# Daisy Jane
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{{Short description|1975 song by America}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Daisy Jane
| image = Daisy jane by America US single side-A.png
| alt =
| caption = Side A of the US single
| type = single
| artist = [America](/source/America_(band))
| album = [Hearts](/source/Hearts_(America_album))
| B-side = Tomorrow
| released = July 2, 1975[{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=America&titel=Daisy+Jane&cat=s|title=America singles}}]
| format =
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = [Soft rock](/source/Soft_rock)
| length = {{Duration|m=3|s=07}}
| label = [Warner Bros.](/source/Warner_Bros._Records)
| writer = [Gerry Beckley](/source/Gerry_Beckley)
| producer = [George Martin](/source/George_Martin)
| prev_title = [Sister Golden Hair](/source/Sister_Golden_Hair)
| prev_year = 1975
| next_title = Woman Tonight
| next_year = 1975
}}
"'''Daisy Jane'''" is a song written by [Gerry Beckley](/source/Gerry_Beckley) of the band [America](/source/America_(band)), included on the band's 1975 album ''[Hearts](/source/Hearts_(America_album))''. Issued as that album's second single — following up the #1 hit "[Sister Golden Hair](/source/Sister_Golden_Hair)" — "Daisy Jane" reached #20 on the [''Billboard'' Hot 100](/source/Billboard_Hot_100), becoming the final Top 20 hit by the original three-member incarnation of America. On the [Easy Listening chart](/source/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)) the track reached #4.[{{cite web|url=http://musicvf.com/song.php?id=2127 |title=Daisy Jane (song by America) ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts |website=Musicvf.com |date=1975-07-19 |access-date=2016-10-10}}] In Canada, the chart peak of "Daisy Jane" was #16 on the Pop singles chart and #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart.[{{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4035a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4035a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4035a |title=Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada |website=Bac-lac.gc.ca |date=17 July 2013 |access-date=2016-10-10}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4037&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4037.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4037 |title=Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada |website=Bac-lac.gc.ca |date=17 July 2013 |access-date=2016-10-10}}]
The song's narrator indicates he's flying back to [Memphis](/source/Memphis%2C_Tennessee) in hopes of reconnecting with the girl he left behind "to roam the city". Beckley, who wrote the song at his cottage in East Sussex, has stated: "There was no such person as Daisy Jane and I had never even been to Memphis": Beckley believes that he likely drew the idea of writing a song entitled "Daisy Jane" from the [Nick Drake](/source/Nick_Drake) song "Hazey Jane".[{{cite web| url=http://blogcritics.org/music-review-america-here-and-now| title=Music Review: America – Here and Now| date=2 January 2007| publisher=BlogCritics.org| access-date=August 22, 2013}}]
''[Cash Box](/source/Cash_Box)'' called it "a tender rock ballad with [George Martin](/source/George_Martin)’s brilliant piano and string work in abundant evidence."[{{cite news|title=CashBox Singles Reviews|date=July 19, 1975|page=13|accessdate=2021-12-11|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1975/CB-1975-07-19.pdf|newspaper=Cash Box}}] ''[Record World](/source/Record_World)'' said that "the trio has never been hotter – nor smoother, for that matter."[{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=July 19, 1975|accessdate=2023-03-09|title=Hits of the Week|page=1|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/75/RW-1975-07-19.pdf}}]
The song features a solo cello.
Producer George Martin played the piano on the song.[
A Finnish rendering which retains the title "Daisy Jane" was recorded by [Reijo Karvonen](/source/Reijo_Karvonen) for his 1975 album ''Tulossa''.
The [Janet Jackson](/source/Janet_Jackson) track "[Let's Wait Awhile](/source/Let's_Wait_Awhile)" from her 1986 album ''[Control](/source/Control_(Janet_Jackson_album))'' has been described as "bear[ing] striking similarities" to "Daisy Jane".][{{cite book|title=Xscape Origins: the songs and stories Michael Jackson left behind| first=Damien| last=Shields| year=2015| publisher=Modegy LLC| location=Canton OH| isbn=978-0986199103}}] Reportedly on hearing "Let's Wait Awhile" on a car radio in 1987 - the track then being a current single - the road manager for the group America pulled over at a phone booth to alert Gerry Beckley to the evident debt of Jackson's track to Beckley's composition: eventually Beckley reached an out-of-court settlement with Jackson and her co-writers [Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis](/source/Jimmy_Jam_and_Terry_Lewis) thus preempting litigation for [plagiarism](/source/plagiarism).[{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=21292|title = NY Arts Magazine - Home| date=19 March 2015 }}] (The 2001 Janet Jackson album ''[All for You](/source/All_for_You_(Janet_Jackson_album))'' featured the track "[Someone to Call My Lover](/source/Someone_to_Call_My_Lover)" which overtly sampled the America hit "[Ventura Highway](/source/Ventura_Highway)" whose composer [Dewey Bunnell](/source/Dewey_Bunnell) received a co-write credit for Jackson's song.)
position
|-
| Canada Top Singles (''RPM'')[{{cite book| last = Whitburn| first = Joel| title = The Comparison Book Billboard/Cash Box/Record World 1954-1982| publisher = Sheridan Books| year = 2015| isbn = 978-0-89820-213-7|page=15}}]
| style="text-align:center"|27
|-
| US ''[Radio & Records](/source/Radio_%26_Records)''
| style="text-align:center"|16
|-
| US ''[Record World](/source/Record_World)''[{{cite book| last = Whitburn| first = Joel| title = The Comparison Book Billboard/Cash Box/Record World 1954-1982| publisher = Sheridan Books| year = 2015| isbn = 978-0-89820-213-7|page=15}}]
| style="text-align:center"|23
|}
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===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Chart (1975)
! Rank
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| Canada[{{cite web |url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4057b&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4057b.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4057b |title=Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada |website=Bac-lac.gc.ca |access-date=2016-10-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006110138/http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4057b&URLjpg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2Fobj%2F028020%2Ff4%2Fnlc008388.4057b.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4057b |archive-date=2016-10-06 }}]
| style="text-align:center;"|140
|}
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{YouTube|X2XjcWKQhJI|America - Daisy Jane}}
{{America (band)}}
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Category:1975 songs
Category:1975 singles
Category:America (band) songs
Category:Songs written by Gerry Beckley
Category:Warner Records singles
Category:Songs about Memphis, Tennessee
Category:Song recordings produced by George Martin
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