These are all songs that have become a part of pop culture history, but failed on the chart when they were originally released. Songs that, through inclusion in films, TV, or other medium have managed to withstand the test of time.
Note – We’ll also include a couple of songs that were never actually released a singles, but have also become classics.
Let’s get things started with a remake that actually fared much worse on the chart than the original, but has become the definitive version.
#20
“I Want Candy”
Bow Wow Wow
In 1965 three New York songwriters formed a band named The Strangeloves, pretending to be three brothers named Giles, Miles, and Niles Strange who were raised on an Australian sheep farm (it was the 60’s.)
They had a few minor releases, but scored a #11 hit on the pop chart with “I Want Candy.” In 1982 British group Bow Wow Wow (led by teenager Annabella Lwin) remade the bubblegum hit, and took it to #62 in July, but it’s this version that has endured, becoming a New Wave classic, and used in dozens of films and TV shows over the last 30 years.
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