![]() Sayer, who’d made a few hits but who was mostly only famous in his native UK, was essentially getting called up to the majors when he got to work with Perry. That’s a pretty heavy blow for an artist, to be told that none of these songs are of any interest to me.” As recounted in Fred Bronson’s Billboard Book Of Number 1 Hits, Perry once told this to Rolling Stone: “When I first started working with Leo, he came in with a cassette of 12 new songs, none of which got recorded. But when he took his songs to Richard Perry, the star-making producer who’d notched hits with people like Nilsson and Carly Simon, Perry rejected all of Sayer’s demos. So Leo Sayer knew how to write a pop song. Sayer made his first impact on the US charts in 1974, when Three Dog Night covered his UK hit “ The Show Must Go On” to #4. “Giving It All Away” didn’t chart in the US, but it was a #5 hit in the UK. Sayer and David Courtney wrote 1973’s “ Giving It All Away,” the debut solo single from the Who’s Roger Daltrey, before Sayer came out with any songs of his own. ![]() In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.īefore he found fame as a pop singer and literal clown, Leo Sayer was a songwriter. ![]()
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