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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqT59dDf8EU

This song about moving on and finding your true calling was written by Guess Who guitarist Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) and lead singer Burton Cummings.

In an interview with Bachman, he explained that musically, the song was inspired by two tracks on the Buffalo Springfield Again album: "Rock & Roll Woman" and "Hung Upside Down." Neil Young of Buffalo Springfield (a fellow Canadian) played an acetate of the album for Cummings and Bachman when his travels took him to Winnipeg. The they heard it, they loved the country-rock sound and set out to write something like it. "That was our country-rock song," Bachman said. "Me and Burton trying to be like Neil and Stephen Stills."

According to Randy Bachman, the guitar lick on this song is an inversion of what Stephen Stills played on the Buffalo Springfield track "Hung Upside Down". When Bachman heard the theme song to the TV show Law & Order (composed by Mike Post), it sounded familiar. "It's the same riff," Bachman told us. "It's just recycling the riff in a different context."

Note that Bachman doesn't fault Post for lifting the riff: Randy believes that just about any modern music music is based on something that came before.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l0jpqF1uolk

The old boy with the Scottish cap left screen at 3:03 is Keith Richards' dad :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-G2J3RzURA&list=OLAK5uy_mpV6CJkc9BmB9piJ_2iiKyNnt39zIaZjQ

Forty Hour Week (For A Living)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTVu-UkXSYo

One of their greatest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoke1wUwEXY

Written and sung by Pete Ham and produced by Mal Evans. As a demo, "No Matter What" was originally recorded by Pete Ham on acoustic guitar and performed with a mambo beat. A rough, rockier version of the song was recorded by Badfinger in March 1970 and produced by Mal Evans. The song was recorded again by the band in April 1970 at Abbey Road Studios and it was this version that would appear on the album and single.

The song is notable for being one of the first successful records associated with the power pop sound, using all of the elements attributed to the genre. A subsequent single released by Badfinger, "Baby Blue" (Billboard number 14, 1972), along with several album tracks in a similar vein, succeeded in categorising the band themselves as power pop.

Although the song and recording was a favourite of Badfinger's shortly after it was recorded, the hierarchy at Apple reportedly was not inclined to release it in any format. It was not until Al Steckler, the American director of Apple in New York, heard the tape in the summer of 1970 and considered it a strong entry by the band that it was slotted for the upcoming LP and as a single release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwTH7xiwrPA

I used to sing this to my grandson when he was having a problem falling asleep. I would sing it to him over the phone and by the time the song was over he was asleep.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JtjOe5e9VFA

Bonus orchestral version by Konstantin Kokourov:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4YHlSbuk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwHZ6yVPRpU

Heavy too...