Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield Guitar FC (Guitar Hero On Tour) Nintendo DS HD Gameplay
4My Thoughts On The Song/Chart: Fun fact: A Wavegroup Cover of this song appears on the "Guitar Hero Recordings 2008" album from WaveGroup, which featured their covers from GH3 and GHA. However, this was never used in an actual Guitar Hero game.
This game and GHWT (DLC) used the original version of the song, and it would also later appear on "Rock Band Blitz"
Song Facts:
"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. The song is about unrequited love and centres on a young man in love with his best friend's girlfriend.
Upon its release in the United States in 1981, "Jessie's Girl" was slow to break out. It debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 chart on 28 March but took 19 weeks to hit No. 1 reaching that position on 1 August, one of the slowest climbs to No. 1 at that time. It remained in that position for two weeks and would be Springfield's only No. 1 hit. The song was at No. 1 when MTV launched on 1 August 1981. The song ultimately spent 32 weeks on the chart. Billboard ranked it as No. 5 for all of 1981.
The song also peaked at No. 1 in Springfield's native Australia and later won him a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
"Jessie's Girl" was released in the United Kingdom in March 1984 and peaked at No. 43 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1984.
Record World said that "a strong rhythm guitar fuels the pop-rocker while Rick's determined vocal works the hook."
Springfield recorded an acoustic version of the song for his 1999 album, Karma.
In 2006, the song was named No. 20 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s"
In regards to the song's use in films such as Boogie Nights (1997), 13 Going on 30 (2004), and Suicide Squad (2016) over 20 years after its original release, Springfield said, "I'm thrilled by it. As a writer, all you can ask is that a song has legs. It has an appeal that keeps coming back.
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