Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne

"Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" is a 1973 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 title is also spelled "Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann", for example, on the sleeve.

"Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne"
Single by Looking Glass
from the album Subway Serenade
B-side"Wooly Eyes"
ReleasedJuly 1973
Recorded1972
Length3:25 (Single remix/edit)
3:37 (Album mix version)
LabelEpic Records
Songwriter(s)Elliot Lurie
Producer(s)Arif Mardin
Looking Glass singles chronology
"Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"
(1972)		 "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne"
(1973)
Music video
Listen to "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" on YouTube

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.[1] It was a bigger hit in Canada, reaching number 21.[2]

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.

Chicago radio superstation WLS, which gave "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" much airplay, ranked the song as the 72nd biggest hit of 1973.[3] It peaked at number two on their survey of October 13, 1973.[4]

Chart performance

Cover versions

References
  1. Cash Box Top 100 Singles, September 2, 1973
  2. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  3. "WLS Musicradio Big 89 OF '73".
  4. WLS Forty-fives, October 13, 1976: Vol. 14, No. 1
  5. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  6. Cash Box Top 100 Singles, September 2, 1973
  7. Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-1993. Record Research. p. 143.
  8. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  9. "1973 Year End". Bullfrogspond.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
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