![]() I write these posts in advance, so I’m guessing that my wife, Alex, might have broken her Internet silence to comment on yesterday’s post and reveal that while, yes, she did have a crush on piano man Paul O’Shea, it paled in comparison to the crush I had on massage therapist Aihnoa Gallardo. If not, please disregard the previous paragraph. ' 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. To you, Im a toy, but I could be the boy you adore. So build me up (build me up) buttercup, dont break my heart. One of the perils of the piano bar is getting caught singing along to a song you don’t really know. I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin. Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968 and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1969. ![]() ![]() Such was the case with The Foundations’ ‘Build Me Up Buttercup,’ a song that sounds incredibly familiar in the way a lot of oldies do but one that was at the same time utterly foreign to me. Build Me Up Buttercup by Tyler Joseph guitar, ukulele, bass, piano chords. This is a song that has several ‘hey hey heys’ and ‘ooo ooooos’ and ‘bah-dah-dahs’ and I was wholly unprepared to deliver any of them, even when prompted. C E7 Why do you fill me up Buttercup, baby F G Just to let me down and mess. ![]() I had never considered it from this perspective before.”ĭark, brooding, and wonderfully intense throughout, you can listen and watch the whole thing below right now.Incidentally, when we first discovered Paul O’Shea, after a day of me pining over Aihnoa, Alex declared, “Well, it looks like now I have a cruise boyfriend to match your cruise girlfriend.” It made for a tense two-and-a-half minutes each time this song came up on the tracklist.Īnd that’s a tension that could only be assuaged by the prettiest Spanish masseuse on the high seas. It’s the song everyone gets up to dance and sing along to in celebration, even (ironically) at weddings. “The transformation that the song took really caught me off guard…the original lyrics and chord structure exist as such a stark dichotomy. “I love a lot of music from the 60s and Build Me Up (Buttercup) is an obvious classic from that era,” she says, of her choice in song. Led by the most alluring of vocals, the track adds a whole new wealth of depth and longing to the unashamedly vibrant original. “I knew the Darling Mansion would be the perfect location, having lived there for about a month between apartments the house is overflowing with magic.” Made from five rolls of Super-8 film, and shot in Toronto’s Darling Mansion by Laura-Lynn Petrick ( Mac Demarco, Allah Lahs), it’s a seductive and utterly compelling counterpoint. “Laura-Lynn Petrick is a longtime collaborator,” STACEY says of the video. Toronto’s STACEY does a wonderful job of such a thing on her striking new rendition of ‘ Build Me Up (Buttercup)‘ and we’re sharing the stunning new video for the track today. Perhaps undone by the whole live-lounge generation, which strips some of the magic away by simply stripping the instrumentation away and showing that, hey, pop songs have a heart and soul too! In the right circumstances, however, they remain a thoroughly intriguing proposition, able to shine a different kind of light on sentiments we previously thought we understood. Cover versions are a funny old thing these days.
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