Helen Reddy - Ear Candy (1977) Vinyl LP • You're My World, The Happy Girls

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Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover has scuffing, some creasing, and surface abrasion (front/back); some discoloration on front. Inner-sleeve is original (photo/lyrics); two seams partially split. Spine is somewhat faint but easy-to-read with mild-wear and discoloration. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners, developing split near center of bottom. Opening is crisp with signs of light use. (Hole-punch in top-right.)

Tracks:

1. You're My World
2. One More Night
3. Long Distance Love
4. If It's Magic
5. Aquarius Miracle
6. Laissez Les Bontemps Rouler
7. The Happy Girls
8. Midnight Skies
9. Baby, I'm A Star
10. Thank You

About The Record:

Ear Candy, by Helen Reddy, 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), and a dark self-parody on which Reddy proclaims: "I don't take no sh*t from nobody" (Baby, I'm a Star). 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.