Odd - Todd Video Clips, from various sources

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Keep in mind the sound may not be in sync at all times...
Viewing some of the "older" clips may require the use of 3-D Glasses.

These videos were originally made with very early equipment.
Some of them are also several generations old.
They may not be top notch quality, but they're all very entertaining!

Tip: To get a clearer display choose a player style with a smaller screen, by selecting a
different "skin" like Roundlet, Pyrite, or Heart on your Windows Media player.
Or Select Video Zoom Settings to 50% when your 9SDefault player skin is at full size.

Special thanks to Debs, Z-man, Mike Adrian, Chazztopia, Dave Mullins, Jeff Gauss
Michele K, Shaun and Ken Davis for the hand-me-down footage provided.

Click on the "title" you wish to view.

Todd in his Glam Rock days....."Sparkly, Very Sparkly"...on "Rock Concert." A
segue from "International Feel," into "Never Never Land," while franticly trying to
hunt down his misplaced magic fairy wand prop. This is a very warm but fuzzy snippett, so
I strongly recommend using a smaller skin on your player, like Roundlet, to get the clearest picture.

Todd, in glorious Black and White on ABC's In Concert with his "accompaniment,"
before the days of the MP3 player. The Cosmic Italian Clown Cowboy Chaps
that the costume designer dreamed up, are even stranger than the get-up above.
Watch out for Biters in the audience!

Here's a very early version of Todd's Utopia featuring Kevin Ellman,
Mark "Moogy" Klingman, "M. Frog" Labat, Ralph Schuckett and
John Siegler performing the Utopia Theme on "Rock Concert."

From perfomance noted above, in 1974 on "Rock Concert."
The same Utopian band line up, do Just One Victory
from Todd's solo LP, A Wizard A True Star.

Todd marching for freedom, wearing a Japanese kimono on "Midnight Special."
Keyboard man Roger Powell now is added to the Utopian line up.

A good morning for Todd, on the "Midnight Special!"
Hip shakin' in his white bellbottom trousers, before he
developed his now famous fancy footin' dance style.
No lip syncing here, boys and girls!

These are the clips every Todd fan asks about!
Todd suited out in his fancy feathers on the Midnight Special.
With an introduction by The Four Tops, he sings solo on the piano.

Actually, this costume seems to be made up of mostly pheasant feathers,
as in...I'm not a pheasant plucker...I'm a pheasant plucker's son.

Wolfman Jack howls up a storm with Todd during one of his many
Midnight Special appearances, along with the singing mimes known
as The Hello People on background vocals and Utopia.

Utopia plays musical chairs, during a performance on The Midnight Special,
with Todd on drums, Kasim Sulton on guitar and Willie Wilcox on the bass!

Todd trys his best on the game show; with host Peter Marshall.

Todd sporting a blue moonburn and fashionable shades, performs this
high energy rocker on TV, during Utopian phase two and a half.

Utopia on The John Davidson Show on a hot summer day in July 1980.
The guy's sing a story, "Love Alone," with Kasim Sulton on lead vocals.

Todd and Utopia perform his song on "The Mike Douglas Show." It's one of
Todd's three BMI Million-Air Award winning tunes, and was also made into a number
one record on the Adult Contemporary charts, by England Dan and John Ford Coley.

Drummer Willie Wilcox wearing TV tube glasses just like mine,
and Todd had a good hair day!
Another from this Utopian appearance on "The Mike Douglas Show."

Mike Douglas talks to Todd about his family life, music, video production,
touring and the Utopian synthesized motorcycle drums. Redd Foxx tells us about
going to Utopia, while Shelley Winters would like to go anywhere with Kasim.

A Classic gem of a clip!
Shelley Winters flirts with Utopia bass player Kasim Sulton, on National TV in this short flick.

Todd, once again wearing his favorite picnic table plaid pants and
wailing on the black fender, in this powerful perfomance from Columbus, OH, circa '78.

Another concert clip from this 1978 show at Columbus, OH.

Todd in sequin vest and trousers, at Cleveland Ohio's famous Agora Ballroom in 1978.

Another from that same '78 Cleveland performance, Todd having a good time with this tune.

Todd (and Utopia members Kasim Sulton, Roger Powell and Willie Wilcox)
joined a starstudded cast of players, including Ringo Starr (drums), Bill Wyman (bass),
Doug Kershaw (fiddle), Dave Mason (guitar), Larraine Newman (backing vocals) and others.
This was part of a benefit performance for the 1979 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, where Todd
asks us to pledge "Money." There was an unsubstantiated rumor that, if enough wasn't
donated during the performance, they would let Wyman sing again.

"Those kids are cookin'" and Jerry's smokin'.
Kasim Sulton handles the lead vocals during the same All Star performance as above.
When you see the numbers on the screen, you could try to call.
If they answer, donate some money for Jerry's Kids!

Todd, in mad maestro persona....conducting his "army of sound."
His shades fall off during the first few notes...and if you watch carefully...
Todd falls at the close of the song. He jumps off the amp, doesn't quite land on his feet and still
he doesn't miss a beat! A foggy clip, from the 1979 MDA Telethon, but still priceless!

Todd (with his wife Michele Gray Rundgren, Taj Mahal and David Sanborn) performing
"Never Mind The Why and Wherefor" from the famous Gilbert & Sullivan musical.
Michele plays the part of Josephine. Her father, Captain Corcoran, is performed
by hubby Todd (is this a soap opera or an operetta?) and the man she is bound to marry,
Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, is portrayed by Taj Mahal.
Super saxist David Sanborn backs them up. This clip was excerpted from Sanborn's short-lived
show "Sunday Night," later called "Michelob Presents Night Music."

Todd with a heartfelt rendition of his Parallel Lines, from "Up Against It," Joe Orton's
screenplay originally commissioned by The Beatles, for a possible third movie idea.
The idea was dropped by Brian Epstien and the guys. Later on
the Joe Papp Shakespeare Company was granted the exclusive world rights to the script,
and Todd was appointed composer of the music score.

Michele & Kasim help Todd out on background vocals in this clip, also from "Night Music."

Like Todd, I manage to say the title here, it without actually saying it.
Here's an early version of Utopia, off part of a show from "Rock Concert" taped
in Europe at Jimmy's, with Todd uncharacteristically abiding to the network sensors.
What the heck!...He got to wear the airbrushed spandex unitard and glitter makeup!
Oh! Did I mention this is one of my all time favorite tunes?

Young Todd on keyboards decked out in swashbuckler attire
and Host Mark Lindsay in his typical Revolutionary gear, introducing "The Nazz"
(Todd, Thom Mooney, Stewkey Antoni minus Carson Van Osten) playing "Not Wrong Long."

Solo on the piano from the British TV music show called
The Old Grey Whistle Test. Todd offers us some insight on the meaning
of this thought provoking piece from his "Hermit Of Mink Hollow."

In a very quiet and intimate mood, Todd solo on piano performing his tune
about humanity and caring. This and the next three clips below are also from
the same "Todd Rundgren Special" broadcast on British TV, noted above.

   

A song of unity, from the Swing To The Right era of Utopian days,
all about Todd's world, our own world and everyone else's every day world.

Todd with "The Fool" guitar, performing the the hypnotically
haunting "Tiny Demons," another off his "Healing" album.

It's so pretty, it just may make you cry! One from Todd's "self named" album of 1974.

"Let me tell ya bout the New World Order,
Now hard to find but you can still special order,
For just a tiny smidgen, wrapped up in plastic celo-lution,
And it's Todd's contribution to music's evolution."

Todd demonstrates how he changed the future of
music with his new invention, the interactive CD ROM.

An entertainment news feature shown on Boston's Channel 4, featuring a
short interview with Todd and clips of Love Science and Real Man in concert.

Todd is dressed to the nines in this sharp and colorful
TV commerical for Macintosh computers, which ran during the '90's.
So, without further adieu, let's get down, dirty and ubiquitous!
And since it IS a MAC ad, here's an optional stream for MACees & PC users alike in MP4.

Todd as a guest panelist on Politically Incorrect with host Bill Maher, discussing
petting, sex education, dating discrimination and on the lips, or not.

A rather mysterious Todd clip here...who knows where or how it evolved. It's a
rehearsal and sound check for David Letterman's Late Night Show, featuring Paul and
the band along with Bonnie Rait and the World's Most Dangerous Background Singers,
Michele Gray Rundgren, Jenny Muldaur and Shandi Sinnamon.

Here's Todd and his band The Liars on The David Letterman Late Night Show,
April 28, 2004. Jesse Gress and John Ferenzik play the keyboards, Prairie Prince
is on drums and Kasim Sulton on the bass with guest flautist Bruce Kapler.

This cool and unusual clip shows Todd, accompanied by a friendly
and colorful companion, playing the ESPN Theme on the vibes,
sporting traditional Hawaiian attire in his adopted tropical setting.

Todd plays lead banana, with Kasim Sulton on bass and Jesse Gress on guitar,
doing a soft Bossa Nova version of "I Saw The Light" on Conan O'Brian's show.

Todd, Joe Jackson and string quartet Ethel, with a very hot rendition of
this George Harrison song. The NBCTV studios in NY City, was one of the
stops, along the way on their current World Wide Tour, through Summer 2005.

Here's an optional High Speed version for Broadband and cable users.

Here's Todd on the David Letterman show April, 2003 doing Dave's favorite TR tune.

Todd bursts into an explosive version of Cliche after a monologue with the audience
on the joys and gastric delights of outdoor bar b que cuisine. The first, in a series of
four clips from Todd's "open air" performance at the Rib America Festival, Indianapolis, IN.,
donated and captured by Ken Davis on September 1, 2002. This clip's a real gas, man!!

Todd plows through Buffalo Grass, with a cutting guitar solo on his green foamy.
No grass stains either! This is a tune off TR's One Long Year CD.

An emotional performance of this pretty song with one heck of a long title, from Todd's Utopia CD.

A blues laden study in locomotory, offered up for us by Todd, in this tune also from One Long Year.

A clip filmed by Chazztopia, of Todd's 2003 solo show at the Boulder Theater in Colorado,
where he once again performs his BMI Million-Air Award winner, I Saw The Light.

Todd does Marvin Gaye's I Want You, in this short clip taken at New York City's Town Hall.
cinematized by Chazztopia on April 23, 2003.

Todd guest stars as Paul Shaffer's holiday replacement, leading Letterman's CBS
Late Show Orchestra, in clips featured here from this exciting musical event!

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