Jane (Jefferson Starship song)

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"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)

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Audio
"Jane" on YouTube

1979 single by Jefferson Starship

"Jane" is a song by American rock band Jefferson Starship, released on their 1979 album Freedom at Point Zero. The song peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 at No. 14 and spent three weeks at No. 6 on the Cash Box Top 100.[1] Billboard Magazine described "Jane" as "a fiery track paced by stinging guitars and some burning rhythm work."[2] Cash Box described it as "an explosive rocker, with slashing guitars."[3] Record World called it a "driving rocker" and praised Mickey Thomas' vocals.[4] GQ in 2015 said it was a "perfect, complex, trash-gem work of art."[5]

## Chart history

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### Weekly charts

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| Chart (1979–80)  | Peak
position

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Australia (Kent Music Report)[6] | 72
Canada RPM Top Singles  | 13
New Zealand (RIANZ)  | 18
UK Singles Chart | 21
US Billboard Hot 100[7] | 14
US Cash Box Top 100[1] | 6

### Year-end charts

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| Chart (1979)  | Rank

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Canada [8] | 172
Chart (1980)  | Rank

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Canada [9] | 86

## In popular culture

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* The song was used as the opening music to the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer[5] and in the opening sequences of the Netflix prequel series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.[5]
* The song is used in the opening sequence of 2023 film Cocaine Bear (a reference to Wet Hot American Summer, in which Cocaine Bear's director, Elizabeth Banks, starred).
* "Jane" has been used as the official entrance song of professional wrestler Orange Cassidy from 2022 to 2024, and again in 2025. (This usage is also a reference to Wet Hot American Summer, as Cassidy's wrestling persona is partially based upon 'Andy', a character portrayed in the film by Paul Rudd.)
* “Jane” appeared in the 2009 video game Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned on the in-game radio station Liberty Rock Radio.

## References

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1. ^ a b "Cash Box Top 100 1/12/80". 12 January 1980. Archived from the original on 22 February 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.<sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?
2. ^ "Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard Magazine. October 27, 1979. p. 88\. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
3. ^ "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. October 27, 1979. p. 24. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
4. ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. November 3, 1979. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
5. ^ a b c Lange, Maggie (August 3, 2015). "An Ode to Wet Hot American Summer's Absurd Theme Song". GQ. Archived from the original on September 29, 2018. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
6. ^ 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.
7. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 \- ISBN 0-89820-089-X
8. ^ "Top 100 Singles (1979)". RPM. Archived from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
9. ^ "Top 100 Singles (1980)". RPM. Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2017-07-21.

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