Buddy Blue – Upsettin’ Me

I really like the mood of this one. It reminds me of Fever but it is different. A very finger-snapping song. It was written by Buddy Blue (Bernard Seigal). I could picture this being played in a blues club in the 50s or 60s…such a groove to it…and it swings…slowly. After listening to it a couple of times I was hooked on it. I feel like I found a gem that no one knows about.

Originally a member of bands like The Beat Farmers and The Jacks, Buddy Blue was a figure in the roots rock and Americana genres. When I was on my break I was listening to different music but this is one of the guys I was listening to.

It was released in 2000 on the album Diposmania. He also did a different version of the song in his 2003 album Sordid Lives. I like the original version a little more because it’s more minimalist and his solo in the middle is fantastic.

He was the frontman and guitarist for The Beat Farmers. Buddy Blue’s musical roots began to paint its first strokes on the canvas of American rock ‘n’ roll. The band’s fusion of rock, punk, and country elements was a sonic cocktail that left audiences thirsty for more. With Blue’s vocals leading the band, The Beat Farmer’s energy became their trademark.

This song has a nice blues/jazz feel that I love. The sound sounds modern but also goes back to the 1950s.

Upsettin’ Me

The way you move when you walk in your black satin high heel shoes
Your perfume and your deep green eyes turn me into a fool
Well look on your faces everywhere I go
The heat of your body is all that I want to know
I’m never going to give you up baby you’re upsetting me

Nobody else can love you the way that your daddy do
Can’t you feel better at all I’m raising my flag just for you
Well I don’t have no money or fancy things
But Buddy is going to give you everything that you need
I’m never going to give you up you’re upsetting me
How you’re upsetting me

With your skin so sweet and your lips such a ruby red
You bending my soul baby yet and deep inside of my head
Well I tell you one thing honey ain’t no Lie
Another man touch you and he’s going to die
I’m never going to give you up babe you’re upsetting me
Yeah you’re upsetting me
Yeah you’re upsetting me

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.

54 thoughts on “Buddy Blue – Upsettin’ Me”

      1. Lol…good morning Dodger fan…true Dodger fan! Lol…you guys will be alright. I feel for my friends in Cleveland who were always great to me the 4 times that I’ve lived there in 4 different careers (my Dad’s was from Cleveland) there team just isn’t good enough to beat those Yankees. I can’t wait for the World Series Max! Us ‘oldies but goodies’ get to see that classic series rivalry again & I’ll favor your Dodgers. This NLCS may finish like that classic ’88 series after all…with 1 team forcing a game 7 but not having enough to win. The Dodgers should win the NLCS though.

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      2. You know what World Series I think of the most? It’s the 1981 World Series vs the Yankees and they finally won!
        Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Dusty Baker, Reggie Smith and Fernando!
        Carl I have that complete WS…I watch it every year….I think I’ve told you before about it..I plan to watch it tonight since it’s a travel day. The Dodgers win EVERYTIME! lol I also have the 88 series…I love that one as well.

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      3. Oh ya’…you did mention that ’81 series. As a Reds fan that one hurts because they had the best record for both 1/2’s of the strike split season & didn’t make the postseason & never made it back to postseason until ’90. Anyway, ya’ as I mentioned that was my senior year of high school football & yes your Dodgers finally won it all…big deal for you Dodgers fans. ’88 was huge also. I respected that Dodgers team because whenever I watched them they were always so well coordinated & they ran all the time on the bases. They were still playing Walter Alston ball well into the ’80’s.

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      4. I know man….that was messed up on how they did the playoffs. At the time I felt no sympathy but now I do. It was wrong…they also didn’t play as many games as the Dodgers in the first half…and they lost by a half of a game.

        Yea after the Dodgers won it in 81…I was 14 and my attentions were on playing music and girls. The 1988 Dodgers brought me back fully into baseball and I’ve never left. I was PISSED in 83 because the Dodgers traded Ron Cey for basically a bag of balls and he went on to hit homeruns for the Cubs.

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      5. In ’83 the Phillies were just better…I remember Pedro Guerrero smoking in the dugout in the NLCS (5 game series until ’85) & the ‘Penguin’ was a key to that ’84 Cubs team that choked against Tony Gwynn & his Padres…great memories man.

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      6. Pedro Guerrero was underrated…he was a great hitter…he could .300 and give you tremdous power…he broke out in Game 6 of the 81 WS.
        The Penguin was my hero as a kid…not Garvey or any other…but Cey. I have an autograph by him hanging up beside me right now.
        He did well for the Cubs and I so wish they wouldn’t have choked in that series….but they would not have beat the Tigers that year.

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      7. I played 3rd base ‘The Penguin’, Bill Matlock, George Brett & Mike Schmidt were my role models in baseball. I tried to play like all of ’em. Lol, of course I fell short but those were my baseball hero’s (Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench, George Foster, Ken Griffey) as a kid & teenager. Those were the days…I can still hear Mel Allen saying “How ’bout that” on ‘This Week in Baseball” on Saturday mornings with that song in the background.

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      8. I played 3rd base and pitcher…and yes it was because of Cey. I liked all of those guys and Brett and Mike were two of the best in history. I loved when the Dodgers traded for Matlock…that man could flat out hit.
        I remember those Reds Dodgers series…with Sparky and Lasorda barking at each other lol. I met George Foster at a Reds Dodgers game in the early 2000s…a very nice man.

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      9. You know Max…I’ve never met George but when I was blessed at 57 (3 summers ago) to be picked to work as a Reds kids summer camp coach I worked with a lot of current coaches & college players & former minor leaguers from the Cincy area that all knew George well & they all said that he’s a class act.

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      10. Oh man that is really cool Carl! That is a great thing to teach kids. When my son was playing little league I would coach as well…it’s a great experience teaching kids baseball.

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      11. Thanks…I was blessed/lucky to meet a former coach doing a JOB who pitched me to the boss & the next thing I knew I was doing 7 camps (3 were out of town) & meeting the Reds at that time on Fridays when we brought the kids to the “Great America Ballpark’. Great experience.

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      1. Cool that you’re giving these guys a good listen. Lots of music to discover. All these people we talk about are just recycling all the music that influenced them and then putting a spin on it. Beat Farmers, Blasters etc. Real Americana. Love it.

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  6. Interesting. I like the finger-snapping and the pacing , has a cool, semi-spooky vibe. As for the song ‘Fever’…yeah! I think Cooley & Blackwell who apparently wrote that song could have prevailed if they’d sued for credit.

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      1. Truthfully I’d be more drawn to it if I’d not heard ‘Fever’…all I could hear was this dude ripping off that song. Unbiased, on it’s own merits, a catchy tune

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  7. I like this song. May have heard the name Beat Farmers, but not any music by them. I will check out more. I enjoyed your baseball conversation, mentioning those greats from the past. I haven’t followed sports for decades, but in the ’70’s, yeah I was pretty into baseball. Hope your Dodgers do well, since I don’t have a horse in this race.

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    1. Oh thank you…I grew up in Tennessee but my dad liked The Dodgers becasue his brothers was Yankee fans. He liked the underdogs…and they were in Brooklyn playing the Yankees. I am a huge fan.

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      1. I’m in upstate NY (Corning, NY), but like I said, I don’t pay attention enough any more to have a stake in who wins. I guess the closest I had to having a team was Kansas City during the George Brett years. My sister was a huge Cincinnati fan during their great era. I just liked baseball in general and all of the great teams of the ’70’s.

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      2. Oh they were great teams during this time…they just couldn’t get by the Yankees in teh 70s. I was rooting for them as a Dodger fan because I hated the Yankees so much. I do remember them really well with Brett, Patek, Frank White, and Hal McRae.

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      3. Yeah, I wasn’t a fan of either New York team, but if pressed I would go with the Mets. My mother liked the Yankees during the Munson, Nettles, Rivers years. I went my own way.

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      4. You know….the only Yankee I didn’t dislike was Munson as a kid. I was shocked when the news came over and he died in that crash. He wasn’t like the other Yankees. Nettles and Rivers were great ballplayers.

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      5. Yeah, that was a shame. The games were always on because we used to get the New York Channel 11 on cable that broadcast the Yankees games with Phil Rizzuto and Bill White announcing. We used to get Channel 9 that had the Mets games too.

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      6. The Mets of the 1980s were great with Strawberry and Gooden… I wish so much that Nashville had a MLB team.

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      7. Yeah, those were good years for them too. I was just talking with my supervisor at work last night, who’s a big Mets fan about the Tom Seaver, Jerry Grote, Tommie Agree, etc. era.

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  8. Great song, Max. I love the jazzy vibe and could picture this being played in some dark and smoky bar. While prompted by another post you did in March I included “Reason to Believe”, a cover of a Springsteen song by The Beat Farmers in one of my Sunday posts in July, the name Buddy Blue didn’t enter my radar screen at the time. “Upsettin’ Me” definitely wants me to hear more of Blue’s music.

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    1. I thought you would like this Christian. It does have a jazz and slight blues vibe.
      He does have one fantastic music that you never heard…

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  9. Goes to show the good stuff is out there, it just doesn’t chart, we have to dig for it. Seems like you have to be an ex-Boy Band member who guarantees there won’t be any future reunions to make the music headlines these days. A bit raw, a bit rough? Yeah, sorry, my bad.

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