Rock'n Me

"Rock'n Me"

The European release of "Rock'n Me" by Mercury Records.
Single by Steve Miller Band
from the album Fly Like an Eagle
B-side "Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma"
Released 1976
Format 7" 45 RPM
Recorded 1976 at CBS Studios in San Francisco, California[1]
Genre Rock
Length 3:05
Label Capitol
Writer(s) Steve Miller
Producer(s) Steve Miller
Steve Miller Band singles chronology
"Take the Money and Run"
(1976)		 "Rock'n Me"
(1976)		 "Fly Like an Eagle"
(1976)

"Rock'n Me" is a song by American rock group Steve Miller Band, written by the group's leader Steve Miller. The song was released as the second single from the group's ninth studio album Fly Like an Eagle in 1976. The North American release of the single was credited to Steve Miller, while the European release was credited to the Steve Miller Band.

The song was the band's second #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed at the top for 1 week,[2] and also topped the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada.[3]

Steve Miller acknowledged the intro to Rock'n Me was a tip of the hat to "All Right Now". "Yeah, it's a tack on the wall for Paul. I did one concert in the two years that I was off the road. I went to London and played with Pink Floyd...it was a big, huge outdoor show so we needed a big rock and roll number that was really going to excite everybody. I just put it together and didn't think much about it."

The cities mentioned in the song include Phoenix, Arizona; Tacoma, Washington; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Atlanta, Georgia; and Los Angeles, California.

The song is a playable track on the video game Rock Band 2, and featured in Grand Theft Auto V and Tap Tap Revenge 3 for iOS.

Charts

Chart (1976) Peak
position
Canadian Top Singles[3] 1
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[4] 22
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[5] 23
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[6] 11
US Billboard Hot 100[2] 1
Chart (1977) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[7] 25
Germany (Official German Charts)[8] 44

References

  1. ↑ Ashley Brown, ed. (1990). "Space Cowboy". The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History of Popular Music. Vol. 11 (Reference ed.). Marshall Cavendish. p. 1227. ISBN 1-85435-026-9.
  2. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2010) [First published in 1983]. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (9th ed.). Billboard Books. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-8230-8554-5.
  3. 1 2 "Top Singles". RPM. Vol. 26 no. 7. November 13, 1976. p. 23. ISSN 0315-5994. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Steve Miller Band – Rock'n Me" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  5. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Steve Miller Band – Rock'n Me". Top 40 Singles.
  6. ↑ "Archive Chart: 1976-11-27" UK Singles Chart.
  7. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Steve Miller Band – Rock'n Me" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  8. ↑ "Musicline.de – Miller,Steve Band Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.

External links

Preceded by
"If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago		 Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
November 6, 1976 (one week) 		Succeeded by
"Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" by Rod Stewart
Preceded by
"Disco Duck (part one)" by Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots		 RPM Top Singles number-one single
November 13, 1976 (one week) 		Succeeded by
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot
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