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1 posted on 12/09/2017 11:19:03 AM PST by Old Yeller
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If you want it, here it is. Come and get it.


2 posted on 12/09/2017 11:20:28 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Baby Blue
3 posted on 12/09/2017 11:21:31 AM PST by blam
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Thanks. Been trying to find the original recording and always end up finding a re-recording that frankly sucks.

I don’t know much about Badfinger. Were the Beatles involved with them, or did they just copy the style?


4 posted on 12/09/2017 11:22:33 AM PST by chrisser
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Badfinger: The Tragic Story
6 posted on 12/09/2017 11:25:18 AM PST by blam
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To: Old Yeller

This is one of my all-time favorites. I remember hearing it (decades ago) and thinking it was The Beatles, and being shocked to discover it wasn’t.


9 posted on 12/09/2017 11:32:54 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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Badfinger’s story is one of the sadder ones in rock history.


11 posted on 12/09/2017 11:35:53 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Can I add a little late 70s to your mix?

Here you go: Sultans of Swing

13 posted on 12/09/2017 11:46:32 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time)
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Badfinger - The Tragic Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6ebpDPSDT8


14 posted on 12/09/2017 11:51:36 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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`They Sold A Million` Badfinger BBC documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eUJ03rmrDs


16 posted on 12/09/2017 11:52:43 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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George Harrison played guitar and produced Badfinger’s hits. They should’ve stuck with the Apple label.


19 posted on 12/09/2017 12:00:02 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth)
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“Day After Day” was our wedding song.


26 posted on 12/09/2017 12:23:48 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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“No Matter What” is an archetypal piece of Power Pop, with a great bridge.


27 posted on 12/09/2017 12:37:18 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Beautiful song. Always loved it.


28 posted on 12/09/2017 12:39:23 PM PST by TianaHighrider (Deplorable me)
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These guys served as one of the backing groups for George Harrison’s first solo album “All Things Must Pass”. The solo guitar work sounds like George.

CC


30 posted on 12/09/2017 12:46:16 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (It don't matter if your heart is in the right place, if at the same time your head is up your a$$)
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To: Old Yeller

great playlist!


32 posted on 12/09/2017 12:55:27 PM PST by iowamark
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Here's another great one from the same era that most people have forgotten about, because it was from a One Hit Wonder ---

Simone - by Henry Gross

Or actually a 2-hit wonder. His "Shannon" was popular on the radio, but Simone's my favorite.

And backing up into the late 60s, one of the all time greatest rock songs IMHO -

Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You

40 posted on 12/09/2017 1:53:30 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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It’s been said that Badfinger essentially invented the Seventies Power Ballad with that song, as well as Baby Blue.

Joe Jackson also ripped it off in 1982, when he released: “Breaking Us in Two”.

Pete Ham is also a member of the 27 Club, alas.


41 posted on 12/09/2017 3:20:29 PM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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Saw them at Cowtown Ballroom in Kansas City .


42 posted on 12/09/2017 4:06:06 PM PST by katykelly
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To: Old Yeller; blam
And then there were one... the drummer passed a few years back, leaving only the bass player alive from a band that, at its peak, was reportedly selling more records for the Apple label than any artist, bar none (including the Beatles). After they got srewed by the embezzler they signed with after Apple collapsed, the two main songwriters died of suicide (one some years after the other). As a band, they were the precursors of and bridge to the power pop bands of the 1970s and early 1980s. My favorite of theirs, "No Matter What", has been covered by at least a couple bands, and the false ending of thair original version pretty much smokes every other song where it's been tried. :^)

48 posted on 12/09/2017 11:59:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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