Count On Me (Jefferson Starship song)

"Count On Me"
Single by Jefferson Starship
from the album Earth
B-side "Show Yourself"
Released March 1978
Genre Rock, Soft rock
Length 3:14
Label Grunt
Writer(s) Jesse Barish
Jefferson Starship singles chronology
"St. Charles"
(1976)
"Count On Me"
(1978)
"Runaway"
(1978)

"Count On Me" is a 1978 song and single by Jefferson Starship written by Jesse Barish for the album Earth.[1] The single, in lighter rock mode, gave Starship another US Top 10 hit after "Miracles".[2][3]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1978) Peak
position
Canada (RPM) 9
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[4] 24
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[5] 8
U.S. Adult Contemporary 15

Year-end charts

Chart (1978) Rank
Canada [6] 73
U.S. Billboard [7] 66

Cover versions

References

  1. Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs 2014 - Page 64 "COUNT ON ME Artist: Jefferson Starship Written by: Jesse Barish From the album: Earth Label: Grunt Produced by: Larry Cox, Jefferson Starship Year: 1978 Entering their arena rock phase. "
  2. 1000 UK Number One Hits 0857123602 Jon Kutner - 2010 "In 1971 after a change in the line-up they renamed themselves Jefferson Starship and had US Top 10 hits with, 'Miracles' and 'Count On Me'. "
  3. Colin Larkin The Encyclopedia of Popular Music 2011- Page 390 "Spitfire and Earth continued the Jefferson Starship's success, although the band had now become a hard rock outfit. Balin's lighter 'Count On Me' was a US Top 10 hit in 1978.
  4. "Charts.org.nz – Starship – Miracles". Top 40 Singles.
  5. "Miracles - Starship". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
  6. Bac-lac.gc.ca
  7. http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1978.htm
  8. "Marty Balin, Marty Balin Greatest Hits". Retrieved November 25, 2016.

External links


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