Runt : Runt / Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren

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 Runt 

is the 

self-titled

 debut album

 of the band

 Runt, 

commercially released 

September 1970. 

Runt 

was a trio 

consisting of 

Todd Rundgren

 (guitars, keyboards, vocals), 

Hunt Sales

 (drums), 

and

 Tony Fox Sales

 (bass). 

The entire album 

was written

 and produced by 

Rundgren, 

formerly of 

Nazz, 

and he 

performed 

most of the instruments.

 Many regarded

 Runt

 as 

Rundgren's 

debut solo album, 

and later reissues

 credit the album to

 Rundgren 

rather than to

 the group.

The album

 features the single

 "We Got to Get You a Woman", 

which reached

 No. 20

 on Billboard's 

Hot 100

 in January 1971. 

A month later,

 the album peaked at

 No. 185

 on the 

Billboard 200.

Runt. 

The Ballad of Todd Rundgren

 is the

 second album 

by American 

singer-songwriter/musician

 Todd Rundgren, 

released in 1971. 

Like its predecessor, 

Runt,

 this album was 

credited to

 Rundgren's group

 Runt, 

despite

 Rundgren 

handling most

 of the 

musicianship 

and 

production himself.

Content

Most of the album's

 12 tracks 

are piano-led ballads,

 with the 

only exceptions

 being the

 rock tunes

 "Bleeding" 

and

 "Parole" 

and the

 anthem

 "Chain Letter". 

As with his

 first album,

 this album was

 initially credited to

 "Runt".

 Rundgren

 himself wrote, 

arranged, 

and produced

 every tune on

 The Ballad of Todd Rundgren, 

as well as 

handling all the 

guitars, 

keyboards, 

and 

vocals.

"I was pretty overbearing

 to deal with,"

 Rundgren recalled

 in the liner notes

 to the

 1999 CD release.

 "I was also becoming very 

particular about arrangements, 

so I took a crack 

at playing it all myself. 

But I still had some

 dependence on 

other musicians.

 I wasn't yet 

ready to 

play drums

 or to seriously 

address what

 bass playing 

should be like."

Tony Sales, 

who played 

bass on

 Runt, 

the previous album, 

plays on the 

majority of tracks, 

but brother

 Hunt Sales,

 the drummer 

on the first album,

 plays drums only

 on one cut 

and conga 

on one.

 Studio musicians 

Jerry Scheff 

and 

John Guerin 

provide the

 rhythm section

 on two tracks; 

Norman D. Smart, 

who later became a

 member of the

 Hello People 

and was 

Mountain's 

first drummer,

 plays on the remainder. 

On two 

of the tracks, 

Rundgren is the

 only performer.

The album cover

 was designed by

 Milton Glaser.

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