Day After Day (Pete Ham)
Without You (Pete Ham/Tom Evans)
Rock Of All Ages (Tom Evans/Mike Gibbins/Pete Ham)
Dear Angie (Ron Griffiths)
Come And Get It (Paul McCartney)
Maybe Tomorrow (Tom Evans)
No Matter What (Pete Ham)
Baby Blue (Pete Ham)
Believe Me (Tom Evans)
Name Of The Game (Pete Ham)
I’ll Be The One (Tom Evans/Joey Molland/Pete Ham/Mike Gibbins)
Apple Of My Eye (Pete Ham)
Suitcase (Joey Molland)
Timeless (Pete Ham)
Dennis (Pete Ham)
Love Is Gonna Come At Last (Joey Molland)
Tracks 1, 8, 10 & 13 from Straight Up, Apple SAPCOR 19, 1971
Tracks 2, 7 & 9 from No Dice, Apple SAPCOR 16, 1970
Tracks 3-6 from Magic Christian Music, Apple SAPCOR 12, 1970
Track 11 from Straight Up: Expanded Edition, Apple/EMI CD 5099964244020, 2010
Tracks 12 & 14 from Ass, Apple SAPCOR 27, 1973
Track 15 from Wish You Were Here, Warner Bros. LP 2827, 1974
Track 16 from Airwaves, Elektra 175, 1979
Originally known as The Iveys, Badfinger were label mates of The Beatles on Apple in the late ’60s and Paul McCartney famously wrote Come and Get It for them – one of their best known songs. Apple Records is celebrating the band’s endurance with the release of Timeless… The Musical Legacy.
The 16-track compilation draws on all four of Badfinger’s Apple albums from 1970 to 1973 (Magic Christian Music, No Dice, Straight Up, and Ass), only overlooking Maybe Tomorrow, released under the band’s original name of The Iveys. The Warner Bros. years are represented by 1974’s Wish You Were Here, and the compilation concludes with a track from the 1979 Elektra LP Airwaves.
All of the Apple tracks have been derived from the 2010 remasters. McCartney’s Come and Get It,…
so memorably utilized in the off-the-wall Peter Sellers/Ringo Starr comedy The Magic Christian, is one of four tracks from Magic Christian Music (naturally). Three songs have been taken from No Dice, including Ham and Evans’ future chart-topper for Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey, “Without You,” and Ham’s rocking “No Matter What.” In addition to “Baby Blue,” Straight Up is also represented by two George Harrison productions – Ham’s immortal “Day After Day” (with George on slide guitar!) and “Name of the Game” – plus Joey Molland’s “Suitcase.” From the 2010 expanded edition of Straight Up, the group composition “I’ll Be the One” has also been selected; Harrison reportedly nixed the song from the original LP for being “too Beatley.” Just two songs have been lifted from Apple farewell Ass: “Apple of My Eye” and “Timeless,” both Ham songs. Ham’s “Dennis” appears from Wish You Were Here, while Molland’s “Love is Gonna Come At Last” is the sole pick from Airwaves.
