# It's not "Jessies girl"..its not "My Best Friends Girlfriend"...what is it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2009, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563 "2009-01-16T05:24:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/21 "2009-01-16T17:34:33Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > I wish that I was Uncle Jessie’s Girl by Dave Coulier? **splort** ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/22 "2009-01-17T20:47:14Z")
Joe Jackson “Is She Really Going Out with Him?”? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/23 "2009-01-17T21:03:21Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > “Rio” by Duraan Duran > > ::: G, D, & R ::: You’re a bad man. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/24 "2009-01-17T21:27:06Z")
“Jane’s Getting Serious” by Jon Astley? > **[Jon Astley – Jane's Getting Serious | All The Lyrics](http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/jon_astley/janes_getting_serious-lyrics-421706.html)** > > Jon Astley - Jane's Getting Serious lyrics: I like get out > With my partner in crime > We love to dress up > And have ourselves a good time > We ha ... ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/25 "2009-01-17T23:15:21Z")
> [@Momofgirls](#): > > “Is She Really Going Out with Him?” by Joe Jackson? > > [Here’s the video.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Md-t6G-8QA) I love this song (and the whole album!). I saw him a couple years ago, and it was a wonderful concert. ---
**Author:** ![ready29003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@ready29003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ready29003)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/26 "2009-01-20T22:09:50Z")
awesome…I gotta check these all out when I get home see if anyone hit it. work blocks all these sites 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/27 "2009-01-21T00:03:56Z")
Girlfriend, by Wreckless Eric? Probably not, but I like that song. ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/28 "2009-01-21T00:56:44Z")
J. Geils Band - “Centerfold” ---
**Author:** ![uncle\_squeegee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b5e925/32.png) [@uncle\_squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uncle_squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/29 "2009-01-21T05:19:25Z")
[Other Guys’ Girls](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ6UkGh9AXM) by Dave Edmunds? ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/30 "2009-01-21T05:38:46Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > See the first four words of the thread title. Seriously. How does that even happen? Also, > [@elfkin477](#): > > Joe Jackson “Is She Really Going Out with Him?”? See the very first reply to the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/31 "2009-01-21T05:51:06Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > J. Geils Band - “Centerfold” Doubtful - there were no other guys mentioned in the lyrics. Unless you want to talk about the “unseen and unacknowledged” presence of Hefner/Guccione, which is a stretch. ---
**Author:** ![ready29003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@ready29003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ready29003)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/32 "2009-01-21T06:25:58Z")
Thanks BigBadWolf! You were right! It was Jessie’s girl! Thanks! ok… I think its actually Somebody’s Baby! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/33 "2009-01-21T18:45:20Z")
“Somebody’s Baby” was one of the songs played in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, so it tends to be one of those songs that everyone’s heard, but no one can remember anything about. ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/34 "2009-01-22T02:07:20Z")
Could it be Glenn Freys’s “Sexy Girl” ? It’s kinda similar to “Somebody’s Baby”. ---
**Author:** ![Momofgirls](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/momofgirls/32/21798_2.png) [@Momofgirls](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Momofgirls)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/35 "2009-01-22T04:38:49Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > “Rio” by Duraan Duran > > ::: G, D, & R ::: After having that song on my brain on a constant loop while reading Andy Taylor’s autobiography, I finally got rid of it by making it my ringtone. It really helped! Maybe I’ve discovered the cure for earworms. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Momofgirls](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/momofgirls/32/21798_2.png) [@Momofgirls](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Momofgirls)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/36 "2009-01-22T04:40:17Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > I love this song (and the whole album!). I saw him a couple years ago, and it was a wonderful concert. I loved Joe Jackson back in the 80s. So different from the new wave stuff going on around him. I’d love to see him live. “Steppin’ Out” immediately whisks me back to 1982/83. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/37 "2009-01-25T02:49:05Z")
“Somebody’s Baby” by Jackson Browne? Isn’t the point of that song that the girl doesn’t have a boyfriend? ---
**Author:** ![Book\_it](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Book\_it](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Book_it)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/38 "2009-01-25T03:05:43Z")
“What’s he got, that I ain’t got” The Producers ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/39 "2009-01-25T03:28:56Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > [Jenny](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny) by Tommy Tutone? That’s about finding one of those “For a good time call 867-5309” type messages on some rest-room wall. No knowing if this is someone’s girlfriend or not. (Love that song, BTW!) ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563/40 "2013-08-25T10:29:52Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > “[I Got a Girl](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy1dezyKAwI)” by Tripping Daisy? It’s definitely this song [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-jessies-girl-its-not-my-best-friends-girlfriend-what-is-it/481563.md?page=3)