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| "Build Me Up Buttercup" | ||||
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 One of side-A labels of the UK vinyl single | ||||
| Single by the Foundations | ||||
| from the album Build Me Up Buttercup (U.S.) The Foundations (U.K.) | ||||
| B-side | "New Direction" | |||
| Released | 8 November 1968 (UK) 3 December 1968 (US) | |||
| Recorded | 1968 | |||
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| Length | 3:00 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Tony Macaulay | |||
| The Foundations singles chronology | ||||
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"Build Me Up Buttercup" is a song written by Mike d'Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations in 1968 with Colin Young singing lead vocals. Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968, and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang.
It hit No. 1 on the Cash Box Top 100[3] and No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1969. It was also a No. 2 hit in the United Kingdom, for two non-consecutive weeks, behind "Lily the Pink" by the Scaffold. It was quickly certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over a million US copies.
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- ^ "Top 100 1969-03-08". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 29 May 2016.