The Very Best of the Foundations

Foundations | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 7, 1995)
• Original Release Date: June 27, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Taragon
• ASIN: B000003H6P
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #191,873 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Baby, Now That I've Found You

2. Come On Back To Me

3. Mr. Personality Man

4. Back On My Feet Again

5. I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving

6. Any Old Time (You're Lonely And Sad)

7. Build Me Up Buttercup

8. In The Bad, Bad Old Days (Before You Loved Me)

9. Waiting On The Shores Of Nowhere

10. My Little Chickadee

11. Take Away The Emptiness Too

12. Born To Live, Born To Die

13. Baby I Couldn't See

14. Take A Girl Like You

15. I'm Gonna Be A Rich Man

16. Stoney Ground

17. Something For My Baby (New Foundations featuring Colin Young)

18. Baby, Now That I've Found You (stereo alternate take)

19. Any Old Time (You're Lonely And Sad) (stereo alternate take)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FOUNDATIONS ARE MUCH MORE THAN A TWO HIT WONDER, April 11, 2002

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MIKE TRZCIENSKY (Wallingford, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Very Best of the Foundations (Audio CD)

...I always knew their two big hits, Baby Now that I've Found You and Build Me Up Buttercup from the radio and I decided to take the plunge into the group's other music. What I discovered is that though the hits are good, they are not the best songs on this realy good cd. In the Bad Bad Old Days, Born to Live Born to Die, Baby I Couln't See, Take A Girl Like You, My Little Chicadee, Something For My Baby and especialy the ridiculously catchy Stoney Ground are all more than enough to convince any listener that this group is wildly underated. A must have sixties classic.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A couple of pop classics, March 14, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Very Best of the Foundations (Audio CD)

So many singers and groups are remembered for just one song. The Foundations, whose music was at the R+B end of the pop spectrum, fared slightly better as they had two major international hits.

Baby now that I've found you, their debut single, topped the British chart in November 1967 and just failed to make the American top ten. It has a really bouncy tune that hides the sadness of the lyrics. In the mid-nineties, Alison Krauss gave the song a completely different interpretation, slowing the song right down. Both versions are highly enjoyable in their different ways.

Build me up buttercup, another upbeat tune but this time with upbeat lyrics, peaked at number two in Britain but topped the American charts. This song was originally intended for the Paper Dolls, but a mix-up meant that they did not turn up to record it at the scheduled time, so the song was given to the Foundations instead.

The Foundations had a few other hits. In the bad bad old days was a top ten UK hit, while Back on my feet again made the UK top twenty. Two other songs, Any old time and Born to live born to die, were minor UK hits while My little chickadee was a minor American hit.

The rest of this CD contains many other excellent songs although it omits all the obvious cover versions that are often featured on Foundations compilations. Unless you want those covers, you find all the Foundations tracks that you need here.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Very Best Of The Foundations Review -error correction, April 1, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Very Best of the Foundations (Audio CD)

Agree that the collection is a good representation of The Foundations but it is misleading. First of all because Colin Young, previously known as the lead singer of 'Joey Young and the Tonicks'in 1965-66,replaced Clem Curtis in The Foundations in 1968. Secondly, because their greatest hit, Build Me Up Buttercup, featured Colin Young as the lead singer, not Clem Curtis so to write that the group 'fell off a cliff'when Clem Curtis was replaced by Colin Young does not make sense!!