John Cougar "Jack & Diane" 1982

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The video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lWvcmgfcSg

Went to #1 on the Hot 100.

From the 5xp album American Fool.

[joker]

Good song... it's among my 5 favorites by him.

[WotUNeed]

I like a lot of Mellencamp, but this song not so much.

[shocker]

Not one of his better songs.

The problem with this one, though, is how it became way, way, way, way, way way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way too overplayed! Very monotonous.

[unicorns]

I like it but its overplayed.

[davidsask]

Bit to sing songy but reminds me of when kid and all lifegaurds at local pool singing it while playing.

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I like it.

[disman00911]

One of John Mellencamp's best songs though it does get overplayed on AC/classic hits/classic rock stations.  Jessica Simpson owns her career to this song.  Her 2000 hit "I Think I'm in Love" samples this song and that was my earliest memory of the original John Mellencamp song.

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Classic jam.

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40 years ago this week, Jack & Diane debuted at #69 on the July 24, 1982 Billboard Hot 100.

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#285 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: Just a little ditty that alternates power chords and acoustic riffs to tell Mellencamp’s enduring, though bittersweet, tale of “two American kids growin’ up in the heartland.”

These Words: During Mellencamp’s live shows, his fans, rather inexplicably, sing together with joy on the chorus: “Oh yeah, life goes on / Long after the thrill of livin’ is gone.” But the singer has said of the chorus that “coming to terms with failed expectations is what counts.”

Because of You: Mellencamp’s most successful single has helped anchor his annual performances at Farm Aid, which he co-founded with Willie Nelson and Neil Young in 1985, three years after the single’s release. Since then, the organization has raised more than $64 million to support America’s family farmers.