One Headlight
| "One Headlight" | ||||
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| Single by the Wallflowers | ||||
| from the album Bringing Down the Horse | ||||
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| Released | January 21, 1997 | |||
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| Label | Interscope | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jakob Dylan | |||
| Producer(s) | T Bone Burnett | |||
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| "One Headlight" on YouTube | ||||
"One Headlight" is a song by American rock band the Wallflowers. The song was written by lead singer Jakob Dylan, and produced by T Bone Burnett. It was released to radio in January 1997 as the second single and opening track from the band's second studio album, Bringing Down the Horse (1996).
The song was the first single to reach No. 1 on all three of Billboard's rock airplay charts: the Modern Rock Tracks chart, the Mainstream Rock Songs chart, and the Triple-A chart. "One Headlight" also stayed at No. 1 in Canada for five weeks. In 2000, the song was listed at No. 58 on Rolling Stone and MTV's list of the "100 Greatest Pop Songs of All Time", and Billboard ranked it as No. 1 on its 2021 list of the "Greatest Adult Alternative Songs".