Badfinger - Baby Blue (1972) 4K

Badfinger performs “Baby Blue“, released originally in 1972. It reached #7 in Canada Singles Chart, #9 in US Cash Box Top 100, #14 in US Billboard Hot 100 and #16 in Australian Charts. “Baby Blue“ is a yearning rock ballad that provided a bridge between The Beatles and Big Star. Songwriter Pete Ham’s uncanny gift for a pop melody was fully to the fore, as were Badfinger’s trademark harmonies, which heightened the inherent melodrama of the subject matter. Ham had written it for southern singer Dixie Armstrong, whom he’d met during the band’s US tour of 1971. Despite the song’s success, Ham seems trapped by the life of a travelling musician unable, or unwilling, to sustain his newfound love. In the producer’s chair was Todd Rundgren, who had taken over the reins of parent album Straight Up from George Harrison. Rundgren was intent on returning to Emerick’s original idea of capturing Badfinger live in the room. While Rundgren set about redoing some of the track