Badfinger : Straight Up

I REMEMBER HOLDING YOU 

WHILE YOU SLEEP

EVERY DAY, 

I FEEL THE TEARS YOU WEEP

 Straight Up 

is the fourth

 studio album

 by the

 Welsh Rock band

BADFINGER

 released in

 December 1971

 in the

 United States

 and February 1972

 in Britain.

 Issued on

 the Beatles' 

Apple record label,

 it includes the hit singles

 "Day After Day"

 and

 "Baby Blue", 

and the 

similarly popular

 "Name of the Game", 

all of which were

 written by

 singer and guitarist 

Pete Ham.

 The album marked a 

departure from

 the more

 rock-oriented sound 

of Badfinger's 

previous releases, 

partly as a

 result of intervention

 by Apple Records

 regarding the 

band's musical direction.

Production on what

 became 

Straight Up 

lasted nine months,

 at the start of 

which the group

made an

 album's worth

 of recordings

 with producer

 Geoff Emerick,

 in between their 

touring commitments. 

Once Apple had

 decided to shelve

 these recordings, 

George Harrison

 took over production, 

only for him to

 become indisposed

 with events

 associated

 with the

 Concert for Bangladesh, 

at which

 Badfinger 

also performed. 

Harrison then

 handed the project to 

American producer

 Todd Rundgren, 

who oversaw 

recording for 

most of the album.

Although

 Straight Up

 received a

 mixed response

 from critics 

on release, 

many reviewers 

now regard it as the

 band's best album.

 Rolling Stone critic 

David Fricke 

has referred to

 it as

 "Badfinger's power-pop apex"

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