Floyd "Candy" Johnson (May 1, 1922, in Madison, Illinois – June 28, 1981, in Framingham, Massachusetts) was an American jazz saxophonist.
[1] His professional career began in St. Louis, where he was a member of a group led by Chuck Finney.
After his service, he played in bands led by Ernie Fields, Tiny Bradshaw, and Andy Kirk.
[2] One musician recalled that the band dressed in candy-striped suits, and sometimes Johnson tossed peppermint sticks to the crowd.
A year later, he accompanied the New McKinney's Cotton Pickers at the Bix Beiderbecke Festival in Iowa.