Candy Girl
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"Candy Girl" is the title of two different hit singles; one recorded in 1963 by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, and another recorded in 1983 as the debut single from New Edition. Though two separate compositions, both songs tackle the same subject matter — a girlfriend whose "love is so sweet".
Each song approaches the material in different ways. The Four Seasons song is a doo-wop styled ode to a loving girlfriend ("I've been a searching all this wide world/Finally I found my/Candy Girl") The New Edition song, with Ralph Tresvant on lead vocals, finds the narrator both praising his girl ("Candy girl/you are my world/you look so sweet/you're a special treat"), and bragging about her qualities ("My girl's the best/and that's no lie/she tells me that/I'm her only guy"). The New Edition version, done in a style closely approximating that of Motown's The Jackson 5, also features rapped verses from Tresvant and Bobby Brown.
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons's "Candy Girl" reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, and #13 on the R&B chart. New Edition's "Candy Girl" was a #1 hit on the R&B chart, and peaked at #46 on the pop chart. In a television commercial for Applebee's, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons's "Candy Girl" is played in the background.
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Three other artists have recorded unrelated songs called "Candy Girl":
- Babybird, whose "Candy Girl" appears on their 1996 album Ugly Beautiful.
- Low, whose "Candy Girl" appears on their 2002 album Trust.
- hitomi, a J-Pop singer released a single with the same name in 1995, and it became her first hit release. Since then, the song is considered by many fans as her signature song. Her "Candy Girl" appears on her 1995 album, GO TO THE TOP.
