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Dr. John
Solo artist New Orleans United States New Orleans blues pianist, singer and songwriter
Dr. John is an artist from New Orleans. Dr. John has 23 chart appearances on 17 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Right Place, Wrong Time”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #415. The station that charted Dr. John most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2012.
Dr. John, born Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. in New Orleans in 1941, was a singer, songwriter and piano man who stirred blues, jazz, R&B, soul and funk into one heady, smoky pot. He started out as a session player in the late '50s and never really stopped, adding his hands to thousands of other people's records along the way.
His own legend took hold with Gris-Gris in 1968, a murky, spellbinding brew, and his appearance at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music in 1970. On stage he was pure theater, drawing on medicine shows, Mardi Gras finery and voodoo ritual. Dr. John's Gumbo in 1972 carried a rollicking "Iko Iko", and In the Right Place a year later gave him "Right Place, Wrong Time", a top-10 single that struts on a rubbery funk groove, plus the sly, rolling "Such a Night".
He made thirty studio albums and nine live ones, and was still stretching out in 2012 with the grimy, hypnotic "Locked Down" and "Revolution". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him in 2011, and he died in 2019.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Dr. John on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right Place, Wrong Time | 9 | #415 | – | – | |
| 2 | Revolution | 5 | #35 | – | 2012 | |
| 3 | Locked Down | 2 | #67 | – | 2012 | |
| 4 | Such A Night | 3 | #836 | – | – | |
| 5 | Big Chief | 1 | #515 | – | – | |
| 6 | Sweet Home New Orleans | 1 | #253 | – | – | |
| 7 | Iko Iko | 1 | #1969 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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