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Etta James
Solo artist Los Angeles United States
Etta James is an artist from Los Angeles. Etta James has 27 chart appearances on 19 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “At Last”, which appears on 16 lists with a best position of #15. The station that charted Etta James most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 9 appearances.
Etta James started out in 1954, working the Nashville R&B clubs of the Chitlin' Circuit, and she sang everything, blues, gospel, jazz, soul and rock and roll, with the same deep, earthy, take-no-prisoners voice. "The Wallflower" in 1955 made her name. "At Last" in 1960 is the one that has never gone away, all velvet and heartache, and "Something's Got a Hold on Me", "Tell Mama" and the devastating "I'd Rather Go Blind" proved she could shout as hard as she could smoulder.
She struggled with heroin addiction, was physically abused and was incarcerated before she came back in the late '80s with the album Seven Year Itch in 1988. The '90s were kind to her: Time After Time in 1995 brought a smoky "My Funny Valentine", Mystery Lady, her tribute to Billie Holiday, won her a Grammy, and The Heart of a Woman followed in 1999.
Rock's own hall of fame took her in during 1993, and the honors kept coming after that: a Grammy Hall of Fame nod in 1999, the blues world's hall of fame two years later, a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2003, plus more Grammys for Let's Roll and Blues to the Bone. She died in 2012.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Etta James on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At Last | 16 | #15 | – | – | |
| 2 | I'd Rather Go Blind | 6 | #261 | – | – | |
| 3 | You Go To My Head | 1 | #185 | – | – | |
| 4 | A Sunday Kind Of Love | 1 | #724 | – | – | |
| 5 | If I Had Any Pride Left at All | 1 | #1119 | – | – | |
| 6 | My Funny Valentine | 1 | #814 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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