associated_acts years_active label article_title name background birth_date instrument genre origin birth_name occupation
eric mercy , mercy , the offbeats , joe e. young allandale & the tonicks , alan warner , the new foundations , steve bingham , the foundations , 1968 -- present ensign island records records , pye records , trend records , colin young
 colin young solo_singer 12 september 1944 vocals soul , r & b , pop barbados , west indies colin young musician
colin young

colin young -lrb- born 12 september 1944 , barbados -rrb- is a singer known for being a member of the british soul band the foundations .
in the mid-1960s , he came to england for a holiday with his father and decided to stay .
he was a former bookkeeper who prior to joining the foundations was lead singer of a group called joe e. young & the tonicks .
young joined the foundations after two members , lead singer clem curtis and tenor saxophonist mike elliott left in 1968 .
he replaced clem curtis as lead singer and went on to sing on two more of the foundations ' big hits , `` build me up buttercup '' and `` in the bad bad old days -lrb- before you loved me -rrb- '' .
he stayed with the foundations until their break up in late 1970 .
in the mid-1970s , while clem curtis and the foundations were on the road after having reformed the foundations , there was also another foundations line-up , led by colin young , who were on the road at the same time and were playing basically the same material .
this eventually led to court action that resulted in clem curtis being allowed to bill his group as either the foundations or clem curtis & the foundations .
young was allowed to bill himself as the new foundations or colin young & the new foundations .
also in the mid-1970s , young and his group released a lone 45 on the pye label , `` something for my baby '' / `` i need your love '' .
in the 1980s , as the lead singer of uk group mercy , mercy , he had a hit with `` it must be heaven '' .
in 1999 , a version of the foundations was reformed that included colin young -lrb- vocals -rrb- , alan warner -lrb- guitar -rrb- , steve bingham -lrb- bass -rrb- , gary moberly -lrb- keyboards -rrb- , tony laidlaw -lrb- sax -rrb- and sam kelly then steve dixon -lrb- drums -rrb- .
this version of the group was formed due to the popularity of the film `` there 's something about mary '' and the interest created resulting from the 1968 hit `` build me up buttercup '' being featured in the film .
some time later young left this version of the group and was replaced by hue montgomery -lrb- aka hugh montgomery -rrb- .
in 2003 young recorded an updated version of `` build me up buttercup '' backed by a choir of policemen from the surrey police force .
the proceeds from the sale of the cd go to milly 's fund , a trust set up in memory of murdered school girl milly dowler .
apparently the song was a favourite of hers .
in 2010 , young appeared in channel 4 's `` come dine with me '' , where he performed a song for dinner party guests .
the performance was well received , but only one guest recognised him as he was number one in the year of her birth .
