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In 1971, the group rented Clearwell Castle, in Gloucestershire, living and recording there. They finished recording their third album, again with Emerick as producer, but the tapes were once again rejected by Apple, because Apple felt that Badfinger needed a producer who could bring a more polished sound to the recordings. Thus, George Harrison himself took over as producer in spring of 1971, including Leon Russell and Klaus Voormann in the sessions as well. Commenting on the recording of the dual slide guitars on "Day After Day", Molland remembered: "Pete and I had done the backing track, and George came in the studio and asked if we'd mind if he played ... It took hours, and hours, and hours, to get those two guitars in sync". However, Harrison stopped the sessions after recording just four songs because of his commitments to The Concert for Bangladesh, which Harrison included Badfinger in as well. After the concert, Harrison was tied up with producing the tapes from that concert, and so was unable to resume with Badfinger. Instead, the Badfinger album was completed by Todd Rundgren, who mixed the tapes from the Harrison sessions, re-recorded the songs from the Emerick sessions, and also produced some newer, previously unrecorded songs.

The album, ultimately titled Straight Up, was released in the US in December 1971 and spawned two successful singles: "Day After Day" (Billboard number four), which sold over a million worldwide, and "Baby Blue" (US number 14) Wikipedia

1. "Take It All" (Pete Ham)

2. "Baby Blue" (Ham)

3. "Money" (Tom Evans)

4. "Flying" (Evans, Joey Molland)

5. "I'd Die Babe" (Molland)

6. "Name of the Game" (Ham)

7. "Suitcase" (Molland)

8. "Sweet Tuesday Morning" (Molland)

9. "Day After Day" (Ham)

10. "Sometimes" (Molland)

11. "Perfection" (Ham)

12 "It's Over" (Evans)

Bonus Tracks:

13 "I'll Be the One" (Evans, Mike Gibbins, Ham, Molland)

14 "Name of the Game" [Earlier Version] (Ham

15 "Baby Blue" [US Single Mix] (Ham)

16 "Baby, Please" (Ham, Gibbins, Molland

17 "No Good at All" (Evans)

18 "Sing for the Song" (Evans)