The Foundations channel logo The Foundations
  • Custom URL: @thefoundations
  • Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧
  • Description language: English

  • YouTube channel type
  • Audience: 53.2K
  • Video Views: 45.67M
  • # videos: 50
  • Estimated Earnings: $11.42K - $182.68K
  • Category: Independent music Music Pop music Rhythm and blues Rock music Soul music
  • Date Created: 2020-06-24
  • Date Updated: 2024-06-25
Audience activity: 858
Views per video: 913.4K
Audience growth speed: 35
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Official YouTube channel of Build Me Up Buttercup and Baby, Now That I've Found You hitmakers, The Foundations. The Foundations were a British soul band, active from 1967 to 1970. The group, made up of West Indians, White British, and a Sri Lankan, are best known for their two biggest hits, "Baby Now That I've Found You" (a Number One hit in the UK Singles Chart and Canada, and subsequently Top 10 in the US), written by Tony Macaulay and John MacLeod; and "Build Me Up Buttercup" (a number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 in Canada), co-written by Macaulay with Mike d'Abo, at the time the lead vocalist with Manfred Mann. The group was the first multi-racial group to have a number 1 hit in the UK in the 1960s.