Song · Norah Jones
“Turn Me On” by Norah Jones
From the EP First Sessions (2001)
“Turn Me On” by Norah Jones appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2009 and 2022. It was first released in 2001 on the EP First Sessions. Its best result is #230 on the WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,414 indie & aaa song of all time.
Norah Jones didn't write "Turn Me On": it's a John D. Loudermilk song that Mark Dinning first cut in 1961, tucked away on the flip side of "Lonely Island". Jones made it her own on Blue Note. It appears on her First Sessions EP and as the seventh track on her debut album, Come Away with Me, which sent it out as its last single on May 12, 2003.
It found a second audience on the soundtrack of the film Love Actually. And the song's reach goes further than you might guess: musicologist Joe Hickerson has suggested it helped shape a 1969 Leonard Cohen number, "Bird on the Wire".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 230 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2009 | 694 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2022 | 1194 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
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