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Cover of All the Girls in the World Beware!!! by Grand Funk Railroad
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“Some Kind of Wonderful” by Grand Funk Railroad

From the album All the Girls in the World Beware!!! (1974)

“Some Kind of Wonderful” by Grand Funk Railroad appears on 27 radio countdowns from 19 stations between 1997 and 2025. It was first released in 1974 on the album All the Girls in the World Beware!!!. Its best result is #76 on the WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #782 classic rock song of all time.

27countdowns
19stations
#76best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1997–2025years charted

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Grand Funk Railroad cut "Some Kind of Wonderful" for All the Girls in the World Beware!!! in 1974, with Jimmy Ienner in the producer's chair. The song belonged to John Ellison, the Canadian-American musician who wrote it and first recorded it in 1967 with his R&B group, Soul Brothers Six, but the Grand Funk take is the one most people know.

They run Ellison's soul number through a rock band's amps and come out grinning, a love song with its chest puffed out. By February 22, 1975, it had reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100, and Billboard's year-end list ranked it sixth for all of 1975.

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

RockLists rankings

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1997 167 104.5 KZEP KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997) 500
1997 337 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (1997) 499
2002 384 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (2002) 500
2002 257 92.3 KGON KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002) 923
2004 256 92.3 KGON KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004) 923
2012 290 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) 1200
2012 484 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2012) 500
2013 443 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR CT 500 (2013) 500
2014 559 Big 100 BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 463 I-95 I-95 Memorial Day Weekend Top 500 (2015) 500
2016 472 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2016) 500
2016 490 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2016) 500
2018 353 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2018) 500
2019 571 102.5 KZOK KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 1025
2021 226 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2021) 499
2021 76 WCSX WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021) 499
2022 476 94.1 KRNA KRNA Memorial Day 500 (2022) 500
2022 390 97.1 The River River 500 (2022) 500
2022 193 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2022) 500
2022 246 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2022) 500
2023 476 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015
2023 198 97.1 The Drive 97.1 The Drive Memorial Day Weekend Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 422 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 354 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2024 470 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2024) 500
2024 716 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs 850
2025 473 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500

Also listed as: Some Kinda Wonderful; Some Kind Of Wonderful.

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