Candy this and candy that whenever I'm out walking

[purplerabbits]

Bored on Friday? Wanna help me think of some playlists?

Today I'm looking for:-

Songs with the word Candy in the title
Songs that are covers but which people assume are the original because the original is so obscure. Beaver Patrol is a classic example.
Cover versions of Kick Out The Jams, I know loads of people have covered it, but who?

(For extra points MP3s of tracks I haven't got would be very welcome, but strictly optional. I would do quite a lot for an MP3 of the original Beaver Patrol...)

Comments

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

This morning's Metro talked about someone refusing to release his cover of the Clash's [sic] classic I Fought The Law... tuff luck Bobby Fuller Four.

Doesn't I Want Candy fall into both categories? I think Bow Wow Wow's was a cover of some 60s girl group original. *googles* Yes, the Strangeloves. Good name for a girl group that...

Candy Everybody Wants, 10000 Maniacs?
Brain Candy, Adam Ant?
So Like Candy, Elvis Costello?
Candy Man, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes? (Don't laugh, I've got the 45).

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

I have the original of I want Candy but The Strangeloves were guys, and the lyrics talk about a girl. I haven't got the Bow Wow Wow version, to my surprise...

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

In which case I submit that it's an even better name for a boy band than a girl one...

Follow up to self

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Well, hang me, I Fought The Law was apparently by the Crickets even before Bobby Fuller did it: http://www.coversproject.com/artist/Crickets

The site knoweth not the versions by the Dead Kennedys or Attila the Stockbroker, though.