I always thought of Todd Rundgren’s albums as meticulously crafted, beautifully produced, demos where other people who CAN sing can shop for their next hit. After all, the real money is in the songwriting. I’d especially like to find a “Zen Archer,” but I’m open to all suggestions.
Thanks.
I disagree with the implication that Todd can’t sing - Acapella is a wonderful example - but I’ll recommend some people that I think are better singers than Todd.
The best example is Jennifer Warnes’ cover of Pretending To Care from her album The Hunter.
Mandy Moore did a great version of Can We Still Be Friends from her album Covers Girl. It’s probably his most covered song.
Kim Wilde’s version of Lucky Guy is marred by cheesy 80s synths, but it’s a decent vocal.
Didn’t Robert Palmer do a cover of “Can We Still Be Friends”? That’s the only Rundgren cover I can think of.
Here: - YouTube
I enjoy Bad Manners’ cover of Bang The Drum All Day.
It just occurred to me that I cannot recall* ever* hearing a Todd Rundgren cover. 
I’ll have to check out some of those links, I guess.
Really? His song Love Is The Answer was a huge hit for England Dan and John Ford Coley. Technically, the song was by the band Utopia, but it’s Todd’s songwriting. The Wikipedia page on the song lists that it has been covered by quite a few contemporary gospel groups.
One of the best Todd concerts I’ve ever seen was a production of his albums Todd and Healing. It toured, and in each city a local choir was recruited. The choir master would come in the day before to work with the choir. Sadly the one that was on the DVD was the least seasoned group, but one city featured the choir from a black church, and they did an amazing job. I spoke to some of the ladies of the choir after the show, and one told me “That boys got SOUL!”
The song Hodja from Todd’s all-vocal album Acapella has become a standard with acapella groups.
The “Hot Toddie’s” web sitelists a dozen covers of Love Is The Answer alone.
England Dan & John Ford Coley
Dan Seals
Gary Valenciano
Rick Springfield
Patti LaBelle
Glen Campbell
The Jets
Cindy Morgan
Gary Hoey
Jody Davis
Bob Carlisle w/Bryan Duncan
Keni Burke
I’m going to have to find some of those.
For some reason, more women than men have covered Todd’s songs. The Dutch singer Mathilde Santing has covered him 14 times.Here she is with Todd and the Metropole Orchestra singing Love In Disguise from his score for Up Against It - which is a wonderful example of Todd’s self-destructive tendencies/perversity/hard-headedness/whatever. He was given the opportunity by Joe Papp to write the music to a Joe Orton play that The Beatles rejected. Papp probably expected that Todd would take the money and write a bunch of faux-Beatles tunes, which he could have easily done. Instead, Todd write a bunch of showtunes, and the critics savaged it.