Released June 1963 Genre Rock Label Vee-Jay Records | Format 7" Length 2:39 | |
B-side Marlena (from the same album) | ||
"Candy Girl" is the title of a hit single recorded in 1963 by the Four Seasons. Written by Larry Santos, 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 last of the group's entries to make the R&B chart.
The song tackles the subject of a girlfriend where, "our love is real." The Four Seasons song is a rock ballad to a loving girlfriend ("I've been a-searching all this wide world/Now, finally, I found my/Candy Girl").
The B-side, "Marlena", was a Top 40 hit in its own right: it reached No. 36 on the Hot 100. It was written by Gaudio.
A stereo version was released in 1975, on The Four Seasons Story album.