The Strangeloves

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The Strangeloves
General information
Genre (s) Rock music
founding 1965
resolution 1968
Members
Bob Feldman
Jerry Goldstein
Richard Gottehrer
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
I want candy
  US 141 11/13/1965 (2 weeks)
Singles
I want candy
  US 11 06/26/1965 (10 weeks)
Cara-Lin
  US 39 September 18, 1965 (8 weeks)
Night time
  US 30th January 15, 1966 (8 weeks)
Hand jive
  US 100 06/18/1966 (1 week)

The Strangeloves presented themselves in public as a band from Australia , but were the project of US songwriters and music producers Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer . The group is best known for their hit I Want Candy , which has been widely covered .

Band history

Feldman, Goldstein and Gottehrer worked together successfully under the name FGG Productions in the 1960s, including writing for Pat Boone and Bobby Vee . They also wrote and produced the Angels' number one hit, My Boyfriend's Back , in 1963 . For their own band they pretended to be brothers named Giles, Miles and Niles Strange, who grew up on a sheep farm in Australia. They hired musicians working in their studio for live performances. In 1965 they released their only album, the single of the same name, I Want Candy , reached number 11 on the US charts. With Nighttime and Cara-Lin further Top reach 40 successes, the following singles did not reach the Top 100 more.

At the end of the 1960s, the members turned back to their production activities , Goldstein produced War and Gottehrer, among other things, Blondie .

I want candy

I Want Candy has been recorded by a variety of artists, including Good Charlotte , Aaron Carter, and Westlife , since it first appeared in 1965 . Some versions were able to record chart successes:

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  1. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7
  2. ↑ Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 by Joel Whitburn , Record Research 2007, ISBN 978-0-89820-172-7

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