Candy (Cameo song)
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{{Infobox Single | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs -->
|Name = Candy
|Artist = [[Cameo (band)|Cameo]]
|from Album = [[Word Up!]]
|B-side =
|Released = 1987
|Format =
|Recorded = [[1986]]
|Genre = [[Funk]]
|Length = 5:39
|Label = [[Casablanca Records]]
|Writer = [[Larry Blackmon]]<br />[[Tomi Jenkins]]
|Producer = [[Larry Blackmon]]
|Certification =
|Chart position = * No.1 [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks|R&B chart]]
|Last single= "[[Word Up! (song)|Word Up!]]"<br />(1986)
|This single= "Candy"<br />(1987)
|Next single= "[[Back and Forth (Cameo song)|Back and Forth]]"<br />(1987)
}}
"'''Candy'''" is a song by the group [[Cameo (band)|Cameo]] that reached number 1 on the R&B charts in [[1987]]. The song has recently been featured in '''''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''''' and can be heard on the '''''[[Bounce FM]]''''' radio station in the game.
The song has been sampled by various artists, including [[Tupac Shakur|2pac]] ("[[All Bout U]]", featured on his album ''[[All Eyez on Me]]''), [[Will Smith]] ("Candy", on his album ''[[Big Willie Style]]''), and [[Mariah Carey]] ("[[Loverboy (song)|Loverboy]]", on the [[Glitter (soundtrack)|soundtrack to the film]] ''[[Glitter (film)|Glitter]]''); the latter song would reach #2 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]] in 2001.
Cameo tried to capitalize off the song's success by re-using the [[melody]] on the song "Honey" from their next album, ''[[Machismo (album)|Machismo]]''.
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| before = "Stop to Love" by [[Luther Vandross]]
| title = [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs]] [[List of number-one R&B hits (United States)|number one single]]
| years = [[January 31]]–[[February 7]] [[1987]]
| after = "[[Falling]]" by [[Melba Moore]]
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[[Category:Cameo songs]]
[[Category:Funk songs]]
[[Category:Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles]]
[[fr:Candy (chanson de Cameo)]]