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David Lee Roth
Solo artist Bloomington United States
David Lee Roth is an artist from Bloomington. David Lee Roth has 41 chart appearances on 24 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “California Girls”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #14. The station that charted David Lee Roth most often is 99.1 PLR (New Haven, CT), with 9 appearances.
David Lee Roth, "Diamond Dave", born in Bloomington in 1954, is a wild, high-energy showman, a born ringmaster who sang for Van Halen from 1974 until 1985 and made every stage look like a party he was hosting. When he went solo, he took the party with him.
The Crazy From the Heat EP in 1985 put his sly, Vegas-lounge-meets-arena grin on "California Girls", and Eat 'Em and Smile in 1986 cranked it back up to full-throttle rock with "Yankee Rose", "Shy Boy" and "Tobacco Road". Sonrisa Salvaje also came out in 1986, and Skyscraper in 1988 gave him "Just Like Paradise", a big, bright, sunshine anthem. "California Girls", "Yankee Rose" and "Just Like Paradise" were his solo hits of the late '80s, and he has made eight solo albums in all, four of them certified gold or platinum.
He never quite left Van Halen behind, either. He was back briefly in 1996, and after more than two decades apart he was back on the road with them across North America, and no Van Halen tour ever made more money. He went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with them in 2007 and stayed on until Van Halen ended in 2020.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by David Lee Roth on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California Girls | 11 | #14 | – | – | |
| 2 | Just Like Paradise | 13 | #197 | – | – | |
| 3 | Yankee Rose | 5 | #194 | – | – | |
| 4 | Tobacco Road | 1 | #344 | – | – | |
| 5 | Just a Gigolo | 3 | #434 | – | – | |
| 6 | Shy Boy | 1 | #717 | – | – | |
| 7 | Ladies' Nite In Buffalo? | 1 | #404 | – | – | |
| 8 | Going Crazy | 1 | #818 | – | – | |
| 9 | Ladies Night in Buffalo | 2 | #480 | – | – | |
| 10 | Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody | 2 | #391 | – | – | |
| 11 | Damn Good | 1 | #1141 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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