The Bishops were a Pub Rock band originally called The Count Bishops whose raw style made them one of the links between that scene and Punk. Like many other bands of their sort they were more popular live than on record, but they did make the charts in 1978 with this punky version of “I Want Candy”.
I have the single on a 10″ disc which was quite a novelty format at the time (at least to me) so I might have bought it just because of that before I’d even heard it. Glad I did though because it’s a terrific record and my favourite version of the song. It was also issued on a 6″ disc which I think is even cooler and would’ve bought instead if I’d seen it.
Download: I Want Candy – The Bishops (mp3)
Trivia: Until I wrote this post I had no idea “I Want Candy” was co-written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter.
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I think you’re mistaken about Hayes/ Porter. Isaac Hayes did write a song called “Candy” for the Astors (with Steve Cropper as co-writer), but I Want Candy was written by the Strangeloves.
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I stand corrected. Read that online, should know not to trust that
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Is this the same song that Bow Wow Wow sang?
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Yeah. Originally done by The Strangeloves in 1965
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