I even lived back then and I didn’t have a clue who they were. It was only sometime in 2019 I discovered who they were. We didn’t have the internet in the 70’s. No YouTube. No Wikipedia. Just record shops, album covers and FM radio. So I suppose its not all that weird I’d never heard of 2 major recording artists. Okay it kind of is. Todd Rundgren and Paul Davis moved in and out of group acts but I would guess they were best remembered as solo artists. They were both born in 1948. Todd in Philadelphia and Paul in Mississippi. Todd was associated with a group I’d also never heard of called Utopia, and worked with a really good British group called Badfinger. Paul had a #1 country hit with about my favorite female artist Tanya Tucker.

They both had a string of hits. Todd blew me away when I heard this one for the first time in a gazillion years, I Saw the Light. My favorite of Paul’s is Cool Night. Both are very nice easy listening songs. I Saw the Light being the deeper of the two. The video version at the link I provided looks to have been done by a Larry Hinze. He did a great job of catching the meaning of the song (the light in her eyes) with a series of pictures of beautiful women with stunning eyes. I’m glad I discovered them now at least, 40 some years late.

Paul Davis & Todd Rundgren