Song · Jefferson Starship
“Miracles” by Jefferson Starship
From the album Red Octopus (1975)
“Miracles” by Jefferson Starship appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1997 and 2025. It was first released in 1975 on the album Red Octopus. Its best result is #391 on the WMGK Philly 500 (2025). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,795 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Marty Balin wrote "Miracles" by himself for Red Octopus, Jefferson Starship's 1975 album, and the rest of the band didn't warm to it at first: by his own account they found it pretty weird, and he was worried nobody liked it. The song drew on two sources, the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba, whose followers credit him with miracles, and Balin's feelings for a woman he loved back then.
Larry Cox produced it with the band and engineered, Jeffrey Husband and Steve Mantoani recorded it, and Grunt put it out. The doubters were wrong: it climbed to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sat there for three weeks, and no single by the band, as Jefferson Starship or back when they were Jefferson Airplane, ever charted higher.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 852 | 102.3 WBAB | WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) | 1023 |
| 2020 | 1220 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2023 | 940 | 101.5 WPDH | WPDH Top 1015 (2023) | 1015 |
| 2025 | 478 | 102.5 WDVE | DVE Memorial Day 500 (2025) | 500 |
| 2025 | 391 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2025) | 500 |
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