The Foundations ~ Build Me Up Buttercup 1968 Soul Purrfection Version

Ah, the Foundations...they were a British soul group of mixed cultures who were able to duplicate the Motown sound and ended up with two top 5 singles in the US.

The group formed in 1967 London who owned the Butterfly Club and they played nightly as well as working the kitchen and the bar. Their first single was "Baby Now That I Found You" was a UK #1 and peaked at #11 on the Hot100. This led to a US tour with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Maxine Brown, Tim Buckley, Solomon Burke, The Byrds, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and The Fifth Dimension.

After a change in lead singers, they released their biggest hit "Build Me Up Buttercup" that peaked at #3 for three weeks in January of 1969, going gold in the process. They remained popular in the UK and "Buttercup" was their crowning moment but they were unable to maintain the chart momentum and was their last US hit.

The song found a new life in the Cameron Diaz comedy "There's Something About Mary", then again in 2020 used in the film "The Kissing Booth 2" and in a series of Geico Insurance commercials near the end of 2021.