I Saw the Light (Todd Rundgren song)

"I Saw the Light"
Single by Todd Rundgren
from the album Something/Anything?
B-side "Marlene"
Released February 26, 1972 (1972-02-26)
Format 7-inch single
Recorded Late 1971
Genre Power pop[1]
Length 2:59
Label Bearsville
Songwriter(s) Todd Rundgren
Producer(s) Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren singles chronology
"A Long Time, A Long Way to Go"
(1971)
"I Saw the Light"
(1972)
"Couldn't I Just Tell You"
(1972)

"A Long Time, A Long Way to Go"
(1971)
"I Saw the Light"
(1972)
"Couldn't I Just Tell You"
(1972)

"I Saw the Light" is the opening track from Todd Rundgren's 1972 Something/Anything? double album.

In the liner notes to Something/Anything?, Rundgren states that he intended the song to be the hit of the album, and copied the Motown tradition of putting hit songs at the beginning of albums. The song peaked at #15 in Canada,[2] #16 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100,[3] and at #12 on the Easy Listening chart.[4] Billboard ranked it as the No. 88 song for 1972. On the U.S. Cash Box Top 100, it reached number 11.[5]

Overseas, it went to #36 on the UK Singles Chart.[6] However, in the US at least, Something/Anything? actually contained a bigger hit than "I Saw the Light", as the album's third single "Hello It's Me" climbed to #5.[7]

Personnel

Chart performance

Cover versions

References

  1. Peter Buckley (2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. p. 803. ISBN 978-1-85828-457-6.
  2. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  3. "I Saw the Light - Todd Rundgren". Billboard. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  4. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 212.
  5. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
  6. "Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light". Chart Stats. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  7. "Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren". Billboard. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  8. Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  9. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  10. "Top 100 Hits of 1972/Top 100 Songs of 1972". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
  11. "RPM Country 100". Volume 67, No. 8. RPM. May 18, 1998. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
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