1981 Summer Song

1981 "Jessie's Girl" Rick Springfield

The song was slow to break out. It debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 chart on March 28th but took 19 weeks to hit #1, one of the slowest climbs to No. 1 at that time. It spent two weeks at #1 and was the #1 song when MTV made its debut on August 1st.

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