We Gotta Get You a Woman - 2015 Remaster

The inspiration for this song's lyric is a music executive named Paul Fishkin, who managed Rundgren's pre-Nazz group Woody's Truck Stop and worked at the Bearsville label with him. He and Rundgren became good friends, and they spent much of the summer of 1969 enjoying everything Manhattan had to offer. Fishkin didn't have much luck with the ladies, which is what Rundgren wrote the song about.

With the line, "They may be stupid, but they sure are fun," this song ran headlong into the feminist movement of the early '70s and caused quite a bit of controversy; a female music director at a Detroit radio station spoke out against the song, and a college radio station in Connecticut came under fire for playing it. According to Rundgren, the song was widely misinterpreted, with the offending line typically taken out of context. "Just because I used the word 'stupid,' they think I was referring to women," Rundgren told Red Bull Music Academy. "I'm not referring to women, I'm talking about stupid little characteristics that people have."

In our interview with Todd Rundgren, we asked him why he named the character in this song "Leroy." "I just couldn't figure out how to make a clever rhyme with the word Paul," he replied. "'Hey, y'all Paul' – maybe I could've done that. But it was just a name I picked out of the air."