#BABY BLUE SONG IN BREAKING BAD SERIES#

in 1971 at the height of their popularity and before the setbacks began, Ham met a girl from the South named Dixie Armstrong. But from what I can tell, even when it was going good for Pete Ham it was still going bad. I donвЂ™t know the details of Pete HamвЂ™s story as well as some people do. The band was basically groomed by the BeatlesвЂ™ Apple Records label to be their heirs after the Beatles broke up, and Badfinger did achieve almost instantaneous global success after their first album release.Д«ut that level of initial success and heightened expectation can create pressure, and Badfinger didnвЂ™t help their cause by going into business with Stan Polley, a shady business manager who contributed to the band going broke (despite their many recent hits), the collapse of their musical career, and according to the note he left, Pete HamвЂ™s suicide at the age of 27 in 1975. Kept you waiting there too long my loveвЂ¦вЂќДo you see a pattern there? Each one of them reads like a love-letter with Pete Ham confessing his regrets and sorrows to a woman he pines for but is no longer there each time he implores her directly with вЂњyouвЂќ.ДЇrom the outside looking in, being in Badfinger must have seemed like a pretty sweet gig. The first lyric to вЂњBaby BlueвЂќ is вЂњ Guess I got what I deserve.Bring it home baby make it soon, I give my love to you.вЂќ Looking out of my lonely gloom, day after day. The first verse to the Badfinger hit, вЂњDay After DayвЂќ is вЂњ I remember finding out about you.The first verses to вЂњWithout YouвЂќ are вЂњ No, I canвЂ™t forget this evening or your face as you were leaving, but I guess thatвЂ™s just the way the story goesвЂ¦вЂќ and вЂњ Well, I canвЂ™t forget tomorrow, when I think of all my sorrow, I had you there but then I let you goвЂ¦вЂќ.Not only did he write вЂњDay After DayвЂќ and вЂњBaby Blue,вЂќ but Ham also penned the verses to вЂњWithout You,вЂќ a song taken to number one by Harry Nilsson.Д¬onsider these songs and their opening lyrics: It also charted at #35 in Ireland.While most acts associated with early вЂ™70s rock and roll were singing about snorting lines off of ceiling mirrors, loving the ladies, and then hopping in the tour bus and blowing out of town, Pete Ham wore his heart on his guitar strap and rendered the heartbreak of leaving into chart-topping lyrics. As a result, the song charted in the UK for the first time, reaching #73. It became a top-selling song on iTunes following the broadcast. Joey Molland, the last surviving member of the classic line-up of Badfinger, took to Twitter to express his excitement at the song's use in the finale and subsequently began to retweet news articles about the song's usage in the finale. 5,300 downloads were purchased the night of the broadcast, and the song appeared on the Billboard Digital Songs chart at #32 the week ending October 19, 2013. Online streams increased in popularity immediately following the broadcast.

#BABY BLUE SONG IN BREAKING BAD SERIES#

The song experienced a resurgence of popularity in 2013 when it was featured in Breaking Bad during the closing scene of the series finale, featuring the death of series protagonist Walter White. It was the group's last Top 20 single, peaking at #14 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. Because Al Steckler, the head of Apple US, felt that it needed a stronger hook in the opening, he remixed the track with engineer Eddie Kramer in February 1972, applying heavy reverb to the snare during the first verse and middle eight. 'Baby Blue' was released as a single in the US on 6 March 1972, in a blue-tinted picture sleeve and featuring a new mix. In 2013, the song was featured in the series finale of Breaking Bad. As a single in the US in 1972, it went to #14. The song was written by Pete Ham, produced by Todd Rundgren, and released on Apple Records.

' Baby Blue' is a song by the Welsh band Badfinger from their 1971 album, Straight Up.

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