Song · John Mellencamp
“Wild Night” by John Mellencamp
From the EP Wild Night: Special Collector's Edition (1994)
“Wild Night” by John Mellencamp appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1997 and 2024. It was first released in 1994 on the EP Wild Night: Special Collector's Edition. Its best result is #355 on the KQRS KQ 500 (2024). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,942 classic rock song of all time.
John Mellencamp took "Wild Night", the Van Morrison song that opened Morrison's 1971 album Tupelo Honey, and turned it into a duet with Meshell Ndegeocello in 1994, the two of them trading the lead vocal. Mellencamp produced it with Michael B. Wanchic, Jay Healy engineered and mixed it, and it also came out on the Wild Night: Special Collector's Edition EP.
The pairing paid off in a big way. That summer the song climbed to number three on the Billboard Hot 100, and in Canada it sat at number one for three weeks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 719 | 102.3 WBAB | WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) | 1023 |
| 2011 | 672 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) | 1100 |
| 2014 | 606 | Big 100 | BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2024 | 355 | KQRS | KQRS KQ 500 (2024) | 499 |
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