Jane (Jefferson Starship song) explained
| Jane |
| Cover: | Jane_-_Jefferson_Starship.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Jefferson Starship |
| Album: | Freedom at Point Zero |
| B-Side: | Freedom at Point Zero |
| Released: | October 1979 |
| Genre: | Hard rock |
| Length: | 4:00 |
| Label: | Grunt |
| Producer: | Ron Nevison |
| Prev Title: | Light the Sky on Fire |
| Prev Year: | 1978 |
| Next Title: | Girl With the Hungry Eyes |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
"Jane" is a song by American rock band Jefferson Starship, released on their 1979 album Freedom at Point Zero. The song peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 at No. 14 and spent three weeks at No. 6 on the Cash Box Top 100.[1] In Canada, the song peaked at No. 13.[2] Billboard Magazine described "Jane" as "a fiery track paced by stinging guitars and some burning rhythm work."[3] Cash Box described it as "an explosive rocker, with slashing guitars."[4] Record World called it a "driving rocker" and praised Mickey Thomas' vocals.[5] GQ in 2015 said it was a "perfect, complex, trash-gem work of art."
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In popular culture
- The song was used as the opening music to the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer[10] and in the opening sequences of the Netflix prequel series .[10]
- The song is used in the opening sequence of 2023 film Cocaine Bear (a reference to Wet Hot American Summer, in which Cocaine Bears director, Elizabeth Banks, starred).
- "Jane" has been used as the official entrance song of professional wrestler Orange Cassidy from 2022 to 2024. (This usage is also a reference to Wet Hot American Summer, as Cassidy's wrestling persona is partially based upon 'Andy', a character portrayed in the film by Paul Rudd.)
Notes and References
- Web site: Cash Box Top 100 1/12/80. 12 January 1980. 28 January 2020. 22 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200222225120/http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19800112.html. live.
- Web site: Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada . Bac-lac.gc.ca . 17 July 2013 . 2016-10-15 . 2016-10-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161006104120/http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.9477a&URLjpg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2Fobj%2F028020%2Ff4%2Fnlc008388.9477a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.9477a . live .
- News: Top Single Picks. Billboard Magazine. 2020-07-07. October 27, 1979. 88. 2020-07-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20200708070004/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1979/Billboard%201979-10-27.pdf. live.
- News: CashBox Singles Reviews. October 27, 1979. 24. Cash Box. 2022-01-01.
- Record World. November 3, 1979. 2023-02-11. Hits of the Week. 1.
- Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 154.
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 -
- Top 100 Singles (1979) . . 2018-02-10 . 2016-10-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161006074449/http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6855b&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6855b.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6855b . live .
- Top 100 Singles (1980) . . 2017-07-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160425051319/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.0272&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=mhe12pta2k83e08udtq66ot062 . 2016-04-25 . dead .
- An Ode to Wet Hot American Summer's Absurd Theme Song . Lange . Maggie . August 3, 2015 . . September 29, 2018 . September 29, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180929233336/https://www.gq.com/story/wet-hot-american-summer-jane-jefferson-starship-great . live .
