Saturday, January 5, 2019

"Build Me Up Buttercup" by the Foundations debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending January 4, 1969


The Foundations scored their first top 10 hit with "Build Me Up Buttercup", which can now be heard at every Wisconsin Badgers home football game at Camp Randall Stadium, many in the crowd continuing to sing a capella when the song stop before reaching its end.  In early 1968, the group missed the top 10 by a single position with "Baby Now That I've Found You".

In other chart action for this week's class, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles scored their 5th (of 7) top 10 hit with "Baby, Baby Don't Cry", and the Turtles made their 5th and last appearance in the top 10 with the dreamy "You Showed Me".


"Build Me Up Buttercup" became the 9th most popular single of 1969."




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