as@brunix.UUCP (Alex M. Stein) (10/06/84)
<There is no real perfcetion...> Yes, the song is "Day After Day" and, since Badfinger is my favorite musical entity in the universe, I thought I'd pass on some information: The Ivies were an English group thought to be Apple Records' best bets (not including the Beatles). Mal Evans, the Beatle's Road manager discovered them and got Paul McCartney to listen to a tape of theirs. McCartney promptly changed the group's name to Badfinger, after McCartney's original title for "With A Little Help From My Friends" ("The Badfinger Boogie"). The group consisted of: Pete Ham (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Tom Evans (vocals, bass), Joey Molland (vocals, guitar, keyboards, looking exactly like Paul McCartney), and Mike Gibbons (drums). The Beatles all tried to help push Badfinger over the top. Their first success was McCartney's "Come and Get It," written for Ringo's movie "The Magic Christian." They also backed up Ringo on his "It Don't Come Easy" single, played at George's Concert for Bangladesh, and on John's "Imagine" album. They enjoyed several other hit singles ("No Matter What," "Baby Blue," "Day After Day"), before leaving Apple Records. Harry Nillson had a huge hit with his recording of Badfinger's "Without You" in 1972. The group worked with producers like Geoff Emerick, Chris Thomas, George Harrison, and Todd Rundgren. When Badfinger left Apple, lawsuits and injunctions prevented them from following up on the success of "Day After Day." By the time all the legal problems were settled, momentum was lost forever. The group's manager embezzled a tremendous amount of money, and Warner Bros. yanked their best album out of the stores two days after it was released. The band broke up in 1975. Less than a week later, Pete Ham, who wrote most of their best (and best-known) songs, killed himself. Molland went on to form a horrible group called Natural Gas. Mal Evans was to have produced Natural Gas, but instead he got himself killed in a shoot-out with police in Los Angeles. Tom Evans spent his time installing carpets in California. In 1979, Molland and Evans reformed, resurrecting the name Badfinger to record "Airwaves." They made the mistake of trying to recapture their old sound and the record sounded fluffy and lightweight. Two years later, "Say No More" featured a more coherent sound that built on the past without attempting to simply recreate it. Tom Evans killed himself shortly before Christmas of 1983. DISCOGRAPHY: THE IVIES: *The Ivies Apple Records, 1968 SOUNDTRACK: The Magic Christian Commonwealth/UA, 1969 BADFINGER: *Magic Christian Music Apple, 1970 (w/"Come And Get It") **No Dice Apple, 1970 (w/"No Matter What," "Without You") **Straight Up Apple, 1972 (w/"Day After Day," "Baby Blue") Ass Apple, 1974 *Badfinger Warner Bros., 1974 **Wish You Were Here Warner Bros., 1975 *Airwaves Elektra, 1979 **Say No More Radio Records, 1981 NATURAL GAS: Natural Gas Private Stock, 1975 JOEY MOLLAND: *After the Pearl Earthtone, 1984 Most of these records are long out-of-print. You can find them sometimes in used record stores and sometimes in Cut-out bins. *Recommended **Highly Recommended ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I can't forget this evening Alex M. Stein Or your face as you were leaving Brown University But I guess that's just the way the story goes..." brunix!as