Ear Candy is the ninth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy, released on 25 April 1977 by Capitol Records.

The album included a modern take on the doo-wop genre ("Long Distance Love"), a Cajun number that gave the Melbourne native her first and only appearance on Billboard magazine's Country chart ("Laissez les Bontemps Rouler"),[2] and a dark self-parody on which Reddy proclaims: "I don't take no shit from nobody" ("Baby, I'm a Star").

[4] RPM, the music trade magazine for Canada, would afford Ear Candy an album chart peak of number 84.

Ear Candy was recorded at Brother Studios (Santa Monica, CA) in early February 1977 with production by Kim Fowley, assisted by Earle Mankey.

Jeff Wald, then Reddy's husband and manager, would state in 1977: "Helen has enough hits to be established in the public mind...but it still shakes you when you're suddenly not on the charts".

[14] The potential for further international success for Reddy's version of "You're My World" was narrowed by the concurrent release of a remake by UK pop group Guys 'n' Dolls which was a number 1 hit in the Netherlands and Flemish Belgium.

Although the Guys 'n' Dolls version was unsuccessful in the British Isles, its release there did cause Capitol UK to make Ear Candy's lead single the track "Long Distance Love" with "You're My World" as B-side, while in the Netherlands Reddy's co-write "Midnight Skies" was the choice for single (with "Long Distance Love" as B-side) with neither local release affording Reddy any success.

The second single from Ear Candy, the Reddy co-write "The Happy Girls", began a seven-week Hot 100 tenure with 8 October 1977 chart with an eventual peak of number 57,[13] the 8 October 1977 issue of Billboard also inaugurated the eleven-week Easy Listening chart tenure of "The Happy Girls", the Easy Listening peak of which was number 14.

[12] The single's B-side, "Laissez les Bontemps Rouler", afforded Reddy a unique Hot Country Songs chart appearance with a one-week tenure at number 98 reported in the 22 October 1977 issue of Billboard.