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The Rascals
Band New York United States Active 1964–1972 US soul & rock group, formerly known as The Young Rascals
The Rascals formed in 1964 in New York, United States and was active until 1972. The Rascals has 5 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Good Lovin'”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #325. The station that charted The Rascals most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 2 appearances.
The Rascals started out as the Young Rascals, four guys out of Garfield, New Jersey, who took rock, pop and soul and played the lot with the sweat of a bar band on a Saturday night. Felix Cavaliere sang lead and played keyboards, Eddie Brigati sang and handled percussion, Gene Cornish played guitar and sang, and Dino Danelli drummed. Cavaliere and Brigati wrote most of the songs, and Atlantic Records put them out.
From 1966 to 1968 they could hardly miss. "Good Lovin'", "Groovin'" and "People Got to Be Free" all went to number one, and nine singles made the top 20 in all, among them "How Can I Be Sure?", "A Beautiful Morning" and "A Girl Like You", an early landmark of blue-eyed soul.
Freedom Suite, in 1969, carried "A Ray of Hope". After Brigati and Cornish left, Cavaliere steered what remained toward albums rather than singles, spiked with jazz and funk, until the band wound down in 1972. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted them in 1997, and the original four reunited in 2012 for shows in New York and New Jersey before taking it to Broadway the next year. Cavaliere and Cornish revived the name in 2022, the same year Danelli died.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Rascals on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good Lovin' | 1 | #325 | – | – | |
| 2 | Groovin' | 1 | #269 | – | – | |
| 3 | A Ray of Hope | 1 | #510 | – | – | |
| 4 | People Got the Be Free | 1 | #365 | – | – | |
| 5 | A Beautiful Morning | 1 | #799 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 269 | Groovin' | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs |
| 2025 | 799 | A Beautiful Morning | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs |
| 2014 | 325 | Good Lovin' | BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) |
| 2009 | 510 | A Ray of Hope | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) |
| 1991 | 365 | People Got the Be Free | WNEW Firecracker 500 (1991) |
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