(Photo: Marc Nathan archives used with permission) Bearsville Records coordinator Susan Palmer (at L), label president Paul Fishkin (with mustache) and operations director Bob Merlis (at R). That’s Rundgren in front and the author just behind him (in glasses). Related: Our Album Rewind of Rundgren’s A Wizard, A True Starīill Todd knew the song was a hit, and knew that Rundgren was the leader of Nazz, and had re-recorded it for Something/Anything? He decided it would be a perfect song to set him apart from his competition, the AM Top 40 WSAI.Ī 1973 outtake from a promotional postcard. but barely made an impact nationally, peaking at #66. The Nazz single, originally a B-side, had become a regional hit in various markets across the U.S. He had programmed an AM Top 40 a few years earlier and had success with “Hello, It’s Me” by Rundgren’s previous group Nazz.
To give his station an identity, WKRQ Program Director Bill Todd decided to employ a secret weapon record. Up to this point, pop music was heard predominantly on the AM band, and the move to FM was just underway. WKRQ was a new FM Top 40 station in Cincy. But a savvy radio programmer in Cincinnati had other plans. The lead single, “I Saw The Light,” reached the top 20 nationally, but the follow-up, “Couldn’t I Just Tell You,” now a power-pop staple in many rockers’ musical diets, could only muster a couple of weeks at the bottom of the Hot 100.Ī year later, with Rundgren and his label, Bearsville, set to release his fourth solo album, A Wizard, A True Star, it was thought that the Something/Anything? project was put to bed. (That he was not already a member is considered a sin by many.) His greatest hit, “Hello, It’s Me,” was culled from his tour-de-force double LP, Something/Anything?, released in early spring of 1972. He was nominated (for the third time) for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021 and was finally selected for induction, though he chose not to attend. Todd Rundgren has a long list of credits as a producer (notably Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell and Grand Funk’s We’re an American Band), engineer (The Band’s Stage Fright), recording artist, songwriter, video pioneer and much more. Leslie West on Playing With Jimi and The Who.10 Top Second Albums From Classic Rockers.Pilot’s ‘Magic’ Trick: Never Believe It’s Not So.Neil Young’s ‘Comes a Time’: Direct From The Heart.Daniel Radcliffe Stars as ‘Weird Al’ in Biopic.Mark Knopfler’s ‘Studio Albums 2009–2018’: Review.The Who Hits Back in Portland, October 2022-Replacing Chaos with Dignity.Cheap Trick ‘Live at The Whisky 1977’ Coming.Cat Stevens Performs First Concerts in 5 Years.Bill Wyman on Brian Jones and the Birth of the Rolling Stones.John Lodge of the Moody Blues Sets ‘Performs Days of Future Passed’ Tour.When Eddie Van Halen Won the Internet With Family Pics.The Stills-Young Band’s ‘Long May You Run’: Good Intentions.Jack Bruce Talks Cream in ‘Lost’ Interview.Jon Anderson Talks Yes and ‘Olias’: ‘It’s Magic For Me’.Original Chicago Members Recall Jimi Hendrix Inviting Them To Be His Opening Act on 1969 Tour.Show’: The Classic 1964 Concert Film That Pitted James Brown vs. The #1 Albums of 1973: Each One Has a Story.
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