That Was A Hit?!?: Candyman, 'Knockin' Boots'
The latest installment in our occasional series about improbable chart hits.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Candyman's 1990 single "Knockin' Boots" sold a million copies and reached No. 9 on the Hot 100.
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Last week, we kicked off That Was A Hit?!? our new occasional series with the mission to explore the improbable success of songs that today seems positively baffling. Billboard editor Joe Levy returns to take a look at another strange hit: Candyman's 1990 song, "Knockin' Boots."
"The rhymes are terrible, the hook is ok, but the flow is awful." Levy says. "This is a song that I remember from the time, and I remember thinking...I believe in pop, public taste, the charts. Even if I don't like it I think it's telling us something. But when I heard this I remember thinking we've reached a moment that we must escape from."
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Comments [4]
Right up there with the Bloodrock song was the equally bizarre dystopian dirge, "In the Year 2525" a huge hit in 1969 (I think) for a one-hit wonder duo, Zager and Evans. Just listen to the lyrics, "In the Year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive..." and it gets worse believe me.
Right up there with the Bloodrock song was the equally bizarre dystopian dirge, "In the Year 2525" a huge hit in 1969 (I think) for a one-hit wonder duo, Zager and Evans. Just listen to the lyrics, "In the Year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive..." and it gets worse believe me.
I just can't fathom how "Rappin' Duke" ever got any airplay. How did the zeitgeist of the 80's let that happen???
whatever you guys! criticize all you want...I loved and still love these songs.
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