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red dog 1

(27,804 posts) Wed Mar 27, 2024, 10:25 PM Mar 27

Badfinger -- Baby Blue

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Badfinger -- Baby Blue (Original Post) red dog 1 Mar 27 OP

An all-time favorite of mine. Mister Ed Mar 27 #1

They were royally screwed pfitz59 Mar 27 #2

To which Pete Ham's suicide is sometimes attributed. Frasier Balzov Mar 27 #3

Thank you for this Ruby the Liberal Mar 27 #4

Mister Ed

(5,933 posts)

1. An all-time favorite of mine.

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 10:41 PM

Mar 27

Although most popular songs aren't autobiographical, this one apparently is.

I once heard a disk jockey on the radio explain that Pete Ham of Badfinger wrote this song about a woman he fell deeply in love with, whose name really was Dixie. Dixie Butz.

Well apparently Pete went off on tour with the band and didn't stay in touch, so she assumed he'd forgotten her. By the time he did make contact again, she had pretty much moved on with her life.

An apocryphal story, but I don't doubt it.