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The Foundations

January 01, 1970

This article is about the UK soul band. For other uses, see Foundation (disambiguation).

The Foundations were a British soul band who were primarily active between 1967 and 1970. The group's background was: West Indian, White British and Sri Lankan. Their 1967 debut single "Baby Now That I've Found You" reached number one in the UK and Canada, and number eleven in the US. Their 1968 single "Build Me Up Buttercup" reached number two in the UK and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. The group was the first multi-racial group to have a number one hit in the UK in the 1960s.[1]

The Foundations
The Foundations in 1968. Left to right: Alan Warner, Tim Harris, Tony Gomez, Pat Burke, Clem Curtis, Peter MacBeth, Mike Elliott, Eric Allandale
Background information
OriginLondon, England
GenresSoul, pop, rock
Years active1966–1970
LabelsPye, Castle, Uni, Astor, Repertoire
SpinoffsDevelopment
Clem Curtis & The Foundations
Spinoff ofThe Ramong Sound
Past membersOriginal Line-up
Eric Allandale
Pat Burke
Clem Curtis
Mike Elliott
Tony Gomez
Tim Harris
Peter MacBeth
Alan Warner

The Foundations were one of the few British acts to imitate successfully what became known as the Motown Sound. The Foundations signed to Pye, at the time one of only four big UK record companies (the others being EMI, which included the HMV, Columbia and Parlophone labels, Decca, and Philips, which also owned Fontana).[2]

Background edit

The Foundations attracted much interest because of the size and structure of the group. Not only was there a diverse ethnic mix in the group, there was also diversity in ages and musical backgrounds. The oldest member of the group, Mike Elliott, was 38 years old. The youngest was Tim Harris, who, at 18, was barely out of school. The West Indian horn section consisted of Jamaican-born Mike Elliott and Pat Burke, both saxophonists and Dominican-born Eric Allandale on trombone. They were all highly experienced musicians who came from professional jazz and rock-and-roll backgrounds.[3]

  • Eric Allandale had led his own band The New Orleans Knights in the early 1960s,[4] releasing two singles, including "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)".[5] He also played with Edmundo Ros and was a former member of the Terry Lightfoot[6] and Alex Welsh bands.[7] He was also a member of Romeo Z who recorded the title song for the 1966 film, Kaleidoscope,[8] and an Irving Martin produced single, single "Come Back, Baby Come Back", released on CBS in 1967.[9][10][11]
  • Pat Burke had been in groups since arriving in the UK at age 15,[12] and had studied music at the London Music Conservatorium.[13] A man of few words according to Bob Farmer of Disc and Music Echo, who also described him as "a dormant Desmond Dekker", Burke's first love was jazz. He played with jazz groups, but as the jobs did not pay much he joined The Foundations.[14]
  • Clem Curtis who was born in Trinidad had been an interior decorator and professional boxer.[15][16] He had also a background in wrestling and weight-lifting.[17][12][18]
  • Mike Elliott came to the group after he had heard from one of the members that they were looking for a tenor saxophonist.[12] He had played in various jazz and rock and roll bands, as well as the ensembles of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott,[3] the Cabin Boys (led by Tommy Steele's brother, Colin Hicks), and others.[1] He had recorded under his own name for Sonny Roberts' Planetone label, which issued early ska and reggae records, and he was a member of Rico's Combo, the label's house band led by Rico Rodriguez.[19][20][21]
  • Tony Gomez, the keyboard player, was a former clerk who had worked in County Hall in the architect's department.[22][23]
  • Tim Harris, who was born in St. John's Wood, London, had two brothers, including his twin, Nick.[24] According to an article, "Digging the Foundations", by Bob Farmer in the 5 July 1969 issue of Disc and Music Echo, Harris had joined the merchant navy as a deckhand on a timber ship and had travelled to various parts of the world, including Siberia. He came back to the UK and became involved with groups.[25]
  • Bassist Peter Macbeth was a former teacher who had taught English and draughtsmanship in Singapore[26] and worked for a paperback publisher.[27]
  • Guitarist Alan Warner had been in bands The Skeletones and The Line-up, a popular Dublin-based group. Warner turned down an offer to join The Black Eagles, which included Phil Lynott and Brian Downey.[28][29]

Origin edit

The origins of The Foundations go back to an R&B and ska outfit called The Ramong Sound,[15][30][28] aka Ramongs. The band had two lead singers, Raymond Morrison (aka Ramong Morrison[28]) and Clem Curtis.[31] Curtis had come to the group by way of his guitar-playing uncle, who was impressed by his nephew's voice and told him that there was a band called the Ramongs looking for singers. Curtis auditioned and joined the band,[32] and rose from being a backing singer to sharing the lead with Raymond Morrison.[33]

At some stage Morrison was imprisoned for six months. In his absence, a friend of the band called Joan who ran a record store, suggested future Psychedelic shock rocker Arthur Brown as a replacement.[34][35] Brown was straight and clean living, and did not drink, smoke or take drugs.[36] Decades later, Brown recalled when he walked into the Westbourne Grove bar for an audition, he saw Curtis holding a spear to the throat of the drummer, bent backwards over the bar.[37] Brown and Curtis each performed solo numbers as well as duets[38] and one of the band members recalled later that they had experiment with "underground-type music" when Brown was with them.[39]

The group had unsuccessfully tried to recruit Rod Stewart as a singer. They had a jam session with him, but be turned down their offer as he preferred other musical styles.[28] Alan Warner recalled decades later that Stewart's then girlfriend, Dee Harrington, had ended up being secretary for The Foundations' management.[40][41]

The Foundations are said to have formed in Bayswater, London, in January 1967.[42][43] They practised and played in a basement coffee bar club called the Butterfly Club, which they also ran.[44][42] The premises were at one time `used as a gambling den. While managing the club themselves, they played music nightly and handled the cooking and cleaning. They would get to bed around 6am or 7am, sleep until 4pm, and open again at 8pm. Sometimes they barely made enough money to pay the rent, occasionally living off leftovers and a couple of pounds of rice.[45][28] Gomez recalled in 1969 that he, MacBeth, Allandale and Harris were living on £2 per week and could not afford a packet of razor blades. His mother would come and tell him off for leaving his job in the County Hall architect's department.[22] Saxophonist Mike Elliott's situation the best either. He had been staying in a top floor flat that was in a condemned house where the roof had been removed. Elliott was still paying rent. Clem Curtis recalled going to see him one morning, knocking on his door which got Elliott out of bed. He asked him, "Hey, Mike, where's your roof gone?", to which Elliott replied, "I don't know, man, they just came and knocked it off."[46]

Career edit

1967 edit

The 4 February 1967 issue of Melody Maker shows a booking for The Ramong Sound (mis-spelt as Ramog Sound) to play at the All-Star Club on Sunday, 5 February.[47]

Following their being forced out of their club by a protection racket gang who tied up Clem Curtis and held a knife to his throat,[31] they moved next door to the new premises, a run-down place that was once a mini-cab office. According to Alan Warner in his interview with It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine, dated 22 July 2011, this is where they were discovered.[28] The biography on AllMusic stated that Barry Class was the first to discover them.[1] Other sources claim they were discovered by Ron Fairway, a man with many music connections and who managed the group, The Ways and Means.[48][49] Fairway had his own agency, Ron Fairway Enterprises which was located at 6 Artesian Road, London W.2.[50] Fairway already had some success with his group, the Ways and Means. They already had record out, "Sea of Faces" on Pye.[51] It got to no.39 on the Radio City City Sixty chart for the Sunday 1 - Sunday 8 January 1967 period,[52] and on the 21st, no. 41 on the Radio Caroline chart.[53] Interestingly the Ways and Means would later end up being involved with a label that Barry Class created.[54]

In August 2023, Alan Warner was interviewed by Jack Hodgins of the Australian radio station, 2NUR FM. The interview appears to suggest that Raymond Morrison was still in the group when Ron Fairway approached them.

Ron Fairway told the group that he was going to get them a gig at Herne Bay. However, this job never materialized. The group sourced their own gigs which included a Caribbean club along Edgware Road and a few other clubs.[55]

The Foundations were booked to appear at Eel Pie Island on Sunday 14 May 1967.[56] Appearing as a support act, for their efforts they were paid a sum of £10.[57]

Arthur Brown appears to have left the group between the first and second quarter of 1967.[58] According to a 1993 interview of Brown with Allan Vorda, Arthur Brown could have signed with The Foundations and sung material from the writers of "Baby, Now That I've Found You" but he did not want to be with the group for two years.[59]

The day Tony Macaulay came to hear the Foundations play, he was suffering from what he described as the worst hangover of his life. The band was playing so loud he could not judge how good they were, but he decided to give them a chance.[3] His comments are recorded in the book, 1000 UK No. 1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, that he woke up that morning with a stinking headache, and when he got to the studio and heard the Foundations, he thought they were pretty terrible. He decided his hangover was to blame, and so he gave them the benefit of the doubt.[60]

At first, they found progress quite slow, and one of their sax players, Pat Burke, had to drop out of the band and take another job while they went through a rough patch. He did rejoin them again later in 1967.[61] [62]

They were noticed by Brian Epstein, who added them to the roster of his NEMS Agency, but the contract became void after he died on August 27, 1967.[63][64]

"Baby, Now that I've Found You"

According to Roy Delo of Ron Fairway's group, The Ways and Means, they were offered the chance to record "Baby Now That I've Found You", but they turned it down. So it was given to The Foundations, and they recorded it with Clem Curtis on lead vocals.[54]

It was released on 25 August 1967. Reviewed in the Quick Spins section of Disc and Music Echo, the reviewer Benny Valentine liked it but remarked that it needed a bit more drive on the production and singing. It was a sleeper[58][65] And for ten weeks it did not do anything in the charts.[66] Unlike The Ways and Means' single, "Sea of Faces" which was played on the pirate radio stations, charting on both Radio City and Radio Caroline, "Baby, Now that I've Found You" was not played on them.[52][53] Luckily, the BBC's newly founded BBC Radio 1 was looking to avoid any records being played by the pirate radio stations and looked back at some recent releases that the pirate stations had missed. "Baby, Now That I've Found You" was one of them. The single then took off.[2] The group members except for Pat Burke were pictured on page 4 of the 7 October issue of New Musical Express. The single had broken into the New Musical Express chart at no. 25 that week.[12][67] And by November was number one in the UK Singles Chart.[2] The Foundations were pictured on the front page of the 11 November issue of Melody Maker. Moving up from the previous week's no. 2 spot, they pushed The Bee Gees' single, "Massachusetts" off of the no. 1 spot of the Melody Maker Pop 30 chart.[68][69] This period was the ideal time for the group because of the soul boom that was happening in the UK since 1965 and, with American R&B stars visiting the country, interest and intrigue in the Foundations was generated. [citation needed]

With the Foundations in the top spot with "Baby, Now That I've Found You", Ron Fairway commented to Melody Maker that most managements would have pulled them out of the "bargain priced dates" that had been booked for some time. He expressed gratitude to everyone for their support, and said that they would fulfill every engagement for which they had signed.[3]

In addition to establishing The Foundations as a group, "Baby, Now That I've Found You" was also the song that established their song writer Tony Macaulay.[70]

Further activities

Not long after their success with "Baby, Now That I've Found You", there were issues. Rock historian Roger Dopson describes what followed as a "behind the scenes struggle",[3] where Fairway was "pushed out" and his partner, Barry Class, remained as sole manager of the group. Fairway later attempted to sue the band, alleging that he was wrongfully dismissed, though the band said that he had resigned of his own accord.[71] According to Dopson, Fairway had leaked a story to the media saying that the Foundations had broken up which only served to keep the Foundations name in the news headlines.[3] [72] Barry Class was quoted in the 18 November issue of Melody Maker as saying that it was a friction of personalities and it had been going on for about four months.[73] It was also confirmed by New Musical Express that same week that Fairway no longer had any association with the group and that agency representation would be only handled by Class. New Musical Express had the exclusive on the follow up to "Baby, Now That I've Found You" being "Back on My Feet Again". The article also said that the group would be doing a string of radio and television appearances to tie in with the single's release. With "Baby, Now that I've Found You" being released in the United States on the Uni label that week, they were filming a US promo for the single and hoping to fit in a three-day visit to the States at the end of the month. They were also planning to fly to the United States after the completion of their radio and television promotions for "Back on My Feet Again" in January.[74]

With the success of "Baby Now that I've Found You" having been established, there was talk within the group of adding a trumpet player to the line-up. Both Allandale and Burke could double on trumpet, but they were still looking to add one.[75]

Debut album

The readers of New Musical Express were alerted to the new album by The Foundations with the words in bold, New LPs by Foundations and Jimi Hendrix on the front cover of the November 25 issue.[76] The album, From the Foundations was issued on Pye NPL 18206.[77] Nick Logan, NME reviewer gave the album a solid review and a track by track analysis, noting the Four Tops feel of "The Writings on the Wall". One of his favorites was "Mr. Personality Man". One song he did not warm to was "Call Me".[78]

1968 edit

The Foundations would tour the United States after their first hit, playing 32 states with artists such as Big Brother and the Holding Company, Maxine Brown, Tim Buckley, Solomon Burke, The Byrds, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and The Fifth Dimension.[79]

In January 1968, Barry Class had started his label, Trend Records.[80] Eric Allandale would be recruited to produce records for the label.[81]

The group was in France in January and they appeared on the Bouton Rouge television show. Their appearance was recorded on 30 January.[82]

"Back on My Feet Again"

According to bass guitarist Peter MacBeth, they had a choice of three songs. They recorded two and then chose "Back on My Feet Again".[75] This, their second single was released in January 1968,[83] It was reviewed by New Musical Express in the magazine's January 20 issue. It was referred to as a scorcher and a very good pop record. The throaty vocals, organ, handclaps, brass and stormy beat were obvious bonuses. The only criticisms, minor as they were, was that the tune was not as catchy as the B-side, "Need Your Loving" (the reviewer most likely referring to the B side, "I Can Take or Leave Your Loving"), and too much top (possibly referring the treble).[84] Along with The Tremeloes and the Alan Price Set etc., they were set for a BBC-1 appearance in the next few days.[85] The single made its debut at no. 24 in the Melody Maker Pop 30 on the week of 10 February.[86] It also debuted at no. 24 in the Disc and Music Echo TOP 30 chart that week.[87]

It did not do as well as the first single, but it spent ten weeks in the UK chart, and made it to No. 18.[88][2] It made it to No. 29 in Canada.[89][90]

Further activities

Also in January 1968, they were invited to put down some tracks for John Peel's radio show. One of the tracks that they laid down was a cover of ? and the Mysterians garage classic "96 Tears". On the same day, PP Arnold was in the studio with Dusty Springfield and Madeline Bell as her backing vocalists.[83] However, the list of tracks given on the BBC site are, "A Whole New Thing", "Back on My Feet Again" and "Help Me".[83][91] A recording of "96 Tears" did find its way on to an EP, Baby, Now That I've Found You, released on Pye PNV 24199.[92]

Bass player Peter MacBeth was interviewed by Bob Dawbarn for the 17 February issue of Melody Maker. He said that they had a van for their equipment and had recently bought a twelve-seater car that used to belong to the Queen Mother. There was still speculation on whether the group would add a trumpet player. Macbeth said that if they do go to the United States, they would pick up one to tour with them.[75]

Since "Back on My Feet Again" (their second single) had been released, tensions developed between the band and their songwriter/producer, Tony Macaulay. He would not allow them to record any of their own songs.[1] In an interview, the band's organ player, Tony Gomez, told the New Musical Express (NME) that he, Peter MacBeth, and Eric Allandale had some ideas that they wanted to put together. Curtis later recalled that Macaulay was a problem. "Tony Macaulay was very talented, but could be difficult to get on with. When we asked to record some of our own material – just as B sides, we weren't after the A side – he called us 'ungrateful' and stormed out of the studio."[3] The group felt that Macaulay had reined in their "real" sound, making them seem more pop-oriented than they were.[1] Tony Macaulay also recalled, "I was never close to the Foundations. I couldn't stand them, and they hated me! But the body of work we recorded was excellent."[3]

A third single, also released in 1968 was "Any Old Time (You're Lonely and Sad)". It had been announced for release for April 26.[93] It was backed with an Eric Allandale composition, "We Are Happy People".[94] It entered the UK charts at no. 48 and stayed around for 2 weeks.[95][2]

According to the March 8 issue of New Musical Express, Tony Macaulay was to fly to the United States on 20 May for ten days. While there, he was to supervise some recording sessions in Detroit by The Foundations who were to cut an album and a single there.[96]

An article "Ireland not for us" appeared in the April 1968 issue of Beat Instrumental which told of a near violent situation involving Clem Curtis where he had been accused of being involved in a fight the night before. It was at the end of a dance that the group had played at and Curtis was at the bar. Curtis said, "I went to the bar, and was confronted by a guy who stuck a knife in my stomach". Curtis had to talk himself out of the situation which took an hour.[97]

It was reported in the July 27 issue of Melody Maker that legal action had been taken against The Foundations by Raymond Morrison. In a court hearing that took three hours, Morrison claimed that he had discovered the talent of the group. He failed in his bid to put a freeze on a portion of the group's earnings. He had been released from prison in July 1967 following a six-month sentence for assault. The case was heard by Judge Stamp who said in reference to "Baby, Now That I've Found You", "I cannot understand how it can be suggested that a song which came into existence after Mr. Morrison had severed his connection with the group can he one in which he can have any share or interest". He also dismissed a similar motion against the Pye label.[98]

It was reported by Melody Maker in the 24 August issue that The Foundations were completing a live album allegedly recorded live in Britain and the US. The album Rocking the Foundations was cited for release in mid-September. Disc and Music Echo also reported the same thing in their 27 August issue.[99][100]

Curtis and Elliott leave the group

By August, rumors had leaked out that Clem Curtis may be leaving the group. The group had been together for a year when there was speculation on this. Melody Maker wrote in their 31 August issue, that at press-time no confirmation could be obtained. They did however write that he wanted to develop his career and record as a solo artist with Tony Macaulay.[17] Curtis had made a request to record a solo record. Paul McCartney had also offered to write a song for Curtis.[100] It was also suggested that Curtis left in 1968, because he felt that a couple of the band's members were taking it a bit too easy, thinking that because they had now had a hit, they did not have to put in as much effort as they had previously.[1] Curtis' reason for leaving differs from member Alan Warner's reason, who in 2022 claimed Curtis left because he tried to change the band name to "Clem Curtis & the Foundations" and left when the band refused.[101]

An advertisement appeared on page 22 of the September 14, 1968, issue of Melody Maker. Class Management on behalf of the Foundations were inviting enquiries from soul, r&b and progressive singers who considered themselves suitable to join the above-named group.[102] Saxophonist Mike Elliott also left around this time and was never replaced. Curtis hung around and helped them audition a replacement singer. They auditioned 200 singers.[103][104] It was reported in the September 14 issue of Melody Maker that they were also trying out Warren Davis of the Warren Davis Monday Band for the role. Curtis said he would not leave the band until they found a replacement.[105] He had become friendly with Sammy Davis Jr.,[106] and was encouraged to try his luck in the United States. Also in that month, they played at the Brave New World in Portsmouth. Drummer Tim Harris was out of action due to a poisoned arm and Eric Allandale filled in as the drummer. They were also set to go into the studio in October to record and it was speculated that it would be with the new singer.[105]

Curtis would move to the United States for a solo career on the club circuit, encouraged by the likes of Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave, playing Las Vegas with The Righteous Brothers.[citation needed]

New lead singer

Clem Curtis' successful replacement was Colin Young.[107] Young was born in Barbados and had previously been in a group called Joe E. Young and the Tonics[108] who had the Soul Buster! album released in 1968.[109] Young had joined The Foundations in late September / early October. He had been rehearsing with them for the week of October 5 and was ready to make his debut on Friday October 4 at Aberdeen University.[110][111]

It had been reported in the October 12 issue of Melody Maker that The Foundations would record their next single "Build Me Up Buttercup" as soon as legal complications for the release of Joey Young (Colin Young) were sorted out with his former label, Major Minor Records.[112] In the same issue, a member of the group mis-named Peter Gomez said that they were frustrated with playing other people's sounds. But now that Clem has left, they felt that they were able to change their sound but only gradually.[113]

On 30 November with Young still a fledgling lead singer, the group was to do two shows on one night, the first being the Old Hill Plaza at 9 pm and then followed by the Handsworth Plaza at 11 pm.[114]

In his early period with The Foundations Young had to learn that he was just another group member. Other members put him in into Coventry but he eventually learnt to toe the line and was accepted by the other members.[115]

With Young the band would have two more big hits; "Build Me Up Buttercup", which was their third big hit in January 1969 and "In the Bad Bad Old Days (Before You Loved Me)" which was a hit in April 1969.[2]

"Build Me Up Buttercup"

On the week of 30 November 1968, "Build Me Up Buttercup" made its debut in the Disc and Music Echo Top 30 chart at no. 25.[116] Spending 15 weeks in the UK chart, it would get to the peak position of no. 2.[117] Making its debut at no. 84 in the US, on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending 4 January 1969,[118] it would reach the peak position of no. 3 on the week ending 22 February 1969.[119][120] It held that position for another two weeks.[121]

Two members of the band, McBeth and Gomez were pictured with Tom Jones in the 1 March 1969 issue of Melody Maker, where Tom Jones was giving the band a gold disc at Elstree Studios where they appeared on his show.[122]

1969 edit

"In the Bad Bad Old Days"

The song was released on Friday, February 28.[123][124] It received a positive review by Chris Welch with a cautionary warning for the listeners to look out for their neck from excessive jerking.[125] "In the Bad Bad Old Days" made its debut in the Billboard Hot 100 at no. 77 for the week ending 5 April 1969.[126] It would get to no. 8 in the UK and no. 51 in the US.[127] It also reached No. 23 in Canada on 5 May that year.[128][129]

Further activities in 1969

The Foundations were scheduled to appear on the Tom Jones show on the 9 March 1969.[130]

When "In the Bad Bad Old Days" was in the Melody Maker Pop 30 chart at no. 16 on the Week of 26 March,[131] the bass player was interviewed. He said that the group wanted to have two albums out that year. The second album would be done after coming back from their US tour. He said that several months prior, they had written some songs for a freaky type of LP. He also said that if they played underground-type numbers in the US, people would listen but he was unsure about back home in the UK, how it would be received.[132] Around that time they had been asked by John Carter-Davies, a Texas oil millionaire to play at a 21st birthday party for his son David.

When they were on tour with Stevie Wonder, they had success with a ballad they performed. This prompted them to consider releasing a Macaulay / Macleod ballad. According to Melody Maker in the 29 March issue, tentatively titled, "No Place on Earth Could Find Him"[133] (later referred to as "No Place on Earth Could Find You").[134]

At the height of their popularity, the Foundations' management were in negotiations with a UK TV company for a television series that would star members of the band. They had turned down a number of offers to appear in films because of script unsuitability.[135]

It was noted by NME in the 19 April issue that the group had just finished a tour with Stevie Wonder and were completing their third album. They were also on their way to the US for their second major tour and had expectations of recording in Detroit. They were in the NME Top Five that week as well.[136] The group's publicist Rod Harrod was interviewed by New Musical Express about the Foundation's US tour. The interview was published in the magazine's 17 May issue. At the time the group was halfway through their tour, and the lineup was Peter Macbeth, Eric Allandale, Tony Gomez, Tim Harris, Alan Warner, Pat Burke and Colin Young. The show they played at the Filmore was opened by The Savoy Brown Blues Band and was closed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The group knew what kind of audience they would be playing to.[137]

It was reported in the 26 April issue of New Musical Express that the group had earlier considered calling off their United States tour due to a union ban preventing them from being televised there. Weeks later, it still had not been resolved but there were hopes that it would while they were still on tour.[138]

They were preparing for their second appearance at the Filmore when they had a phone call from the manager of the Copa club. He informed them that a couple of members of The Temptations had been taken unwell and asked if the Foundations could step in for the night. Not knowing that the group played their own instruments, he asked them to go immediately to rehearse with the house orchestra. The group made history of sorts by becoming the first act to play as a band there as well as playing in clothes other than the suit types.[139] They also broke new ground by being the first "self-contained group" and first "rock group" to play there.[140] The group also did well by earning a week's worth of pay in one night. They had also secured a booking for when they were on their next tour in next November / October. They also played at the Cheetah which earned them $14,000 for just one night.[139] According to Cash Box in the May 3, 1969, issue, things had seemingly gone well for the group with their playing the Copa club and the magazine wrote that Kip Cohen the Filmore manager had given them a release to do the show there.[140] However the following week, Cash Box corrected things and said that the Foundations leaving Filmore was not amicable. According to a spokesman for Filmore, the group asked permission to leave to play at the Copa club, and it was denied. So, they decided to leave anyway.[141]

They had been booked to play at a club in Dayton, Ohio. At the time of booking, the manager had not realized that they were a multi-racial group and was not going to let them go on. However, he changed his mind.[142] The group had planned to do a week's worth of recording at Motown Studios but could not get a recording permit so that was cancelled. So they instead were booked in for a week's worth cabaret work in Detroit. They were also to do a week in Toronto. Publicist Harrod wondered why they never received requests to play in Canada. He noted that there was another group in Canada that went by the same name.[143]

After their return from their time in the US at the end of May, the group were set to appear at the Bratislava Song Festival in Czechoslovakia.[130]

It had been reported in the June 7 issue of Melody Maker that The Foundations were in a row with their record label (Pye) and producer due to five tracks from their upcoming album, From the Foundations having been leaked to other artists. According to the group, the songs were supposed to be exclusive to them. The group were holding off on the release of their album until September. They discovered that the songs were going to be released by other artists. One of the "exclusive" songs to be released on single was "My Little Chickadee" which had been covered by Geno Washington the same time as The Foundations' version was released on the UNI label in the US. The group's manager Barry Class was due to meet with Pye chief, Louis Benjamin when the article went to press.

Also, in early June the Foundations issued an injunction against Clem Curtis's group, Clem Curtis and The New Foundations who were touted as alternative attraction when The Foundations had to leave the United States a week early when their booking for a week at a Detroit cabaret was cancelled.[144]

It was reported in the June 21, 1969 issue of Cash Box that the group was planning to record a live gospel album inside a church. According to their publicity manager, Rod Harrod, the group was inspired by the success that the Edwin Hawkins Singers had with "Oh Happy Day". The article also mentioned the new artistic freedom the group had as a result of a recent deal that Pye chief Louis Benjamin had negotiated.[145]

As of July 5, the entities under the umbrella of Class International that handled aspects of The Foundations career were, Class Managements - exclusive management handled by Barry Class; First Class Agency - sole agents, handled by Jim Dawson; Top Class Music - joint publishers handled by Sleeping Bunny; Five Minute Films - promotional films handled by Sylvia Class and Overlord Publicity, worldwide press and publication handled by Rod Harrod.[146]

In the 5 July issue of Billboard it was reported that Barry Class had negotiated a new contract for the group with Pye. It was also noted that the group would take charge of producing their own material.[147] Tony Gomez was interviewed by Ian Middleton of Record Mirror for the 2 August issue. In reply to Middleton's question about the group changing musical direction, he said, "We've changed it some already". He also said "We all think the same musically". And he mentioned that they had split from Tony Macaulay because things got stale.[148]

Digging the Foundations

When their album, Digging the Foundations was released,[when?] it containined twelve tracks, half of them were original compositions by the band members. The album cover showed the band members in prison garb, ball and chain with shovels and picks.[149] An ad in the April 26 issue of Billboard said that it was due for release in the US shortly.[150] It received a track-by-track review in the 5 July issue of Disc and Music Echo.[151]

Five of the eleven songs composed by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod. One song "Waiting on the Shores of Nowhere" was composed by Robert Saker and Jack Winsley. The remaining five were original compositions by the band members.[152][153] A song from the album, "I Can Feel It", an Eric Allandale composition was covered by Chuck Bennett. It was a hit for him in Germany the following year.[154][153] Mac Kissoon also covered the song which was included on his Souled Out album, released the same year.[155] Another song from the album, "Solomon Grundy" also composed by Allandale had been covered by Danny Diaz & The Checkmates[152][156] as well as Pickettywitch.[157]

Due to South African authorities not allowing mixed groups to be seen, the album had to be issued there in a plain cover.[158]

Further activities in 1969

In mid-'69, the group was approached to record music for two films. One was Take a Girl Like You which starred Hayley Mills and the other, The Games starring Stanley Baker. Also on Friday 19 July, the group's van was being unloaded in Birmingham and Alan Warner's Fender Stratocaster was stolen. Due to the theft, the group had to delay the recording of the B side to their single, "Born to Live, Born to Die". This in turn delayed the release of the single by a week. The new release date was set for 8 August.[159][160]

It was reported by The New Musical Express in the 9 August issue that The Foundations were planning a rock-musical pantomime. It was supposed to be based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. There was a plan to use a colored actress to play snow white. Parts were also to be played by members of the band. They were allegedly working on music for the presentation and if a suitable theater could be found then it could go ahead. The group's aspirations were to have it done in the style of Hair. There had also been some dialogue with a major film company for a film release which would depend on the success of the musical.[161]

The group were going to spend ten days from the beginning of October to film their musical contribution to Take a Girl Like You.

They were to undertake an English tour with Chuck Berry that was to commence on 27 September. There was also hope to have Creedence Clearwater Revival added as well. It was cancelled due to the promoters dropping Berry. Due to Creedence Clearwater Revival being unavailable and no other suitable top acts being found, it was all cancelled. The Foundations however were planning to tour the UK in early 1970.

The group also had a tentative booking for an Australian tour at Christmas time.[162]

The Foundations were at no. 1 in the Top Male Vocal Group category,[163] and "Build Me Up Buttercup" was no. 10 in the Top Record category in the 16 August issue of Record World.[164]

"Born to Live, Born to Die"

With Born to Live, Born to Die" ready to hit the record store shelves the following day, was reviewed by Penny Valentine for the 9 August issue of Disc and Music Echo. She began by saying that she liked all things Foundations because of their tight identifiable sounds but she said she was a little weary of this record. There was a lot of things happening in the background that made her uneasy and didn't seem to gel. She also said at the beginning they sounded a lot like Mike d'Abo. She also admitted that the chorus was amazingly catchy, but she felt that the group had been given too much of a free hand.[165] The single was one of the singles in the Special Merit Spotlight section of the 13 September issue of Billboard. The reviewer gave it a possibility of getting into the Hot 100 and that it would surpass their recent hit "My Little Chickadee.[166] It was reviewed by Cash Box in the 13 September issue in the magazine's Picks of the Week section. The improved production quality was noted. There was a possibility of heavy sales if FM would pick up on it. The reviewer also said that it was one of the strongest Foundations singles since their last resurge into the Top 40.[167]

On the week of September 13, Record Mirror showed the entry of "Born to Live Born to Die" in the National Top 50 charts at no. 46.[168] Billboard reported in the 27 September issue that in Canada, Phonodisc was ahead of other countries with its rush release of "Born to Live, Born to Die". Heavy promotion for it was expected when the band would start their cross-country tour of universities commencing on 16 October.[169] On the week ending 27 September, it had dropped down to no. 50 in the UK.[170] The 4 October issue showed that the single was back at no. 46.[171] It was also in the Malaysian Top Ten having moved from no. 11 to no. 8.[172] The peak position of no. 4 in the Malaysian chart was shown in the 25 October issue of Billboard.[173] It was still in the Top Ten a week later.[174] Breakout sales action for Canada was reported by Cash Box in the 18 October issue.[175] It would be listed as one of the best-selling singles from Pye in the 4 July 1970 issue.[176]

Further activities in late 1969

A selection of lower priced records were listed in the 18 October issue of New Musical Express. Among them was the self-titled Foundations album on Marble Arch MALS 1157.[177] It featured stereo re-recordings of previously recorded songs.[178][179] The songs "Any Old Time (Your'e Lonely And Sad)", "Back on My Feet Again", "Harlem Shuffle", "Tomorrow" and "We Are Happy People" appeared on the Rocking The Foundations album released the previous year.[180][181] "Baby Now That I've Found You" with Colin Young on vocals has the same backing track as the original Clem Curtis version.[182][183] The new version of "Tomorrow" years later has been referred to as the alternate version. This version has Colin Young on vocals instead of Clem Curtis' vocals which appeared on the live version. They too have the same backing track. However, the Colin Young re-recording is a longer edit.[184][185] It was originally on the Rocking the Foundations album[186] which was a mixture of actual live and studio tracks. This suggests that there were some recordings with Clem Curtis on lead vocals existed but his vocals were replaced with those by Colin Young.[citation needed]

Bassist Peter Macbeth left the band in 1969 to join the group Bubastis with Bernie Living.[187][188] Over time, other members included Geoff Nicholson and Brian Appleyard from East of Eden, Simon Lee from Alexis Korner, and soul sax player Mike Freeman.[189]

An article appeared in the September 20 issue of New Musical Express that the new single for the group was "Love Song" which was written for the group by Donovan. The group cut short their Dutch tour so they could go back to London to record that song plus the Bill Martin and Phil Coulter composition "Take a Girl Like You" on October 8. It was also reported in the same article that their rock opera that was planned for Christmas had to be shelved.[190]

The absence of the group in Sweden caused concern to their management in late September. They were reported missing. At the time there were heavy storms in Sweden that resulted in injuries and deaths. Rod Harrod, spokesman for the group said that management was very worried. The group's agent was flying out to investigate.[191]

Steve Bingham would assume of the role of Foundations bass guitarist in 1969.[192]

1970 edit

Break away from management and legal action

It had been reported in a publicity sheet around early December 1969 that the band had broken away from their manager Barry Class. Jim Dawson who was formerly their agent and Mike Dolan took over the group's affairs.[193] Having left Barry Class's management, the group had joined a management company headed by Mike Dolan of Marquee-Martin and Jim Dawson. Barry Class took legal action against the group. Class was granted temporary injunctions by High Court Judge McGarry to restrain Dawson from disposing of any documents relating to the group. Also, with contracts negotiated prior to Nov. 28, 1969 (the day of contract breach), a percentage of money was to go to Class. The article in the 3 January 1970 issue of Billboard also mentioned that the group's royalties had been frozen. Dawson was also ordered to return any documents belonging to Class.[194]

Further activities

The single "Take a Girl Like You" was released in February, 1970.[195] An article appeared in the 21 March issue of Record Mirror when their current single was "Take a Girl Like You. The article told of the group's frustration with the material they were performing live and the teen scene they were having play on. With disgust, Colin Young explained that they were having to perform the same music on stage for the last two years which he felt was getting stale. One of the few songs they were performing that was not one of their hits was the song "Help Me" by Sonny Boy Williamson. At the time of the article, the line-up was given as Eric Allandale, Steve Bingham, Pat Burke, Tony Gomez, Tim Harris, Alan Warner and Colin Young. The group was also leaning towards a more progressive sound.[196]

It appears that The Foundations were in Pye Studios around the second quarter of 1970. According to the May, 1970 issue of Beat Instrumental, the group had been in the studios to lay down some tracks.[197]

"My Little Chickadee" proved to be the band's last hit. In spite of releasing "Take a Girl Like You", the title song to the Oliver Reed and Hayley Mills film of the same name, and a heavy blues rock song "I'm Gonna Be a Rich Man",[citation needed] which was one of the few songs that Steve Bingham played on.[198]

On August 6, a broadcast showed the band's appearance on Top of the Pops performing "I'm Gonna Be a Rich Man".[199]

According to Disc and Music Echo in the magazine's September 5 issue, The Foundations were appearing with Miki Antony on Ed Stewart's Stewpot show on Saturday at 5:15 pm.[200]

Departure of Colin Young and break up

It was reported by New Musical Express in the week ending 10 October 1970 issue that lead singer Colin Young had left the group to pursue a solo career. He had already signed a contract with Barry Class and was putting together his new group which was called Development.[201] Young would later claim that the rest of the band had got above themselves, the band hardly rehearsing, staying in the biggest most expensive hotels in the US and some members failing to turn up for bookings.[202]

The Foundations split in late 1970.[citation needed]

During their time, the group took on bassists, Tony Collinge (possibly joined when the group left Barry Class in 1969),[citation needed] Paul Lockey (in 1970) who had been with Robert Plant in Band of Joy.[203][citation needed]

Other versions of band edit

Late 1970 to the end of the 1970s edit

Colin Young and Development

Since late 1970, Barry Class attempted to have the Foundations name revived. The band had Graham Preskett as the musical director and on electric violin and guitar. Other members Jean Roussel on keys and Roger Cawkwell on sax and flute and Colin Young on vocals. The group had an agreement with management that they would appear as The Foundations but between gigs Colin Young would explain that they were becoming a new outfit called Development. They toured throughout Latin America and even played at the Expo-Show in Buenos Aires. They continued though to early 1971.[citation needed] According to a later article in Disc and Music Echo, Development aka The Foundations did remarkably well in Latin America.[202]

In 1971, Colin Young also had a single, "Any Time at All" bw "You're No Good" released on Trend 6099 005. It was produced by Tony Rockliff and Barry Class. It was credited to Colin Young introducing Development.[204][205] It was also released on Uni 55286. A Hot 100 prediction, it was in Billboard's Top 60 Pop Spotlight section for the week ending 5 June 1971.[206]

The last record released in the early 1970s period credited to "The Foundations" was a single "Stoney Ground" b/w "I'll Give You Love" MCA MCA 5075 in 1971.[207][208][209] The composers were actually Conan Byrne and Warren Davis of the Warren Davis Monday Band fame.[210][211][212] Davis had tried out for the role of Foundations' lead singer in 1968.[213] For the week of 29 January 1972 along with releases by Santana, Rod Stewart, The Hillside Singers and BJ Thomas etc., the song was on the pop section of the Cash Box Juke Box Programming Guide.[214] For the week ending 26 February, the single made its debut on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart. Charting for a week, it peaked at no. 113.[215][216][217]

As reported in the 4 March 1972 issue of Disc and Music Echo, Development, Colin Young's group was alternating between that name and The Foundations when gigging around the UK. They were looking to release their first album the following month.[202] Colin Young had an album released on the Stateside label, In the Beginning and credited to Colin Young's Development.[218][219] The musicians on the album included Graham Preskett on violin, guitar, banjo, harmonica, melodica, Steve Bingham on bass, Roger Cawkwell on flute, recorder and saxophones, Jean Roussel on organ and piano and Eddie "Tan Tan" Thornton on trombone and trumpet etc.[218]

Others

There would be two more singles released credited to "The Foundations" in the late 1970s.[220][221]

When Curtis returned to the UK, he formed a new version of the group with little success in spite of releasing several singles, but later had a lucrative spell on the 1960s nostalgia circuit. Re-formed members included John Springate,[222] Derek "Del" Watson, Paul Wilmot (all members of the band Elegy) and Roy Carter who later on joined Heatwave.[223]

According to an article about Brian Johnston of the White Plains on the White Plains Chronicles website, there is information provided by James Payne that gives a partial line-up of a 1973 version of the Foundations. Listed were Clem Curtis on vocals, Eric Allandale on trombone, Brian Johnston on keyboards and Jim Payne on drums.[224]

In the mid-1970s, while Clem Curtis and the Foundations were on the road, there was also another Foundations line-up that was led by Colin Young who were touring at the same time, and were playing basically the same material. This eventually led to court action which resulted in Curtis being allowed to bill his group as either the Foundations or Clem Curtis & the Foundations. Young was allowed to bill himself as "The New Foundations", or as "Colin Young & the New Foundations".[3] The New Foundations name was previously used for the Australian release of "Build Me Up Buttercup" on Astor AP-1567 in 1969.[225][226] [citation needed]

In 1975, Young and his group, The New Foundations, released a lone single on "Something for My Baby" / "I Need Your Love" on Pye 45533.[3][227][228] Also in the same period, another group, also called New Foundations released a soul ballad single, "Darling (You're All I Need)" on Atlantic 45-3225. This New Foundations was a group from the United States who were produced by George Kerr.[229][230]

The Clem Curtis led Foundations were competitors in the Eurovision 1977 with "Where Were You When I Needed Your Love".[231][232] They were picked to be winners but due to a strike by electricians, they were not televised.[233][234] A small ad appeared on the bottom of page 55 of the 26 March issue of Music Week. It said, "If you missed Eurovision on TV watch CRACKERJACK this Friday FOUNDATIONS "Where Were You When I Needed Your Love".[235] Also that month, "Where Were You When I Needed Your Love" was being played on Radio Tees and David Hoare had it as a hit pick.[220] Backed with "Love Me Nice and Easy", it was released on Summit SU 100 in 1977.[236][220]

In 1978, there was another single credited to The Foundations. It was "Closer to Loving You" b/w "Change My Life" released on Psycho P2603.[237] Over the years the B side "Change My Life" gained popularity among Northern soul fans.[238][239][240] It appears on the Fab-U-Lus Northern Soul 10" LP album compilation.[241]

1980s to 1990s edit

In 1984, Clem Curtis & The Foundations recorded a version of On Broadway" that was released on the IDM label that year. Charting in the UK, it debuted in the IPA Airplay Top 10 on 1 September at no. 3 and was at no. 5 on the 29 of that month.[242][243]

In the early 1990s, an album of re-recordings was released. It featured Clem Curtis on lead vocals, Alan Warner on guitar, Vince Cross on keyboards and Andy Bennett on drums. The recordings were arranged and produced by Keith Bateman. Released on Double Play GRF176, it included the old hits plus new tracks, "You Can't Fool Me", "Knock On Wood", "No-One Loves Me Like You Do", "Together", "Love You Now", "Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay" and "Loving You".[244][245]

There was another line-up formed in 1999 that included Colin Young (vocals), Alan Warner (Guitar), Steve Bingham (bass), Gary Moberly (keyboards), Tony Laidlaw (sax) and Sam Kelly then Steve Dixon (drums). This version of the group was re-formed due to the popularity of the film There's Something About Mary, and the interest created resulting from the 1968 hit "Build Me Up Buttercup" being featured in the film. Some time later, Young left this version of the group and was replaced by Hue Montgomery (aka Hugh Montgomery).[citation needed]

2000s edit

As of April 2024, the line up of the re-created Foundations group is Hubert Montgomery on lead vocals, Alan Warner on guitar and vocals, John Dee on bass guitar, Dave Lennox on keyboards, Pete Stroud on drums, and Nick Payn on saxophone.[246]

  • Various sources have erroneously stated that there was an early 1970s English line-up that had nothing, or little to do with the original Foundations. However, Curtis had been leading a new line-up of the Foundations since coming back to the UK and re-forming the group in the early 1970s.[citation needed]

Outside The Foundations edit

Following the touring with The Foundations and the fatigue that went with it, Alan Warner was happy to settle down and spend time with his wife and daughter and had recently moved into their home in Edgeware, NW London. Answering an ad, he joined a band which had already been formed. It was the rock group Pluto. The line up also included Paul Gardner, Derek Jarvis and Michael Worth.[247] They recorded an album which was released on the Dawn label which was a subsidiary of Pye.[28][248] The band also released a single, "Rag a Bone Joe" bw "Stealing My Thunder in October 1971,[249] They followed up with a single "I Really Want It" bw " Something That You Loved" in 1972.[250]

Also in the 1970s, there would be a collaborative attempt between two former members of the Foundations. Original Foundations trombonist Eric Allandale attempted to work with original Foundations drummer Tim Harris.[251]

In 1975, Clem Curtis recorded a disco version of "Unchained Melody" which spent three weeks in the Record Mirror UK Disco Chart, peaking at no. 75.[252] In 2005, he recorded the single "Stuck in a Wind Up" which was credited to Lord Large feat. Clem Curtis. Years later, spending a week in the iTunes chart, it peaked at no. 54 on 3 April 2022.[253]

Later years edit

By April 1979, the Flashback label had reissued "Baby, Now that I've Found You" and Build Me Up Buttercup" back to back on single, cat # FBS 6.[254]

Raymond Morrison later had some success as part of a duo called Ram & Tam.[255][256] He died on February 24, 2013.[257]

Clem Curtis died on 27 March 2017 at age 76, from lung cancer.[258]

Guitarist Alan Warner was interviewed by Strange Brew in 2022. He was talking about the group's relationship with Tony Macaulay. He also talked about the members and made a reference to Mike Elliott where he said, "The oldest guy in the band he was about forty". He then said "Funny enough I found out the other day, that he's still around. He celebrated his 90th ... or ninety something birthday the other day, I couldn't believe it!"[259][260]

In September 2023, music label London Calling released the Live on Air CD which brought together the tracks the band recorded for the Top of the Pops radio show.[261]

Former personnel edit

The Foundations edit

  • Clem Curtis: lead vocals – born 28 November 1940,[262] Trinidad, West Indies – died 27 March 2017[258]
  • Colin Young: lead vocals - b. 12 September 1944, Barbados, West Indies - replaced Clem Curtis in 1968.
  • Arthur Brown: vocals - b. 24 June 1942, Whitby, Yorkshire, Member for approximately one month in 1967
  • Alan Warner: lead guitar – b. 21 April 1947,[262] Paddington, west London.
  • Peter Macbeth: bass guitar – b. Peter McGrath, 2 February 1941,[262] Marylebone, North London.
  • Steve Bingham: bass guitar – b. 4 April 1949, Solihull, Warwickshire.
  • Tim Harris: drums – b. 14 January 1948,[262] St John's Wood, North London – Died 2007
  • Tony Gomez: keyboards – b. 13 December 1948,[262] Colombo, Ceylon – (now Sri Lanka) – died 19 December 2015.
  • Pat Burke: tenor saxophone/flute – b. 9 October 1937,[262] Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies.
  • Mike Elliott: tenor saxophone – b. 6 August 1929,[262] Jamaica, West Indies. – Left in 1968
  • Eric Allandale: trombone – b. Eric Allandale Dubuisson, 4 March 1936,[262] Dominica, West Indies – died 23 August 2001.
  • Tony Collinge : bass guitar – b. 4 February 1947, Selly Park, Birmingham
  • Paul Lockey: bass guitar[263] – joined in 1970 for nine months.[citation needed]

Guests edit

  • Mike D'Abo: piano – b. Michael David D'Abo, 1 March 1944, Betchworth, Surrey. Co-wrote and guested on "Build Me Up Buttercup" contributing piano.
  • John Mcleod: piano

Discography edit

Summary of single releases

From the band's beginning to their breakup towards the end of 1970, the Foundations released ten singles in the United Kingdom including two versions of the same song. The majority of the singles were composed by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod. They had four significant hits from these plus a minor hit with one of their own compositions, "Born to Live, Born to Die". They had minor hit with "My Little Chickadee" in the United States. This was written by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod.[264] There were other titles announced that were either never recorded or were never released. They were "Our Love Went Thataway",[265] "Tear Jerker, Music-worker, You" which was to be released around the same time as "Better By Far" by Lulu and "No Place On Earth Could Find You".[135] In 1971, the single "Stoney Ground" was released. It is believed that this single was actually by Colin Young and his new backing band Development. It seems quite likely as the Colin Young and Development debut single "Any Time at All" pre-dates "Stoney Ground". In the mid and late 1970s, there were two more singles released under the Foundations’ name. They were "Where Were You When I Needed Your Love" and "Closer to Loving You" which featured the Northern Soul classic "Change My Life" as the B side. These last two singles to bear the Foundations’ name featured Clem Curtis once more as the lead vocalist.

Summary of album releases

During the 1960s, the Foundations recorded and released four LPs in the United Kingdom. Before the release of their debut album, it was originally announced in the October 1967, by Beat Instrumental Monthly, that the debut album's title was to be Sound Basis.[266] However, when it was released on Pye, it had the title of From the Foundations. The American version of this album, on the Uni label, was given the title of Baby, Now That I've Found You. This album featured Curtis on lead vocals. The next release was in 1968. It was a live LP called Rocking the Foundations, and also featured Curtis on lead vocals, plus two instrumentals – "The Look of Love" and "Coming Home Baby". Also in 1968, another LP was released, this time on the Marble Arch label. This self-titled third album featured re-recordings of their previous hits and songs, but with Young on vocals instead of Curtis. It also featured a version of a new track, "Build Me Up Buttercup". There was also a second American album released called Build Me Up Buttercup. This was a compilation of Foundations tracks. Side one consisted of tracks from their Rocking the Foundations album, while side two consisted of "Build Me Up Buttercup", the B side of that single, plus some earlier Foundations tracks. The group's last LP release was Digging The Foundations in 1969, which featured their hit "In the Bad Bad Old Days", "I Can Feel It", "That Same Old Feeling" and the minor US hit "My Little Chickadee". A track "Why Does She Keep On" that was mentioned in the 26 April 1969 issue of Billboard magazine was not included.[267] Since then, there have been various compilations of the Foundations songs, released on both the Golden Hour and PRT labels.[268][269]

UK original albums edit

  • From the Foundations (Pye NSPL 18206, 1967)
  • Rocking the Foundations (Pye NSPL 18227, 1968) – live album
  • Digging the Foundations (Pye NSPL 18290, 1969)

UK compilation albums edit

  • The Foundations (Marble Arch MALS 1157–1968)
  • Golden Hour of the Foundations (GH 574, 1973)
  • Back to the Beat (PRT DOW7, 1983)
  • Best Of (PRT PYL 4003–1987)

UK EPs 7"

  • "It's All Right" (Pye NEP24297, 1968)
  • "Mini Monster" (Pye PMM.103)

UK EPs 12"

  • "Baby, Now That I've Found You" (Pye Big Deal BD 107) – 4 tracks
  • "Baby, Now That I've Found You" (PRT Pyt 24, 1989) – 3 tracks including remix

UK CDs

  • Golden Hour of the Foundations (Knight Records KGH CD 104, 1990)
  • Strong Foundations – The Singles and More (Music Club – MCCD 327, 1997)
  • Build Me Up Buttercup (Castle Select SELCD 527, 1998)
  • Baby, Now That I've Found You (Sequel Records – NEECD 300, 1999)
  • Build Me Up Buttercup (The Complete Pye Collection) (Castle, 2004)
  • Live on Air[261]

US albums edit

  • Baby Now That I've Found You (Uni 3016 (Mono)/73016 (Stereo), 1967)
  • Build Me Up Buttercup (Uni 73043, 1968) – US No. 92[270]
  • Digging the Foundations (Uni 73058, 1969)
  • The Very Best Of (Varèse Sarabande 74648, 2017)

Singles edit

List of singles, with selected peak chart positions and certifications
Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[2] 		AUS
[271] 		CAN
 IRE
 NLD
[272] 		NZ
[273] 		US Hot 100
[270] 		US R&B
[270]
1967 "Baby Now That I've Found You" 1 21 1 3 13 16 11 33
1968 "Back on My Feet Again" 18 — 29 18 32 — 59 —
"Any Old Time (You're Lonely and Sad)" 48 — — — — 20 — —
"Build Me Up Buttercup" 2 1 1 3 12 4 3 —
1969 "In the Bad Bad Old Days (Before You Loved Me)" 8 — 23 7 — 20 51 —
"Born to Live, Born to Die" 46 — — — — — — —
"My Little Chickadee" — — 68 — — — 99 —
"Baby, I Couldn't See" — — — — — — — —
1970 "Take a Girl Like You" — — — — — — — —
"I'm Gonna Be a Rich Man" — — — — — — — —
1971 "Stoney Ground" — — — — — — — —
1977 "Where Were You When I Needed Your Love" — — — — — — — —
1978 "Closer to Loving You" — — — — — — — —
1998 "Build Me Up Buttercup" (UK re-release) 71 — — — — — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Line ups edit

The Foundations edit

1966–1968
  • Eric Allandale
  • Arthur Brown
  • Pat Burke
  • Clem Curtis
  • Mike Elliott
  • Tony Gomez
  • Tim Harris
  • Peter MacBeth
  • Alan Warner
1968–1970
  • Eric Allandale
  • Steve Bingham
  • Pat Burke
  • Tony Collinge [citation needed]
  • Tony Gomez
  • Tim Harris
  • Peter MacBeth
  • Alan Warner
  • Colin Young
1970–1971
  • Eric Allandale
  • Steve Bingham
  • Pat Burke
  • Tony Gomez
  • Tim Harris
  • Paul Lockey [citation needed]
  • Alan Warner
  • Colin Young
1993
  • Clem Curtis
  • Alan Warner
  • Vince Cross
  • Andy Bennett[244][245]

Clem Curtis and The Foundations edit

  • Clem Curtis
  • James Colah
  • Michael J. Parlett
  • Roy Carter[223]
  • George Chandler
  • Valentine Pascal
1970s line-up
  • Clem Curtis
  • Bill Springate
  • John Springate
  • Del Watson
  • Paul Wilmot
1977 line-up
  • Clem Curtis
  • Leroy Carter
  • John Savile
  • Valentine Pascal
  • Georges Delanbanque[275]

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External links edit

  • The Foundations discography at Discogs  
  • Interview with Clem Curtis
  • 2NUR FM103.7, 23 August 2023 - Vinyl Vibes by Jack Hodgins - Alan Warner - Original guitarist of the Foundations (interview)
  • 2NUR FM103.7, 20 August 2023 - Vinyl Vibes by Jack Hodgins, Steve Bingham - Former bassist of The Foundations (interview)

January 01, 1970
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This article is about the UK soul band For other uses see Foundation disambiguation The Foundations were a British soul band who were primarily active between 1967 and 1970 The group s background was West Indian White British and Sri Lankan Their 1967 debut single Baby Now That I ve Found You reached number one in the UK and Canada and number eleven in the US Their 1968 single Build Me Up Buttercup reached number two in the UK and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 The group was the first multi racial group to have a number one hit in the UK in the 1960s 1 The FoundationsThe Foundations in 1968 Left to right Alan Warner Tim Harris Tony Gomez Pat Burke Clem Curtis Peter MacBeth Mike Elliott Eric AllandaleBackground informationOriginLondon EnglandGenresSoul pop rockYears active1966 1970LabelsPye Castle Uni Astor RepertoireSpinoffsDevelopment Clem Curtis amp The FoundationsSpinoff ofThe Ramong SoundPast membersOriginal Line upEric Allandale Pat Burke Clem Curtis Mike Elliott Tony Gomez Tim Harris Peter MacBeth Alan Warner The Foundations were one of the few British acts to imitate successfully what became known as the Motown Sound The Foundations signed to Pye at the time one of only four big UK record companies the others being EMI which included the HMV Columbia and Parlophone labels Decca and Philips which also owned Fontana 2 Contents 1 Background 2 Origin 3 Career 3 1 1967 3 2 1968 3 3 1969 3 4 1970 4 Other versions of band 4 1 Late 1970 to the end of the 1970s 4 2 1980s to 1990s 4 3 2000s 5 Outside The Foundations 6 Later years 7 Former personnel 7 1 The Foundations 7 2 Guests 8 Discography 8 1 UK original albums 8 2 UK compilation albums 8 3 US albums 8 4 Singles 9 Line ups 9 1 The Foundations 9 2 Clem Curtis and The Foundations 10 References 11 External linksBackground editThe Foundations attracted much interest because of the size and structure of the group Not only was there a diverse ethnic mix in the group there was also diversity in ages and musical backgrounds The oldest member of the group Mike Elliott was 38 years old The youngest was Tim Harris who at 18 was barely out of school The West Indian horn section consisted of Jamaican born Mike Elliott and Pat Burke both saxophonists and Dominican born Eric Allandale on trombone They were all highly experienced musicians who came from professional jazz and rock and roll backgrounds 3 Eric Allandale had led his own band The New Orleans Knights in the early 1960s 4 releasing two singles including Enjoy Yourself It s Later than You Think 5 He also played with Edmundo Ros and was a former member of the Terry Lightfoot 6 and Alex Welsh bands 7 He was also a member of Romeo Z who recorded the title song for the 1966 film Kaleidoscope 8 and an Irving Martin produced single single Come Back Baby Come Back released on CBS in 1967 9 10 11 Pat Burke had been in groups since arriving in the UK at age 15 12 and had studied music at the London Music Conservatorium 13 A man of few words according to Bob Farmer of Disc and Music Echo who also described him as a dormant Desmond Dekker Burke s first love was jazz He played with jazz groups but as the jobs did not pay much he joined The Foundations 14 Clem Curtis who was born in Trinidad had been an interior decorator and professional boxer 15 16 He had also a background in wrestling and weight lifting 17 12 18 Mike Elliott came to the group after he had heard from one of the members that they were looking for a tenor saxophonist 12 He had played in various jazz and rock and roll bands as well as the ensembles of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott 3 the Cabin Boys led by Tommy Steele s brother Colin Hicks and others 1 He had recorded under his own name for Sonny Roberts Planetone label which issued early ska and reggae records and he was a member of Rico s Combo the label s house band led by Rico Rodriguez 19 20 21 Tony Gomez the keyboard player was a former clerk who had worked in County Hall in the architect s department 22 23 Tim Harris who was born in St John s Wood London had two brothers including his twin Nick 24 According to an article Digging the Foundations by Bob Farmer in the 5 July 1969 issue of Disc and Music Echo Harris had joined the merchant navy as a deckhand on a timber ship and had travelled to various parts of the world including Siberia He came back to the UK and became involved with groups 25 Bassist Peter Macbeth was a former teacher who had taught English and draughtsmanship in Singapore 26 and worked for a paperback publisher 27 Guitarist Alan Warner had been in bands The Skeletones and The Line up a popular Dublin based group Warner turned down an offer to join The Black Eagles which included Phil Lynott and Brian Downey 28 29 Origin editThe origins of The Foundations go back to an R amp B and ska outfit called The Ramong Sound 15 30 28 aka Ramongs The band had two lead singers Raymond Morrison aka Ramong Morrison 28 and Clem Curtis 31 Curtis had come to the group by way of his guitar playing uncle who was impressed by his nephew s voice and told him that there was a band called the Ramongs looking for singers Curtis auditioned and joined the band 32 and rose from being a backing singer to sharing the lead with Raymond Morrison 33 At some stage Morrison was imprisoned for six months In his absence a friend of the band called Joan who ran a record store suggested future Psychedelic shock rocker Arthur Brown as a replacement 34 35 Brown was straight and clean living and did not drink smoke or take drugs 36 Decades later Brown recalled when he walked into the Westbourne Grove bar for an audition he saw Curtis holding a spear to the throat of the drummer bent backwards over the bar 37 Brown and Curtis each performed solo numbers as well as duets 38 and one of the band members recalled later that they had experiment with underground type music when Brown was with them 39 The group had unsuccessfully tried to recruit Rod Stewart as a singer They had a jam session with him but be turned down their offer as he preferred other musical styles 28 Alan Warner recalled decades later that Stewart s then girlfriend Dee Harrington had ended up being secretary for The Foundations management 40 41 The Foundations are said to have formed in Bayswater London in January 1967 42 43 They practised and played in a basement coffee bar club called the Butterfly Club which they also ran 44 42 The premises were at one time used as a gambling den While managing the club themselves they played music nightly and handled the cooking and cleaning They would get to bed around 6am or 7am sleep until 4pm and open again at 8pm Sometimes they barely made enough money to pay the rent occasionally living off leftovers and a couple of pounds of rice 45 28 Gomez recalled in 1969 that he MacBeth Allandale and Harris were living on 2 per week and could not afford a packet of razor blades His mother would come and tell him off for leaving his job in the County Hall architect s department 22 Saxophonist Mike Elliott s situation the best either He had been staying in a top floor flat that was in a condemned house where the roof had been removed Elliott was still paying rent Clem Curtis recalled going to see him one morning knocking on his door which got Elliott out of bed He asked him Hey Mike where s your roof gone to which Elliott replied I don t know man they just came and knocked it off 46 Career edit1967 edit The 4 February 1967 issue of Melody Maker shows a booking for The Ramong Sound mis spelt as Ramog Sound to play at the All Star Club on Sunday 5 February 47 Following their being forced out of their club by a protection racket gang who tied up Clem Curtis and held a knife to his throat 31 they moved next door to the new premises a run down place that was once a mini cab office According to Alan Warner in his interview with It s Psychedelic Baby Magazine dated 22 July 2011 this is where they were discovered 28 The biography on AllMusic stated that Barry Class was the first to discover them 1 Other sources claim they were discovered by Ron Fairway a man with many music connections and who managed the group The Ways and Means 48 49 Fairway had his own agency Ron Fairway Enterprises which was located at 6 Artesian Road London W 2 50 Fairway already had some success with his group the Ways and Means They already had record out Sea of Faces on Pye 51 It got to no 39 on the Radio City City Sixty chart for the Sunday 1 Sunday 8 January 1967 period 52 and on the 21st no 41 on the Radio Caroline chart 53 Interestingly the Ways and Means would later end up being involved with a label that Barry Class created 54 In August 2023 Alan Warner was interviewed by Jack Hodgins of the Australian radio station 2NUR FM The interview appears to suggest that Raymond Morrison was still in the group when Ron Fairway approached them Ron Fairway told the group that he was going to get them a gig at Herne Bay However this job never materialized The group sourced their own gigs which included a Caribbean club along Edgware Road and a few other clubs 55 The Foundations were booked to appear at Eel Pie Island on Sunday 14 May 1967 56 Appearing as a support act for their efforts they were paid a sum of 10 57 Arthur Brown appears to have left the group between the first and second quarter of 1967 58 According to a 1993 interview of Brown with Allan Vorda Arthur Brown could have signed with The Foundations and sung material from the writers of Baby Now That I ve Found You but he did not want to be with the group for two years 59 The day Tony Macaulay came to hear the Foundations play he was suffering from what he described as the worst hangover of his life The band was playing so loud he could not judge how good they were but he decided to give them a chance 3 His comments are recorded in the book 1000 UK No 1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh that he woke up that morning with a stinking headache and when he got to the studio and heard the Foundations he thought they were pretty terrible He decided his hangover was to blame and so he gave them the benefit of the doubt 60 At first they found progress quite slow and one of their sax players Pat Burke had to drop out of the band and take another job while they went through a rough patch He did rejoin them again later in 1967 61 62 They were noticed by Brian Epstein who added them to the roster of his NEMS Agency but the contract became void after he died on August 27 1967 63 64 Baby Now that I ve Found You According to Roy Delo of Ron Fairway s group The Ways and Means they were offered the chance to record Baby Now That I ve Found You but they turned it down So it was given to The Foundations and they recorded it with Clem Curtis on lead vocals 54 It was released on 25 August 1967 Reviewed in the Quick Spins section of Disc and Music Echo the reviewer Benny Valentine liked it but remarked that it needed a bit more drive on the production and singing It was a sleeper 58 65 And for ten weeks it did not do anything in the charts 66 Unlike The Ways and Means single Sea of Faces which was played on the pirate radio stations charting on both Radio City and Radio Caroline Baby Now that I ve Found You was not played on them 52 53 Luckily the BBC s newly founded BBC Radio 1 was looking to avoid any records being played by the pirate radio stations and looked back at some recent releases that the pirate stations had missed Baby Now That I ve Found You was one of them The single then took off 2 The group members except for Pat Burke were pictured on page 4 of the 7 October issue of New Musical Express The single had broken into the New Musical Express chart at no 25 that week 12 67 And by November was number one in the UK Singles Chart 2 The Foundations were pictured on the front page of the 11 November issue of Melody Maker Moving up from the previous week s no 2 spot they pushed The Bee Gees single Massachusetts off of the no 1 spot of the Melody Maker Pop 30 chart 68 69 This period was the ideal time for the group because of the soul boom that was happening in the UK since 1965 and with American R amp B stars visiting the country interest and intrigue in the Foundations was generated citation needed With the Foundations in the top spot with Baby Now That I ve Found You Ron Fairway commented to Melody Maker that most managements would have pulled them out of the bargain priced dates that had been booked for some time He expressed gratitude to everyone for their support and said that they would fulfill every engagement for which they had signed 3 In addition to establishing The Foundations as a group Baby Now That I ve Found You was also the song that established their song writer Tony Macaulay 70 Further activities Not long after their success with Baby Now That I ve Found You there were issues Rock historian Roger Dopson describes what followed as a behind the scenes struggle 3 where Fairway was pushed out and his partner Barry Class remained as sole manager of the group Fairway later attempted to sue the band alleging that he was wrongfully dismissed though the band said that he had resigned of his own accord 71 According to Dopson Fairway had leaked a story to the media saying that the Foundations had broken up which only served to keep the Foundations name in the news headlines 3 72 Barry Class was quoted in the 18 November issue of Melody Maker as saying that it was a friction of personalities and it had been going on for about four months 73 It was also confirmed by New Musical Express that same week that Fairway no longer had any association with the group and that agency representation would be only handled by Class New Musical Express had the exclusive on the follow up to Baby Now That I ve Found You being Back on My Feet Again The article also said that the group would be doing a string of radio and television appearances to tie in with the single s release With Baby Now that I ve Found You being released in the United States on the Uni label that week they were filming a US promo for the single and hoping to fit in a three day visit to the States at the end of the month They were also planning to fly to the United States after the completion of their radio and television promotions for Back on My Feet Again in January 74 With the success of Baby Now that I ve Found You having been established there was talk within the group of adding a trumpet player to the line up Both Allandale and Burke could double on trumpet but they were still looking to add one 75 Debut album The readers of New Musical Express were alerted to the new album by The Foundations with the words in bold New LPs by Foundations and Jimi Hendrix on the front cover of the November 25 issue 76 The album From the Foundations was issued on Pye NPL 18206 77 Nick Logan NME reviewer gave the album a solid review and a track by track analysis noting the Four Tops feel of The Writings on the Wall One of his favorites was Mr Personality Man One song he did not warm to was Call Me 78 1968 edit The Foundations would tour the United States after their first hit playing 32 states with artists such as Big Brother and the Holding Company Maxine Brown Tim Buckley Solomon Burke The Byrds The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and The Fifth Dimension 79 In January 1968 Barry Class had started his label Trend Records 80 Eric Allandale would be recruited to produce records for the label 81 The group was in France in January and they appeared on the Bouton Rouge television show Their appearance was recorded on 30 January 82 Back on My Feet Again According to bass guitarist Peter MacBeth they had a choice of three songs They recorded two and then chose Back on My Feet Again 75 This their second single was released in January 1968 83 It was reviewed by New Musical Express in the magazine s January 20 issue It was referred to as a scorcher and a very good pop record The throaty vocals organ handclaps brass and stormy beat were obvious bonuses The only criticisms minor as they were was that the tune was not as catchy as the B side Need Your Loving the reviewer most likely referring to the B side I Can Take or Leave Your Loving and too much top possibly referring the treble 84 Along with The Tremeloes and the Alan Price Set etc they were set for a BBC 1 appearance in the next few days 85 The single made its debut at no 24 in the Melody Maker Pop 30 on the week of 10 February 86 It also debuted at no 24 in the Disc and Music Echo TOP 30 chart that week 87 It did not do as well as the first single but it spent ten weeks in the UK chart and made it to No 18 88 2 It made it to No 29 in Canada 89 90 Further activities Also in January 1968 they were invited to put down some tracks for John Peel s radio show One of the tracks that they laid down was a cover of and the Mysterians garage classic 96 Tears On the same day PP Arnold was in the studio with Dusty Springfield and Madeline Bell as her backing vocalists 83 However the list of tracks given on the BBC site are A Whole New Thing Back on My Feet Again and Help Me 83 91 A recording of 96 Tears did find its way on to an EP Baby Now That I ve Found You released on Pye PNV 24199 92 Bass player Peter MacBeth was interviewed by Bob Dawbarn for the 17 February issue of Melody Maker He said that they had a van for their equipment and had recently bought a twelve seater car that used to belong to the Queen Mother There was still speculation on whether the group would add a trumpet player Macbeth said that if they do go to the United States they would pick up one to tour with them 75 Since Back on My Feet Again their second single had been released tensions developed between the band and their songwriter producer Tony Macaulay He would not allow them to record any of their own songs 1 In an interview the band s organ player Tony Gomez told the New Musical Express NME that he Peter MacBeth and Eric Allandale had some ideas that they wanted to put together Curtis later recalled that Macaulay was a problem Tony Macaulay was very talented but could be difficult to get on with When we asked to record some of our own material just as B sides we weren t after the A side he called us ungrateful and stormed out of the studio 3 The group felt that Macaulay had reined in their real sound making them seem more pop oriented than they were 1 Tony Macaulay also recalled I was never close to the Foundations I couldn t stand them and they hated me But the body of work we recorded was excellent 3 A third single also released in 1968 was Any Old Time You re Lonely and Sad It had been announced for release for April 26 93 It was backed with an Eric Allandale composition We Are Happy People 94 It entered the UK charts at no 48 and stayed around for 2 weeks 95 2 According to the March 8 issue of New Musical Express Tony Macaulay was to fly to the United States on 20 May for ten days While there he was to supervise some recording sessions in Detroit by The Foundations who were to cut an album and a single there 96 An article Ireland not for us appeared in the April 1968 issue of Beat Instrumental which told of a near violent situation involving Clem Curtis where he had been accused of being involved in a fight the night before It was at the end of a dance that the group had played at and Curtis was at the bar Curtis said I went to the bar and was confronted by a guy who stuck a knife in my stomach Curtis had to talk himself out of the situation which took an hour 97 It was reported in the July 27 issue of Melody Maker that legal action had been taken against The Foundations by Raymond Morrison In a court hearing that took three hours Morrison claimed that he had discovered the talent of the group He failed in his bid to put a freeze on a portion of the group s earnings He had been released from prison in July 1967 following a six month sentence for assault The case was heard by Judge Stamp who said in reference to Baby Now That I ve Found You I cannot understand how it can be suggested that a song which came into existence after Mr Morrison had severed his connection with the group can he one in which he can have any share or interest He also dismissed a similar motion against the Pye label 98 It was reported by Melody Maker in the 24 August issue that The Foundations were completing a live album allegedly recorded live in Britain and the US The album Rocking the Foundations was cited for release in mid September Disc and Music Echo also reported the same thing in their 27 August issue 99 100 Curtis and Elliott leave the group By August rumors had leaked out that Clem Curtis may be leaving the group The group had been together for a year when there was speculation on this Melody Maker wrote in their 31 August issue that at press time no confirmation could be obtained They did however write that he wanted to develop his career and record as a solo artist with Tony Macaulay 17 Curtis had made a request to record a solo record Paul McCartney had also offered to write a song for Curtis 100 It was also suggested that Curtis left in 1968 because he felt that a couple of the band s members were taking it a bit too easy thinking that because they had now had a hit they did not have to put in as much effort as they had previously 1 Curtis reason for leaving differs from member Alan Warner s reason who in 2022 claimed Curtis left because he tried to change the band name to Clem Curtis amp the Foundations and left when the band refused 101 An advertisement appeared on page 22 of the September 14 1968 issue of Melody Maker Class Management on behalf of the Foundations were inviting enquiries from soul r amp b and progressive singers who considered themselves suitable to join the above named group 102 Saxophonist Mike Elliott also left around this time and was never replaced Curtis hung around and helped them audition a replacement singer They auditioned 200 singers 103 104 It was reported in the September 14 issue of Melody Maker that they were also trying out Warren Davis of the Warren Davis Monday Band for the role Curtis said he would not leave the band until they found a replacement 105 He had become friendly with Sammy Davis Jr 106 and was encouraged to try his luck in the United States Also in that month they played at the Brave New World in Portsmouth Drummer Tim Harris was out of action due to a poisoned arm and Eric Allandale filled in as the drummer They were also set to go into the studio in October to record and it was speculated that it would be with the new singer 105 Curtis would move to the United States for a solo career on the club circuit encouraged by the likes of Wilson Pickett and Sam amp Dave playing Las Vegas with The Righteous Brothers citation needed New lead singer Clem Curtis successful replacement was Colin Young 107 Young was born in Barbados and had previously been in a group called Joe E Young and the Tonics 108 who had the Soul Buster album released in 1968 109 Young had joined The Foundations in late September early October He had been rehearsing with them for the week of October 5 and was ready to make his debut on Friday October 4 at Aberdeen University 110 111 It had been reported in the October 12 issue of Melody Maker that The Foundations would record their next single Build Me Up Buttercup as soon as legal complications for the release of Joey Young Colin Young were sorted out with his former label Major Minor Records 112 In the same issue a member of the group mis named Peter Gomez said that they were frustrated with playing other people s sounds But now that Clem has left they felt that they were able to change their sound but only gradually 113 On 30 November with Young still a fledgling lead singer the group was to do two shows on one night the first being the Old Hill Plaza at 9 pm and then followed by the Handsworth Plaza at 11 pm 114 In his early period with The Foundations Young had to learn that he was just another group member Other members put him in into Coventry but he eventually learnt to toe the line and was accepted by the other members 115 With Young the band would have two more big hits Build Me Up Buttercup which was their third big hit in January 1969 and In the Bad Bad Old Days Before You Loved Me which was a hit in April 1969 2 Build Me Up Buttercup On the week of 30 November 1968 Build Me Up Buttercup made its debut in the Disc and Music Echo Top 30 chart at no 25 116 Spending 15 weeks in the UK chart it would get to the peak position of no 2 117 Making its debut at no 84 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending 4 January 1969 118 it would reach the peak position of no 3 on the week ending 22 February 1969 119 120 It held that position for another two weeks 121 Two members of the band McBeth and Gomez were pictured with Tom Jones in the 1 March 1969 issue of Melody Maker where Tom Jones was giving the band a gold disc at Elstree Studios where they appeared on his show 122 1969 edit In the Bad Bad Old Days The song was released on Friday February 28 123 124 It received a positive review by Chris Welch with a cautionary warning for the listeners to look out for their neck from excessive jerking 125 In the Bad Bad Old Days made its debut in the Billboard Hot 100 at no 77 for the week ending 5 April 1969 126 It would get to no 8 in the UK and no 51 in the US 127 It also reached No 23 in Canada on 5 May that year 128 129 Further activities in 1969 The Foundations were scheduled to appear on the Tom Jones show on the 9 March 1969 130 When In the Bad Bad Old Days was in the Melody Maker Pop 30 chart at no 16 on the Week of 26 March 131 the bass player was interviewed He said that the group wanted to have two albums out that year The second album would be done after coming back from their US tour He said that several months prior they had written some songs for a freaky type of LP He also said that if they played underground type numbers in the US people would listen but he was unsure about back home in the UK how it would be received 132 Around that time they had been asked by John Carter Davies a Texas oil millionaire to play at a 21st birthday party for his son David When they were on tour with Stevie Wonder they had success with a ballad they performed This prompted them to consider releasing a Macaulay Macleod ballad According to Melody Maker in the 29 March issue tentatively titled No Place on Earth Could Find Him 133 later referred to as No Place on Earth Could Find You 134 At the height of their popularity the Foundations management were in negotiations with a UK TV company for a television series that would star members of the band They had turned down a number of offers to appear in films because of script unsuitability 135 It was noted by NME in the 19 April issue that the group had just finished a tour with Stevie Wonder and were completing their third album They were also on their way to the US for their second major tour and had expectations of recording in Detroit They were in the NME Top Five that week as well 136 The group s publicist Rod Harrod was interviewed by New Musical Express about the Foundation s US tour The interview was published in the magazine s 17 May issue At the time the group was halfway through their tour and the lineup was Peter Macbeth Eric Allandale Tony Gomez Tim Harris Alan Warner Pat Burke and Colin Young The show they played at the Filmore was opened by The Savoy Brown Blues Band and was closed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band The group knew what kind of audience they would be playing to 137 It was reported in the 26 April issue of New Musical Express that the group had earlier considered calling off their United States tour due to a union ban preventing them from being televised there Weeks later it still had not been resolved but there were hopes that it would while they were still on tour 138 They were preparing for their second appearance at the Filmore when they had a phone call from the manager of the Copa club He informed them that a couple of members of The Temptations had been taken unwell and asked if the Foundations could step in for the night Not knowing that the group played their own instruments he asked them to go immediately to rehearse with the house orchestra The group made history of sorts by becoming the first act to play as a band there as well as playing in clothes other than the suit types 139 They also broke new ground by being the first self contained group and first rock group to play there 140 The group also did well by earning a week s worth of pay in one night They had also secured a booking for when they were on their next tour in next November October They also played at the Cheetah which earned them 14 000 for just one night 139 According to Cash Box in the May 3 1969 issue things had seemingly gone well for the group with their playing the Copa club and the magazine wrote that Kip Cohen the Filmore manager had given them a release to do the show there 140 However the following week Cash Box corrected things and said that the Foundations leaving Filmore was not amicable According to a spokesman for Filmore the group asked permission to leave to play at the Copa club and it was denied So they decided to leave anyway 141 They had been booked to play at a club in Dayton Ohio At the time of booking the manager had not realized that they were a multi racial group and was not going to let them go on However he changed his mind 142 The group had planned to do a week s worth of recording at Motown Studios but could not get a recording permit so that was cancelled So they instead were booked in for a week s worth cabaret work in Detroit They were also to do a week in Toronto Publicist Harrod wondered why they never received requests to play in Canada He noted that there was another group in Canada that went by the same name 143 After their return from their time in the US at the end of May the group were set to appear at the Bratislava Song Festival in Czechoslovakia 130 It had been reported in the June 7 issue of Melody Maker that The Foundations were in a row with their record label Pye and producer due to five tracks from their upcoming album From the Foundations having been leaked to other artists According to the group the songs were supposed to be exclusive to them The group were holding off on the release of their album until September They discovered that the songs were going to be released by other artists One of the exclusive songs to be released on single was My Little Chickadee which had been covered by Geno Washington the same time as The Foundations version was released on the UNI label in the US The group s manager Barry Class was due to meet with Pye chief Louis Benjamin when the article went to press Also in early June the Foundations issued an injunction against Clem Curtis s group Clem Curtis and The New Foundations who were touted as alternative attraction when The Foundations had to leave the United States a week early when their booking for a week at a Detroit cabaret was cancelled 144 It was reported in the June 21 1969 issue of Cash Box that the group was planning to record a live gospel album inside a church According to their publicity manager Rod Harrod the group was inspired by the success that the Edwin Hawkins Singers had with Oh Happy Day The article also mentioned the new artistic freedom the group had as a result of a recent deal that Pye chief Louis Benjamin had negotiated 145 As of July 5 the entities under the umbrella of Class International that handled aspects of The Foundations career were Class Managements exclusive management handled by Barry Class First Class Agency sole agents handled by Jim Dawson Top Class Music joint publishers handled by Sleeping Bunny Five Minute Films promotional films handled by Sylvia Class and Overlord Publicity worldwide press and publication handled by Rod Harrod 146 In the 5 July issue of Billboard it was reported that Barry Class had negotiated a new contract for the group with Pye It was also noted that the group would take charge of producing their own material 147 Tony Gomez was interviewed by Ian Middleton of Record Mirror for the 2 August issue In reply to Middleton s question about the group changing musical direction he said We ve changed it some already He also said We all think the same musically And he mentioned that they had split from Tony Macaulay because things got stale 148 Digging the Foundations When their album Digging the Foundations was released when it containined twelve tracks half of them were original compositions by the band members The album cover showed the band members in prison garb ball and chain with shovels and picks 149 An ad in the April 26 issue of Billboard said that it was due for release in the US shortly 150 It received a track by track review in the 5 July issue of Disc and Music Echo 151 Five of the eleven songs composed by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod One song Waiting on the Shores of Nowhere was composed by Robert Saker and Jack Winsley The remaining five were original compositions by the band members 152 153 A song from the album I Can Feel It an Eric Allandale composition was covered by Chuck Bennett It was a hit for him in Germany the following year 154 153 Mac Kissoon also covered the song which was included on his Souled Out album released the same year 155 Another song from the album Solomon Grundy also composed by Allandale had been covered by Danny Diaz amp The Checkmates 152 156 as well as Pickettywitch 157 Due to South African authorities not allowing mixed groups to be seen the album had to be issued there in a plain cover 158 Further activities in 1969 In mid 69 the group was approached to record music for two films One was Take a Girl Like You which starred Hayley Mills and the other The Games starring Stanley Baker Also on Friday 19 July the group s van was being unloaded in Birmingham and Alan Warner s Fender Stratocaster was stolen Due to the theft the group had to delay the recording of the B side to their single Born to Live Born to Die This in turn delayed the release of the single by a week The new release date was set for 8 August 159 160 It was reported by The New Musical Express in the 9 August issue that The Foundations were planning a rock musical pantomime It was supposed to be based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs There was a plan to use a colored actress to play snow white Parts were also to be played by members of the band They were allegedly working on music for the presentation and if a suitable theater could be found then it could go ahead The group s aspirations were to have it done in the style of Hair There had also been some dialogue with a major film company for a film release which would depend on the success of the musical 161 The group were going to spend ten days from the beginning of October to film their musical contribution to Take a Girl Like You They were to undertake an English tour with Chuck Berry that was to commence on 27 September There was also hope to have Creedence Clearwater Revival added as well It was cancelled due to the promoters dropping Berry Due to Creedence Clearwater Revival being unavailable and no other suitable top acts being found it was all cancelled The Foundations however were planning to tour the UK in early 1970 The group also had a tentative booking for an Australian tour at Christmas time 162 The Foundations were at no 1 in the Top Male Vocal Group category 163 and Build Me Up Buttercup was no 10 in the Top Record category in the 16 August issue of Record World 164 Born to Live Born to Die With Born to Live Born to Die ready to hit the record store shelves the following day was reviewed by Penny Valentine for the 9 August issue of Disc and Music Echo She began by saying that she liked all things Foundations because of their tight identifiable sounds but she said she was a little weary of this record There was a lot of things happening in the background that made her uneasy and didn t seem to gel She also said at the beginning they sounded a lot like Mike d Abo She also admitted that the chorus was amazingly catchy but she felt that the group had been given too much of a free hand 165 The single was one of the singles in the Special Merit Spotlight section of the 13 September issue of Billboard The reviewer gave it a possibility of getting into the Hot 100 and that it would surpass their recent hit My Little Chickadee 166 It was reviewed by Cash Box in the 13 September issue in the magazine s Picks of the Week section The improved production quality was noted There was a possibility of heavy sales if FM would pick up on it The reviewer also said that it was one of the strongest Foundations singles since their last resurge into the Top 40 167 On the week of September 13 Record Mirror showed the entry of Born to Live Born to Die in the National Top 50 charts at no 46 168 Billboard reported in the 27 September issue that in Canada Phonodisc was ahead of other countries with its rush release of Born to Live Born to Die Heavy promotion for it was expected when the band would start their cross country tour of universities commencing on 16 October 169 On the week ending 27 September it had dropped down to no 50 in the UK 170 The 4 October issue showed that the single was back at no 46 171 It was also in the Malaysian Top Ten having moved from no 11 to no 8 172 The peak position of no 4 in the Malaysian chart was shown in the 25 October issue of Billboard 173 It was still in the Top Ten a week later 174 Breakout sales action for Canada was reported by Cash Box in the 18 October issue 175 It would be listed as one of the best selling singles from Pye in the 4 July 1970 issue 176 Further activities in late 1969 A selection of lower priced records were listed in the 18 October issue of New Musical Express Among them was the self titled Foundations album on Marble Arch MALS 1157 177 It featured stereo re recordings of previously recorded songs 178 179 The songs Any Old Time Your e Lonely And Sad Back on My Feet Again Harlem Shuffle Tomorrow and We Are Happy People appeared on the Rocking The Foundations album released the previous year 180 181 Baby Now That I ve Found You with Colin Young on vocals has the same backing track as the original Clem Curtis version 182 183 The new version of Tomorrow years later has been referred to as the alternate version This version has Colin Young on vocals instead of Clem Curtis vocals which appeared on the live version They too have the same backing track However the Colin Young re recording is a longer edit 184 185 It was originally on the Rocking the Foundations album 186 which was a mixture of actual live and studio tracks This suggests that there were some recordings with Clem Curtis on lead vocals existed but his vocals were replaced with those by Colin Young citation needed Bassist Peter Macbeth left the band in 1969 to join the group Bubastis with Bernie Living 187 188 Over time other members included Geoff Nicholson and Brian Appleyard from East of Eden Simon Lee from Alexis Korner and soul sax player Mike Freeman 189 An article appeared in the September 20 issue of New Musical Express that the new single for the group was Love Song which was written for the group by Donovan The group cut short their Dutch tour so they could go back to London to record that song plus the Bill Martin and Phil Coulter composition Take a Girl Like You on October 8 It was also reported in the same article that their rock opera that was planned for Christmas had to be shelved 190 The absence of the group in Sweden caused concern to their management in late September They were reported missing At the time there were heavy storms in Sweden that resulted in injuries and deaths Rod Harrod spokesman for the group said that management was very worried The group s agent was flying out to investigate 191 Steve Bingham would assume of the role of Foundations bass guitarist in 1969 192 1970 edit Break away from management and legal action It had been reported in a publicity sheet around early December 1969 that the band had broken away from their manager Barry Class Jim Dawson who was formerly their agent and Mike Dolan took over the group s affairs 193 Having left Barry Class s management the group had joined a management company headed by Mike Dolan of Marquee Martin and Jim Dawson Barry Class took legal action against the group Class was granted temporary injunctions by High Court Judge McGarry to restrain Dawson from disposing of any documents relating to the group Also with contracts negotiated prior to Nov 28 1969 the day of contract breach a percentage of money was to go to Class The article in the 3 January 1970 issue of Billboard also mentioned that the group s royalties had been frozen Dawson was also ordered to return any documents belonging to Class 194 Further activities The single Take a Girl Like You was released in February 1970 195 An article appeared in the 21 March issue of Record Mirror when their current single was Take a Girl Like You The article told of the group s frustration with the material they were performing live and the teen scene they were having play on With disgust Colin Young explained that they were having to perform the same music on stage for the last two years which he felt was getting stale One of the few songs they were performing that was not one of their hits was the song Help Me by Sonny Boy Williamson At the time of the article the line up was given as Eric Allandale Steve Bingham Pat Burke Tony Gomez Tim Harris Alan Warner and Colin Young The group was also leaning towards a more progressive sound 196 It appears that The Foundations were in Pye Studios around the second quarter of 1970 According to the May 1970 issue of Beat Instrumental the group had been in the studios to lay down some tracks 197 My Little Chickadee proved to be the band s last hit In spite of releasing Take a Girl Like You the title song to the Oliver Reed and Hayley Mills film of the same name and a heavy blues rock song I m Gonna Be a Rich Man citation needed which was one of the few songs that Steve Bingham played on 198 On August 6 a broadcast showed the band s appearance on Top of the Pops performing I m Gonna Be a Rich Man 199 According to Disc and Music Echo in the magazine s September 5 issue The Foundations were appearing with Miki Antony on Ed Stewart s Stewpot show on Saturday at 5 15 pm 200 Departure of Colin Young and break up It was reported by New Musical Express in the week ending 10 October 1970 issue that lead singer Colin Young had left the group to pursue a solo career He had already signed a contract with Barry Class and was putting together his new group which was called Development 201 Young would later claim that the rest of the band had got above themselves the band hardly rehearsing staying in the biggest most expensive hotels in the US and some members failing to turn up for bookings 202 The Foundations split in late 1970 citation needed During their time the group took on bassists Tony Collinge possibly joined when the group left Barry Class in 1969 citation needed Paul Lockey in 1970 who had been with Robert Plant in Band of Joy 203 citation needed Other versions of band editLate 1970 to the end of the 1970s edit Colin Young and Development Since late 1970 Barry Class attempted to have the Foundations name revived The band had Graham Preskett as the musical director and on electric violin and guitar Other members Jean Roussel on keys and Roger Cawkwell on sax and flute and Colin Young on vocals The group had an agreement with management that they would appear as The Foundations but between gigs Colin Young would explain that they were becoming a new outfit called Development They toured throughout Latin America and even played at the Expo Show in Buenos Aires They continued though to early 1971 citation needed According to a later article in Disc and Music Echo Development aka The Foundations did remarkably well in Latin America 202 In 1971 Colin Young also had a single Any Time at All bw You re No Good released on Trend 6099 005 It was produced by Tony Rockliff and Barry Class It was credited to Colin Young introducing Development 204 205 It was also released on Uni 55286 A Hot 100 prediction it was in Billboard s Top 60 Pop Spotlight section for the week ending 5 June 1971 206 The last record released in the early 1970s period credited to The Foundations was a single Stoney Ground b w I ll Give You Love MCA MCA 5075 in 1971 207 208 209 The composers were actually Conan Byrne and Warren Davis of the Warren Davis Monday Band fame 210 211 212 Davis had tried out for the role of Foundations lead singer in 1968 213 For the week of 29 January 1972 along with releases by Santana Rod Stewart The Hillside Singers and BJ Thomas etc the song was on the pop section of the Cash Box Juke Box Programming Guide 214 For the week ending 26 February the single made its debut on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart Charting for a week it peaked at no 113 215 216 217 As reported in the 4 March 1972 issue of Disc and Music Echo Development Colin Young s group was alternating between that name and The Foundations when gigging around the UK They were looking to release their first album the following month 202 Colin Young had an album released on the Stateside label In the Beginning and credited to Colin Young s Development 218 219 The musicians on the album included Graham Preskett on violin guitar banjo harmonica melodica Steve Bingham on bass Roger Cawkwell on flute recorder and saxophones Jean Roussel on organ and piano and Eddie Tan Tan Thornton on trombone and trumpet etc 218 Others There would be two more singles released credited to The Foundations in the late 1970s 220 221 When Curtis returned to the UK he formed a new version of the group with little success in spite of releasing several singles but later had a lucrative spell on the 1960s nostalgia circuit Re formed members included John Springate 222 Derek Del Watson Paul Wilmot all members of the band Elegy and Roy Carter who later on joined Heatwave 223 According to an article about Brian Johnston of the White Plains on the White Plains Chronicles website there is information provided by James Payne that gives a partial line up of a 1973 version of the Foundations Listed were Clem Curtis on vocals Eric Allandale on trombone Brian Johnston on keyboards and Jim Payne on drums 224 In the mid 1970s while Clem Curtis and the Foundations were on the road there was also another Foundations line up that was led by Colin Young who were touring at the same time and were playing basically the same material This eventually led to court action which resulted in Curtis being allowed to bill his group as either the Foundations or Clem Curtis amp the Foundations Young was allowed to bill himself as The New Foundations or as Colin Young amp the New Foundations 3 The New Foundations name was previously used for the Australian release of Build Me Up Buttercup on Astor AP 1567 in 1969 225 226 citation needed In 1975 Young and his group The New Foundations released a lone single on Something for My Baby I Need Your Love on Pye 45533 3 227 228 Also in the same period another group also called New Foundations released a soul ballad single Darling You re All I Need on Atlantic 45 3225 This New Foundations was a group from the United States who were produced by George Kerr 229 230 The Clem Curtis led Foundations were competitors in the Eurovision 1977 with Where Were You When I Needed Your Love 231 232 They were picked to be winners but due to a strike by electricians they were not televised 233 234 A small ad appeared on the bottom of page 55 of the 26 March issue of Music Week It said If you missed Eurovision on TV watch CRACKERJACK this Friday FOUNDATIONS Where Were You When I Needed Your Love 235 Also that month Where Were You When I Needed Your Love was being played on Radio Tees and David Hoare had it as a hit pick 220 Backed with Love Me Nice and Easy it was released on Summit SU 100 in 1977 236 220 In 1978 there was another single credited to The Foundations It was Closer to Loving You b w Change My Life released on Psycho P2603 237 Over the years the B side Change My Life gained popularity among Northern soul fans 238 239 240 It appears on the Fab U Lus Northern Soul 10 LP album compilation 241 1980s to 1990s edit In 1984 Clem Curtis amp The Foundations recorded a version of On Broadway that was released on the IDM label that year Charting in the UK it debuted in the IPA Airplay Top 10 on 1 September at no 3 and was at no 5 on the 29 of that month 242 243 In the early 1990s an album of re recordings was released It featured Clem Curtis on lead vocals Alan Warner on guitar Vince Cross on keyboards and Andy Bennett on drums The recordings were arranged and produced by Keith Bateman Released on Double Play GRF176 it included the old hits plus new tracks You Can t Fool Me Knock On Wood No One Loves Me Like You Do Together Love You Now Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay and Loving You 244 245 There was another line up formed in 1999 that included Colin Young vocals Alan Warner Guitar Steve Bingham bass Gary Moberly keyboards Tony Laidlaw sax and Sam Kelly then Steve Dixon drums This version of the group was re formed due to the popularity of the film There s Something About Mary and the interest created resulting from the 1968 hit Build Me Up Buttercup being featured in the film Some time later Young left this version of the group and was replaced by Hue Montgomery aka Hugh Montgomery citation needed 2000s edit As of April 2024 the line up of the re created Foundations group is Hubert Montgomery on lead vocals Alan Warner on guitar and vocals John Dee on bass guitar Dave Lennox on keyboards Pete Stroud on drums and Nick Payn on saxophone 246 Various sources have erroneously stated that there was an early 1970s English line up that had nothing or little to do with the original Foundations However Curtis had been leading a new line up of the Foundations since coming back to the UK and re forming the group in the early 1970s citation needed Outside The Foundations editFollowing the touring with The Foundations and the fatigue that went with it Alan Warner was happy to settle down and spend time with his wife and daughter and had recently moved into their home in Edgeware NW London Answering an ad he joined a band which had already been formed It was the rock group Pluto The line up also included Paul Gardner Derek Jarvis and Michael Worth 247 They recorded an album which was released on the Dawn label which was a subsidiary of Pye 28 248 The band also released a single Rag a Bone Joe bw Stealing My Thunder in October 1971 249 They followed up with a single I Really Want It bw Something That You Loved in 1972 250 Also in the 1970s there would be a collaborative attempt between two former members of the Foundations Original Foundations trombonist Eric Allandale attempted to work with original Foundations drummer Tim Harris 251 In 1975 Clem Curtis recorded a disco version of Unchained Melody which spent three weeks in the Record Mirror UK Disco Chart peaking at no 75 252 In 2005 he recorded the single Stuck in a Wind Up which was credited to Lord Large feat Clem Curtis Years later spending a week in the iTunes chart it peaked at no 54 on 3 April 2022 253 Later years editBy April 1979 the Flashback label had reissued Baby Now that I ve Found You and Build Me Up Buttercup back to back on single cat FBS 6 254 Raymond Morrison later had some success as part of a duo called Ram amp Tam 255 256 He died on February 24 2013 257 Clem Curtis died on 27 March 2017 at age 76 from lung cancer 258 Guitarist Alan Warner was interviewed by Strange Brew in 2022 He was talking about the group s relationship with Tony Macaulay He also talked about the members and made a reference to Mike Elliott where he said The oldest guy in the band he was about forty He then said Funny enough I found out the other day that he s still around He celebrated his 90th or ninety something birthday the other day I couldn t believe it 259 260 In September 2023 music label London Calling released the Live on Air CD which brought together the tracks the band recorded for the Top of the Pops radio show 261 Former personnel editThe Foundations edit Clem Curtis lead vocals born 28 November 1940 262 Trinidad West Indies died 27 March 2017 258 Colin Young lead vocals b 12 September 1944 Barbados West Indies replaced Clem Curtis in 1968 Arthur Brown vocals b 24 June 1942 Whitby Yorkshire Member for approximately one month in 1967 Alan Warner lead guitar b 21 April 1947 262 Paddington west London Peter Macbeth bass guitar b Peter McGrath 2 February 1941 262 Marylebone North London Steve Bingham bass guitar b 4 April 1949 Solihull Warwickshire Tim Harris drums b 14 January 1948 262 St John s Wood North London Died 2007 Tony Gomez keyboards b 13 December 1948 262 Colombo Ceylon now Sri Lanka died 19 December 2015 Pat Burke tenor saxophone flute b 9 October 1937 262 Kingston Jamaica West Indies Mike Elliott tenor saxophone b 6 August 1929 262 Jamaica West Indies Left in 1968 Eric Allandale trombone b Eric Allandale Dubuisson 4 March 1936 262 Dominica West Indies died 23 August 2001 Tony Collinge bass guitar b 4 February 1947 Selly Park Birmingham Paul Lockey bass guitar 263 joined in 1970 for nine months citation needed Guests edit Mike D Abo piano b Michael David D Abo 1 March 1944 Betchworth Surrey Co wrote and guested on Build Me Up Buttercup contributing piano John Mcleod pianoDiscography editSummary of single releases From the band s beginning to their breakup towards the end of 1970 the Foundations released ten singles in the United Kingdom including two versions of the same song The majority of the singles were composed by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod They had four significant hits from these plus a minor hit with one of their own compositions Born to Live Born to Die They had minor hit with My Little Chickadee in the United States This was written by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod 264 There were other titles announced that were either never recorded or were never released They were Our Love Went Thataway 265 Tear Jerker Music worker You which was to be released around the same time as Better By Far by Lulu and No Place On Earth Could Find You 135 In 1971 the single Stoney Ground was released It is believed that this single was actually by Colin Young and his new backing band Development It seems quite likely as the Colin Young and Development debut single Any Time at All pre dates Stoney Ground In the mid and late 1970s there were two more singles released under the Foundations name They were Where Were You When I Needed Your Love and Closer to Loving You which featured the Northern Soul classic Change My Life as the B side These last two singles to bear the Foundations name featured Clem Curtis once more as the lead vocalist Summary of album releases During the 1960s the Foundations recorded and released four LPs in the United Kingdom Before the release of their debut album it was originally announced in the October 1967 by Beat Instrumental Monthly that the debut album s title was to be Sound Basis 266 However when it was released on Pye it had the title of From the Foundations The American version of this album on the Uni label was given the title of Baby Now That I ve Found You This album featured Curtis on lead vocals The next release was in 1968 It was a live LP called Rocking the Foundations and also featured Curtis on lead vocals plus two instrumentals The Look of Love and Coming Home Baby Also in 1968 another LP was released this time on the Marble Arch label This self titled third album featured re recordings of their previous hits and songs but with Young on vocals instead of Curtis It also featured a version of a new track Build Me Up Buttercup There was also a second American album released called Build Me Up Buttercup This was a compilation of Foundations tracks Side one consisted of tracks from their Rocking the Foundations album while side two consisted of Build Me Up Buttercup the B side of that single plus some earlier Foundations tracks The group s last LP release was Digging The Foundations in 1969 which featured their hit In the Bad Bad Old Days I Can Feel It That Same Old Feeling and the minor US hit My Little Chickadee A track Why Does She Keep On that was mentioned in the 26 April 1969 issue of Billboard magazine was not included 267 Since then there have been various compilations of the Foundations songs released on both the Golden Hour and PRT labels 268 269 UK original albums edit From the Foundations Pye NSPL 18206 1967 Rocking the Foundations Pye NSPL 18227 1968 live album Digging the Foundations Pye NSPL 18290 1969 UK compilation albums edit The Foundations Marble Arch MALS 1157 1968 Golden Hour of the Foundations GH 574 1973 Back to the Beat PRT DOW7 1983 Best Of PRT PYL 4003 1987 UK EPs 7 It s All Right Pye NEP24297 1968 Mini Monster Pye PMM 103 UK EPs 12 Baby Now That I ve Found You Pye Big Deal BD 107 4 tracks Baby Now That I ve Found You PRT Pyt 24 1989 3 tracks including remix UK CDs Golden Hour of the Foundations Knight Records KGH CD 104 1990 Strong Foundations The Singles and More Music Club MCCD 327 1997 Build Me Up Buttercup Castle Select SELCD 527 1998 Baby Now That I ve Found You Sequel Records NEECD 300 1999 Build Me Up Buttercup The Complete Pye Collection Castle 2004 Live on Air 261 US albums edit Baby Now That I ve Found You Uni 3016 Mono 73016 Stereo 1967 Build Me Up Buttercup Uni 73043 1968 US No 92 270 Digging the Foundations Uni 73058 1969 The Very Best Of Varese Sarabande 74648 2017 Singles edit List of singles with selected peak chart positions and certifications Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications UK 2 AUS 271 CAN IRE NLD 272 NZ 273 US Hot 100 270 US R amp B 270 1967 Baby Now That I ve Found You 1 21 1 3 13 16 11 33 1968 Back on My Feet Again 18 29 18 32 59 Any Old Time You re Lonely and Sad 48 20 Build Me Up Buttercup 2 1 1 3 12 4 3 BPI Platinum 274 1969 In the Bad Bad Old Days Before You Loved Me 8 23 7 20 51 Born to Live Born to Die 46 My Little Chickadee 68 99 Baby I Couldn t See 1970 Take a Girl Like You I m Gonna Be a Rich Man 1971 Stoney Ground 1977 Where Were You When I Needed Your Love 1978 Closer to Loving You 1998 Build Me Up Buttercup UK re release 71 denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory Line ups editThe Foundations edit 1966 1968 Eric Allandale Arthur Brown Pat Burke Clem Curtis Mike Elliott Tony Gomez Tim Harris Peter MacBeth Alan Warner1968 1970 Eric Allandale Steve Bingham Pat Burke Tony Collinge citation needed Tony Gomez Tim Harris Peter MacBeth Alan Warner Colin Young1970 1971 Eric Allandale Steve Bingham Pat Burke Tony Gomez Tim Harris Paul Lockey citation needed Alan Warner Colin Young 1993 Clem Curtis Alan Warner Vince Cross Andy Bennett 244 245 Clem Curtis and The Foundations edit Clem Curtis James Colah Michael J Parlett Roy Carter 223 George Chandler Valentine Pascal1970s line up Clem Curtis Bill Springate John Springate Del Watson Paul Wilmot1977 line up Clem Curtis Leroy Carter John Savile Valentine Pascal Georges Delanbanque 275 References edit a b c d e f Bruce Eder The Foundations Biography AllMusic Retrieved 30 January 2014 a b c d e f g Roberts David 2006 British Hit Singles amp Albums 19th ed London Guinness World Records Limited p 209 ISBN 1 904994 10 5 a b c d e f g h i j Inlay notes to Baby Now That I ve Found You CD Sequel Records NEECD 300 Jazz News Wednesday 5 April 1961 Page 16 Eric Allandale s New Orleans Knights Music Metason ArtistInfo Eric Allendale 50connect A Chat With The Foundations Clem Curtis 18 October 2008 Archived from the original on 18 October 2008 Retrieved 21 September 2023 Eel Pie Island Museaum 1962 Roll call July 1962 Kaleidoscope THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK ALBUM Amazon Back cover notes by Stanley Myers Romeo Z Discogs com Retrieved 3 October 2023 1960s British Beat Music Producers amp Labels Discographies CBS Records UK and European Singles Discography 1965 1969 Martin Roberts UK family home page IRVING MARTIN PRODUCTIONS 60s Productions by Irving Martin on 45 a b c d Disc and Music Echo November 4 1967 Page 11 Eight faces that laid the FOUNDATIONS of a hit The History of British Rock and Roll The Psychedelic Years 1967 1969 By Robin Bell 2017 ISBN 9789198191684 Chapter Four The Summer of Love Disc and Music Echo July 5 1969 Page 15 Disc Special Digging the Foundations By BOB FARMER Pat Burke in love with jazz a b Noise 11 28 Mar 2017 R I P Clem Curtis of The Foundations 1940 2017 by Roger Wink VVN Music The Guardian Tue 28 Mar 2017 Foundations lead singer Clem Curtis dies aged 76 a b Melody Maker 31 August 1968 Page 4 Clem to quit Foundations Disc and Music Echo November 4 1967 Page 11 Eight faces that laid the FOUNDATIONS of a hit Clem Curtis Tapir s Reggae Discographies PLANETONE 7 S Tighten Up The History of Reggae in the UK Page 19 DJ Mag Tuesday 25 July 2023 NEWS Sonny Roberts Jamaican producer who opened Britain s first Black owned recording studio to be honoured with blue plaque MARISSA CETIN a b Disc and Music Echo July 5 1969 Page 15 DISC SPECIAL Digging the Foundations By BOB FARMER Tony Gomez once a stinker Disc and Music Echo November 4 1967 Page 11 Eight faces that laid the FOUNDATIONS of a hit Tony Gomesz Disc and Music Echo November 4 1967 Page 11 Eight faces that laid the FOUNDATIONS of a hit Tim Harris Disc and Music Echo July 5 1969 Page 15 DISC SPECIAL Digging the Foundations By BOB FARMER Tim Harris seagoing drummer Disc and Music Echo July 5 1969 Page 15 DISC SPECIAL Digging the Foundations By BOB FARMER Peter Macbeth intellectual Disc and Music Echo November 4 1967 Page 11 Eight faces that laid the FOUNDATIONS of a hit Peter Macbeth a b c d e f g It s Psychedelic Baby Magazine 22 July 2011 Pluto interview with Paul Gardner amp Alan Warner You were in The Foundations and recorded four albums Irish Rock org Black Eagles Obituaries in the Performing Arts 2017 By Harris M Lentz III 2017 ISBN 978 1 4766 2912 4 ebook Page 88 Curtis Clem Note Info correct but photo is incorrect It is of Pat Burke not Clem Curtis a b Alan Warner Website The Foundations 40 Hits 40 Stories Behind Top Songs of the 1960s and 1970s by Rick Simmons 2023 ISBN 978 1 4766 4690 9 ebook Page 183 33 R amp B Charts Baby Now That I ve Found You 1967 THE FOUNDATIONS Noise 11 28 March 2017 R I P Clem Curtis of The Foundations 1940 2017 by ROGER WINK VVN MUSIC 2NUR FM103 7 Wednesday 23 August 2023 Vinyl Vibes by Jack Hodgins Alan Warner Original Guitarist of the Foundations 16 35 Centre Stage Promotions The Foundations The Little Box Office The Foundations Story of The Foundations By Ralph Gowling Deputy Editor of The Beat magazine Louder January 15 2004 Arthur Brown Fire Starter by Hugh Fielder It s Psychedelic Baby Magazine 22 Jan 2012 Arthur Brown first came to prominence in swinging London He is most well known for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Kingdom Come New Musical Express 22 March 1969 Page 12 FOUNDATIONS WERE SINGING WAITERS Alice Randall RadioShows channel 4 February 2022 Alan Warner original guitarist of The Foundations interview by Alice Randall 9 00 Mixcloud The3decadesshow Alan Warner radio feature part 2 a b Murrells Joseph 1978 The Book of Golden Discs 2nd ed London Barrie and Jenkins Ltd pp 220 221 ISBN 0 214 20512 6 An Avid s Guide to Sixties Songwriters by Peter Dunbavin 2017 ISBN 978 1 52463345 5 e 47 Tony Macauley Melody Maker October 21 1967 Page 7 OUT OF JAZZ TAMLA R amp B COME THE FOUNDATIONS Beat Instrumental Dec 1967 Page 28 Foundations never thought they d make the charts by Crotus Pike Record Mirror No 347 Week ending Nov 11 1967 Page 3 Before this record WE were just what you d call bums say the Foundations Melody Maker 4 February 1967 Page 13 CLUBS THE NEW ALL STAR CLUB The Foundations Alan warner com Retrieved 28 March 2017 Strange Brew The Ways and Means New Musical Express 2 July 1965 Page 11 THE NEW TREND MOLTONS NEW WAVE Enquiries RON FAIRWAY ENTERPRISES Melody Maker 7 January 1967 Page 2 OUT NOW FROM THE WAYS AND MEANS SEA OF FACES a b The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame The City Sixties The City Sixty 1st 8th January 1967 a b Radio London Ltd Radio Caroline Countdown Of Sound Last week 44 This week 41 Sea Of Faces Ways amp Means a b The Strange Brew The Ways and Means 2NUR FM103 7 Wednesday 23 August 2023 Vinyl Vibes by Jack Hodgins Alan Warner Original Guitarist of the Foundations 15 50 17 00 Eel Pie Island Museaum 1967 Roll call 1967 14 May 1967 The Foundations 10 TW Magazines October 1 2022 The Musical View From Eel Pie Island Eelpiland Performers a b Disc and Music Echo October 21 1967 Page 10 FOUNDATIONS EIGHT NAMES FROM NOWHERE Digital Collections Date 1993 11 08 Vorda Allan interviewer Arthur Brown Interview Side A 20 42 Shaynezucker Shaynezucker com Retrieved 30 January 2014 NME Foundations Revive British Soul Scene 1st ed UK 1967 p 4 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link NME Originals Vol 2 Issue 2 Foundations Revive British Soul Scene 1st ed UK April 2005 p 81 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Clayson Alan 1998 Build Me Up Buttercup Castle Select SELCD 527 1st ed UK Castle Select p 4 History Channel This Day in HistoryAugust 27Beatles manager Brian Epstein dies Disc and Music Echo 26 August 1967 Page 15 QUICK SPINS Billboard April 26 1969 Page 60 Barry Class continued from page 43 New Musical Express Week ending October 7 1967 Page 4 NEW to the charts Foundations began in the basement FOUNDATIONS l to r front TIM HARRIS ERIC ALLENDALE CLEM CURTIS TONY GOMEZ back row MIKE ELLIOT PETER McGRATH and ALAN WARNER Melody Maker 11 November 1967 Page 1 Foundations hit top spot Melody Maker 11 November 1967 Page 2 MELODY MAKER POP 30 1 2 Story of Pop The Radio One Part 10 Page 279 280 THE FOUNDATIONS Foundations Sued NME 2 December 1967 Rawlings Terry 2002 Then now and rare British beat 1960 1969 illustrated ed UK Omnibus Press p 82 ISBN 978 0711990944 Melody Maker 18 November 1967 Page 1 Foundations rocked by management split New Musical Express 18 November 1967 Page 13 Foundations next single revealed a b c Melody Maker 17 February 1968 Page 10 Foundations prove one hit knockers wrong BOB DAWBARN New Musical Express No 1089 Week ending November 21 1967 Page 1 New LPs by Foundations and Jimi Hendrix New Musical Express No 1089 Week ending November 21 1967 Page 4 Six Superlative Albums in Your Shops Now New Musical Express No 1089 Week ending November 21 1967 Page 14 Filled with Sweet Soul Nick Logan Jon Kutner 26 May 2010 1000 UK Number One Hits Omnibus Press p 324 ISBN 9780857123602 Retrieved 28 March 2017 Billboard January 20 1968 Page 40 International News Reports Barry Class Starts Label Beat Instrumental February 1968 Page 24 Instrumental News Barry Class Starts Trend Record Label Past Daily October 25 2013 The Foundations In Session on Bouton Rouge 1968 Nights at the Roundtable Session Edition a b c Heatley Michael Strong Foundations The Singles And More Music Club MCCD 327 1st ed UK Music Club New Musical Express No 1097 20 January 1968 Page 4 NEW FOUNDATIONS A SCORCHER New Musical Express No 1097 20 January 1968 Page 6 MORE POP PACKED TV Pet spec Cilia Freeman Dee Dodd guests Melody Maker 10 February 1968 Page 2 MELODY MAKER POP 30 Disc and Music Echo 10 February 1968 Page 3 DISC TOP 30 Official Charts FOUNDATIONS FOUNDATIONS Songs Official Singles Chart RPM Weekly Volume 9 No 9 Week Ending 27 April 1968 Page 1 THE RPM 100 29 29 39 BACK ON MY FEET AGAIN RPM Weekly Volume 9 No 10 Week Ending 4 May 1968 Page 1 THE RPM 100 Radio 1 Keeping It Peel 08 01 1968 The Foundations BBC 14 January 1968 Retrieved 30 January 2014 Second Hand Songs EP Baby Now That I ve Found You by The Foundations Melody Maker April 26 1968 Page 3 Foundations single released this month Second Hand Songs ORIGINAL We Are Happy People by The Foundations Official Charts FOUNDATIONS FOUNDATIONS Songs ANY OLD TIME YOU RE LONELY AND SAD New Musical Express No 1156 Week ending March 8 1969 Page 8 Foundations to wax in Detroit Beat Instrumental April 1968 Page 33 Ireland not for us says Clem Curtis Melody Maker July 27 1968 Page 4 MORRISON CLAIM Melody Maker 24 August 1968 Page 4 NEWS EXTRA a b Disc and Music Echo 28 August 1968 Page 6 Clem quitting Foundations The Strange Brew artist stories behind the greatest music ever recorded Alan Warner The Foundations on Apple Podcasts Apple Podcasts Retrieved 15 January 2024 Melody Maker September 14 1968 Page 22 CLASS MANAGEMENTS LTD advertisement Pop Dose 19 April 2018 Soul Serenade The Foundations Baby Now That I ve Found You Click Americana 6 Mar 2021 The Foundations The 60s band behind Baby Now That I ve Found You and Build Me Up Buttercup a b Melody Maker 14 September 1968 Page 4 Clem finally Quits 8 Days 28 Mar 2017 Foundations singer Clem Curtis dies The Foundations Baby Now That I ve Found You CD Sequel Records NEECD 300 Notes by Roger Dopson New Musical Express No 1147 Week ending 4 January 1969 Page 3 HOW FOUNDATIONS ESCAPED THE ONE HIT WONDER TRAP Gripsweat Joe E Young amp the Tonics Soulbuster 1968 Toast LP Time and Date Calendar for Year 1968 United Kingdom Melody Maker October 5 1968 JOEY REPLACES CURTIS Melody Maker October 12 1968 Page 5 FOUNDATION SINGLE Melody Maker October 12 1968 Page 17 POP TODAY AND TOMORROW ENTERTAINMENT HAS BECOME A DIRTY WORD Talent bob dawbarn Disc and Music Echo 30 November 1968 Page 4 Live Foundations Disc and Music Echo 5 July 1969 Page 14 DISC SPECIAL Colin Young longs to sing ballads Disc and Music Echo 30 November 1968 Page 3 DISC TOP 30 Official Singles Chart Build Me Up Buttercup by Foundations Billboard 4 January 1969 Page 50 Billboard HOT 100 FOR WEEK ENDING 4 JANUARY 1969 THIS WEEK 84 1 Wk ago 2 Wks ago 3 Wks ago Weeks on chart 1 MusicVF com The Foundations Top Songs Top Songs Chart Singles Discography 1968 4 11 1968 Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations Billboard 22 February 1969 Page 67 Billboard Hot 100 for Week Ending 22 February 1969 THIS WEEK 3 1 Wk Ago 4 2 Wks Ago 5 3 Wks Ago 10 Weeks On Chart 8 Billboard 15 March 1969 Page 68 Billboard Hot 100 for Week Ending 15 March 1969 THIS WEEK 4 1 Wk Ago 3 2 Wks Ago 3 3 Wks Ago 3 Weeks On Chart 11 Melody Maker 1 March 1969 Page 3 Gold Disc for Foundations Second hand Songs SONG In the Bad Bad Old Days Before You Loved Me Melody Maker February 22 1969 Page 3 FOUNDATIONS TO PLAY SONG FESTIVAL IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA Melody Maker 1 March 1969 Page 10 Chris Welch POP SINGLES Billboard 5 April 1969 Page 66 BILLBOARD HOT 100 FOR WEEK ENDING 5 APRIL 1969 THIS WEEK 77 1 Wk ago 2 Wks ago 3 Wks ago Weeks on chart 1 MusicVF com The Foundations Top Songs Top Songs Chart Singles Discography 1969 5 03 1969 In the Bad Bad Old Days by The Foundations RPM Weekly Volume 11 No 10 Week of 5 May 1969 Page 5 RPM 100 23 25 28 IN THE BAD BAD OLD DAYS RPM Weekly Volume 11 No 10 Week of 12 May 1969 RPM 100 a b Melody marker February 22 1969 Page 3 FOUNDATIONS TO PLAY SONG FESTIVAL IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA Melody Maker 29 March 1969 Page 2 Melody Maker POP 30 Melody Maker 29 March 1969 page 16 Foundations aren t going to desert the British Public Melody Maker 29 March 1969 Page 3 MILLIONAIRE ASKS FOR FOUNDATIONS AT 21st PARTY Billboard 26 April 1969 FROM THE FOUNDATIONS to the Skies By ROD HARROD Band to Cut in Detroit a b Billboard Google Books 26 April 1969 Retrieved 30 January 2014 New Musical Express 19 April 1969 Page 7 Foundations have never been stronger 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