The Candymen

The Candymen were an Alabama-spawned band probably best remembered today as the backing group for Roy Orbison. The group started life as the Webs, co-founded by guitarist John Rainey and a young lead singer/guitarist named Bobby Goldsboro, in Dothan, Alabama, in the mid-1960s. The group was heavily influenced by Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis but also by the slightly more pop/rock-oriented sound of Ricky Nelson. They were good enough to attract the attention of local producer and studio owner Ed Boutwells in Birmingham, who made a few recordings of them. The band was making...