Ear Candy (Helen Reddy album)
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| Studio album by Helen Reddy | ||||
| Released | 25 April 1977 | |||
| Recorded | February 1977 at Brother Studios Santa Monica, CA |
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| Genre | Vocal Pop/Rock |
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| Length | 34:30 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
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Kim Fowley Earle Mankey |
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Ear Candy is the title of the tenth album release by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy: released May 1977 by Capitol Records, the album included a modern take on the doo-wop genre ("Long Distance Love"), a Cajun number that gave the Melbourne native her first and only appearance on Billboard magazine's Country chart ("Laissez les Bontemps Rouler"), and a dark self-parody on which Reddy proclaims: "I don't take no shit from nobody" ("Baby, I'm a Star" - not to be confused with the Prince song of the same name). Unprecedented for a Helen Reddy album, half of the songs recorded for Ear Candy were co-written by Reddy herself, including the second single: "The Happy Girls", Reddy's first self-penned A-side single since "I am Woman": however it was the first single: a remake of the 1964 Cilla Black hit "You're My World", which would afford Reddy a final Top 40 hit.
Ear Candy debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart in the 21 May 1977 issue of Billboard: during its nineteen-week album chart tenure Ear Candy would peak at #75.RPM, the music trade magazine for Canada, would afford Ear Candy an album chart peak of #84. Despite being the parent album of Reddy's Top 20 comeback hit "You're My World", Ear Candy would become the singer's first album since her 1971 eponymous sophomore LP not to receive Gold certification from the RIAA Although Reddy would have five more studio albums released - and also the 1978 Live in London concert album - before retiring as a career recording artist after her 1983 album release Imagination Ear Candy would afford Reddy her final charting album in Billboard. Reddy would be afforded one more charting album in Canada, that being Reddy (#97).
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