title: All I Wanted (Kansas song)
text: # All I Wanted (Kansas song)
  
  "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.
  
  ## 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. The song takes a more pop approach than the band's previous songs.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Billboard said that it's "synth-based and relatively mellow." 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."
  
  ## Chart performance
  
  | Chart (1987) | Peak position |
  | - | - |
  | US Billboard Hot 100 | 19 |
  | US Mainstream Rock Tracks | 10 |
  | US Adult Contemporary | 14 |
  | Canadian Singles Chart | 75 |
  