"All I Wanted"
Single by Kansas
from the album Power
ReleasedOctober 1986[1]
Recorded1986
Length3:20
LabelMCA
Songwriter(s)Steve Walsh, Steve Morse
Producer(s)Andrew Powell
Kansas singles chronology
"Perfect Lover"
(1984)		 "All I Wanted"
(1986)		 "Power"
(1987)

"All I Wanted" is a single by the band Kansas. The song was released on the band's 1986 album Power and written by Steve Walsh and Steve Morse.[2]

Background

It was their 21st single, as well as their seventh (and final) Top 40 appearance and their fourth Top 20 hit, charting at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[3] The song takes a more pop approach than the band's previous songs.

Reception

Billboard said that it's "synth-based and relatively mellow."[4] Cash Box called it a "classic-sounding McCartney composition which elicits memories of some of his strongest material with Wings" with a taut rock beat punctuated by an urgent horn section."[5]

Chart performance

Chart (1987) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 19
US Mainstream Rock Tracks 10
US Adult Contemporary[6] 14
Canadian Singles Chart 75

References

  1. ↑ "Kansas singles".
  2. ↑ "discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
  3. 1 2 Kansas Billboard chart history, Billboard.com. Retrieved December 13, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Reviews". Billboard. November 1, 1986. p. 71. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
  5. ↑ "Single Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. November 1, 1986. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
  6. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 133.
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