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

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

Um, the only one I can think of offhand is "I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

Covers - Tainted Love - maybe everyone knows this but the Marc Almond version is a cover, the original is Gloria Jones (I think she later drove Marc Bolan into the Tree of Destiny)

Candy - I Want Candy, Candy Says, Candy Girl, by, er, Bow wow wow, Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop?

Re: The Rocks...

[zotz]

Candy (Morphine), Psychocandy/Some candy talking (Jesus and Marychain), What's so great about candy? (Pop will eat itself).

All Along The Watchtower's originally a Dylan song, of course, and I believe Marley didn't actually write No Woman No Cry so that may also be one.

Kick out the Jams . . . Rollins Band have done it, I believe . . .

Hmmm : http://www.coversproject.com/artist/MC5

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

Songs with the word Candy in the title

'Some Candy Talking', JAMC, obviously.
'I Want Candy', Bow Wow Wow, obviously.
'Candy Girl', New Edition, painfully.
Apparently Mandy Moore and Kelis, among others have both done songs called 'Candy'.
Oh, and 'Sex And Candy' by Marcy Playground, of course.
And I think Counting Crows have one called 'Hard Candy'...

As for covers, the things I never knew were covers are 'Tainted Love', 'No Regrets' by Midge Ure, 'Oh L'Amour' by Erasure...can't think of any more just now, though.

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[devilgate.livejournal.com]

"Candy's Room" by Springsteen; maybe not your kind of thing, though?

I learned yesterday that "Season's in the Sun" was not originally by Terry Jacks, but has been done by loads of people, including the Beach Boys.

Who originally did "Beaver Patrol"?

[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).

[ajva.livejournal.com]

Would Kandy Pop by Bis count?

[skx.livejournal.com]

Curve's album "Come Clean" has a track called "Cotton Candy".

Marillion have a track "Three boats down from the candy".

Interesting covers? I can't think of many but the Nine Inch Nails track "Get Down Make Love" is a Queen cover, right?

[djm4]

Songs where I don't think the original's that obscure, but I've encountered people who didn't know about it:

Captain Sensible - Happy Talk
The Pet Shop Boys - Always on my Mind (and Where the Streets Have No Name, but that's just silly)
Kirsty MacColl - A New England
Doctor and the Medics - Spirit in the Sky

[metallic-ah.livejournal.com]

Ween - Candi (does that count?)
Madonna - Candy Perfume Girl
Army Of Lovers - Candyman Messiah

Nine Inch Nails did a song called "Dead Souls" which was originally Joy Division, but you probably knew that...

[figg.livejournal.com]

I have a brass band cover of "what time is love" if it helps :)

[mathie.livejournal.com]

Well, from what I've re-imported of my iTunes collection so far:

Candy Everybody Wants - 10,000 Maniacs
Candy - Ash
Candygirl - Babybird
Candy's Room - Bruce Springsteen
So Like Candy - Elvis Costello
Candy - Jackson Browne
Candy Man - Roy Orbison

I suppose it doesn't count since it's a traditional song anyway, but < href="http://www.mathie.demon.co.uk/tr/">Tim Rose claimed ownership of the arrangement of 'Hey Joe' that Hendrix turned into a hit (and bitched incessantly about not getting a penny of royalties for it when I met him).