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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's my recollection of the band too.
We had a Beatlesque band here in Toronto called Klaatu that had the rumour mills going at full tilt. It was fun while it lasted.