About the Album
Dawn Patrol is the debut album by Night Ranger released in 1982. The band was named Ranger during the recording of the album. The first issues of the album were printed and ready to be shipped when it was discovered that there was a country band from California with the same name. The band decided to name themselves Night Ranger after the song that Blades had written for the album. The record company destroyed the copies with the band name Ranger. “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me”, the first single/ video was on heavy rotation on MTV and reached #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart. The second single/video, “Sing Me Away” peaked at #54 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and at #39 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart in the late spring of 1983.
