Adding to the pile:

The Vapours - New Clear Days --recently found the 2-fer and I haven't heard the record in ages.  Still rocks and there's plenty of pop.

Paul Williams - Someday Man --outstanding orch-pop.  One of the best Balladeers of our time.

Ian Thomas - entire collection -- another soft pop artist.  He  tries to rock, sometimes, but shouldn't.  Almost any ballad of his is a winner.

Alice Cooper - From The Inside --Produced by Davis Foster and co-written with Bernie Taupin, this record has almost all of TOTO, Rick Neilson, and is a heavy rock/pop masterpiece- 
just a rather sick one.

that's all for now,
later, joe