Gudbuy T' Jane
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German/European cover of "Gudbuy T'Jane".
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| Single by Slade | |||||||||
| from the album Slayed? | |||||||||
| B-side | I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen | ||||||||
| Released | 17 November 1972 | ||||||||
| Format | 7" Single | ||||||||
| Genre | Glam rock, hard rock | ||||||||
| Length | 3:33 | ||||||||
| Label | Polydor Records | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Noddy Holder; Jim Lea | ||||||||
| Producer(s) | Chas Chandler | ||||||||
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"Gudbuy T' Jane" is a hit single from glam rock band Slade released in 1972. It was written by lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea and appeared on their album Slayed?. The single peaked at #2 in the UK, losing the number one spot to Chuck Berry's single My Ding-A-Ling. It did however, peak at #1 in the New Musical Express charts. Slade's two previous singles had charted at #1 in the UK. The single lasted 13 weeks in the top 100. It stayed in the top 10 from the moment it was released for 8 weeks. The single was also the most successful of Slade's 1970's singles in the United States, peaking at #68.
The single peaked at #1 on the NME singles chart.
The single was awarded a UK Silver Disc in early 1973.
In 1981, drummer Don Powell was asked in a fan club interview for his three favourite Slade songs. Powell stated "Far Far Away", "Standin' on the Corner" and "Gudbuy T'Jane" as his favourites.
The track was used, in slightly speeded-up form, during BBC2 comedy show The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer to introduce the "Slade in Residence" (Series 1) and "Slade on Holiday" (Series 2) segments.
At the time, the band were on tour and needed a follow up track to Mama Weer All Crazee Now. The idea came to Lea while he was sitting by a pool in San Diego. He completed it in the toilet in the plane on the flight home. Holder's lyrics came from a TV show he saw in San Francisco on which the band appeared, and on which a girl called Jane demonstrated a Sex Machine. Holder completed his lyrics just prior to the session. Holder's original lyrics were Hello To Jane. Jim decided that it would sound better as Goodbye To Jane when they went to record it. The loose feel of the record is explained by the fact this was Take 2 and the band had never played the song before until that day.
In a November 1980 Sounds magazine interview, Lea spoke of the song. "I didn't even like some of those old ones. We all hated 'Gudbye T' Jane' when we made it, it was knocked up in half an hour at the end of one of our studio sessions."
In a December 1984 interview with Record Mirror, the magazine tested Lea's memory by asking him to recall the story behind certain hits. For Gudbuy T'Jane, Lea stated "Was written by the side of a swimming pool in Fresno just outside San Francisco. I remember lying there one day on our afternoon off and Chas Chandler, who was our manager, said to me 'Jimmy, if you've got nothing to do - write a song cos there's money in it!'. Everyone else was messing about pissed and I was lying there bored, I'm always bored. So I thought right - write a song, go! I went 'Goodbye T'Jane, Goodbye T'Jane' and then we were flying back to finish off the 'Slayed?' album and I thought right, I need the next bit to that. I went and had a pee in the bog and I got all excited and sang it over and over, then suddenly I went 'I say you're so young', and it just blurted out. So that was it, finished at twenty thousand feet. Then when we eventually got into the studio we had the backing track done and Nod said 'right I've done the lyrics' and he went up and sang 'Hello T'Jane'. I'll never forget that, it was so funny."
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