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Them
Band Belfast United Kingdom Active 1964–1979 Northern Irish group originally feat. Van Morrison
Them formed in 1964 in Belfast, United Kingdom and was active until 1979. Them has 9 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 1987–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Gloria”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #27. The station that charted Them most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 2 appearances.
Them were a Belfast garage band formed in April 1964, and the reason anybody outside Belfast knows it is the snarling young singer they had up front, Van Morrison, with Alan Henderson, Billy Harrison and Eric Wrixon among the first recruits. Signed to Decca, they played it raw and restless, and Morrison already sang like a man with a grudge against the microphone.
"Gloria" is the one everybody knows, the garage-rock standard that would outlive the band by decades. In 1965 they took "Baby, Please Don't Go" and "Here Comes the Night" into the British top ten, and "Here Comes the Night" and the frantic "Mystic Eyes" made the American top forty too.
Morrison walked out in 1966 for a solo career, and the band carried on without him, with players such as Jim Armstrong, until 1979. Their shadow fell on groups like the Doors, and in 1999 their "Gloria" went into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Them on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gloria | 8 | #27 | – | – | |
| 2 | It's All Over Now Baby Blue | 1 | #190 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 190 | It's All Over Now Baby Blue | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs |
| 2012 | 212 | Gloria | WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown |
| 2012 | 700 | Gloria | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) |
| 2012 | 27 | Gloria | WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) |
| 2011 | 683 | Gloria | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) |
| 2007 | 624 | Gloria | WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time |
| 1996 | 91 | Gloria | Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1996) |
| 1991 | 834 | Gloria | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) |
| 1987 | 60 | Gloria | Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1987) |
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