Badfinger - Magic Christian Music [1970] Magic Christian Music is the debut album by the British rock band Badfinger, released in early 1970 on Apple Records. Three tracks from the LP are featured in the film The Magic Christian, which also gives the album its title. However, Magic Christian Music is not an official soundtrack album for the film. The film soundtrack for The Magic Christian featured three new songs by Badfinger that had been commissioned for the film, including their US/UK top-10 hit «Come and Get It», which opened the film, and «Carry on Till Tomorrow», the title theme. The soundtrack album, which also included incidental music by Ken Thorne, had originally been scheduled for release on Apple Records, but the addition of the Thunderclap Newman song «Something in the Air» to the movie prevented that. Instead, the soundtrack album was released on the little-known label Commonwealth United Records label in the US and on Pye in the UK. As a result, it received little promotion in the US and remained mostly unknown to American record buyers.To capitalize on this gap, Apple Records released its own «pseudo-soundtrack». Apple combined the film's three Badfinger songs with four unreleased songs and seven older tracks (released by the group when they were still known as the Iveys) on the album Maybe Tomorrow, which had been quickly pulled off the market in 1969. The previously released Iveys songs were specially re-mixed for this album, significantly improving their sound quality in the process. One of them, «Fisherman», was also edited for this release. The three Badfinger tracks used in the film – «Come and Get It», «Rock of All Ages» and «Carry on Till Tomorrow» - bear the strongest «Beatle connection». They were produced by Paul McCartney (the first was also composed by McCartney), and the strings on «Carry on Till Tomorrow» were arranged and conducted by Beatles producer George Martin. The other tracks on the album were produced by Tony Visconti (six songs, including both Iveys singles and the last recording made, "Crimson Ship") and Mal Evans (five songs).Badfinger - Magic Christian Music [1970] (Full Album)Tracklist:A1 Come And Get It Written By Paul McCartney – 2:19A2 Crimson Ship Written By Pete Ham, Tom Evans - 3:40A3 Dear Angie Written By Ron Griffiths - 2:37A4 Midnight Sun Written By Pete Ham - 2:45A5 Beautiful And Blue Written-By Tom Evans - 2:37A6 Rock Of All Ages Written By Pete Ham, Tom Evans, Mike Gibbins - 3:12B1 Carry On Till Tomorrow Written By Pete Ham, Tom Evans – 4:43B2 I'm In Love Written By Pete Ham - 2:25B3 Walk In The Rain Written By Pete Ham - 2:23B4 Fisherman Written By Tom Evans - 2:22B5 Knocking Down Our Home Written By Pete Ham - 3:37B6 Maybe Tomorrow Written By Tom Evans - 2:48PersonnelPete Ham – lead and backing vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboardsTom Evans – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, bass guitar on "Crimson Ship", "Midnight Sun", and "Rock of All Ages"Ron Griffiths – bass guitar (except as noted), backing vocals, lead vocals on "Dear Angie" and "Give it A Try"Mike Gibbins – drums, vocalsAdditional contributorsPaul McCartney – piano on «Rock of All Ages», percussion on «Come and Get It»Nicky Hopkins – piano on «See-Saw Granpa»Bill Collins – piano on «Knocking Down Our Home»Released: 9 January 1970 (UK), 16 February 1970 (US)Recorded: 1968 and 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, Trident Studios, IBC Studios and Olympic Studios, LondonGenre: Psychedelic pop, power pop, baroque popLength: 41:58Label: Apple, SAPCOR 12 (UK), ST-3364 (U.S.)Producer: Paul McCartney, Mal Evans, Tony Visconti