Jane (Jefferson Starship song)

"Jane"
Single by Jefferson Starship
from the album Freedom at Point Zero
B-side "Freedom at Point Zero"
Released October 1979
Format Single
Genre Rock, Pop
Length 4:00
Label Grunt
Songwriter(s) David Freiberg, Jim McPherson, Craig Chaquico, Paul Kantner
Producer(s) Ron Nevison
Jefferson Starship singles chronology
"Light the Sky on Fire"
(1978)		 "Jane"
(1979)		 "Girl With the Hungry Eyes"
(1980)

"Light the Sky on Fire"
(1978)		 "Jane"
(1979)		 "Girl With the Hungry Eyes"
(1980)

"Jane" is a 1979 song by Jefferson Starship from the album Freedom at Point Zero. The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at #14, and spent three weeks at #6 on the Cash Box Top 100.[1] In Canada, the song peaked at #13.[2]

It is one of the few songs that was performed live by both the David Freiberg-led Jefferson Starship and the Mickey Thomas-led Starship.

Chart history

Later uses

GQ in 2015 said it was a "perfect, complex, trash-gem of work of art."[8]

It was used as the opening music to the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer[8] and all the opening sequences in Netflix prequel series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.[8] It is also used in the sequel series Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later.

"Jane" was featured in the 2009 video game Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned. In October 2015, the song was released for Rock Band 4. It is used by pro wrestler Orange Cassidy as his ring entrance music.

References

  1. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 1/12/80". 14 April 2012. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  3. ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  4. ↑ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, January 12, 1980
  5. ↑ "Top 100 Singles (1979)". RPM (magazine). Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  6. ↑ "Top 100 Singles (1980)". RPM (magazine). Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  7. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
  8. 1 2 3 Lange, Maggie (August 3, 2015). "An Ode to Wet Hot American Summer's Absurd Theme Song". GQ.
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