I could start a song a tenor and then end as bass

Thursday music corner: Sparks are the much-lauded fraternal duo Ron and Russell Mael, whose 1974 album Kimono My House took the glam-besotted UK by storm and secured them a decades-long career as prolific purveyors of arch, intellectual pop music with both a wry sensibility and an outsider's mentality to the trend-obsessed music scene. To date they have released 25 studio albums, with their next, The Girl is Crying in Her Latte, slated for release in May 2023. 

Sparks have had 11 top 40 singles in the UK, with the most recent entry being a 1997 collaboration with Faith No More to cover their own biggest hit, This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us. Sparks were the subject of an affectionate 2021 biopic by English film director Edgar Wright, The Sparks Brothers.

Amateur Hour was the second single from Kimono My House, and exhibits deadpan keyboardist Ron Mael's traditional befuddlement with romantic relationships. It reached number 7 in the UK charts, and also hit the top 20 in Germany and Ireland.

Sparks - Amateur Hour (1974) 

See also:

Music: Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive (1974)

Music: Sweet - Hell Raiser (1973) 

Music: Ken Boothe - Everything I Own (1974)