Ear Candy (Helen Reddy album)

Ear Candy
Studio album by
Helen Reddy
Released25 April 1977
RecordedFebruary 1977
StudioBrother Studios, Santa Monica
GenrePop rock[1]
Length34:30
LabelCapitol
ProducerKim Fowley, Earle Mankey
Helen Reddy chronology
Music, Music
(1976) 		Ear Candy
(1977) 		We'll Sing in the Sunshine
(1978)
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Allmusic[1]

Ear Candy is the ninth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy, released on 25 April 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"),[2] and a dark self-parody on which Reddy proclaims: "I don't take no shit from nobody" ("Baby, I'm a Star").[3] Unusually, 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". The album's first single, a remake of the 1964 Cilla Black hit "You're My World", gave Reddy a final Top 40 hit.

  1. ^ a b "Ear Candy - Helen Reddy". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  2. ^ Whitburn 2002, p. 285.
  3. ^ (1977) "Ear Candy" by Helen Reddy. Los Angeles: Capitol Records SO-11640.