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“Blinded By The Light” by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

From the album Funkturistic (2002)

“Blinded By The Light” by Manfred Mann's Earth Band appears on 74 radio countdowns from 27 stations between 1991 and 2026. It was first released in 2002 on the album Funkturistic. Its best result is #11 on the KISW 25 Greatest Rock Covers. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,567 indie & aaa song of all time.

74countdowns
27stations
#11best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1991–2026years charted

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Blinded By The Light

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band took a wordy Bruce Springsteen song and turned it into a cosmic, synth-streaked radio monster: their "Blinded by the Light" climbed to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1977 and went top ten in the UK, Canada and New Zealand too.

Springsteen had cut it first for his 1973 debut, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., writing it (along with "Spirit in the Night") after Columbia chief Clive Davis heard an early version of the album and couldn't find a single on it. He built the tumbling lyric with a rhyming dictionary at his elbow, and the opening line is coded autobiography, with nods to drummer Vini Lopez, then nicknamed "Mad Man", to his old Little League team and to Springsteen himself. The Earth Band kept the rush of words and gave it lift-off.

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

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1991 139 WNEW-FM WNEW Firecracker 500 (1991) 500
1994 322 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) 1000
1996 418 WNEW-FM WNEW Firecracker 500 (1996) 500
1997 42 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (1997) 499
1997 144 104.5 KZEP KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997) 500
2002 85 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (2002) 500
2002 97 92.3 KGON KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002) 923
2004 96 92.3 KGON KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004) 923
2011 224 97.9 The Loop The Loop Rock N Roll 500 (2011) 500
2011 170 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) 1100
2012 78 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2012) 500
2012 171 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) 1200
2013 40 Big 100 BIG 500 Labor Day Countdown (2013) 500
2013 27 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2013) 500
2013 500 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2013) 500
2014 46 Big 100 BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 242 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2015) 500
2015 106 I-95 I-95 Memorial Day Weekend Top 500 (2015) 500
2016 43 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2016 166 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2016) 500
2016 85 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2016) 500
2016 117 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2016) 500
2017 91 97.9 The Loop 97.9 The Loop Top 540 Countdown (2017) 540
2017 129 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017) 500
2017 124 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2017) 500
2018 246 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2018) 500
2018 130 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018) 500
2019 113 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2019) 500
2019 257 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2019) 499
2019 215 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2019) 500
2019 153 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2019) 500
2019 920 102.5 KZOK KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 1025
2020 168 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2020) 500
2020 179 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) 1025
2020 1837 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2020 32 97.1 The River River 500 (2020) 47
2020 217 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2020) 500
2021 318 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2021) 500
2021 198 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2021) 500
2021 217 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2021) 499
2021 132 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) 1043
2021 270 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2021) 500
2021 11 KISW KISW 25 Greatest Rock Covers 25
2022 129 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2022) 500
2022 235 94.1 KRNA KRNA Memorial Day 500 (2022) 500
2022 264 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2022) 500
2022 370 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2022) 500
2022 61 97.1 The River River 500 (2022) 500
2022 224 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) 1043
2023 235 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015
2023 269 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2023) 500
2023 79 KSHE 95 KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 457 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2023) 500
2023 163 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 242 97.1 The Drive 97.1 The Drive Memorial Day Weekend Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 144 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2023) 500
2023 197 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) 1043
2023 206 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2024 170 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2024) 500
2024 262 KSHE 95 KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2024) 500
2024 234 KQRS KQRS KQ 500 (2024) 499
2024 223 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2024) 499
2024 152 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2024) 498
2024 316 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2024) 500
2024 787 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) 1043
2024 49 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs 850
2025 365 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500
2025 528 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) 1043
2025 216 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2025) 500
2025 179 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500
2025 148 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2025) 498
2026 303 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2026) 500
2026 205 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2026) 500
2026 953 WYEP WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time 1180

Also listed as: Blinded By the Light; Blinded by the Light.

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