Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne

"Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne"
Single by Looking Glass
from the album Subway Serenade
B-side "Wooly Eyes"
Released July 1973
Format 7"
Recorded 1972
Genre Jersey Shore sound, soft rock[1]
Length 3:25 (Single remix/edit)
3:37 (Album mix version)
Label Epic Records
Writer(s) Elliot Lurie
Producer(s) Arif Mardin
Looking Glass singles chronology
"Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"
(1972)		 "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne"
(1973)

"Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" is a 1973 pop 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 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-one hit, "Brandy." On the U.S. Cash Box Top 100, it peaked at number 31. It was a bigger hit in Canada, reaching number 21.

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 city life.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1973) Peak
position
Canadian RPM[2] 21
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 33
U.S. Cashbox Top 100[3] 31
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 16
U.S. Record World 22

Year-end charts

Chart (1973) Rank
Canada[4] 156
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[5] 204

Josie Cotton cover

Josie Cotton covered "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" in 1984. It was her second chart single in the U.S. Her version reached number 82 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

References

  1. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine (1998-04-28). "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) [Sony] - Looking Glass | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  2. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  5. ↑ "1973 Year End". Bullfrogspond.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.

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