Opening with a scene that plays up Coming to America’s barbershop argument about boxers Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis – in which Eddie Murphy played barber Clarence, gadfly Saul and protagonist Prince Akeem – except with Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao as the boxers in question. The track, which was produced by Mark Ronson and features Chance the Rapper, appears on the Bronson’s new album, Mr. While “Don’t Stop Believin'” is a fine rock anthem, its singer Steve Perry is said to be a bit of a douchebag, the polar opposite of someone sensitive and retreating like Pete Ham.Action Bronson parodies some of the funniest scenes in Eddie Murphy’s classic 1988 film Coming to America – finding Bronson performing several roles, just like Murphy did in the film – in his “Baby Blue” video. I don’t know if I’m gonna wake up tomorrow after tonight’s Breaking Bad and find that “Baby Blue” is enjoying a popular resurgence as Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” did after the Sopranos’ finale.
Take good care, baby let me know, let it show Thought you’d realize, I would know, I would showĮxcept the feeling just gets stronger everyday Listen closely and you’ll hear Ham address first “Dixie” and then “Dixie, dear.”ĭidn’t know you’d think, that I’d forget, or I’d regret “Baby Blue” was supposedly Pete Ham’s nickname for Dixie Armstrong, and she is mentioned by name twice in the song. The road being what it is, their relationship barely had time to get going before it was time to move on, and Ham was heartbroken enough to pen yet another beautiful ballad to another woman about a missed opportunity for true love. in 1971 at the height of their popularity and before the setbacks began, Ham met a girl from the South named Dixie Armstrong. But from what I can tell, even when it was going good for Pete Ham it was still going bad.
I don’t know the details of Pete Ham’s story as well as some people do. The band was basically groomed by the Beatles’ Apple Records label to be their heirs after the Beatles broke up, and Badfinger did achieve almost instantaneous global success after their first album release.īut that level of initial success and heightened expectation can create pressure, and Badfinger didn’t help their cause by going into business with Stan Polley, a shady business manager who contributed to the band going broke (despite their many recent hits), the collapse of their musical career, and according to the note he left, Pete Ham’s suicide at the age of 27 in 1975. Kept you waiting there too long my love…”ĭo you see a pattern there? Each one of them reads like a love-letter with Pete Ham confessing his regrets and sorrows to a woman he pines for but is no longer there each time he implores her directly with “you”.įrom the outside looking in, being in Badfinger must have seemed like a pretty sweet gig.
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