Jane (Jefferson Starship song)

"Jane" is a 1979 song by Jefferson Starship from the album Freedom at Point Zero. The song peaked on the 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]

"Jane"
Single by Jefferson Starship
from the album Freedom at Point Zero
B-side	"Freedom at Point Zero"
Released	October 1979
Genre	Hard rock
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)

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

Weekly charts Chart (1979–80) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 72 Canada RPM Top Singles 13 New Zealand (RIANZ) 18 UK Singles Chart 21 US Billboard Hot 100[5] 14 US Cash Box Top 100[1] 6

Year-end charts Chart (1979) Rank Canada [6] 172 Chart (1980) Rank Canada [7] 86

In popular culture

• 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.
• It was featured in the 2009 video game Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned until April 2018 when Rockstar Games lost the Licensing to the song. In October 2015, the song was released for Rock Band 4.
• It is used by professional wrestler Orange Cassidy as his ring entrance music when he is on the independent circuit.

References

1. "Cash Box Top 100 1/12/80". 12 January 1980. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
2. "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
3. "Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard Magazine. October 27, 1979. p. 88. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 154. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
5. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
6. "Top 100 Singles (1979)". RPM. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
7. "Top 100 Singles (1980)". RPM. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
8. Lange, Maggie (August 3, 2015). "An Ode to Wet Hot American Summer's Absurd Theme Song". GQ.