Robbed hit of the week 6/15/15 - Gregg Allman's "I'm No Angel"...

"I'm No Angel" - The Gregg Allman Band
from the album I'm No Angel (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #49

This week's "robbed hit" comes from keyboardist, guitarist and singer Gregg Allman, who with his brother Duane formed one of the most revered southern rock jam bands of all time, the Allman Brothers Band, in the late 60s. Releasing their self-titled debut album in 1969, it took until their second to have a single nick the charts with "Revival (Love Is Everywhere)" stopping at #92 in 1971. After that they released a studio with the partly live Eat A Peach and totally live At Fillmore East that appear on Rolling Stone magazine's top 500 albums of the rock and roll era. With a growing fanbase buying their albums by the droves, finally pop radio caught on, and their 1973 single "Ramblin' Man" made it all the way to the runner-up spot on Billboard's Hot 100. The same year, Gregg released a solo album, Laid Back, and re-recorded his band's track "Midnight Rider" to bigger success, peaking at #19 on the pop chart. As disco took over the American pop radio airwaves, the band's albums did much better than their singles, though they again popped into the top 40 in 1979 with "Crazy Love" and again in 1981 with "Straight From The Heart". He was more known by younger Americans as that guy who married Cher for a brief moment in 1977.

In 1986, while the Allman Brothers Band were broken up, Gregg released his fifth solo record I'm No Angel. The title track returned him to the radio, where rock station ate up the country-rock rebuttal to the new-wave movement...

While "I'm No Angel" went all the way to #1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks radio chart, the song stopped at the halfway point on the Hot 100 at #49. It would be his last trip on the pop list, though the album's follow-up single, "Anything Goes", managed to make it to #3 on the rock radio chart. His next album, Just Before The Bullets Fly, also placed a single at #3 on the rock chart with "Can't Get Over You". Gregg re-formed the Allman Brothers Band in 1989, releasing a popular box set retrospective with Dreams, and following that with a #1 rock hit with "Good Clean Fun". Two more top ten rock hits followed with "No One To Run With" coming out in 1994. Their most recent studio album in 2003 scored a #37 hit with "Firing Line". The Band again decided to end in 2014.

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Proving no hard feelings, Gregg's ex Cher opened one of her tours with the song in 1989...

and here's Gregg on the Letterman Show promoting the song...

and from a solo show in 2013...