<P> `` Candy Rain '' is the title of a number - one R&B hit single by Soul for Real , released in 1994 on Uptown Records . The song was written by Ali Shaheed Muhammad , Hamish Stuart , Dwight Myers , Malik Taylor , Owen McIntyre , Samuel Barnes , Jean - Claude Olivier , Terri Robinson and spent three weeks at number - one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks behind Madonna 's ballad `` Take a Bow '' . The song also reached # 1 on Billboard 's Top 40 / Rhythm - Crossover airplay chart and was a moderate success on mainstream Top 40 radio , peaking at # 21 in the spring of 1995 on Radio & Records CHR / Pop tracks chart . It was certified gold by the RIAA and sold 800,000 copies . It features rapper Heavy D in the video and the song is regarded as the group 's signature song . The song has a remix by Heavy D and samples the 1974 hit song `` Mr. Magic '' by Grover Washington , Jr ... Bruno Mars has covered this song during his The Moonshine Jungle Tour . The bassline of this song was sampled from Minnie Riperton 's `` Baby , This Love I Have '' which is the first song from her 1975 album Adventures in Paradise . </P>
<P> `` Candy Rain '' is the title of a number - one R&B hit single by Soul for Real , released in 1994 on Uptown Records . The song was written by Ali Shaheed Muhammad , Hamish Stuart , Dwight Myers , Malik Taylor , Owen McIntyre , Samuel Barnes , Jean - Claude Olivier , Terri Robinson and spent three weeks at number - one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks behind Madonna 's ballad `` Take a Bow '' . The song also reached # 1 on Billboard 's Top 40 / Rhythm - Crossover airplay chart and was a moderate success on mainstream Top 40 radio , peaking at # 21 in the spring of 1995 on Radio & Records CHR / Pop tracks chart . It was certified gold by the RIAA and sold 800,000 copies . It features rapper Heavy D in the video and the song is regarded as the group 's signature song . The song has a remix by Heavy D and samples the 1974 hit song `` Mr. Magic '' by Grover Washington , Jr ... Bruno Mars has covered this song during his The Moonshine Jungle Tour . The bassline of this song was sampled from Minnie Riperton 's `` Baby , This Love I Have '' which is the first song from her 1975 album Adventures in Paradise . </P>
when did the song candy rain come out
when did the song candy rain come out
1994
1994