Song · Poco
“Rose Of Cimarron” by Poco
From the album Rose of Cimarron (1976)
“Rose Of Cimarron” by Poco appears on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1976 and 2026. It was first released in 1976 on the album Rose of Cimarron. Its best result is #11 on the John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1976). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,502 alternative song of all time.
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"Rose of Cimarron" is the title song of Poco's 1976 album on ABC, and it very nearly went to a singing cowboy instead. Founding member Rusty Young wrote it that year when his friend Stuart Margolin, an actor with ambitions as a record producer, asked him for a cowboy song for a comeback album he hoped to make with Roy Rogers. Young reached back to a brochure he'd stumbled on in Oklahoma during Poco's 1973 tour, about the frontier legend Rose Dunn, the Rose of Cimarron, who at 15 fell in with the outlaw George Newcomb and became his accomplice.
The Rogers album never happened. Paul Cotton and Timothy B. Schmit heard the song, wanted it for Poco, and wound up sharing the lead vocal on a warm country-rock yarn that suits them both.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 11 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1976) | 50 |
| 2023 | 430 | KSHE 95 | KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2023) | 500 |
| 2024 | 436 | KSHE 95 | KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2024) | 500 |
| 2026 | 446 | KSHE 95 | KSHE 95 U-Man 500 (2026) | 499 |
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