Badfinger
There is an horrific GMC commercial on TV right now with a hideous version of Badfinger's "Come and Get it" playing over video of a truck. Yikes. Badfinger was a great group during that post Beatles/Beach Boys era of POP. In fact, the Beatles even signed them to Apple and tossed them songs, and worked with them in the studio. Brian Wilson was gonna do that for Redwood (Three Dog Night) but Mike Love put the kibosh on it. Regardless, they made fantastic rock/pop stuff in the early seventies and would probably be more popular today had Apple been more financially stable after the Beatles broke up and had Pete Ham, the group's key man, not hung himself in his garage in 1975 because their manager Stan Polley had embezzled all of their money. Fortunately, we have the music and even some videos. Anyway they sounded like this and not like the GMC commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jWFSHwJnWo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsVPThOPlX4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C53QAuOoSgc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K3fvaDEd_Y
BTW, that's Badfinger backing up Ringo on his hit single, "It Don't Come Easy."
1 Comments:
I dont know. I think its a pretty great song. Kevin Price also wrote about the Badfinger hit in GMC commercials. Check it out at www.bizplusblog.com
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