#the foundations

[myimaginaryradio]

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations

[music-crush]

Clem Curtis

Happy birthday Curtis Clements aka Clem Curtis, lead vocalist for The Foundations!

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #20: 1969

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: The Archies, The 5th Dimension, The Temptations, The Rolling Stones, Sly and the Family Stone (x2), Tommy Roe, Tom Jones, The Foundations, Tommy James and the Shondells. End description]

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And now we reach the end of the 1960s. In the songs listed, we can see the psychedelic label applying to several genres, such as psychedelic pop and psychedelic soul. From psychedelic soul, we can easily see how disco will start to solidify in the coming years, but that genre will also derive from a wide variety of other subgenres. We'll get to that eventually.

The addition of Sugar Sugar also gives me a chance to talk about bubblegum music (or bubblegum pop, in this case). The term is both used to describe the genre from both the musical and the business side of its formation (I suppose it's similar to the modern use of "industry plant"), but I'll focus on the former. Essentially, bubblegum was used to classify music that was sounded sweet and chipper, but didn't appear to have the artistic integrity of other styles. The bubblegum pop of the late 60's and early 70's took a lot of influence from garage rock, but it was derided for not having that genre's sense of edge or scrappiness. This isn't my opinion, I'm just stating the origins of the term and how it was talked about at the time.

The shift from the 60's to the 70's is going to be a bit more apparent than the transitional stage between other decades. And here, we can see the foundations (hah.) of sounds that will come to define the following decade.

And with that, thank you for joining me through the 1960s. I'll see you all in the 70's.

[speed-demon-doodler]

Team super good people that would never do anything bad in their life (+Astarion)

Why Buttercup you might ask?

The Foundations - Build me up buttercup

Hippo campus - Buttercup

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Old party mentions 1

Old party mentions 2

[judahmaccabees]

[admiralgiggles]

I really, really enjoy when I can put a song to a photo.

[mysongdaily]

‘, baby’

[avlly]

why do you build me upppp buttercup baby jus tto let me doownn

[socialistexan]

[myimaginaryradio]

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations

[mr-dead-inside]

[filosofablogger]

♫ Build Me Up Buttercup ♫ (Redux)

I think it’s time for a fun song, one that gets the toes a-tappin’ … what do you think?  It’s been over three years since I last played this one, and it was just crying out to be reduxed tonight!!!  So get ready, toes … Released in 1968, this was written by Mike D’Abo and Tony Macaulay. D’Abo was lead singer of Manfred Mann, and Macaulay was a successful songwriter who also wrote The Foundations…

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

☝️☎️.