353/365 BADFINGER - COME ON (1981)

During the course of this year I aim to upload a song every day for your consideration as to whether they were good enough and sufficiently commercial to have become UK Top 20 singles. Many different genres will be represented, so if this particular one’s not your preferred style then hopefully it won’t be too long before you find one that is.
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Today’s choice is Come On by Badfinger which was first released on their 1981 studio album “Say No More”. Written by Tom Evans who would commit suicide just two year later, it’s a cracking rock song but perhaps a little out of style by this time. Would it have been a hit ten years earlier? I’d say so.
Hopefully you’ll drop by again tomorrow for something completely different!

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  • @gerrycoogan6544
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    Sadly, by 1981, Badfinger no longer had their finger on the commercial pulse. This is a decent enough track but I can't imagine that it would have got anywhere near the UK top 20 in 1981. It would have had a great chance in the early seventies (in Slade's heyday) but it wasn't likely to compete for chart space with the likes of the New Romantics, the various synth-based acts, the New Wave types or the established legacy acts such as Elton, Bowie, McCartney and so on.