Alan Parsons - I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You

[620 Soul Train]

#36 Hot 100

1977

I don't remember this at all. I heard it on the jukebox at a bar a few months ago and I liked it at first listen. I wonder who was the actual singer on this song was it Alan himself? It sounds like an R&B/funk record. I have no record of this charting at Urban. Did the Urban stations spin this as well?

[billcs]

This is my favourite Parsons song, #51 on my All Time Faves list for the 70's, and for some strange reason it was the first song I ever played on college radio...

I believe the vocalist is the song's co-writer, Eric Woolfson. But I could be wrong since Parsons used other vocalists like Allan Clarke and Steve Harley on the I Robot CD from which this song comes.

Billboard's Hot 100 book does not identify the R&B chart as one on which Parsons has appeared.

[Whi$tlin' Pete]

I stumbled across this song tonight, listening to American Top 40 from October 8, 1977. I love it! GREAT beat! Mark Elliott mentions that he surpassed the peak of his first hit from one year earlier, "Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather."

[WotUNeed]

Good song. I like this one. Alan Parsons Project is a bit of an oddity in musical history - did some very progressive things, garnered critical acclaim, but somehow not really having its legacy passed along to new music listeners in a way that other acts of the time do.

Random-ish tangent: In an ideal world, one of my possible professions would be teaching some sort of second-level History of Rock Music course that would be for those who've taken an intro covering the heavy hitters (Presley / Beatles / Stones / Zeppelin / etc.) and would cover some of the popular acts who made an impact that is being obscured with the passage of time, such as APP.

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I like it.

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