The Strangeloves: I Want Candy: The Best of the Strangeloves CD Track Listing

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The Strangeloves I Want Candy: The Best of the Strangeloves (1995)
I Want Candy: The Best of the Strangeloves\n\nOriginally Released June 6, 1995\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Released in 1965, I Want Candy is the sole LP from the legendary Brothers Strange -- Miles (Bob Feldman), Niles (Richard Gottehrer), and Giles (Jerry Goldstein) -- who may have been touted as wealthy Australian sheepherders, but were in reality three New York Brill Building composers/producers. Their ruse as the Strangeloves started as an attempt to muscle their way back onto record surveys and radio play lists in the wake of the British Invasion pop music phenom. The trio's saga actually began several years earlier when neighborhood chums Feldman and Goldstein -- who had penned the theme to Alan Freed's The Big Beat TV show -- linked with Gottehrer in late 1960. The compatibility in their styles yielded an assignment to write for a prestigious roster boasting Chubby Checker, Little Eva, Dion, and the Angels as clients, the latter scoring significantly on Feldman, Goldstein, and Gottehrer's composition "My Boyfriend's Back." Once the Beatles opened the floodgates for an across-the-pond sonic sortie, FG&G's songs were no longer in demand. Guided by the age-old axiom "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," the team decided to reinvent themselves. After Ahmet Ertegun, then head of Atlantic Records, heard their fairly straightforward cover of "Bo Diddley," he hooked them up with Bert Berns, who had just formed his own Bang imprint. At Berns' suggestion, they wrote new deliciously lascivious lyrics and voil

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1. The Strangeloves - Cara-Lin (Stereo) (02:44)
2. The Strangeloves - Sendin' My Love (Stereo) (02:31)
3. The Strangeloves - (Roll On) Mississippi (Stereo) (02:30)
4. The Strangeloves - I Want Candy (Stereo) (02:59)
5. The Strangeloves - It's About My Baby (Mono) (02:31)
6. The Strangeloves - Just The Way You Are (Mono) (03:14)
7. The Strangeloves - Night Time (Stereo) (03:25)
8. The Strangeloves - No Jive (Mono) (02:31)
9. The Strangeloves - Rhythm Of Love (Stereo) (02:17)
10. The Strangeloves - Satisfaction (Mono) (03:47)
11. The Strangeloves - I Gotta Dance (Mono) (03:02)
12. The Strangeloves - Hang On Sloopy (Mono) (03:54)
13. The Strangeloves - New Orleans (Stereo) (03:13)
14. The Strangeloves - Hand Jive (Stereo) (02:46)
15. The Strangeloves - Out In The Sun (Hey-O) - (Mono) (02:37)
16. The Strangeloves - Love, Love (Mono) (02:31)
17. The Strangeloves - I'm On Fire (Mono) (02:21)
18. The Strangeloves - Honey Do (Stereo) (02:18)
19. The Strangeloves - I Wanna Do It (Mono) (03:02)
20. The Strangeloves - Quarter To Three (Stereo) (02:31)