ROBERT JOHN - If You Don't Want My Love LP 68 w st LP 79 w Back On The Street LP 80

 Well, last week we had "The Big Three" for mellow 70's rock and I mentioned this outlier artist who was also on those K-Tel vinyl compilations with his big hit "Sad Eyes".  I also reposted Gilbert O'Sullivan links since Professor of Rock on our blogroll links said his mellow hit 'Alone Again...Naturally" was number one on his 1972 list which I got a few more artists for coming weeks like Climax.  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Robert John Pedrick, Jr.

Profile:  Soul singer And Pop singer

Robert John was an American singer-songwriter.

(January 3, 1946 – February 24, 2025)

John – born Robert John Pedrick – had been recording since he was 12 years old, first charting in 1958 (as ‘Bobby Pedrick’), and then continuing to record through the 60s for a variety of labels.

He recorded ‘Raindrops, Love and Sunshine’ in 1970, featuring his powerful (nearly ear-shattering) falsetto, and an arrangement that owes a huge debt to the previous year’s mega-hit ‘More Today Than Yesterday’ by the Spiral Starecase.

John went on to have a number of hits in the 70s and 80s, including the aforementioned ‘Sad Eyes’ (#1 1979) and even and putting that falsetto to use again in 1983 with a remake of The Newbeats ‘Bread and Butter’ (#68 1983), which came out on Motown

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