Baby Blue (Badfinger song)

"Baby Blue"
Single by Badfinger
from the album Straight Up
B-side"Flying"
Released6 March 1972 (1972-03-06) (US)[1]
Recorded25 & 27 September, 6 October 1971[2]
StudioAIR (London)[2]
Genre
Length3:37
LabelApple
Songwriter(s)Pete Ham
Producer(s)Todd Rundgren
Badfinger singles chronology
"Day After Day"
(1971)
"Baby Blue"
(1972)
"Apple of My Eye"
(1973)
Music video
"Baby Blue" on YouTube
Clip
"Breaking Bad Final Scene" on YouTube

"Baby Blue" is a song by Welsh rock band Badfinger from their fourth studio album, Straight Up (1971). The song was written by Pete Ham, produced by Todd Rundgren, and released on Apple Records. As a single in the US in 1972, it went to #14.

In 2013, the song was prominently featured in the closing moments of the final episode of the American crime drama series Breaking Bad, and subsequently charted in the UK for the first time at No. 73.

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  5. ^ Joe, Bosso (21 November 2010). "Badfinger's Joey Molland on The Beatles, Apple Records reissues and tragedy". MusicRadar. Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2018.