The song is pure bubblegum, pop magic and total power pop bliss at the same time. The lyrics are a little silly at times and it is strange that this old guy (he was in his 30’s at the time) was singing a song about teenagers, but he made it work.
Rick was lusting from afar, but at least we got a great song out of it. In fact, he states that the girl probably has no idea the song is about her. Rick was in a Stained Glass class with Gary and I guess saw the girl, but actually never met her or knew her name (or he is still protecting the innocent). His name was Gary and not Jessie as Rick was trying to protect the innocent. The song is about Rick’s friend’s girlfriend.
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I am sure that his TV popularity helped shoot this up the charts as women loved him and hoped to be Jessie’s Girl. We didn’t have a lot of TV options back in 1981. Noah Drake on the Daytime Soap of ‘General Hospital” which my mom watched which meant I had to watch it. Rick Springfield was everywhere and even on TV as he played Dr. Did you know, it was the #1 song in the country when MTV debuted!! The song was from the album “Working Class Dog” and helped catapult the album to Platinum status. The song went all the way to #1 and I believe is his only #1 song and garnered Rick a Grammy. It is an iconic song and one that screams The 80’s. " "I'm kind of trying to sell it to another network." Sadly, that didn't happen.For My Sunday Song #280 and the final of this 10 song set, we are talking about the 80’s classic “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield. "That kind of caught up in some kind of changeover of the top brass of MTV," Judge told Mandatory in 2014, by which time he'd moved on to "Silicon Valley. " The new "Beavis and Butt-Head" lasted just one season, lost in the chaos of a network changing-of-the guard.
Throw in another relative flop from Judge - the short-lived 2009 ABC cartoon "The Goode Family " - and the stars aligned for a full-scale revival of "Beavis and Butt-Head " on MTV in 2011.īut seeing as how MTV didn't much show music videos anymore, the guys had to provide snarky commentary on MTV reality shows like "Jersey Shore. Judge told Collider that during a marketing meeting for "Extract ," somebody came up with the idea of a promotional clip featuring Beavis and Butt-head "watching a scene and commenting about it on the couch." Judge had a silly animation of the duo in "'Masterpiece Theater'-style" ready to go, so that became a short film of Judge's oldest characters selling his latest movie.
MTV spokesperson Carole Robinson promised the network would "re-examine issues regarding "Beavis and Butt-Head, " which ultimately included removing all references to fire from past and future episodes of the show. "When you take a child in the formative years, and you get these cartoon characters saying it's fun to play with fire, this is going to stick in that kid's mind," area Fire Chief Harold Sigler told The New York Times. " Burk claimed to have recently caught her son playing with matches and removed his bedroom door so she could keep an eye on him. but the boy's two-year-old sister did not, and she died in the fire.īurk, along with local authorities, placed the blame for the tragedy on "Beavis and Butt-Head. The blaze quickly spread throughout his family's mobile home, and the kid and his mother, Darcy Burk, escaped. Then in October 1993, only about six months after "Beavis and Butt-Head" premiered on MTV, a five-year-old Ohio boy named Austin Messner got a hold of a lighter and set his bed on fire.
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