Week Ninety: Bow Wow Wow - "Do You Wanna Hold Me?" - The Best of Bow Wow Wow

This is my all-time fave song by Bow Wow Wow!!! The video is so much fun to watch, as well. It's like the perfect combo of 60's Girl Group lyrics and Adam Ant's musical styling --- it doesn't get a whole lot better than that, my dearest blogland readers!

Today, I'm going to pull from my book of New Wave album covers and share the cover for their EP, The Last of the Mohicans:

Since it may be difficult to read the description, I've tried to make it a little larger for you so that you can see from where my Adam Ant musical styling reference came:

I'll also share yet another interesting fact about the album cover from Wikipedia:

"The cover artwork is based on the painting Le déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet."

Finally, I will leave you with another favorite from the EP called "Louis Quatorze"...

Children, I wanna warn ya

'Cos I've been to California

Where Mickey Mouse is such a demon

Where Mickey Mouse is as big as a house

Life is wasted on illusions

Tom and Jerry's no solution

Evil gangs will cut the demons

Pinocchio is a real boy, look around

And I cry all night

Do you wanna hold me, hold me tight?

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah?

Do you wanna hold me, hold me there?

Children, you got to hand me

You just got to understand me

Love and death ain't no physical thing

'Cos making next ain't no one of 'em

And I cry all night

Do you wanna hold me, hold me tight?

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah?

Do you wanna hold me, hold me there?

Do you wanna?

And I cry all night

Do you wanna hold me, hold me tight?

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah?

Do you wanna hold me, hold me there?

And I cry all night

There ain't no more confusion in the night

There's someone there to tell me what is right

Do you wanna hold me, hold me tight?

And I cry all night

There's only one solution to this life

There's someone there to tell me what it's like

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah?

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah?

Do you wanna hold me, hold me there?

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah?

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah?

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah?

Do you wanna hold me, hold me there?

Week Ninety: Bow Wow Wow - "I Want Candy" - The Best of Bow Wow Wow

Hot on the heels of last week's candy-themed week, I present to you today Bow Wow Wow's hit, "I Want Candy". I'm sure many of you were thinking: "How could she have a candy week, and not include 'I Want Candy'?" However, if you have been keeping up with this blog, you should know by now that I try not to be that obvious about my selections, and it was a fantastic opportunity to segue into Bow Wow Wow week.

I am going to include for you today some information about this particular song from George Gimarc's Post Punk Diary 1980-1982:

I seriously had no idea that this was a cover, which is why I scanned that little write-up, but I will include the original for you below.

Additionally, not only did this song make it into Sofia Coppola's film, Marie Antionette, but so did one of my other favorite Bow Wow Wow tunes, called "Aphrodisiac", so I will include that one for you today, as well.

I know a guy who's tough but sweet

He's so fine, he can't be beat

He's got everything that I desire

Sets the summer sun on fire

I want candy, I want candy

Go to see him when the sun goes down

Ain't no finer boy in town

You're my guy, just what the doctor ordered

So sweet, you make my mouth water

I want candy, I want candy

Candy on the beach, there's nothing better

But I like candy when it's wrapped in a sweater

Some day soon I'll make you mine,

Then I'll have candy all the time

I want candy, I want candy

I want candy, I want candy...

Week Eighty-Nine: Candy Songs - The Four Seasons - "Candy Girl" - The Very Best of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

Week Eighty-Nine will be dedicated to songs that feature that wonderful God-given treat known as candy!!!

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Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons were way before my time, so I have no choice but to resort to Wikipedia for help with today's song:

"'Candy Girl' is the title of a hit single recorded in 1963 by the Four Seasons. Written by Larry Santos and produced by Bob Crewe, it is the first original Four Seasons single not composed by either Bob Gaudio or Bob Crewe. The writer, Larry Santos, would become a chart artist in his own right with 1976's 'We Can't Hide It Anymore'. 'Candy Girl' reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and No. 13 on the R&B chart."

"The song tackles the subject of a girlfriend whose 'love is so sweet'. The Four Seasons song is a doo-wop styled ballad to a loving girlfriend ('I've been a searching all this big wide world/Finally I found my/Candy Girl')."

I am awarding New Edition's hit, also called "Candy Girl", an Honorable Mention and will include that video for you, as well!

I've been a-searchin' all this wide world

Now finally I've found my

Candy girl Candy girl

I-yi-yi-yi found me a girl (Candy girl)

She-ee-ee-ee sets my heart a-whirl (Candy girl)

With huggin' and kissin' and lov-in'

(She's mine) mi-ine (mine) mi-ine

Whoa-oa-oa-oh-oh (Candy girl)

We get along so well (Candy girl)

I know just why I fell (Candy girl)

She's thrillin' (thrillin') oh, chillin' (chillin'),

yes she's so divine

(She's mine) mi-ine (mine) mi-ine

Whoa-oa-oa-oh-oh (Candy girl)

When we're out together

Everyone knows the way we feel

We both seem to glow with the glow of a love

And it's plain to see

Our love is real

I-yi-yi-yi'm happy as can be (Candy girl)

She-ee-ee-ee vows eternally (Candy girl)

To hold me (hold me) and love me (love me)

until the end of time

(She's mine) mi-ine (mine) mi-ine

Whoa-oa-oa-oh-oh

Candy girl