"Candy" is a popular

Popular music

Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

 song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

. The music was written by Alex Kramer

Alex Kramer (songwriter)

Alex J. Kramer was a Canadian songwriter....

, the lyrics by Mack David

Mack David

Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs...

 and Joan Whitney

Joan Whitney Kramer

Joan Whitney Kramer was an American singer and songwriter.She was born as Zoe Parenteau in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She attended Finch College in New York City. In 1934, while playing a showgirl in The Great Waltz on Broadway, she took the stage name Joan Whitney...

. It was published in 1944

1944 in music

-Events:*January 18 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden....

.

The recording by Johnny Mercer

Johnny Mercer

John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...

 and Jo Stafford

Jo Stafford

Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...

 was released by Capitol Records

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 as catalog number

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 183. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on February 22, 1945 and lasted 15 weeks on the chart, peaking at #2.

The recording by Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...

 was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-1632. It reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on April 5, 1945 at #10, its only week on the chart.

The recording by Joe Loss

Joe Loss

Joshua Alexander "Joe" Loss LVO OBE was a British musician and founder of the Joe Loss Orchestra.-Life:Loss was born in Spitalfields, London, the youngest of four children. His parents, Israel and Ada Loss, were Russian Jews and first cousins. His father was a cabinet-maker who had an office...

 and his Orchestra with refrain Harry Kaye was made in Hippodrome, Ardwick

Ardwick

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, Manchester

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 on June 15, 1945. It was released by EMI

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 on the HMV Records label as catalog number BD 5890.

Big Maybelle

Big Maybelle

Mabel Louise Smith , known professionally as Big Maybelle, was an American R&B singer and pianist. Her 1956 hit single "Candy" received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999.-Biography:...

's version of the song received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award

Grammy Hall of Fame Award

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 in 1999 and went to #11 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1956.

The jazz vocalist group Manhattan Transfer included this song on their self-titled 1975 album.

The song was featured on The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992...

episode "A Touch of Wonder" in which Claire lipsyncs it to lure Heathcliff downstairs for some snuggle time.