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Flash and the Pan

Band Australia Formed 1976

Flash and the Pan formed in 1976 in Australia. Flash and the Pan has 20 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 1985–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hey Saint Peter”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #431. The station that charted Flash and the Pan most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1985.

20appearances

16countdowns

5songs charted

8stations

0#1 finishes

1985–2026years

Flash and the Pan was less a band than a studio project: the creation of Harry Vanda and George Young, the former Easybeats who had become a songwriting and production team, Vanda & Young. They cooked it up in Sydney in 1976, and it sounded like nothing else coming out of the country: percussive, hypnotic dance music with one foot in new wave and synth-pop, the kind of thing that seemed to look past disco toward what dance music would become.

"Hey, St. Peter" was their first hit in Australia, reaching number five, and "Down Among the Dead Men" went to number four in 1978; overseas it was retitled "And the Band Played On". The self-titled debut album arrived in December 1978, featuring "Walking in the Rain", which had started out as the B-side of "Hey St. Peter", and "Hole in the Middle".

The rest of the world caught on: Lights in the Night, in early 1980, went to number one in Sweden, and "Waiting for a Train", from Headlines, reached number seven in the UK in 1983. Early Morning Wake Up Call, in 1984, brought "Midnight Man", and Warren Morgan also played with them over the years.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Flash and the Pan on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Hey Saint Peter	304	8	#431	–	–
2	Hey St. Peter	271	4	#55	–	–
3	Walking in the Rain	196	5	#282	–	–
4	Hole in the Middle	136	2	#411	–	–
5	Midnight Man	7	1	#100	–	1985

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2026	697	Walking in the Rain	KXT 917 Song Countdown
2022	444	Walking in the Rain	The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time
2005	1166	Hey Saint Peter	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	1166	Hey Saint Peter	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	1166	Hey Saint Peter	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003	55	Hey St. Peter	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003	896	Hole in the Middle	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003	1383	Walking in the Rain	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2002	1181	Hey Saint Peter	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	75	Hey St. Peter	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002	411	Hole in the Middle	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002	1245	Walking in the Rain	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001	1182	Hey Saint Peter	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	1181	Hey Saint Peter	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	315	Hey St. Peter	91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999)
1999	1179	Hey Saint Peter	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	603	Hey St. Peter	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999)
1988	431	Hey Saint Peter	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988)
1988	282	Walking in the Rain	Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)
1985	100	Midnight Man	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1985

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