Elton John - Yellow River

held down a day job recording other people's hits for U.K. budget labels. If you were in London in 1969 and bought an album chockfull of pop and soul hits like Norman Greenbaum's “Spirit in the Sky“ and Creedence Clearwater Revival's “Travelin' Band“--NOT SUNG BY THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS, as the fine print would quietly tell you-