Night Time

NIGHT TIME

 
The American songwriter/producer trio of Bob FeldmanJerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer has been a veritable cauldron of one-hit wonders over the years.  They first teamed up in 1963 for the girl-group classic “My Boyfriend’s Back” by the Angels.  The following year, in the wake of the British Invasion, they decided to reinvent themselves as a band called the Strangeloves and to pretend that they were three brothers who grew up on a sheep farm in Australia.  Once they came up with the hit song “I Want Candy” in mid-1965, they were put in the uncomfortable position of having to perform as live artists, so they brought a touring band with them (much as the UARB for July 2011 the Rip Chords had done).  The sole album by the Strangeloves includes two other excellent songs that have been widely covered, “Cara-Lin” and “Night Time
 
(May 2012)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021