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"Jeanny" is a song by Austrian singer Falco, released in December 1985 as the third single from his third studio album, Falco 3 (1985). [1] It was written and composed by Falco and Rob and Ferdi Bolland, who also produced the song.
The song was positively received by critics. In her review of Hot Fuss, Jenny Eliscu of Rolling Stone highlighted "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" as sounding like "classic Duran Duran, all snaking bass lines and Flowers' elegantly wasted vocals — part ironic detachment, part fake-British-accent, part throat-shredding wail."
"Jeanny", the third release from the album Falco 3, brought the performer back to the top of the charts across Europe. Highly controversial when it was released in Germany and the Netherlands, the story of "Jeanny" was told from the point of view of a possible rapist and murderer.
The lyrics allude to a permanent separation. [1] "Jeanie" was a notorious beneficiary of the ASCAP boycott of 1941, a dispute caused by ASCAP increasing its licensing fees. During this period, radio broadcasters played only public-domain music or songs licensed by ASCAP rival BMI.
"Little Jeannie" reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, becoming the singer's biggest US hit since 1976's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (a duet with singer Kiki Dee), and his highest-charting solo hit since 1975's "Island Girl".
Marilyn Jeanne Seely (born July 6, 1940) [1] is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and author. Primarily identified with country music, Seely found success with the Grammy Award-winning song "Don't Touch Me" (1966).
According to Chubby Cherry, this was one of the songs she wrote before forming Studio Killers. And was inspired by a crush Cherry had on a person named Jenny. She said the lyrics "sort of changed along the way because [Goldie Foxx and Dyna Mink] added some of their feelings with my feelings and it became kind of intriguing."
"Jenny" is a song from American rock band Nothing More. As the third single from their self titled album, the song discusses the struggles with mental illness that Jenna, the sister of Nothing More lead vocalist Jonny Hawkins, has. [3]