“I do my records to please myself, not anybody else,” says a complacent Todd Rundgren to Entertainment Tonight in 1985 about his new album A Cappella. Rundgren recorded A Cappella using an E-mu Emulator, an early digital sampler, to shape his voice into drum sounds, basslines, and orchestral elements. The album was initially supposed to be released by Bearsville Records, but the label hesitated about its commercial viability. After a delay, Warner Bros. finally put it out in 1985, yet this was perhaps Rundgren’s weirdest album, and even weirder, that he promoted it on dinner hour television.
