Watermelon Man (track)
by Herbie Hancock
Year: 1962
From the album Takin' Off (track #1)
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Watermelon Man appears on the following album(s) by Herbie Hancock:
- Head Hunters (track #2) (1973)
- Flood (track #4) (1975)
- Takin' Off (track #1) (this album) (1962)
- Cantaloupe Island (track #2) (compilation) (1994)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 04/20/2026 23:29 | daCritic | 36,022 | 75/100 | |
| 02/15/2026 10:07 | Johnnyo | 43,546 | 80/100 | |
| 12/21/2025 00:30 | Exist-en-ciel | 100,912 | 71/100 | |
| 05/25/2024 15:41 | phmusic | 62,898 | 100/100 | |
| 04/20/2024 03:29 |  AAL2014 | 36,837 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 4% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.9/100, a mean average of 81.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.1.
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Fischman 02/12/2017 23:42 | #185490
A signature Hancock tune! Everything it's cracked up to be and then some.
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