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Build Me Up Buttercup (ver. 1) by Tony Macaulay - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
"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. 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. [1] 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. The fund is a trust set up in memory of murdered school girl Amanda Dowler. Apparently the song was a favourite of hers. [2] The song was used in.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Tony Macaulay (born Anthony Instone, April 21, 1944, England) is an author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter, though it was the latter that made him a household name early in his career. In the early 1960s he worked as a song plugger for Essex Publishing, then moved to Pye Records as a record producer. It was here that he had his first major success with The Foundations, when they recorded, "Baby Now That I've Found You", a song he had co-written with John MacLeod, and it topped the UK Singles Chart in 1967. Further hits came with songs such as Marmalade's "Baby Make it Soon" and "Falling Apart at the Seams"; and The Fifth Dimension's "(Last Night) I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All", which he wrote on his own; and Donna Summer's 1977 single "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)"; as well as many with collaborators, among them Long John Baldry's "Let the Heartaches Begin"; Paper Dolls' "Something Here In My Heart (Keeps A-Tellin’ Me No)" and Pickettywitch's "That Same Old Feeling", also with John MacLeod; The Foundations’ "Build Me Up Buttercup", with Mike D'Abo; Scott Walker’s "The Lights of Cincinnati", The.
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