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David And David
Band United States Active 1979–1987
David And David formed in 1979 in the United States and was active until 1987. David And David has 14 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Welcome To The Boomtown”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #72. The station that charted David And David most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances.
David & David were two Los Angeles studio musicians, David Baerwald and David Ricketts, who teamed up partly because they were fed up with the bands they had been in. They got together in 1979, signed with A&M, and in 1986 released their only album, Boomtown, produced by Davitt Sigerson, a smoky, widescreen record that sounds like the city after midnight.
"Welcome to the Boomtown" was the debut single and the one that stuck, a tense, rolling groove with a weary vocal that sounds like it has seen too much of the city. It reached number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the Album Rock Tracks chart, and Boomtown went Gold. "Swallowed by the Cracks" and "Ain't So Easy" kept the album on rock radio.
They went out on tour in November 1986 and broke up soon afterward, both men going back to working with other musicians. Their paths crossed again on Sheryl Crow's 1993 debut, Tuesday Night Music Club, which they both worked on, and in 2016 came reports that they were working on a second album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by David And David on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome To The Boomtown | 12 | #72 | – | – | |
| 2 | Welcome to Boomtown | 1 | #1186 | – | – | |
| 3 | Swallowed by the Cracks | 1 | #1514 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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