Sugar & Candy - "Monkey Dance" b/w "I Don't Bake Cake (Just for Anyone)" 7" [Hansa (MA-127-SA), Japan, 1978]

Snagged this in Tokyo with the hope that Sugar & Candy was a nutty bubblegum girl band since ’78 for Hansa was basically a year where anything goes – hence The Teens.  The A-side, “Monkey Dance,” is actually a nifty bubblegum disco tune that’s Koko gorilla-riffic!  Liberally pilfering Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling” ooga-chakas (which were, in turn, swiped from Jonathan King’s rather crappy version), both Sugar and Candy sang their hearts out with a gleeful gummy plea to let the arms swing.  I don’t know what kind of dance moves this would entail, but if you’ve ever seen monkeys at the local zoo you know that the ladies are subversively calling for going ape shit on the dance floor.  Flailing around and smacking the person in the face next to you or seeking out the weakest shaker on the floor and savagely beating that mover down as a group – followed by an orgy and then a nit pick – might be the message here.  But I’m guessing a signature “Monkey Dance” move is self masturbation followed by pulling down the bellbottoms, making a number two under the disco ball, and then throwing it at the losers by the bar.  This was a year too late to make it on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, yet surely Tony would have been doing the monkey dance at the 2001 Odyssey.  As for Sugar & Candy, as the picture sleeve suggests, in the Japanese League THERE ARE NO RULES.  The ladies went oh for one until Hasselhoff hit the charts in ’97 with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8




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