I Want Candy (VERY STRANGE ROCK 'N ROLL LP)

The Strangeloves

Published by Bang Records, New York, 1965

About this Item

Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm record album, Bang 211, very-good-plus vinyl in a good-only cardboard jacket. With a couple of exceptions (the Stones' "Satisfaction") this is an album of tunes by Feldman, Goldstein & Gottehrer, produced by Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, and Richard Gottehrer. The three performers shown to the cover with the African drums, identified as Australian sheepherders Miles, Niles and Giles Strange, who grew independently wealthy by registering "the now famous longhair sheep known as the Gottehrer sheep"? What are the chances they may actually be record producers Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, and Richard Gottehrer? As producers, they'd scored a hit in 1963 with the Angels' "My Boyfriend's Back." But by 1964, the girl group sound in which FGG Productions specialized was going out of fashion, due to the British Invasion. Deciding that they could not convincingly fake British accents, they opted to pretend to be Australians sheep-herders, Gottehrer later telling Bill Kopp of "Record Collector": "Nobody in the US in 1965 really knew any Australians." By early 1966, the lineup performing as "The Strangeloves" on tour were FGG studio musicians guitarist Jack Raczka (Giles Strange), drummer/vocalist Joe Piazza (Miles Strange), and keyboardist/ vocalist Ken Jones (Niles Strange). Their songs have since been recorded by David Bowie, Bauhaus, The J. Geils Band, The Fleshtones, Aaron Carter, George Thorogood, and Bow Wow Wow. Now reduced from $17.

Seller Inventory # 012573

Bibliographic Details

• Title: I Want Candy (VERY STRANGE ROCK 'N ROLL LP)
• Publisher: Bang Records, New York
• Publication Date: 1965
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Cover photo by Nick Samardge
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Vinyl LPs rock 'n roll
  • Weird vinyl