"Hello It's Me" was the first original song by Todd Rundgren. It was in 1968 by Rundgren's band Nazz.
"The main influence for Hello It's Me was an eight bar intro that Jimmy Smith played on a recording of When Johnny Comes Marching Home. He had this whole sort of block chord thing that he did to set up the intro of the song. I tried to capture those changes, and those changes became what are the changes underneath Hello It's Me. I then had to come up with melody and words, but the changes are actually almost lifted literally from something that was, from Jimmy Smith's standpoint, a throwaway." — Todd Rundgren
"Hello It's Me" was the first original song by Todd Rundgren. It was [first recorded](https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=mvtJC0ykIAg) in 1968 by Rundgren's band Nazz.
"The main influence for Hello It's Me was an eight bar intro that Jimmy Smith played on a recording of When Johnny Comes Marching Home. He had this whole sort of block chord thing that he did to set up the intro of the song. I tried to capture those changes, and those changes became what are the changes underneath Hello It's Me. I then had to come up with melody and words, but the changes are actually almost lifted literally from something that was, from Jimmy Smith's standpoint, a throwaway." — Todd Rundgren
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