Candi Staton was born in 1943, and spent her childhood picking cotton, and singing in the church choir in Hanceville, Alabama. At the age of eighth, Candi was already singing in a gospel group, "The Four Golden Echoes". When she was ten, her mother moved the family north to Cleveland in order to escape her alcoholic husband, and Candi was sent to a boarding school in Nashville, where she joined "The Jewel Gospel Trio", and toured with Mahalia Jackson, The Staple Singers, and a young Aretha Franklin. At seventeen, she ran off to Los Angeles, CA with "The Pilgrim Travellers" singer Lou Rawls.
In 1968 the legendary Rick Hall, owner of the FAME Records label, was looking for a female blues singer, and heard Candi when she was a backup singer for her future husband, Clarence Carter. Rick signed her, and launched her solo career as a Southern soul stylist, earning 16 R&B hits for Rick Hall's FAME Studios and gaining the title of "First Lady of Southern Soul" for her Grammy-nominated R&B renditions of the songs "Stand by Your Man" and "In the Ghetto".
Stax Records label. Today, over fifty years after they were recorded, the songs of this compilation remain as bright as ever.
For the freeload, tell us what your favorite candy bar is or was (as a child).
As a kid in a relatively small Kansas town, I had a paper route delivering the local afternoon paper. At the end of the route (2nd & Washington) was Jennings Market. The Jennings lived in the back. The front of the market had a screen door with a bell above it. I always left 4 copies of the paper on the counter by the cash register for them to sell, my pay for the papers was usually a 5th Avenue bar, my favorite & some extra penny candies. Once a month I had to collect from my customers and I'd punch their card & mine for the 2 bucks they paid. Once all the money was collected from everyone and put in a zippered money bag, I'd walk downtown and pay it to the circulation department. Thanks Babs.
ReplyDeleteSupernatural baloney? Perhaps ... perhaps not. But I rescued the "Young Hearts" album from an external hard drive just last week to give it an uninterrupted audition, and enjoyed it a lot.
ReplyDeleteSweets from the sweet shop (or more probably the paper shop - UK newspaper shop) were many and varied, and as they nearly all tasted the same (apart from licorice) it's hard to pick a favourite. Flying Saucers, Sherbet Dabs, sweet cigarettes, Mojos, bubble gum packs with cards, Lucky Bags, gobstoppers ...
I was a crunchy sort of kid - Butterfinger, ClarkBar, Heathbar. Never a fan of the nougat filled monstrosities like Milky Way, 3Musketeers etc.
ReplyDeleteI liked the crunchy you mention, Butterfinger, ClarkBar, Heathbar while the wife was a fan of Milky Way& 3Musketeers. When I was a Boy Scout I loved a Heathbar.
DeleteFavorite bar was probably Bros Chocolate, but I remember buying Bazooka Joe bubble gum regulalrly, not so much of the taste (which frankly was disgustingly sweet) but I loved those little comic strips...
ReplyDeleteI remember on the comic strip, there were items you could purchase for "free" if you sent in something like 800 wrappers.
DeleteMy favorite bubblegum was called "Swell"
Recently grabbed me a Payday bar. When I was a kid and could eat anything I remember liking Abba Zabbas.
ReplyDeleteCuban Lunch or Peter Paul Mounds.
ReplyDeleteI'm brain dead. What was the name of those individually foil wrapped candies with the Heathbar toffee centers with the chocolate covering? Maybe had shaved nuts or coconuts sprinkled on the chocolate. Could usually get a small plastic of them around Christmas. I'm not coming up with a name.
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DeleteAlmond Roca! Those are good.
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Chunky. Was a square block of chocolate with nuts and raisins. If that wasn't available, then a Zero bar.
ReplyDeleteZagnut…weird and wonderful.
ReplyDeleteWas a Zagnut similar to a Clark bar?
DeleteFrom the interwebs… The Zagnut bar is basically the exact same thing as the Clark bar, but instead of the flakey peanut butter being coated in chocolate, it is coated in a sweet coconut shell.
DeleteI loved Zero bars. A favorite. Now that it's mentioned, Chunky was good. Tried to introduce the kids, they weren't having it.
ReplyDeleteAs a little girl, I liked all the "penny candy". My favorite was unwrapped chocolate squares, that had "Grade A" in raised letters on them.
ReplyDeleteMy all-time favorite is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Does anyone remember Mallow Cups?
Reese's are not a candy. They are one of the basic food groups and essential for life.
DeleteThere was a small market near my friend's house. The owner kept a bowl of penny candy next to the cash register of which us kids were allowed to get into for change after making a purchase.
DeleteThe owner later got shot being robbed. Back when those things were unusual.
DeletePalm toffee bar. 2"x3" slab of hard toffee. 3d.
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ReplyDeleteIn the UK Curly Wurly, (called 3Musketeers in the rest of Europe I believe).
Charleston Chews - Muzak McMusics
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From the age of two until I was four lived with my parents in the apartment above my grandparents newspaper/grocery store (as described above by the honourable Mr Throckmorton above) which had a wall full of jars full of candy and good size display cabinet full of chocolate bars so anything with sugar or chocolate has a short lifespan in my company (oh happy days) but if there is one chocolate bar that I would pick first these days above all others it would be a 'Picnic'.
ReplyDeleteI'll stop there before I change my mind because the very question is generating the names of dozens of wonderful confectioneries...
You want a piece of my Walnetto?
ReplyDeleteDon't know that I ever had one. But thanks to Laugh In I sure knew about them.
So Babs, living on the west coast, I've wondered if you live in a Brownstone or skyscraper? Or what?
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad story that shames a once-great city. Babs lives with her cats and shopping carts full of newspapers in a derelict button factory in New York's seedy Tribeca district. The rags strung across the broken windows do little to screen out the wailing sirens and flashing lights of the police cars that constantly cruise past, and the smell of the 24hr fish head incinerator on the same floor is impossible to ignore. Her welfare checks barely pay for essentials like meth, Boone's Farm "Blue Hawaiian", and off-brand dog food.
DeleteDon’t believe a word of it. I mean Meth and Boone's Farm "Blue Hawaiian" c’mon that’s so 2010s. These days it’s Suboxone and MD 20/20 (a.k.a Mad Dog 20/20) “Strawberry-Kiwi”.
DeleteYikes, MD 2020. Freshman year in high school. Once was enough.
DeleteThe welfare checks don't allow for Château Lynch-Bages...
DeleteI seem to recall buying a lot of Bubble Yum at the local market (along with Chocodiles). Other perennial favorites include Reeses Pieces and white chocolate. Thanks Babs!
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