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Great White
Band Los Angeles United States Formed 1977 US hard rock band
Great White formed in 1977 in Los Angeles, United States. Great White has 78 chart appearances on 50 radio countdowns from 19 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Once Bitten Twice Shy”, which appears on 47 lists with a best position of #111. The station that charted Great White most often is 106.7 WLLZ (Detroit, MI), with 12 appearances.
Great White were Los Angeles hard rock with the blues still in their blood, named after the shark and after an old stage nickname of guitarist Mark Kendall. With Jack Russell's leathery wail out front and Capitol Records behind them, they worked their way up from the 1984 debut and Shot in the Dark to Once Bitten in 1987, where "Rock Me" stretched out like a slow-burning Zeppelin tribute and filled radio and MTV alike.
...Twice Shy in 1989 sealed it. Both albums went platinum, "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "The Angel Song" gave them Top 40 hits, and "House of Broken Love" and "Mista Bone" showed a band more at home in a smoky bar than on a hair-metal runway. By their own estimate in 2008, they had sold around eight million records.
They kept making records into the '90s, then split in 2001. Kendall soon joined Russell's touring outfit, Jack Russell's Great White, and in 2003 that band's pyrotechnics set a Rhode Island nightclub on fire; 100 people died, including guitarist Ty Longley. The classic lineup regrouped in 2006, Russell left in 2011, and he died in 2024. Great White carried on with a string of new singers, from Terry Ilous and Mitch Malloy to Andrew Freeman and Brett Carlisle.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Great White on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once Bitten Twice Shy | 47 | #111 | – | – | |
| 2 | Rock Me | 19 | #147 | – | – | |
| 3 | Save Your Love | 6 | #328 | – | – | |
| 4 | House of Broken Love | 1 | #273 | – | – | |
| 5 | Mista Bone | 1 | #376 | – | – | |
| 6 | Move it | 1 | #652 | – | – | |
| 7 | Face the Day | 1 | #754 | – | – | |
| 8 | Stick It | 1 | #868 | – | – | |
| 9 | Lady Red Light | 1 | #936 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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