They released two LPs on Warner Brothers Records, 1974’s Badfinger and Wish You Were Here, before disbanding in 1975 after Ham hung himself in his Surrey garage studio at age 27. “We write our own songs and we like simplicity and rock and roll, and we’re basically a three guitars/drums lineup.”īadfinger recorded one more album for Apple, 1973’s Ass. Somber Island Baby Blue () (song1296) Let me say Aloha, my somber island baby Feel my arms around you, and don't be blue Don't be afraid of. “We have no front man like Joe Cocker or Jagger, and no great guitarist like Hendrix or Clapton.” Added Ham of the band’s frequent comparisons to labelmates, the Beatles: ” It’s very hard not to be similar,” he explained. “We’re just ordinary,” drummer Mike Gibbens told Rolling Stone in 1971. In the end, rocker Todd Rundgren swooped in to finish off production on the project.ĭespite its charting success, Badfinger never saw themselves as rock stars. Carey was one of the world’s leading divas when she recorded the song as part of her fourth studio album, Daydreamer. Mariah Carey co-wrote and sings Always Be My Baby as a lament for a lost lover. George Harrison then stepped in to produce the album, before pulling out to focus on his previous commitments to the now-legendary Concert for Bangladesh. The word, baby, can conjure up many things in a listener, including a sense of loss. Blue Wave song from the album Baby Blue Season is released on Apr 2022.
Badfinger recorded the LP at Clearwell Castle, in the Southwest English town of Gloucestershire, only to have Apple reject the first Geoff Emerick-produced offering. I heard that ‘It’s all over now, Baby Blue’ is a song about a prostitute (hence the sailors and the lover going away) that is just about to die (hence the orphan, and the saints coming through) and everybody is taking away from her home everything that was hers, even the carpet from beneath her dying body. The Lyrics of song Baby Blue are You smelled like palm trees and cigarettes, you were the tangerine. The track may have put a beautiful blue bow on what was in many ways a clean-and-tidy resolution to five mayhem-filled seasons of Breaking Bad, but Straight Up’s backstory was a far more rocky road. of his career through the present day-with the songwriters edits to dozens of songs, appearing here for the first time. For all English music fans, check-out latest English song Baby Blue sung by Winona Oak. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules' by Pretty Ricky, Baby Blue, Spectacular, Slickem & Pleasure P on album Puddles (feat.