| Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne | |
| Cover: | Jimmy loves mary-anne looking glass US single variant A.png |
| Alt: | side-A label |
| Caption: | One of side-A labels of the US single |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Looking Glass |
| Album: | Subway Serenade |
| B-Side: | "Wooly Eyes" |
| Released: | July 1973 |
| Recorded: | 1972 |
| Length: | 3:25 (Single remix/edit) 3:37 (Album mix version) |
| Label: | Epic Records |
| Producer: | Arif Mardin |
| Prev Title: | Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
"Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" is a 1973 song written and composed by Elliot Lurie and recorded by Lurie's band, Looking Glass. It was the first track on their second and final album, Subway Serenade. The title has also been spelled "Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann".
The lyrics speak of hard-knock life in the inner city. Jimmy and Mary-Anne fall in love and, although they are street wise, dream of running away together and escaping their dead-end life.
The single reached number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, remaining in that position for two weeks. It spent a total of 15 weeks on the chart, just one week less than their number 1 hit, "Brandy". On the U.S. Cash Box Top 100, it peaked at number 31.[1] It was a bigger hit in Canada, reaching number 21.[2]
| Chart (1973) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian RPM 100[3] | 21 | |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] | 33 | |
| U.S. Cash Box Top 100[5] | 31 | |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[6] | 16 | |
| U.S. Record World | 22 |
| Chart (1973) | Rank | |
|---|---|---|
| Canada[7] | 156 | |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[8] | 204 |
Chicago radio superstation WLS, which gave "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" much airplay, ranked the song as the 72nd biggest hit of 1973.[9] It peaked at number 2 on their survey of October 13, 1973.[10]
. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 . Joel Whitburn . 2013 . Record Research . 512.