I Want Candy [Single]

About I Want Candy [Single]

I Want Candy is a compilation album by new wave group Bow Wow Wow, released by RCA Records in May 1982. The album peaked at No. 123 on the Billboard 200. Though RCA Records issued The Last of the Mohicans EP in the US, the label wanted a full-length album to capitalize on the American success of the "I Want Candy" music video on MTV. Side 1 of I Want Candy contained all four tracks from The Last of the Mohicans EP and their recent hit single, "Baby, Oh No". Side 2 consisted of four tracks from See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy and "El Boss Dicho", the B-side to the "Go Wild in the Country" single. The album featured production by Kenny Laguna of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts fame. The cover photograph, a nude image of lead singer Annabella Lwin painted gold, was taken by Jim Varriale. This photo was later reversed for the cover of the 2008 Love, Peace & Harmony - The Best of Bow Wow Wow compilation album. I Want Candy is also the name of a 2003 two-disc Bow Wow Wow anthology from Castle Music's Sanctuary Records, and a 2007 three-track EP on Cleopatra Records, which also contained a cover of the Smiths' "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" more »