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, the song appeared on the band's album '' Say No More''.

Release

"I Got You" is the first track on Badfinger's 1981 album, ''Say No More''. That same year, the song was released as the follow-up single to the band's previous ''Say No More'' single, "

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," backed with Tom Evans's "Rock 'N' Roll Contract", However, unlike its predecessor—which had reached in America—it failed to chart. A follow-up to "I Got You" ("

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") was released, but it was unsuccessful. After these singles, the band split into two separate bands under the Badfinger name until bassist Tom Evans committed suicide in 1983.

References

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