3,192
edits
Jenny: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| (4 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 28: | Line 28: | ||
'''"Jenny"''' is the 9th song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. [[Mark Eitzel]] recorded a live acoustic version for his 1991 ''[[Songs Of Love Live]]'' album, and a studio version re-made with [[Manolis Famellos]] and a group of Greek traditional musicians for 2003's ''[[The Ugly American]]''. | '''"Jenny"''' is the 9th song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s second album, 1988’s ''[[California]]''. [[Mark Eitzel]] recorded a live acoustic version for his 1991 ''[[Songs Of Love Live]]'' album, and a studio version re-made with [[Manolis Famellos]] and a group of Greek traditional musicians for 2003's ''[[The Ugly American]]''. | ||
In 1994 Eitzel told ''Melody Maker'', "Kathleen was pretty pissed off about 'Kathleen' but Jenny loved ' | In 1989 Eitzel said "'Jenny' is a true story about somebody. She was at a party and everyone was wearing black and all these guys were picking up on her and necking, so she said 'Ok' and they were drunk and she was confused and by the end of the party.....I knew where she was coming from, but I wasn't anything to do with her. I was just going to write her song."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://americanmusicclub.com/index.php?title=Articles:Unhinged_-_Winter_1989 | work=Unhinged | date=Winter 1989 | author=Drew | title=American Music Club | accessdate=March 27, 2018}}</ref> | ||
In 1994 Eitzel told ''Melody Maker'', "Kathleen was pretty pissed off about 'Kathleen' but Jenny loved 'Jenny'. But, after 'Kathleen', I learnt not to make it so obvious, like, uh, not naming the song after them or anything. That was a bit of a pointer."<ref name="MM-94">{{cite magazine |last=Nicholls |first=Phil |date=September 3, 1994 |title=I'm An Ant |url=https://archivedmusicpress.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/caitlin-moran-interviews-american-music-club-3rd-september-1994.jpg |magazine=Melody Maker |location=London |publisher=IPC Media |access-date=January 16, 2018}}</ref> | |||
A limited edition split 7" single for "Jenny" was issued in 2013 by the Swiss club El Lokal for volume #6 of their R.E.S.P.E.C.T. magazine series, with Maria Doyle Kennedy & Kieran Kennedy on the b-side.<ref name="El Lokal">{{cite web | url=http://www.ellokal.ch/respect/noflash.php?magazine=6 | work=ellokal.ch | date=2013 | author= | title=R.E.S.P.E.C.T. #6 | accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref> These were given away briefly at the club. | |||
[[File:ME-jenny.jpg|300px|Cover of 2013 Swiss 7"]] | |||
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
| Line 74: | Line 80: | ||
* ''[[Songs Of Love Live]]'' <small>Mark Eitzel - live version</small> | * ''[[Songs Of Love Live]]'' <small>Mark Eitzel - live version</small> | ||
* ''[[The Ugly American]]'' <small>Mark Eitzel - alternate version</small> | * ''[[The Ugly American]]'' <small>Mark Eitzel - alternate version</small> | ||
* ''[[Solo Acoustic Live 2005-2007]]'' <small>Mark Eitzel - live version</small> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||