Jane (Jefferson Starship song)

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"Jane"
Song
B-side"Freedom at Point Zero"

"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.[citation needed]

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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  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. ^ a b c Lange, Maggie (August 3, 2015). "An Ode to Wet Hot American Summer's Absurd Theme Song". GQ. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)