I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You

"I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You"
German release artwork
Single by The Alan Parsons Project
from the album I Robot[1]
B-side"Nucleus"
ReleasedAugust 1977 (1977)
RecordedDecember 1976 – March 1977
Genre
Length3:23 (album version)
3:12 (single version)
LabelArista
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Alan Parsons
The Alan Parsons Project singles chronology
"To One in Paradise"
(1976)
"I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You"
(1977)
"Don't Let It Show"
(1977)
Music video
"I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" on YouTube

"I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" is a song by the British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, featured on their 1977 album I Robot. Written by band leaders Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" was sung by pop singer Lenny Zakatek, who would go on to sing many of the band's songs. In the United States, the song was a moderate success and charted at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100.

  1. ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  2. ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (2014). Precious and Few: Pop Music of the Early '70s. St. Martin's Press. p. 67. ISBN 9781466871380.
  3. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project, Alan Parsons | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

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