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Originally Posted by TDPRI
Badfinger? You mean The Iveys.
Paul McCartney took the Iveys and made them top sellers. Gave them Beatles songs and engineered their success. Paul thought their name wasn't "dirty" enough. He came up with "Badfinger" cause it didn't sound nice.
Their first hit was, "Come and Get it". Paul wrote it for the Beatles. The Beatles recorded it and it was mixed and all done. But since Apple was new and they wanted their new label to have some hits they brought in the Iveys, played them the finished Beatles version of the song and told them to not change a thing. To copy it note for note and make it sound exactly the same.
They did that and surprise... they had a number one hit right out of the box.
I keep looking for Iveys LPs. I've only seen one and it was in horrible shape or I'd own it. I'm still looking.
PS. The Beatles version is on Anthology (III, I think).
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That explains why they were on the Apple Label! I've always wondered why until now. My brother brought home the BABY BLUE 45 one day back in the 70s, and it looked earily similar to the Beatles records.
I've always loved the sound of the cool guitar fill-in notes on BABY BLUE. It looks like the guy is just using an SG plugged directly into a silver face. My silver face never sounded like that.
