Song · Great White
“Rock Me” by Great White
From the album Once Bitten (1987)
“Rock Me” by Great White appears on 19 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1990 and 2026. It was first released in 1987 on the album Once Bitten. Its best result is #147 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,254 classic rock song of all time.
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"Rock Me" was the first single from Great White's third album, Once Bitten, out on Capitol in 1987, and it was the song that finally broke the band. The original version runs past 7 minutes, so the radio and video versions were recorded all over again to fit somewhere between 3 and 5. Jack Russell sings it, Mark Kendall and Michael Lardie play electric guitars, Lardie adds harmonica and keyboards, and Sean McNabb and Audie Desbrow hold down bass and drums. Kendall and Lardie produced it with Alan Niven, and those three wrote it with Russell.
It spent 14 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 60 on September 26, 1987, and classic rock radio still hasn't let go of it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Classic Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 147 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 286 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 250 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 312 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 316 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 248 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2010 | 297 | 97.9 The Loop | The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010) | 500 |
| 2016 | 465 | Qfm96 | Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2016) | 500 |
| 2017 | 237 | 97.9 The Loop | 97.9 The Loop Top 540 Countdown (2017) | 540 |
| 2019 | 451 | 106.7 WLLZ | WLLZ 500 (2019) | 500 |
| 2020 | 436 | 106.7 WLLZ | WLLZ 500 (2020) | 500 |
| 2021 | 333 | 106.7 WLLZ | WLLZ 500 (2021) | 500 |
| 2022 | 371 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2022 | 395 | 106.7 WLLZ | WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2022 | 224 | 100.7 KSLX | KSLX Arizona 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2023 | 727 | 101.5 WPDH | WPDH Top 1015 (2023) | 1015 |
| 2023 | 438 | KSHE 95 | KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2023) | 500 |
| 2024 | 332 | KSHE 95 | KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2024) | 500 |
| 2026 | 325 | 100.7 KSLX | KSLX Arizona 500 (2026) | 500 |
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