
|> >  I remember this song from 1981(?) by Bow-wow-wow.  Did they steal this? 
|> 
|> The original is definitely from Bow Wow Wow. It was on their "I Want Candy"
|> album (1982).
|> 
|> >Anyway, the words to the Bow-wow-wow version alter slightly (the lead
|> >singer is a woman).  Differences are:
|> 
|> >> I know a [guy] who's soft and sweet
|> 
|> Actually, it was "tough but sweet" :-)
|> 
|> >> But I like Candy when it's [stuck to your sweater]
|> 
|> I think the 'candy' here refers to the boy, so it should either be
|> 'stuck in a sweather' or (as someone else said, and I think he's right)
|> 'wrapped in a sweather'.
|> 
|> >For some reason, I can't remember that one line that you are having so much
|> >trouble with, but I'me just about positive that the line about the sweater
|> >is in this version.
|> 
|> I seem to have missed the original post, but here's what I can make of
|> the lyrics from the original Bow Wow Wow song:
|> 
|>  I know a guy who's tough but sweet, he's so fine, he can't be beat
|>  He's got everything that I desire, sets the summer sun on fire
|> 
|>  I want candy, I want candy
|> 
|>  Go to see him when the sun goes down, ain't no finer boy in town
|>  You're my guy, you walked up to water, so sweet, you make my mouth water
|> 
|>  I want candy, I want candy
|> 
|>  Candy on the beach, there's nothing better
|>  But I like candy when it's wrapped in a sweather
|>  Some day soon I'll make you mine, then I'll have candy all the time
|> 
|>  I want candy, I want candy
|> 
|> 
|> Does this help? Hope so...
|> 
|> Freddy
In article <C1K3rF.Ku6@sci.kun.nl>, freddy@sci.kun.nl (Frantic Freddy) writes:
|> fineston@pop.cis.yale.edu (Jason Finestone) writes:
|> 
|> >> THE STRANGELOVES - I WANT CANDY
|> 
|> >  I remember this song from 1981(?) by Bow-wow-wow.  Did they steal this? 
|> 
|> The original is definitely from Bow Wow Wow. It was on their "I Want Candy"
|> album (1982).
|> 
|> >Anyway, the words to the Bow-wow-wow version alter slightly (the lead
|> >singer is a woman).  Differences are:
|> 
|> >> I know a [guy] who's soft and sweet
|> 
|> Actually, it was "tough but sweet" :-)
|> 
|> >> But I like Candy when it's [stuck to your sweater]
|> 
|> I think the 'candy' here refers to the boy, so it should either be
|> 'stuck in a sweather' or (as someone else said, and I think he's right)
|> 'wrapped in a sweather'.
|> 
|> >For some reason, I can't remember that one line that you are having so much
|> >trouble with, but I'me just about positive that the line about the sweater
|> >is in this version.
|> 
|> I seem to have missed the original post, but here's what I can make of
|> the lyrics from the original Bow Wow Wow song:
|> 
|>  I know a guy who's tough but sweet, he's so fine, he can't be beat
|>  He's got everything that I desire, sets the summer sun on fire
|> 
|>  I want candy, I want candy
|> 
|>  Go to see him when the sun goes down, ain't no finer boy in town
|>  You're my guy, you walked up to water, so sweet, you make my mouth water
|> 
|>  I want candy, I want candy
|> 
|>  Candy on the beach, there's nothing better
|>  But I like candy when it's wrapped in a sweather
|>  Some day soon I'll make you mine, then I'll have candy all the time
|> 
|>  I want candy, I want candy
|> 
|> 
|> Does this help? Hope so...
|> 
|> Freddy


Pretty close, except I think that this line:

   You're my guy, you walked up to water, so sweet, you make my mouth water

should be:

  You're my guy, you're what the doctor ordered, so sweet, you make my mouth water

At least that's what I recall from the Bow Wow Wow version. That really was a
good song. I haven't tohught of it for years. Does anybody know if the singer
from that group did anything after they broke up?

Snake

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