New Edition - "Candy Girl"

[pophector]

#1 in the UK for 1 week in 83... was a big hit before "Cool It Now"... this sampled that famous Jackson 5 song.... also #1 on R&B & #46 Hot 100...

Great :) Vocals are a bit too young though

[Deleted]

I really do not like this song. I might go as far as to say it's my least favorite New Edition song and they're possibly my favorite male group.

[620 Soul Train]

Man I was in grade school when this came out. I still love it now! I played it when I was lifting weights last week.

[Gorminako]

I think I liked this song, though it wasn't one of the 4 singles by them I bought. My favorite song by them while they were still kids was "A Little Bit of Love". But I can't remember how that goes, either, except I think it's quite fast, soulful, and possibly a bit bubblegum.

[ClassicCase]

On this song, I wouldn't call this sampling, but it fits well in the "influentially inspired" or "vocal cloning" department. What I think this song came of this is when Maurice Starr discovered these guys in a talent show that he created in Boston and made them the next Jackson 5 of all people. It was alright for a few months, but later I grew tired of it.

[areyoureadytojump]

[Soulsista]

Awful. Their later singles are so much better.

[Live Your Life]

I don't listen to this one much, but I can acknowledge that it's classic.

[Dreams]

I like it, it's cute. lol

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Love it! Classic jam!

[disman00911]

If the Jackson 5 came out in the early/mid 80s instead of the late 60s/early 70s, they would sound like this song.  Just screams "I Want You Back" or "ABC" if those songs came out in the 80s with the synths and Linn drum machine.  That said, this song is so cheesy and New Edition (both as a group or with solo/later efforts of Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, and Bell Biv Devoe) would make much better songs. 

[areyoureadytojump]

40 years ago this week, "Candy Girl" debuted at #88 on the May 7, 1983 Billboard Hot 100.

I think this is a SNL performance:



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Girl_(New_Edition_song)

#1 R&B
#17 Dance

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#350 on Billboard's Greatest 500 Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: The sugary teen-pop confection that charted outside the top 40, but established the recipe for a new generation of boy bands.

Sign ‘o’ the Times: Since New Edition were envisioned by impresario Maurice Starr as the 1980s’ answer to the Jackson 5, their first single had to incorporate the most important musical innovation in the decade since: rap, with the members swapping bars in the third verse. (No one would confuse the quintet for the Furious Five, but their teen energy was a good fit for the then-nascent genre.)

Coming Around Again: “Candy Girl” eventually found the chart success it had been denied, via a shoutout in D4L’s Hot 100-topping (and similarly sweet-toothed) 2006 hit “Laffy Taffy.”