Some songs were classics the moment they were released into the world. Songs like Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay” and Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” were immediately canonized. But there’s another song in those ranks, and that’s the 1968 hit, “Build Me Up Buttercup,” by the Foundations. But what does the song mean, […]
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