I was playing a game on my phone and a synapse in my brain triggered randomly: “Russ Ballard”, it said.
So I quit playing and tried to find the song that introduced me to him, and I found it after 3-4 other songs of his:
“Voices” eventually got used for Miami Vice.
HOWEVER, in those few false starts, I discovered that this WASN’T the first song of his I knew.
Before “Voices”, I had heard “Since You’ve Been Gone”:
BUT I’d only heard the Rainbow version:
One other thing I learned was that Russ had been in a band called Argent. I had heard OF Argent, but I wasn’t certain I’d heard anything BY Argent. I needed to do some investigating…
Welp, I found out this oldie but a goodie is by Argent:
AND mirroring an earlier part of my post, this song by KISS:
was also originally an Argent song:
Argent - God Gave Rock And Roll To You