Album · Richie Havens
Alarm Clock by Richie Havens
Alarm Clock is an album by Richie Havens, released in 1970. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Here Comes The Sun”, on 5 lists with a best position of #559.
Alarm Clock, Richie Havens' record for Stormy Forest, follows Stonehenge and wakes up with a jolt: the opening track is a live version of the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun", and Havens doesn't so much cover it as strum it into the ground and let it sprout again. That percussive, open-tuned guitar attack, all rhythm and drive, is the engine of everything he does, and here it pulls folk, soul and rhythm and blues into the same warm, rough-edged groove.
The man who opened Woodstock got a rare taste of the charts out of it: "Here Comes the Sun" reached number 16, and Alarm Clock went to 29 on the album chart, the highest any Havens album ever climbed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Alarm Clock on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Here Comes The Sun | 5 | #559 | – | 2010–2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.