# Badfinger? You're darn straight up. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778 "2002-04-04T14:51:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/1 "2002-04-04T14:51:59Z")
I love these guys. Since becoming a Pop, I don’t get to listen to music in the manner to which I’d become accustomed for 20 or so years much anymore. Then there are the few nights when the planets align and the opportunity presents itself. Last night was such a night. My choice? Badfinger baby. Badfinger Straight Up. What an amazing album… _Take it All Name of the Game Day After Day Baby Blue Money Sweet Tuesday Morning_ and others. My dad worked for a religious record company when the album first came out and through that connection brought the LP home for me when I was a kid. I know he had no idea just how cool he was accidentally being or how much of an impact that gift would have on my choices in music from then on. The only group on the Apple label beside the Beatles and with Harrison and Rundgren’s influence, this will always be a “must own.” Pete & Tom, we miss you guys. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/2 "2002-04-04T15:30:37Z")
Yeah, those guys definitely rock. I love their music. When I hear _Day After Day_, I’m instantly transported back to the 70s, when we were having a big family picnic in a park, and that song came on the radio. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/3 "2002-04-04T16:20:09Z")
I used to have 45 RPM singles of _Baby Blue_ and _Day After Day_. I gave them to my brother-in-law. Doh! RR ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/4 "2002-04-04T17:41:00Z")
Though I always preferred the Nilsson version… somehow, knowing what happened to Pete and Tom gives the Badfinger rendition of “Without You” a terrible poignancy. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/5 "2002-04-04T21:50:44Z")
Agreed, **astorian**. It’s kinda like hearing Cobain sing that he doesn’t have a gun. ---
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/6 "2002-04-04T22:09:30Z")
I would suggest you buying a copy of their second release on Warner Brothers, _Wish You Were Here_ . They just about perfected their “power pop” sound on this album. Too bad Warner pulled the album after only a few weeks, due to their management company pilfering money from an escrow account. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/7 "2002-04-04T22:25:26Z")
I just looked it up… 1974, last album with Pete Ham. Thanks! I’ll give it a spin. I could swear Pete Ham was my guitar playing camp counselor back in 1969 masquerading under the alias of “Harry Golightly”. The separated at birthness of the two is staggering. And who the hell would actually name their kid Harry Golightly? Maybe the camp director, Henauder Titzoff, can shed some light on this. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/8 "2002-04-04T22:36:31Z")
fantastic band, should have been _huge_! what a tragic story. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/9 "2002-04-05T01:27:06Z")
Yeah, **Badfinger** and **Big Star** are 2 of the best bands of the 70s and nobody’s heard of them. I only discovered **Badfinger** about 5 years ago when I picked up _Come And Get It: The Best Of Badfinger_ on a whim and was immediately hooked. I’d heard _Come And Get It_ and _No Matter What_ before but I’d had no idea who they were. _Day After Day_ is a glittering, bittersweet pop masterpiece. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/10 "2002-04-05T02:27:12Z")
‘day after day’ has tremendous emotional resonance for me as well. getting goosebumps just thinkin’… ‘i remember finding out about you…’ ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/11 "2002-04-05T02:46:38Z")
Badfinger rocks. Only problem: when I listen to Badfinger in the car, I bruise my fingers slapping the steering wheel. I defy anyone to listen to **Baby Blue** and not rock out…the drum parts are damned irresistable. ---
**Author:** ![ummm.yeahh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ummm.yeahh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ummm.yeahh)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/12 "2002-04-05T13:45:40Z")
I actually worked at a music store and one of the members of Badfinger was always coming in to chat. I don’t follow the band but I believe his name was Joey. He used to tell stories of hanging with Lennon and McCartney. I also worked with Slim Dunlap from “The Replacements”. Great guy! Lots of cool stories. Man, that was a cool job! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/13 "2002-04-05T14:50:05Z")
Joey Molland, the fourth member to be added. Dude. ---
**Author:** ![ummm.yeahh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ummm.yeahh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ummm.yeahh)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/14 "2002-04-05T15:22:17Z")
Joey told me about a time when he first met John Lennon. He was over at his house with Paul and they were jamming. Now apparently John was a huge Dr. Pepper fan. He had a room in his basement filled with bottles of Dr. Pepper. Paul said “Whatever you do, don’t touch the Dr. Pepper.” As any musician knows, after a good jam one gets thirsty. So Joey didn’t heed Paul’s words and drank one of John’s sodas. John came home and saw Joey drinking his soda and hit the roof. I love that story. Joey is a really nice guy… I won’t even get into the thousands of stories Slim Dunlap has told me… PS- Yes, it was indeed hard to get any work done. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badfinger-youre-darn-straight-up/101778/15 "2002-04-05T16:10:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ummm… yeahh… \* > **John was a huge Dr. Pepper fan** It’s true! The original title of that album was _Doctor Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Soda_, but they ran into copyright infringement trouble! It’s TRUE!