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Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: # 398: ” Uncle John’s Band”- The Grateful Dead. August 8, 1970.
- Single: “Uncle John’s Band”- The Grateful Dead
- Record Company- Warner Bros
- Genre: Folk
- Written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter
- Time: 3:07
- B-side: “New Speedway Boogie”
- Album- Workingman’s Dead
- Grade: A+
- Peaked at #69 7 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
The Grateful Dead- were never a singles band- they had 6 Hot 100 singles in their long career- with 1 cracking the Top 40- “Touch Of Grey” #9 1987. “Uncle John’s Band” is my all time favorite Dead song.
Wo-oh what I want to know, how does the song go?