Artist · chart history
Donny Hathaway
Solo artist Chicago United States
Donny Hathaway is an artist from Chicago. Donny Hathaway has 4 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Someday We'll All Be Free”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #375. The station that charted Donny Hathaway most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 2 appearances.
Donny Hathaway, born October 1, 1945, was a soul man with a jazz player's ears and a church musician's heart: he sang lead and backing vocals, wrote, arranged and played keyboards, handling the organ and the piano as fluently as his own voice. His self-titled 1971 album carried his version of "A Song for You", one of the renditions that made his reputation as an interpreter, along with his readings of "For All We Know", "Jealous Guy" and "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know".
Extension of a Man followed in 1973 and brought "Someday We'll All Be Free", which sits with "The Ghetto", "This Christmas" and "Little Ghetto Boy" among his best-loved songs. His duets with Roberta Flack, "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You" among them, showed how much warmth he could pour into a shared microphone. He recorded for Atco, Curtom and Atlantic.
He died on January 13, 1979. He won one Grammy from four nominations, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award followed in 2019, he is on the St. Louis Walk of Fame, and the documentary Mister Soul – A Story About Donny Hathaway premiered in Rotterdam in 2020.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Donny Hathaway on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someday We'll All Be Free | 2 | #375 | – | – | |
| 2 | A Song for You | 1 | #721 | – | – | |
| 3 | Jealous Guy (live) | 1 | #742 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 742 | Jealous Guy (live) | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs |
| 2022 | 375 | Someday We'll All Be Free | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s |
| 2009 | 721 | A Song for You | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) |
| 2004 | 548 | Someday We'll All Be Free | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) |
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