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Georgia Satellites
Band Atlanta United States Active 1980–1997
Georgia Satellites formed in 1980 in Atlanta, United States and was active until 1997. Georgia Satellites has 55 chart appearances on 55 radio countdowns from 25 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Keep Your Hands To Yourself”, which appears on 52 lists with a best position of #78. The station that charted Georgia Satellites most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 5 appearances.
The Georgia Satellites were Atlanta's answer to a decade of synthesizers: a scruffy Southern rock band that played bar-band rock and roll as if vintage rock had never gone out of style. Their calling card, "Keep Your Hands to Yourself", showed up on the Keep the Faith EP and then powered their self-titled 1986 debut album, a cheeky, stomping, shout-along rocker, and it went all the way to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Open All Night followed in 1988 and In the Land of Salvation and Sin in 1989, the last album of new original songs. The band then took a break in 1990, came back in 1993 as a working live act, and in 1996 put out Shaken Not Stirred, which mixed re-cut versions of older songs with eight new ones.
Through a long string of lineup changes, lead guitarist and singer Rick Richards has been the one constant, with Dan Baird among the players in the band's history.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Georgia Satellites on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep Your Hands To Yourself | 52 | #78 | – | – | |
| 2 | Keep Your Hands to You | 2 | #642 | – | – | |
| 3 | Keep Your Hands To | 1 | #431 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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