CANDY WHIPS replaces ’50s Sepia with Futuristic DayGlo & Neon… Synth-drenched cover of The Flamingos’ 1959 hit “I Only Have Eyes For You”

“A lot of these songs are so ingrained in us that it’s easy to overlook how creative and weird they were in their day,” he says about his song choice. “I think I’ve brought some of that weirdness to the forefront.” Adding a pulsating, mechanized rhythm to Marvin and Johnny’s “Cherry Pie”, Wendy transforms the swoony dancehop sway into a midnight dancefloor waltz. The joyfully tribal energy of The Cadet’s “Stranded in the Jungle” is updated with bright, staccato electro beats, artfully shifting the quirk into kitsch. Adding a blast of bright light to the Chordettes/Pat Ballard’s girl group classic “Mr. Sandman,” he creates a twinkling lullaby for babies counting electric sheep. Taking The Penguins’ perennial romantic slowdance song “Earth Angel” (reinvigorated multiple times in previous decades in Back to the Future, Grease, and Happy Days, among many other cultural touchstones), he processes his vocals to the point of transforming it into a romantic jam for robots. “If I could turn young people on to this old music, that would be amazing,” Wendy professes. “It sometimes bums me out that this stuff isn’t as ubiquitous as it was in my childhood. This era is the well that most good music sprung from!”