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"Jessie's Girl" is a song written and performed by Australian singer Rick Springfield. It was released on the album Working Class Dog , which was released in February 1981. [ 2 ] The song is about unrequited love and centres on a young man in love with his best friend's girlfriend.
The song reached number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, making it his second biggest hit in the US after the number-one hit, "Jessie's Girl". It was kept off the top spot by "Ebony and Ivory" by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Springfield was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance with the song in 1983.
The music video for "Jessie's Girl" achieved regular rotation on VH1 in 2005. [2] The music video was directed by Bill Fishman from a concept by David Herrera (music video director). Frickin' A was featured on Boston's Kiss 108 2004 Jingle Ball Christmas concert. [ 3 ]
The dog was Springfield’s pet named Ronnie, and he briefly cameoed in the music video for "Jessie's Girl". Ronnie would later be featured in the cover art of his owner's next album Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet. Working Class Dog's cover (credited to Mike Doud) was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Album Package" in 1981. [6]
"Jessie" is a song by American singer-songwriter Joshua Kadison, released in April 1993 by SBK Records as the debut and lead single from the singer's first album, Painted Desert Serenade (1993). The song was written by Kadison, and produced by Peter Van Hooke and Rod Argent .
Because of this being Springfield's only top 40 single in the UK, he is considered a one-hit wonder there, despite the fact that "Jessie's Girl" is his biggest hit worldwide. However, that song only peaked at No. 43 in 1984 for Springfield, 3 years after its first release in the UK.
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"China Girl" is a song written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie in 1976, and first released by Pop on his debut solo album, The Idiot (1977). Inspired by an affair Pop had with a Vietnamese woman, the lyrics tell a story of unrequited love for the protagonist's Asian girlfriend, realizing by the end that his Western influences are corrupting her.