Song · Jimi Hendrix
“Dolly Dagger” by Jimi Hendrix
From the album Rainbow Bridge (1971)
“Dolly Dagger” by Jimi Hendrix appears on 10 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1990 and 2025. It was first released in 1971 on the album Rainbow Bridge. Its best result is #767 on the KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,984 classic rock song of all time.
"Dolly Dagger" surfaced in October 1971 on Rainbow Bridge, a posthumous Jimi Hendrix album, and a couple of weeks later it went out as a single, with Hendrix's one-man, multi-tracked studio take on "Star Spangled Banner" on the flip. It stalled at 74 on the Hot 100, yet that makes it the final Hendrix single on Billboard's main chart.
Hendrix wrote it, sang it and played guitar, with Billy Cox on bass, Mitch Mitchell on drums, Juma Sultan on percussion and the Ghetto Fighters on backing vocals; Hendrix, Mitchell, Eddie Kramer and John Jansen share the production credit. Biographers peg the title character as his girlfriend Devon Wilson, the name winking at her relationship with Mick Jagger running at the same time, and one line nods to a party where Jagger cut his finger and Wilson pushed in to suck the blood.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 975 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 965 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 973 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 2002 | 768 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002) | 923 |
| 2004 | 767 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004) | 923 |
| 2012 | 812 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 852 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 829 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 862 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2025 | 897 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) | 1043 |
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