Baby Blue ( Badfinger song ) - wikipedia Baby Blue ( Badfinger song ) `` Baby Blue '' Single by Badfinger from the album Straight Up B - side `` Flying '' Released 20 March 1972 ( US ) Format 7 '' vinyl Genre Power pop Length 3 : 37 Label Apple Songwriter ( s ) Pete Ham Producer ( s ) Todd Rundgren Badfinger singles chronology `` Day After Day '' ( 1971 ) `` Baby Blue '' ( 1972 ) `` Apple of My Eye '' ( 1973 ) `` Day After Day '' ( 1971 ) `` Baby Blue '' ( 1972 ) `` Apple of My Eye '' ( 1973 ) `` Baby Blue '' is a song recorded by the band Badfinger for inclusion on their 1971 album, Straight Up. The song was written by Pete Ham, produced by Todd Rundgren, and released on Apple Records. It regained fame four decades later upon being featured in the series finale of AMC 's Breaking Bad, which uses the track 's title lyric as a reference to the special and iconic blue methamphetamine produced by main character Walter White. Contents 1 Writing 2 Release 3 Personnel 4 Other uses and resurgence of popularity 5 References 6 External links Writing Ham wrote the song about a woman named Dixie Armstrong, whom he had dated during Badfinger 's last US tour. Release `` Baby Blue '' was released as a single in the US on 6 March 1972, in a blue - tinted picture sleeve and featuring a new mix. Because Al Steckler, the head of Apple US, felt that it needed a stronger hook in the opening, he remixed the track with engineer Eddie Kramer in February 1972, applying heavy reverb to the snare during the first verse and middle eight. It was the group 's last Top 20 single, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. However, the chaos that was enveloping the Apple UK operation at the time was strongly evident with regard to this song. While Apple US gave the song a picture sleeve and a remix to ensure that it was a hit, Apple UK remained unaware of its commercial potential. Although the single was even assigned a release number for the UK ( Apple 42 ), `` Baby Blue '' was never actually released as a UK single. Despite Badfinger 's four top - 20 Apple singles, Badfinger would only release one more single on Apple Records, `` Apple of My Eye '' in December 1973. Personnel Pete Ham - lead vocals, rhythm guitar Tom Evans - backing vocals, bass guitar Joey Molland - lead guitar Mike Gibbins - drums, percussion Other uses and resurgence of popularity Aimee Mann covered the song as the B - side to her 1993 single `` I Should 've Known ''. Singer - songwriter Barbara Manning covered the song with her band, S.F. Seals, on the 1994 album `` Nowhere '' ( Matador Records ). `` Baby Blue '' made an appearance in Martin Scorsese 's 2006 Oscar - winning film, The Departed. `` Baby Blue '' made an appearance in season 3 of The OC. Phil Keaggy covered the song in his EPIC Records LP `` Blue '' in 1994. The song later achieved fame when it played during the closing scene of the series finale of Breaking Bad. Online streams increased in popularity strongly almost immediately following the broadcast. The song is, according to Nielson SoundScan, selling over 5,300 downloads since the broadcast. Billboard.com predicts that the song `` could return to the Billboard charts as well, most likely with a placing on the Rock Digital Songs chart. '' Joey Molland, the last surviving member of the classic line - up of Badfinger, took to Twitter to express his excitement at the song 's use in the finale and subsequently began to retweet news articles about the song 's usage in the finale. This appearance led to a 2,981 percent increase of sales of the song as well as 9,000 percent increase in streaming over Spotify. It became a top - selling song on iTunes following the broadcast. References Jump up ^ `` Badfinger - Straight Up ''. Allmusic. Retrieved 20 January 2015. ^ Jump up to : Matovina, Dan. Without You : The Tragic Story of Badfinger. ISBN 0 - 9657122 - 2 - 2. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits : Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 42. Jump up ^ Aimee Mann -- `` I Should 've Known '', Discogs. Jump up ^ Barbara Manning with the San Francisco Seals -- Nowhere, Discogs. Jump up ^ `` Why ' Breaking Bad ' Chose Badfinger 's ' Baby Blue ' '', rollingstone.com Jump up ^ Hickey, Walter ( 30 September 2013 ). `` Everyone Is Listening To Badfinger 's ' Baby Blue ' From The ' Breaking Bad ' Finale ''. Business Insider. Retrieved 1 October 2013. Jump up ^ Kafka, Peter ( 3 October 2013 ). `` How to Sell Songs on iTunes If You 're Not Miley Cyrus or Katy Perry ''. All Things Digital. Retrieved 4 October 2013. Jump up ^ Caulfield, Keith ( 30 September 2013 ). `` ' Breaking Bad ' Finale 's Last Song Surges With 3,000 % Sales Gain ''. Billboard. Retrieved 1 October 2013. Jump up ^ Molland, Joey ( 29 September 2013 ). `` Thank you # BreakingBad for choosing Badfinger 's original recording of BABY BLUE for the final song. First, the Departed film... now THIS ! ''. Twitter. Retrieved 2 October 2013. Jump up ^ Subramanian, Courtney ( 2 October 2013 ). `` Breaking Bad 's Final Scene Boosts Sales for 1970 's Band Badfinger ''. TIME. Time Inc. Jump up ^ Suddath, Claire ( 4 October 2013 ). `` Breaking Badfinger : Who 's Getting the Baby Blue Money ? ''. Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 20 June 2014. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Badfinger Pete Ham Tom Evans Joey Molland Mike Gibbins Bob Jackson Joe Tansin Tony Kaye Glenn Sherba Al Wodtke Richard Bryans The Iveys : Ron Griffiths Dai Jenkins Studio albums Maybe Tomorrow ( as The Iveys ) Magic Christian Music No Dice Straight Up Ass Badfinger Wish You Were Here Airwaves Say No More Head First Live albums The Concert for Bangladesh ( backing band ) Day After Day : Live BBC in Concert 1972 -- 1973 Singles `` Maybe Tomorrow '' ( as The Iveys ) `` Dear Angie '' ( as The Iveys ) `` Come and Get It '' `` No Matter What '' `` Day After Day '' `` Baby Blue '' `` Apple of My Eye '' `` Love Is Easy '' `` I Miss You '' `` Lost Inside Your Love '' `` Love Is Gonna Come at Last '' `` Hold On '' `` I Got You '' `` Because I Love You '' Other songs `` Without You '' `` Name of the Game '' `` Meanwhile Back at the Ranch '' / `` Should I Smoke '' See also The Magic Christian Apple Records discography David Garrick Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baby_Blue_(Badfinger_song)&oldid=800725373 '' Categories : Apple Records singles Badfinger songs Breaking Bad 1972 singles Songs written by Pete Ham Song recordings produced by Todd Rundgren Hidden categories : EngvarB from September 2014 Use dmy dates from September 2014 Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 15 September 2017, at 08 : 41. 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Question: who was the song baby blue written about
Answer: Dixie Armstrong