todd rundgren wrote the song i saw the light.
who wrote the song i saw the light?
todd rundgren
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i saw the light may refer to:









































bullet::::- "i saw the light" (hank williams song), a 1946 song written by hank williams, later becoming a gospel standard covered by many artists









































bullet::::- "i saw the light" (todd rundgren song), a 1972 song written by todd rundgren, later covered by many artists









































bullet::::- "i saw the light" (wynonna judd song) a 1992 song performed by wynonna judd









































bullet::::- "i saw the light", a 1998 album by hal ketchum









































bullet::::- "i saw the light", a song by spoon from their 2010 album "transference"
i saw the light
the album features fourteen brand new van zandt compositions. the singer's third wife jeanene recalls in "to live's to fly" finding the lyrics to "a song for" scribbled on a notepad and, after reading them, tearfully said, "townes, this new song is so beautiful. it's bound to be my favorite," to which van zandt replied, "song my ass...that's a suicide note." the album features some lighter moments, such as the comical "billy, boney and ma" and the bluesy "goin' down to memphis", and some heartfelt moments as well, with van zandt including lullabies to his two youngest children, "hey willy boy" and "katie belle blue" (the liner notes include a dedication "to john (jt), will, and katie bell"). in a 1994 interview, van zandt explained to aretha sills, "one is for my wife called 'lover’s lullaby'. and one i wrote for money, about will, who’s eleven. got a phone call from a record company, said we’re putting together an album of lullabies. i said, 'i'm not sure i have any lullabies.' 'well, there’s money in it.' 'oh, yeah! i got one. i got a good one!' so i sat up 'til four o’clock in the morning and wrote 'hey willie boy', and it’s a really pretty song. and then 'katie belle blue' i wrote from love, to put katie belle to sleep." however, these light-hearted songs are contrasted with "the hole" and "marie", some of the darkest material in the van zandt canon. in the 2004 biopic "be here to love me", guy clark recalls hearing "marie" for the first time when van zandt played it for him in santa monica where they were booked to play mccabes' guitar shop: "he sits down with a guitar and has this piece of paper on his knee and proceeds to play 'marie' all the way through. he says, 'man, i just wrote this this morning.' and i'm like ("mimes disbelief"), 'you're shittin' me, man!' and (he) went over across the street that night and played it - and remembered every word. i "swear to god" i saw him do it." van zandt claimed the song was inspired by meryl streep's character in the film "ironweed" and describes the harrowing plight of a homeless couple who wind up living under a bridge until the woman dies with the protagonist's unborn child "safe inside her." van zandt performed the song years before he committed it to tape, but michael timmins of the cowboy junkies told john kruth in 2007 that "it was such a disappointment the way the producer handled it. the song really got lost in that production. they should have just let the man tell his story. but i just don't think townes cared all that much. his thing was songwriting; by the time he recorded a song, his attitude was well, whatever." many regard the song as a milestone and a late-career masterpiece. "the hole" was another minor-key metaphorical tale about a man's nightmarish encounter with an old hag who turns him into a toad.
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