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| Straight Up is an album by power pop band Badfinger, released on December 13, 1971. It is widely regarded as one of Badfinger's best albums, spawning two Top 40 singles and being commercially successful in its own right.
Straight Up recordings began in early 1971 under the direction of producer Geoff Emerick, who produced the bulk of Badfinger's preceding album No Dice. Although these early recordings were completed and ready to be pressed, Apple Records co-president George Harrison decided the unreleased album could be improved under his personal direction. Harrison produced new versions of a couple of the earlier songs, as well as recording a couple new tracks with the band in the summer of 1971. Harrison can be heard playing a lead-guitar duet with Pete Ham on the song Day After Day, with Leon Russell featured on piano. Due to a hurriedly-assembled benefit concert that summer, The Concert for Bangladesh (which Badfinger performed in), Harrison did not complete the Straight Up project. Todd Rundgren was retained to finish the album; utilising recordings begun by both Emerick and Harrison, and recording several new tracks with the band. Although production credit on the album is given equally to Rundgren and Harrison, Rundgren's work is the most apparent. Despite the album's popularity with fans and music critics, Badfinger expressed reservations with the final production; Ham complaining about losing production input, and Joey Molland adding the album lost energy compared to No Dice. The last thing the band wanted to hear was that the record sounded like the Beatles and the fact that Harrison produced some of the tunes didn't help deny that claim, although Harrison was glad to be free of the Beatles. Straight Up peaked at number 31 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. The singles "Baby Blue" and "Day After Day" peaked at number 14 and number 4, respectively, on the Pop Singles chart. "Baby Blue" was later featured in the soundtrack for the academy award-winning 2006 Martin Scorsese film The Departed. Track listing 1. "Take It All" (Ham) – 4:25 2. "Baby Blue" (Ham) – 3:37 3. "Money" (Evans) – 3:29 4. "Flying" (Evans/Molland) – 2:38 5. "I'd Die Babe" (Molland) – 2:33 6. "Name of the Game" (Ham) – 5:19 7. "Suitcase" (Molland) – 2:53 8. "Sweet Tuesday Morning" (Molland) – 2:31 9. "Day After Day" (Ham) – 3:09 10. "Sometimes" (Molland) – 2:56 11. "Perfection" (Ham) – 5:07 12. "It's Over" (Evans) – 3:34 | |||||||||||||||
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