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Baltimora

Band Italy Active 1985–1987 1980s Italian italo‐disco project

Baltimora formed in 1985 in Italy and was active until 1987. Baltimora has 14 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1985–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Tarzan Boy”, which appears on 14 lists with a best position of #85. The station that charted Baltimora most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1985.

14appearances

14countdowns

1songs charted

4stations

0#1 finishes

1985–2025years

Baltimora was a music project out of Milan, with James McShane and Giorgio Cocilovo among its members, and for one gloriously silly moment in the mid-'80s it owned the dance floor. "Tarzan Boy" is Italo disco at its most shameless: a bouncing synth line, a chanted jungle hook and a chorus that sticks to the brain like chewing gum to a shoe.

In Britain and America, that was all anyone heard from them, and they are often filed away as one-hit wonders there. Back home in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, though, the follow-up "Woody Boogie" was a hit the same year. By 1987 the project had run its course.

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

Songs by Baltimora on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Tarzan Boy	636	14	#85	–	1985

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2025	598	Tarzan Boy	The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs
2023	816	Tarzan Boy	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s
2021	821	Tarzan Boy	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s
2005	774	Tarzan Boy	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	774	Tarzan Boy	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	774	Tarzan Boy	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	774	Tarzan Boy	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	774	Tarzan Boy	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	774	Tarzan Boy	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	1021	Tarzan Boy	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1995	398	Tarzan Boy	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995)
1994	107	Tarzan Boy	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1994)
1992	212	Tarzan Boy	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992)
1985	85	Tarzan Boy	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1985

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