Song · Sammy Hagar
“Baby's On Fire” by Sammy Hagar
From the album Standing Hampton (1981)
“Baby's On Fire” by Sammy Hagar appears on 7 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1990 and 2024. It was first released in 1981 on the album Standing Hampton. Its best result is #333 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,862 classic rock song of all time.
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Sammy Hagar wrote "Baby's On Fire" by himself for Standing Hampton, his sixth album and his first for Geffen after leaving Capitol, and Keith Olsen produced it, engineering alongside Chris Minto. That record turned into the one that finally paid off: it gave Hagar his first RIAA certification and ended up platinum, with five of its singles landing on the rock or pop charts.
The album's title came from a British fan, who taught him a bit of Cockney rhyming slang that is a good deal ruder than it sounds, and it won out over Hagar's original plan to call the record One Way to Rock.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 333 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 613 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 570 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 449 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 533 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 563 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2024 | 499 | KSHE 95 | KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2024) | 500 |
Also listed as: Baby's on Fire.
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