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Badfinger - Day After Day (1971 - HQ - Restored)
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Posted on 12/09/2017 11:19:03 AM PST by Old Yeller

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To: Old Yeller

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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To: Old Yeller

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: tumblindice

Poisoning that child likely his low ebb


43 posted on 12/09/2017 4:08:17 PM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: Wolfie

Paul McCartney wrote their first hit, “ come and get it”.


44 posted on 12/09/2017 4:09:18 PM PST by vigilante2 (I fixed my flag)
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To: BenLurkin

If you want get a totally different take on Badfinger, listen to some of their live recordings.

Marko.


45 posted on 12/09/2017 4:59:41 PM PST by markoman (Nothing hard liquor and a hammer won't fix)
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To: Bodleian_Girl; wardaddy
"Made my post, came back later to read through, and there you both were anyway. :-)"

Yes....lurking somewhere, ha.

46 posted on 12/09/2017 8:32:51 PM PST by blam
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To: vigilante2; Bodleian_Girl; wardaddy
"Paul McCartney wrote their first hit, “ come and get it”."

Paul McCartney wrote many of Peter And Gordon's songs. Paul was dating Peter's sister (Jane Astor) and living 'upstairs' in their (Astor's) residence.

Peter was upset and thought that their success was due to them having Paul Mc cartney's name on many of their records.

So, Paul wrote another song for them and used a fake name, Bernard Webb the song was "Woman" and one of their biggest hits.

I saw peter & Gordon in Manila in 1966.

47 posted on 12/09/2017 8:47:43 PM PST by blam
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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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To: blam

Peter Asher gets some props here, as well, and James talks about how he was signed to Apple on the basis of this song. George Harrison liked it so well he wrote “Something” which rips the title and first line of JT’s:

James Taylor Carole King Something In the Way She Moves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDliZ42yoFA


49 posted on 12/10/2017 12:06:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Dr. Sivana; Kriggerel

Beat me to it...


50 posted on 12/10/2017 12:07:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: John Milner

I’m sure I’d never heard that title before, I thought I’d heard them all, thanks, I’ll go play it on the Roku.


51 posted on 12/10/2017 12:07:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Mozilla; chrisser; Wolfie; joethedrummer; Pravious

Thanks Mozilla.


52 posted on 12/10/2017 12:13:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Pete Ham also wrote and recorded a small body of solo material, including this one, the only one I recognized without hearing it played.

Pete Ham - We’re For The Dark - Live 1970 - Badfinger - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKw2f0tFTfo

oh wait, I remember this one as well:

Pete Ham - Perfection (demo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ5O5bH5OzM


53 posted on 12/10/2017 12:13:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

As hits go, McCartney did Come and Get It an Todd Rundgren did Baby Blue. Harrison did Day After Day.

The second album that they did for Warner Bros is a fine offering. It’s titled Wish You were Here.


54 posted on 12/10/2017 10:34:22 AM PST by Shoefus
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To: blam

Oh my lord.....

Lady Godiva

Man I was yoooooung.

Norelco Santa sledding commercials era

But we had two white Christmas in a row in the mid 60s in Jax Miss

Then none till like 71


55 posted on 12/10/2017 10:36:51 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I always felt Badfinger was a pretty good representation of what The Beatles would’ve sounded like had they not broken up.


56 posted on 12/10/2017 10:40:44 AM PST by daler
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To: wardaddy
Lady Godiva
57 posted on 12/10/2017 10:43:35 AM PST by blam
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To: daler

I was little when they were popular.

I thought they WERE the Beatles.


58 posted on 12/10/2017 10:59:24 AM PST by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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