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“Rockin' Into The Night” by .38 Special

From the album Rockin’ Into the Night (1979)

“Rockin' Into The Night” by .38 Special appears on 18 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 1994 and 2024. It was first released in 1979 on the album Rockin’ Into the Night. Its best result is #149 on the WPDH Top 1015 (2023). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,129 classic rock song of all time.

18countdowns

13stations

#149best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1994–2024years charted

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"Rockin' into the Night" was a hand-me-down that turned into a breakthrough. Survivor's Jim Peterik, Frankie Sullivan and Gary Smith wrote it for their own band's debut, but producer Ron Nevison didn't think it belonged there, and the rough mix found its way to .38 Special's manager, Mark Spector. The band cut it fresh, made it the title track of their third album in 1979, and it gave them their first hit, reaching number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Don Barnes sings lead and plays acoustic and electric guitar, Jeff Carlisi adds electric and slide, Larry Junstrom plays bass, and Steve Brookins and Jack Grondin both pound the drums, doubling the thump. Dale Krantz-Rossington joins Barnes on backing vocals. Rodney Mills produced and engineered it, and "Hold On Loosely" followed it out the door.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Classic Rock

#1,129 of all time

Hard Rock & Metal

#2,060 of all time

All Rock Formats

#3,278 of all time

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1994	804	KISW	KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994)	1000
2011	869	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011)	1100
2011	313	97.9 The Loop	The Loop Rock N Roll 500 (2011)	500
2012	909	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012)	1200
2013	925	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013)	1000
2014	757	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014)	1000
2015	934	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015)	1007
2015	405	I-95	I-95 Memorial Day Weekend Top 500 (2015)	500
2015	448	102.9 The Whale	102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2015)	500
2016	345	Qfm96	Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2016)	500
2017	511	97.9 The Loop	97.9 The Loop Top 540 Countdown (2017)	540
2020	357	Q105.7	Q105.7 Memorial Day 500 (2020)	499
2021	286	WCSX	WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021)	499
2022	435	99.1 PLR	99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022)	500
2022	149	94.1 KRNA	KRNA Memorial Day 500 (2022)	500
2023	149	101.5 WPDH	WPDH Top 1015 (2023)	1015
2024	467	KQRS	KQRS KQ 500 (2024)	499
2024	313	KSHE 95	KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2024)	500

Also listed as: Rockin' Into the Night.

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