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Build Me Up Buttercup
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“Build Me Up Buttercup” is the name of a song written by Mike d’Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations with Colin Young singing the lead vocals in 1968. This was the third major hit for The Foundations. Colin Young replaced Clem Curtis in 1968 and this was the first Foundations hit that he sang on. It reached number 2 on the UK charts and number 3 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for 11 weeks.
It was re-recorded in or around the late 1980s when original Foundations members Clem Curtis and Alan Warner teamed up to recut this as well as other hits of The Foundations.
In 2003, Colin Young recorded an updated version of the song backed by a choir of policemen from the Surrey police force. The proceeds from the sale of the CD go to Milly’s Fund....
Read on...Song lines: ♪ You know that I have from the start ... So build me up (build me up) Buttercup, don't break my heart ... Why do you build me up (build me up) Buttercup, baby ♫
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