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Single:
Build Me Up Buttercup entered the Australian singles chart* on 4 January 1969 and peaked at #2. It was #22 on the Top 100 of 1969.
Songwriters:
Mike d’Abo, Tony Macaulay
Producer:
Tony Macaulay
Record label of Australian release:
Astor
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS CLIP BELOW: The Valentines performing Build Me Up Buttercup on Australian TV’s Turning On with Baby John.
Wikipedia:
The Foundations were a British soul band, their background being: West Indian, White British and Sri Lankan. They were the first multi-racial group to have a number one hit in the UK in the 1960s. The Foundations were one of the few British acts to successfully imitate what became known as the Motown Sound.
After a split involving members of the original group, two bands emerged: The Foundations and The New Foundations.
Build Me Up Buttercup was written by Mike d’Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by the Foundations in 1968 with Colin Young singing lead vocals. Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968, and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang.
The song was released in Australia with ‘New Foundations’ as the group name on the record label.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundations
Lyrics:
Why do you build me up (build me up) Buttercup, baby
Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around
And then worst of all (worst of all) you never call, baby
When you say you will (say you will) but I love you still
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BONUS CLIP
Australia’s Valentines performing Build Me Up Buttercup on the HSV7 program Turning On hosted by ‘Baby’ John Burgess.
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