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“Baby Blue” is a song recorded by the rock/pop band Badfinger for inclusion on their 1971 album, “Straight Up.“ The song was written by Pete Ham, produced by Todd Rundgren, and released on Apple Records. Ham wrote the song about a woman named Dixie Butz, whom he had dated during Badfinger’s last U.S. tour. “Baby Blue” was released as a single in the U.S. in March 1972, in a blue-tinted picture sleeve. Because Al Steckler, the head of Apple U.S., felt that it needed a stronger hook in the opening, he overdubbed reverb on the snare drum track in the first verse and the middle eight to create a “U.S. single version” for the song in February 1972. It would become the group’s last Top 20 single, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard Pop... Read on...