Cool thread! I'll have to wait until I get home from work to really check it out though. Here's one or two. Some of you around in the early 1970s might remember these, but they were lost on my young ears. The second one might sound a bit like his more famous brother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vzZzj5XKSc
And …, while we're looking over someone's shoulders, how about this rare gem of a demo, from the late Christopher Rainbow (sometimes vocalist for The Alan Parsons Project & Camel) "Looking Over My Shoulder" (1976)
I'm glad someone posted this. It actually was going to be the next song I posted here. The song is strangely compelling, and the video is a real hoot. Apparently, the singer is a really famous Italian middle of the road guy, but just for this one song he went completely out of his mind and wrote what is arguably one of the world's first rap songs. Except the lyrics are merely English sounding gibberish (with the exception of the phrase "all right"), as a kind of a parody of English language songs he would hear on the radio and didn't understand. Check it out, and remember that there was nothing like this in 1972!
That reminds me of another Marvin Gaye from the same time that I like just as much. It's even more obscure because I don't think it was released until many years later. The World Is Rated X - Marvin Gaye (1973)
I definitely think this could have been a big hit in 1973...it's fantastic, as was virtually all of Marvin's work during this era. I suspect Berry Gordy nixed it as being too controversial.
Members of a another band called Bluebird: http://pnwbands.com/grandtheftauto.html http://pnwbands.com/bluebird.html
Praise the Lord for youtube. I heard this song maybe thrice in 1979 and never forgot it. Bit of powerpop for y'all.
I'm not sure if the OP wants both singles and non-singles, and I'm not sure if this is one of the former, but here's ... Arlyn Gale, Back to the Midwest Night: