''I Want Candy'' is a
compilation album
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by English
new wave band
Bow Wow Wow
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, released in May 1982 by
RCA Records
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. Side one of the album consists of all four tracks from Bow Wow Wow's
EP ''
The Last of the Mohicans
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'', and the band's recent hit "
Baby, Oh No"; these tracks were produced by
Kenny Laguna
Kenneth Benjamin Laguna is an American songwriter and record producer, best known for his work with Joan Jett.
Biography
Laguna was born in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States, and started playing piano at high school dances from th ...
of
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
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fame. Side two consists of four tracks from Bow Wow Wow's debut album ''
'', and "El Boss Dicho", the
B-side
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to the single "
Go Wild in the Country
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".
Though RCA had previously issued ''The Last of the Mohicans'' in the United States, the label wished to release a full-length album to capitalize on the American success of the
music video
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for the band's single "
I Want Candy
"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, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. It is a famous example of a song that uses the Bo Diddley beat.
Original version ...
" on
MTV
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. ''I Want Candy'' peaked at number 123 on the US
''Billboard'' 200.
The cover photograph, a nude image of lead singer
Annabella Lwin
Annabella Lwin (born Myant Myant Aye, , 31 October 1966) is an Anglo-Burmese singer, songwriter and record producer best known as the lead singer of Bow Wow Wow.
Early life, family and education
Lwin was born in Rangoon, Burma to a Burmese fat ...
painted gold, was taken by Jim Varriale. The photograph was later reversed for the cover of the 2008 compilation album ''Love, Peace & Harmony – The Best of Bow Wow Wow''.
''I Want Candy'' is also the name of the UK edition of EMI's compilation of the band, ''Twelve Original Recordings'' which reached 26 on the UK album chart,
as well as 2003 two-disc Bow Wow Wow anthology from
Castle Music
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's
Sanctuary Records
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, and a 2007 three-track EP on
Cleopatra Records
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, which also contained a cover of
the Smiths
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. They comprised the singer Morrissey, the guitarist Johnny Marr, the bassist Andy Rourke and the drummer Mike Joyce. They are regarded as one of the most important acts to emerg ...
' "
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
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".
Track listing
Notes
Charts
References
External links
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1982 compilation albums
Bow Wow Wow albums
Albums produced by Colin Thurston
RCA Records compilation albums