"Rock Me on the Water" | ||||
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Single by Jackson Browne | ||||
from the album Jackson Browne | ||||
B-side | "Something Fine" | |||
Released | July 1972 | |||
Recorded | 1971 | |||
Genre | Soft rock[1] | |||
Length | 3:47 7" version; 4:13 album version | |||
Label | Asylum Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jackson Browne | |||
Producer(s) | Richard Sanford Orshoff | |||
Jackson Browne singles chronology | ||||
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"Rock Me on the Water" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, released as the second single from his 1972 debut album, Jackson Browne, following the No. 7 success of Browne's debut single, "Doctor, My Eyes". Browne's version reached No. 48 on Billboard's September 23, 1972, Hot 100 chart, spending nine weeks on that chart after debuting at No. 73 on August 5, 1972.[2][3][4] It was also released as a single in Canada, Germany and Japan, and as a promotional single in the United Kingdom.[5]