Day After Day (song)

This article is about the Badfinger song. For other songs with the same title, see Day After Day (disambiguation).

"Day After Day"
Single by Badfinger
from the album Straight Up
B-side	"Money" (U.S.) "Sweet Tuesday Morning" (UK)
Released	November 10, 1971 (U.S.) January 14, 1972 (UK)
Format	7" single
Genre	Pop rock
Length	3:02
Label	Apple
Writer(s)	Pete Ham
Producer	George Harrison
Badfinger singles chronology
"No Matter What" (1970) "Day After Day" (1971) "Baby Blue" (1972)

"Day After Day" is a song recorded by the rock/pop band Badfinger for inclusion on their 1971 album, Straight Up.

The song was written and sung by Pete Ham and produced by George Harrison, who plays some of the slide guitar parts of the song along with Ham. The record also features Leon Russell on piano. As the song was unfinished at the time Harrison left the Badfinger album to produce the Concert for Bangladesh, the final mix was done by Todd Rundgren, who took over Straight Up after Harrison's departure.

Released as a single in the U.S. in November 1971 (January 1972 elsewhere), it would become the group's highest charting single there, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. It also peaked at #10 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1972. It remains the band's best-known song, most notably for the slide guitar solos. It went Gold in March 1972, becoming the band's first and only gold single. The single reached #10 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey.

Because of all of the overdubs, Badfinger was hesitant to play this song live for years, since it was impossible for a four-piece group to reproduce the single production. However, the song was included in the setlist for Badfinger's 1974 tour.

Cover versions and other users

• In 1986, Savatage covered the song on their album Fight for the Rock.
• In 1990, Athens rock band Dreams So Real covered the song for their album Gloryline.
• In 1990, synthpop band Exotic Birds covered the song for their album Equilibrium.
• In 2006, Rod Stewart covered the song on his album Still the Same… Great Rock Classics of Our Time.
• In 2007, the song was used in a TV commercial for the NBA celebrating the revival of the Boston Celtics.
• In 2007, the song was featured in the season 19 episode of The Simpsons "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind".
• In 2008, Midge Ure covered the song on his album Ten.