Badfinger In Four - A Pop Rock Short
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- Badfinger was destined to fill the void when The Beatles disbanded in 1970. During their fleeting moment in the spotlight, the music they created was gorgeous and timeless. Join Bijan from Pop Rocks Radio for Badfinger in Four, a brief intro to this underrated band and the musical legacy Pete Ham, Tom Evans, Joey Molland, and Mike Gibbins left us.
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"Badfinger In Four - A Pop Rock Short" is a documentary about the incredible band Badfinger. Produced and written by Bijan Marashi. Check out Badfinger on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4pJCa....
Songs in this video:
Love Me Do (instrumental)
Badfinger
No Matter What
Badfinger
Come and Get It
Badfinger
Here Comes the Sun
George Harrison
Day After Day
Badfinger
Baby Blue
Badfinger
Lonely You
Badfinger
Love is Gonna Come at Last
Badfinger
Hold On
Badfinger
Without You
Badfinger
Without You
Harry Nilsson
Without You
Mariah Carey
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00:00 Introduction
01:01 Beginnings
01:20 Make it Big!
01:40 Straight Up
02:24 Hard At Work
02:43 After Pete
03:17 Without You - บันเทิง
Baby Blue has been a staple in my 62-year top 5 since it came out. I was so pleased that Breaking Bad passed the song on to newer generations at the series' end. And you are right, I was sure that If You Want It was the Beatles when it came out. Badfinger was a great band, and Pete Hamm was a great writer. Their story is tragic, but their musical legacy is beautiful.
If you haven't already heard it, here is a link to the McCartney demo of the song: th-cam.com/video/JSCVOQv4j6E/w-d-xo.html. Badfinger supposedly wanted to put their own stamp on it, but he insisted it go exactly like this! Love to hear "Baby Blue" has stood the test of time for you...I think it's just a perfectly written pop song and it will stay on my list, as well. Thanks for sharing!
Yes I have threm on my favorites list 🥰
Love Badfinger. Such an amazing band. RIP Pete, Tommy & Mike.
Thanks for watching!
love badfinger.
Thanks for watching!
Just got goosebumps.
Thanks! I'll take that as a good thing. 😊 Thanks for watching!
Thank You, Thank you for this wonderful tribute to Badfinger!! I have only found their music this year and realised what i've missed all these years?! Just a shame that Straight Up is rare to purchase?!
Thank you...glad you enjoyed it! Such a great band! And it's funny, but I have a video planned regarding some albums you never find in used bins, and Straight Up is one of them. Guess no one wants to part with it after they hear it! Thanks again for watching!
@@poprocksradio You are more than welcome. If i can read, watch and listen to all i can about this lost Wonderful group the better. Such a shame we can't get the rare recordings. I had to read Dan Mantavino's great book on hubby's Kindle, his book would be worth the money if i could only afford it?! 😉
Here's a great site you might like, if you haven't already found it. Whoever put it together did a great job consolidating a lot of info about the band and their music in one place...great to poke around there! badfingerlibrary.com/
I'll look forward to the planned video!!🥰
Great Video Keep up the good work!!!
There are so many deserving pop rockers from both before and after Badfinger. I Can't wait to see who you pick for the next one.
I have quite a list! Who would you like to see?
@@poprocksradio I'm sure your list will be fine. I like the Kinks and Hollies from the early days and the Bangles and Fountains of Wayne from the latter days. There are scads of 2nd tier bands like The Joe Jackson band, Del Amitri, The Knack etc, that could fit, depending on your parameters.
Thanks for the recs! Love the Bangles and FOW...have videos planned for them! Have to look into JJB and DA. I have also been planning an "Influences" video, and Kinks and Hollies are perfect for that...bands (besides the Beatles) that led to the power pop explosion in the 70's. Thanks!
@@poprocksradio Cool. The Beatles and the Who are the big daddy's for me but enough has been already been written about them. Thanks!
Great work as always. what could have been. such wonderful music. Loved that Baby blue was introduced to so many new people thru Breaking Bad
Thanks for your kind words...I really appreciate it. Baby Blue is one of my all-time favorite songs. I have a little deeper dive planned for Badfinger, too...so much to talk about with them!
Love Badfinger so sad what happened
Such an amazing, underrated band. Thanks for watching!
I Remember My Junior Year Of High School, In 1970.... I Thought I Was To Cool To Ride The School Bus, One Of The Times I Had To All The Girls In The Back... Started Singing "Come And Get It" By The End Of The Song The Whole Bus Was Singing!! Goid Memory!!!
I love hearing stories like that...thanks for sharing!
@@poprocksradio My Pleasure!
Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Fantastic little tidbit!
Thanks for watching!
Great band. If there is a hell that's where I Stan Polly is now.
Credit The Beatles with the start of power pop starting with Hey Jude and Handing over the reins to Badfinger.
For sure! There would be no power pop without the Beatles, the Hollies, the Kinks, and a host of other British Invasion bands. The Beatles get the most credit!
Power Pop bands included Beatles, Who, Badfinger, Raspberries, Big Star, Todd Rundgren, Guess Who and Cheap Trick.
Surprised this vid neglected to report Mike Gibbins' death in 2005. Just one former member left.
Absolutely! There are a bunch of things I unfortunately missed getting in with such a short format. I’m planning a longer video and I will definitely talk more about Mike in there. Thx for watching!
@@poprocksradio I was a fan of theirs, once upon a time. Their album Wish You Were Here was good, and underrated.
Ok. First using love me do to start the video. Joey molland’s song that is seldom played and doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Is way cool.
Second the nova was far from cool unless it was a yenko.
Third magic Christian then no dice then straight up. Straight up is the one Harrison was to produce.
But you nailed it. Straight up is a masterpiece.
Hey there...thanks for the feedback! 100% correct on all counts! Since I wanted to use "No Matter What" earlier in the video, I really needed to put something later to clarify the order of the albums - and it definitely makes it seem like I'm saying George was going to produce "No Dice", which is not correct. Also, I think Joey is really underrated as a songwriter and Pete and Tom get most of the attention. "Sweet Tuesday Morning" is one of the loveliest songs in their catalog, in my humble opinion. And I must confess...had to look up the yenko...correct there, as well, my friend!
@@poprocksradio I’ve had the pleasure to take with Joey for about a half hour last October. Just talk and I asked lots of questions. Such a nice guy and the stories!!!!
Your videos are well executed. I’m not sure if you do long form but a long form video by you about badfinger would be great. Especially since you have a better “understanding “ of Joey’s importance. Also very few cover Bob Jackson’s time in Badfinger. Especially the songs he did with Tom evans just before evans committed suicide Oh I got to talk to Jackson for over an hour on Evans’ last tour
Yenko is well known to us old car guys
Thanks for your kind words...I really appreciate it. I have been thinking that I can't do some of these bands justice in such a short form - would love to spend more time telling the parts of their story that I haven't seen talked about much. And so awesome to hear about your conversations with these guys! Hope you are able to share your stories somewhere...would love to hear more!
@@poprocksradio I would gladly help anyway I can. I have several signed album covers also
Wow...very cool. Thank you!
The biggest mistake Badfinger made was being “democratic “ in its song selection. Pete Ham, and to a lesser extent Tom Evans, were the best songwriters. And singers.
If every album was heavy Ham and Evans, this band would have been better prepared for the brutal road they traveled. Although it may not have made a difference.
One fan’s opinion. I do own their full catalogue (including Wish you were here); so believe I’m at least informed.
You know, hadn't thought about it like that, but that could be...so many things went wrong with those poor guys. Though I'm partial to Straight Up, many people feel Wish You Were Here is their best album...I never get tired of either. 😀 Thanks for watching!
@@poprocksradio Thank you for still remembering this band. Straight Up is still my favorite by far, but WYWH has a few gems on it (Love Time ?). Even Head East, or whatever it would up being labeled had a few ( Lay me Down, Keep Believing).
At the end of the day, Pete was right - sol polley was a heartless bastard, and Joey Mollard brought more grief (my opinion) than benefit. His wife especially.
Molland apparently was so annoyed about Pete backing up George at Bangladesh concert Pete wrote “Take it All”.