Build Me Up Buttercup

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"Build Me Up Buttercup"
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One of side-A labels of the UK vinyl single
Single by the Foundations
from the album Build Me Up Buttercup (U.S.)
The Foundations (U.K.)
B-side"New Direction"
Released8 November 1968 (UK)
3 December 1968 (US)
Recorded1968
Genre
Length3:00
Label
Songwriters
ProducerTony Macaulay
The Foundations singles chronology
"Any Old Time"
(1968) 		"Build Me Up Buttercup"
(1968) 		"In the Bad Bad Old Days"
(1969)

"Build Me Up Buttercup" is a song written by Mike d'Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations in 1968 with Colin Young singing lead vocals. Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968, and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang.

It hit No. 1 on the Cash Box Top 100[3] and No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1969. It was also a No. 2 hit in the United Kingdom, for two non-consecutive weeks, behind "Lily the Pink" by the Scaffold. It was quickly certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over a million US copies.

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"Build Me Up Buttercup" is featured in the 1998 romantic comedy film There's Something About Mary,[4] the pilot episode "Truth Be Told" from the first season of the ABC TV spy drama series Alias, and the episode "Art Imitates Art" from the fourth season of the CBS TV detective series Elementary. This song was played during the final scene of the second to last episode of Fuller House. The track also features in the 2020 film The Kissing Booth 2,[5] as well as in a series of 2020–21 Geico commercials.[6]

The song is played at every home game by the Wisconsin Football Team.[7] It previously was also played at every Los Angeles Angels home game during the seventh-inning stretch, before being eventually phased out for a rotation of variety of other songs.[8]

Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[22] Gold 30,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[23] 2× Platinum 1,200,000‡
United States (RIAA)[24] Gold 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

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Other versions

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A version by British trio Partyboys reached No. 44 on the UK Singles Chart in 2003.[25]

References

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