Blues, Candy and Big Maybelle

Big Maybelle sang Candy - lyrics - look at these people arguing over who sang Candy on the Cosby Show.

I can’t find when or if she originally recorded it. She first sang it circa 1956.

I used to hang with the ritzy crowd around the Indianapolis night clubs back in the good old days. There was an older black gentleman that played piano and sang the blues at the upper scale joints. Every time, he saw me, he would sing “Candy” for me. It was so cute. I often wonder what happened to that man. My friend, Mary, would get so mad because he never sang anything for her.

This older man said that Big Maybelle had a lover named Candy, and this was her love song to her mate.

I've just always thought he was singing a love song to me.