Billboard #1 Hits: #430: “Undercover Angel”- Alan O’Day. July 9, 1977. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: “Undercover Angel”- Alan O’Day
- Record Company- Pacific
- Genre: Pop
- Written by Alan O’Day
- Time: 3:40
- B-side: “Just You”
- Album- Appetizers
- Grade: C
- Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. #1 in Canada.
Singer- songwriter Alan O’Day was a one hit wonder- on his own but he did write another #1 song- Helen Reddy’s “Angie Baby” in 1974. As a songwriter he also wrote The Righteous Brothers “Rock And Roll Heaven.” The amazing thing about “Undercover Angel” is – he was an unknown artist and an unknown label- and at the time didn’t have an album out to support the single. Alan O’Day died in 2013 at the age of 72 of brain cancer.
it’s cheesy but I like it. I knew he wrote “Angie Baby” but not “Rock n Roll Heaven”… I love that song. Another song I only have now thanks to those folks at Rhino Records.
Out of those three I may like Undercover Angel the most I detest Rock and Roll Heaven…. when I first heard Undercover Angel I thought he was singing “Undercover Angel- Midnight, Tennessee.”…I kind of like that better.
LOL!
Oh God, this takes me right back to 8th grade dances. Hahaha.
I liked this when it came out. It makes me cringe, now. There is clearly a theme running thru his writings.