Surprised no one mentioned the 1944 classic, Candy written by Alex Kramer, Mack David and Joan Whitney. Especially versions by Ester Phillips and Big Maybelle (not to mention Nat Cole)

I call my sugar Candy
Because I'm sweet on Candy
and Candy's sweet on me

yawn

@Phillipe...Don't forget that Sheena Easton's "Sugar Walls" was written by the Prince of double entendres and suggestive sexual songs.

Don't forget Fats Waller's "All that meat and no potatoes"

How about, from my parents' generation, "Makin' Whoppy?" I was around 5 and I remember asking my father, "Dad, what's making whoppy?" Can't remember who sang the song, but it was a hit.

Here are real candy songs, no double entrendes, from Da Hiphop Raskalz, 5-10 year old kids in East Harlem who play and write their own hiphop. They really want candy!

I want candy
by the Muffletoes

to download mp3:
www.davesoldier.com/mp3s/DaHiphopRaskalz/02 I Want Candy.mp3

Do the lollipop
by Sweetness

download mp3:

www.davesoldier.com/mp3s/DaHiphopRaskalz/04 Do The Lollipop.mp3

John, congratulations on 30 years!!!

How about Cameo's "Candy" and Sheena Easton's " My Sugar Walls"? We should just admit that we love them all and relish the word games/double entendres...pure fun...pura vida!

Serge Gainsbourg struck a blow for sugary sexual freedom with Les Sucettes (1966), for a very young Lolita-like and saccharine France Gall. Deliciously heavy-handed lyric, in which he rhymes, say, "anis" and "quelques pennies" (for those who read French):

Annie aime les sucettes,
Les sucettes à l'anis.
Les sucettes à l'anis
D'Annie
Donnent à ses baisers
Un goût ani-
Sé. Lorsque le sucre d'orge
Parfumé à l'anis
Coule dans la gorge d'Annie,
Elle est au paradis...

The really funny part about "Savoy Truffle" is that George Harrison was watching Clapton working his way through a Cadbury Good News assortment ("You know it's good news"), where all these different chocolates are found, while complaining about the state of his teeth ("You'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle.").

Thank you for infuriating me with the "do no wrong" Rolling Stones bastards...does anyone listen to lyrics?? "hear him whip the women just around midnight!!! how come you dance so good. just like a black girl should." They should be eviscerated not celebrated...

Check out the alt country/rock "honeyed out" by kris delmhorst. So hot.

Celia Cruz famous word was: AZUUUCAAAAR!

craig weirden's contemporaries the nation of ulysses had a few of sweet inspired songs like diptheria:

The road to hell is paved with chocolate treats
And candy corn is sown at the side of the streets
Every morsel promises to make you satisfied
But every wrapper carries another lie
The road to hell winds through a gingerbread town
It looks real good, tastes real good
But truth be told, it leads straight down

Candy's room by springsteen

i might get killed for this,but "sugar sugar", was not bad from a pre-pubescent vantage point. at least you could wiggle to it, with a modicum of pseudo-wholesomeness.

John Grant - I Wanna Go to Marz

"Bittersweet strawberry marshmallow butterscotch
Polarbear cashew dixieland phosphate chocolate
My tutti frutti special raspberry, leave it to me
Three grace scotch lassie cherry smash lemon free"

How about the song by Marcy Playground called "Sex and Candy"?

It came out in 1997 and I believe it spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Oscar Brown Jr - Watermelon Man

john--i detest sugar sugar as much as you but hearing it just now--hey, it's a great track! good groove! solid hook!!

Bill Solly's "Cookies"

Crumbs in my bed

I'd sooner have you but instead

I've just got crumbs in my bed.

porcupine pie by neil diamond

Suzanne Vegs's song Caramel talks about all kinds of sweets EXCEPT chocolate. Always makes me crave some cocoa.

As a 10 year old I didn't realize that when Sammy Davis Jr. was singing 'the Candy Man can cause he mixes it with love...." I was actually receiving the 1970's equivalent of the message 'save yourself for marriage'...

Candy by Illinois Jacquette

I think R&B/Gospel singer Marvin Sease's Candy Licker is the most obvious of this genre. I can't even get into the lyrics here but thought I would share it.

"Hokey Pokey" by Richard & Linda Thompson (of all people). Hokey Pokey is British for Popsicle.

"Mr. Softee" by Kid Creole & the Coconuts isn't so much a sexual metaphor as a sexual dysfunction metaphor.

Want a more palatable "Sugar Sugar"? Wilson Pickett's version!

Most unlikely metal break scream ever: "ONE LUMP OR TWO?!?!?!"

I have to mention Candy Man by the Mary Jane girls! That song is dripping in sex, in a happy, Rick James sort of way.

Favorite candy reference song -- and it'd be awesome if you played a little --

The B-52's "Give Me Back My Man"
-- the refrain is "I'll give you fish, I'll give you candy..." Beautiful.

candy by Cameo

Who can forget "Cherry Pie" by Warrant!! My father bared me from owning that album. Made me want it more...as a young teenage girl that song and video was my first exposure to blatant sexuality.

She wants a hot dog for her roll? Oh my! And we insist on explicit lyrics warning labels now?

Hi Steve.
I think "Sugar Kisses" by Echo and the Bunnymen, might be too close to "Sugar, Sugar" for Steve, but I'm curious what you think.

case of you by Joni Mitchell

soooooo painfully sweet

Do I have a dirty mind, or was "Lollipop" by the Chordettes in the 1950's full of sexual inuendo? It was a very mainstream hit.

Sugar on my tongue- Talking Heads

Brown Sugar - the Stones
I know it's not candy per se but it is sweet!

Im throwing "Just Like Honey" by Jesus and Mary Chain in the running as well as "Candy Man Blues" by Mississippi John Hurt.

I really think Lou Reed's "Egg Cream" is about egg creams.

I recorded an old Yiddish Theater tune by Aaron Lebedeff, Hudl Mitn Strudl, Hudl with Strudl.
First song on this page: http://benjyfoxrosen.bandcamp.com/

And here is a translation:
Hudl mitn Strudel by Aaron Lebedeff

Oh, Hudl, Hudl, Hudl,
What's with your strudel?
It is tasty, I love it very much.
I need no meat or tsimes,
For everything else bores me.
Oh, Hudl, Hudl, Give the strudel,
Give it!

I have a countryman his name is Dudl,
He has a little wife, her name is Hudl,
Hudl and Dudl are so in love.
And his lovely wife Hudl,
Bakes an outstanding strudel,
It is a delight baby, and should go straight into the mouth.
Every friday when Dudl has the time,
He comes home and he yells:

Oh, Hudl, Hudl, Hudl,
What's with your strudel?
It is tasty, I love it very much.
I need no meat or tsimes,
For everything else bores me.
Oh, Hudl, Hudl, Give the strudel,
Give it!

My countryman Dudl has a border,
Who is very much in love with his Hudl,
Because she cooks his supper very well.
And the border, how he is smitten,
And the supper refreshes him,
And he devours Hudl with his eyes.
And when she, Hudl, bring the tea to the table,
He smiles and say to her the following:

Oh, Hudl, Hudl, Hudl, your tea with your Strudel,
It is delicious, I love it very much.
It is so delightful, and it just melts in the belly,
Oh Hudl, Give the strudel,
Give it!

Another fave: "Tootsie Roll" by Morris Day and The Time.

I have to say, I did always like Shudder to Think's "Chocolate," off of Funeral at the Movies. Though, I think it's pretty clear HE'S not singing about candy....

not one more pop song with honey,sweetie,or sugar. there were some good and even great songs, with those saccharine lolly-pop morsels. but, that is of another time.

sonic insulin shock

My rather ancient suggestions offer excellent metaphors re candy/food/sex:

Syd Barrett/The Floyd - "Candy and a Currant Bun." or

Beatles - "Savoy Truffle"

These songs make perfect 60's pop bookends IMO.