Jane (Barenaked Ladies song)

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"Jane"
Jane single.jpg
Single by Barenaked Ladies
from the album Maybe You Should Drive
ReleasedOctober 11, 1994 (1994-10-11) (US) [1]
Length4:04
Label Reprise
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Ben Mink
Barenaked Ladies singles chronology
"If I Had $1000000"
(1992)		"Jane"
(1994)		"Alternative Girlfriend"
(1995)

"Jane" is a song by Barenaked Ladies from their 1994 album Maybe You Should Drive . The song was written by Stephen Duffy and Steven Page. The single release included the album version of "Jane", a live version of "What a Good Boy", and the Buck Naked version of "Great Provider". "Jane" reached number three on Canada's RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, topped the RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart for four weeks, and ended 1994 as the country's 17th-best-selling single. The song later appeared on their 2001 compilation Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits .

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Background

The title character is "Jane St. Clair", named after the intersection of Jane Street and St. Clair Avenue in Toronto. Steven Page recalls that co-writer Stephen Duffy saw the intersection on a map and remarked that it sounded like the most beautiful intersection in the world; Page "didn't wanna break his heart to tell him it wasn't." Page was also noted to have said, "the next song I'm gonna write is gonna be called Markham Ellesmere", the major suburban intersection of Markham Road and Ellesmere Road, which is close to where Page grew up in the Scarborough section of Toronto.

Page admits that the line "No Juliana next to my Evan" "dates [the song] a bit, [but] it still sounds pretty to me today." [2] [3]

Personnel

Charts

References

  1. ↑ "Singles released in the US:". bnlmusic.com. Archived from the original on October 13, 1999. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
  2. ↑ Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits. Liner notes. 2001.
  3. ↑ Robbins, Ira. "Barenaked Ladies". Trouser Press . Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 2613." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 2600." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1994". RPM . Library and Archives Canada . Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  7. ↑ "RPM Top 100 AC Tracks of 1994". RPM . Library and Archives Canada . Retrieved April 8, 2019.


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