NEW ° Badfinger - Baby Blue (Stereo)

1972... #7 Canada Singles Chart #9 US Cash Box Top 100 #14 US Billboard Hot 100 #16 Australian Charts.. Baby Blue was the last major hit of Badfinger’s career. As with prior successes like _Come And Get It and Day After Day_, the song was 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. “She came to one of the shows, they got talking and Pete really liked her,” Molland recalls. “I don’t know whether they fell in love straight away, but he invited her on the road with us and she came along. She came back to England, too. But we were working in the studio a lot and doing gigs, and I don’t think she was really into that side of it. And then Pete wouldn’t call her when he was away, though I don’t know wh