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Fill me up buttercup song4/10/2023 ![]() ![]() “Yeah, but your cruise boyfriend hasn’t rubbed your body down with oils,” I said. Incidentally, when we first discovered Paul O’Shea, after a day of me pining over Aihnoa, Alex declared, “Well, it looks like now I have a cruise boyfriend to match your cruise girlfriend.” The Four Tops are an American Motown musical quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, RnB, disco, adult contemporary, showtunes, and even psychedelic rock. It made for a tense two-and-a-half minutes each time this song came up on the tracklist.Īnd that’s a tension that could only be assuaged by the prettiest Spanish masseuse on the high seas. This is a song that has several ‘hey hey heys’ and ‘ooo ooooos’ and ‘bah-dah-dahs’ and I was wholly unprepared to deliver any of them, even when prompted. Browse hundreds of songs like Build Me Up Buttercup - Mono by The Foundations (1968) like Soul Man, With A Little Help From My Friends and I Can See Clearly. Such was the case with The Foundations’ ‘Build Me Up Buttercup,’ a song that sounds incredibly familiar in the way a lot of oldies do but one that was at the same time utterly foreign to me. One of the perils of the piano bar is getting caught singing along to a song you don’t really know. The Foundations would quickly fade from the music scene but would leave behind several well crafted songs that are still worth a listen now and then. If not, please disregard the previous paragraph. ![]() I write these posts in advance, so I’m guessing that my wife, Alex, might have broken her Internet silence to comment on yesterday’s post and reveal that while, yes, she did have a crush on piano man Paul O’Shea, it paled in comparison to the crush I had on massage therapist Aihnoa Gallardo.
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