JESSIE'S GIRL
Directed by Rick Springfield
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Oh my goodness, I remember this sooooo well.  The first time I saw Jessie's Girl was on lunch over at a friend's house.   I grew up in the country and we didn't have cable. <oh, the pain!!>  On lunches we would walk to her home and eat lunch while watching MTV.  I loved watching all the videos.  You can imagine how exciting I was to finally see the Jessie's Girl Video.  I was enthralled with it and I could barely take my eyes off of Rick the whole time.  I was watching him on GH but this seemed to really settle my huge teenage crush on Rick.  I remember thinking how forceful he smashed the guitar into the mirror and I loved him in the scene where Jessie and the girl are together and Rick is watching them.  It just made the song come alive and I wanted to reach in the tv, give him a hug and kiss.  <blushing!>

I think this video was great for Rick's first attempt.  It did as others did ~ it told the song's story and it cemented Rick's popularity with the millions of us.  =O)  

My first viewing of this one was on the Platinum Video's tape. Man was I broadcast challenged or what??? I did watch Night Tracks and those shows a lot, but it was after most of the earlier Rick Vids were played on there!  I don't think I really even "saw" the video the first couple of times I watched it. I saw Rick Springfield, that was IT. I couldn't have answered a single question about what else was in or happened in the video. He DID know how to work the camera with his eyes and he had me GLUED to them.:o)

Those bright, criss crossing lights behind him in the band stage scenes always bugged me! They were messing with my view of Rick! I love the shot at the end where Ron (and "Jessie" and his girl) is sitting out in the audience.

I don't really have a clear recollection of when I saw this for the first time, or what I thought. I was a huge watcher of MTV when it debuted, but   that was a couple of years later, so I don't even remember what type of   programs were playing videos back then. I do remember watching Night Tracks and Friday Night Videos, but I don't remember this video being something I saw a lot. Watching now, it's interesting to see the image that Rick chose to project. He's in a normal colored suit, instead of the crazy colors he came out with later. I actually think, for the money that was spent, it's a decent video. He sure knows how to play to a camera, in every way, so the acting was coming in handy, just in time for the boom of the video age.

Ok, my turn! I remember seeing this the 1st day MTV aired. Yep, I do. Don't ask me how old my brother is, or what the heck I gave my kids for breakfast yesterday, but I do remember this. I was one of those "lucky" kids who had cable and pretty cool parents. My dad and I watched the premiere of MTV, and
then when Rick came on almost immediately (remember, it was the #1 song the week MTV premiered) I remember bouncing around my living room singing it at the top of my lungs.

Rick looked so cool in his suit & tennies, looking exactly as he did on GH, but way sexier with the guitar! The guy playing Jessie was in the movie "The Last American Virgin" which was out in theatres at the time, so I was really impressed there was a real "star" in the video! LOL. (Ok I was 12...didn't take much to impress me!) I hadn't had the opportunity to see Rick in concert yet, so I was drinking in the stage performance, thinking that must be what it would be like to see him live.

My favorite part of this video though, is the end - which always seems to get cut off when anyone shows this video nowadays. It's Ronnie, sitting in the theatre, with his WCD shirt & tie on. I always thought that was so hilarious that Rick would include him in the video too...

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