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“Calling Dr. Love” by Kiss
From the album Rock and Roll Over (1976)
“Calling Dr. Love” by Kiss appears on 15 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1990 and 2025. It was first released in 1976 on the album Rock and Roll Over. Its best result is #158 on The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,656 classic rock song of all time.
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"Calling Dr. Love" is Gene Simmons strutting his stuff on Rock and Roll Over, the Kiss album Casablanca put out in 1976 with Eddie Kramer producing and engineering. Simmons wrote it in a Holiday Inn in Evansville, Indiana, and swiped the title from the Three Stooges picture Men in Black, where a hospital intercom keeps paging a run of doctors. He sings it too, all leer and swagger over a riff with a heavy, stomping gait.
The trade papers liked it at the time, and Record World heard a bit of Humble Pie in it. It turned up again on Alive II in 1977 and on Kiss Symphony: Alive IV in 2003, and was still in the set on the Alive 35 tour in 2008. Canadian 8-track owners got a bonus: a version stretched by about 55 seconds with the guitar solo played twice.
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 | 298 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 403 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 238 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 182 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 392 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 456 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2010 | 158 | 97.9 The Loop | The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010) | 500 |
| 2011 | 451 | 97.9 The Loop | The Loop Rock N Roll 500 (2011) | 500 |
| 2019 | 786 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 | 1025 |
| 2020 | 644 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) | 1025 |
| 2022 | 716 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) | 1025 |
| 2023 | 868 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) | 1043 |
| 2023 | 484 | Qfm96 | Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2023) | 500 |
| 2024 | 482 | Qfm96 | Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2024) | 498 |
| 2025 | 464 | Qfm96 | Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2025) | 498 |
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