Couldn't I Just Tell You

"Couldn't I Just Tell You"
Single by Todd Rundgren
from the album Something/Anything?
ReleasedJuly 1972 (1972-07)
Genre
Length3:34
LabelBearsville
Songwriter(s)Todd Rundgren
Producer(s)Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren singles chronology
"I Saw the Light"
(1972) 		"Couldn't I Just Tell You"
(1972) 		"Hello It's Me"
(1972)

"Couldn't I Just Tell You" is a song written by American musician Todd Rundgren that was released on his 1972 album Something/Anything?. In July, it was released as a single and reached number 93 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart.[5] The song is considered influential to the development of the power pop genre.

Unlike most of Something/Anything?, which consists primarily of piano-based compositions, "Couldn't I Just Tell You" is a rock song. Rundgren reflected that there would have been more songs in this style if he had not been performing all the music by himself: "I was pretty happy with the song because I realized it was the kind of thing I would probably have done more of if I had been using other players."[6]

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  6. ^ Harris, Will (April 9, 2012). "Todd Rundgren on his musical history, from Nazz to The New Cars". The A.V. Club.