Artist · chart history

Jerry Harrison

Solo artist Milwaukee United States Talking Heads & producer

Jerry Harrison is an artist from Milwaukee. Jerry Harrison has 20 chart appearances on 12 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2010. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Rev It Up”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #40. The station that charted Jerry Harrison most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1988.

20appearances

12countdowns

3songs charted

5stations

0#1 finishes

1988–2010years

Jerry Harrison has spent most of his career as the sharp-eared man in the second row. Born in Milwaukee in 1949, he started out in the Modern Lovers, then became the keyboard player and guitarist in Talking Heads. When the Hall of Fame inducted Talking Heads in 2002, he went in with them.

While the Heads were still active he made three solo albums of his own, and they put the groove first. "Rev It Up" is all clatter and strut, and "Man with a Gun", from 1988, is tense and propulsive, the kind of thing that sounds best at night with the windows down.

He was also moving behind the glass. Harrison produced Elliott Murphy's album Milwaukee and then the Violent Femmes' third record, The Blind Leading the Naked, in 1986, and after David Byrne announced the end of Talking Heads in 1991, producing became his main job. Through the '90s he steered hit albums for Live, The Verve Pipe, Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and in 1999 he helped launch the online music community GarageBand.com. He still turns up for the occasional partial Talking Heads reunion.

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

Songs by Jerry Harrison on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Rev It Up	628	9	#40	–	1988
2	Flying Under Radar	392	7	#838	–	–
3	Man with a Gun	174	4	#84	–	1988

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2010	330	Rev It Up	WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010)
2005	568	Rev It Up	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005	890	Flying Under Radar	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	568	Rev It Up	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004	890	Flying Under Radar	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	568	Rev It Up	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003	890	Flying Under Radar	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	568	Rev It Up	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	894	Flying Under Radar	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	568	Rev It Up	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001	894	Flying Under Radar	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	568	Rev It Up	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000	889	Flying Under Radar	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	568	Rev It Up	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	838	Flying Under Radar	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1991	120	Man with a Gun	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991)
1989	143	Man with a Gun	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989)
1988	40	Rev It Up	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988
1988	84	Man with a Gun	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988
1988	484	Man with a Gun	Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.