B-side "Wooly Eyes" Format 7" | Released July 1973 Recorded 1972 | |
Genre Jersey Shore sound, soft rock Length 3:25 (Single remix/edit)
3:37 (Album mix version) | ||
"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.
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.