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“Althea” by The Grateful Dead
From the album Go to Heaven (1980)
“Althea” by The Grateful Dead appears on 6 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2019 and 2026. It was first released in 1980 on the album Go to Heaven. Its best result is #272 on the WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #785 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Althea" sits third on Go to Heaven, the Grateful Dead's 1980 studio album, and it's one of only two songs there from the Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter team, "Alabama Getaway" being the other. Garcia wrote the music and Hunter the words, and Gary Lyons produced, with Betty Cantor-Jackson among the engineers.
The band had already road-tested it, debuting it at the Oakland Civic Auditorium on August 4, 1979, and it never fell out of the repertoire: the Dead played it more than 270 times, the last on July 8, 1995, at Soldier Field in Chicago, the second-to-last show they ever gave. Offshoots including Dead & Company, RatDog and Phil Lesh and Friends have kept it in their sets too.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 272 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 272 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2020 | 883 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2023 | 474 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 590 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2026 | 727 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
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