Album · Night Ranger
Dawn Patrol by Night Ranger
Dawn Patrol is an album by Night Ranger, released in 1982. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 9 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Don't Tell Me You Love Me”, on 9 lists with a best position of #248.
Night Ranger's debut, Dawn Patrol, landed in November 1982, and it very nearly came out under another name. The San Francisco band had been calling itself plain Ranger, and the first pressings were printed and ready to ship when word came of a California country act with the same handle. So they took the title of a song Jack Blades had written for the album, and Neil Bogart's Boardwalk label destroyed every copy that said Ranger.
What's inside is sleek, hard-charging rock, with Brad Gillis on guitar, Blades on bass, Kelly Keagy on drums and Jeff Watson rounding out the lineup. "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" went into heavy rotation on MTV and reached number four on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and "Sing Me Away" followed in the spring of 1983 with a video featuring the Cabazon Dinosaurs. The cover, fittingly spacey, shows the radio dishes of the Very Large Array in New Mexico.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Dawn Patrol on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don't Tell Me You Love Me | 9 | #248 | – | 1994–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.