“Once Bitten Twice Shy” by Great White

Ian Hunter wrote "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and made it his first solo single back in 1975, but Great White grabbed it for their fourth album, ...Twice Shy, in 1989 and turned it into a full-blown hair-metal party. Jack Russell sings it, Mark Kendall and Michael Lardie play guitar, Tony Montana plays bass and Audie Desbrow drums, and Lardie, who also plays keyboards and engineered it, co-produced the track with Alan Niven.

Their version went out as a single and ran all the way to 5 on the Hot 100 and 6 on the Mainstream Rock chart, and a Billboard reviewer tipped the boogieing rocker for heavy playlist action. The video later landed on a New York Times list of essential hair-metal clips.

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