After the success of "Come and Get It", Badfinger enjoyed success with hit songs "No Matter What", "Day After Day", and "Baby Blue". From early on, Gibbins began to contribute songs to the albums, despite often being overshadowed by the compositions of the other members, particularly Ham. Gibbins briefly left the group in 1972 to record a solo album with friends in Wales, but abandoned the project to return to Badfinger. Gibbins wrote "It Had to Be" for the album "No Dice", "Cowboy" for the album " Ass", "My Heart Goes Out" for the "self-titled" album of 1974, and the songs "You're So Fine" and the first half of the medley "In the Meantime/Some Other Time" for the album "Wish You Were Here". With the exceptions of "It Had to Be" and "Your So Fine", Gibbins also contributed lead vocals on his songs. He also composed and sang the originally unreleased songs "Loving You" (from the unreleased sessions for the album "Straight Up"), "Rockin' Machine", and "Back Again" (from the unreleased album "Head First"). All of these recordings have now been issued on CD.