# Why was Jessie's Girl So Amazing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-jessies-girl-so-amazing/552349 "2010-09-02T04:45:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-jessies-girl-so-amazing/552349/21 "2010-09-02T15:56:02Z")
For some reason I had it in my head that this song was a response to another song in which a woman went on about her love for Jessie. I have no idea where that came from. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-jessies-girl-so-amazing/552349/22 "2010-09-02T16:04:32Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Because the singer is gay and wants to be Jessie’s catcher. Y’know, I have always gotten a gay vibe from that song. Maybe it’s the “Ain’t that the way love’s supposed to be?” line–the guy’s going through the motions of attraction because it’s a role, not because he wants to. At least that’s how the song has always struck me. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-jessies-girl-so-amazing/552349/23 "2010-09-02T16:19:53Z")
From the horse’s mouth (so to speak): > [@RickSpringfield](#): > > I don’t know her name. Actually, it was a brief relationship I had when I was making stained glass for a while. I was going to a stained glass class in Pasadena, and I met this guy and his girlfriend. I was completely turned on to his girlfriend, but she was just not interested. So I had a lot of sexual angst, and I went home and wrote a song about it. Then about 4 months later I stopped going to the class and lost contact with them. The only thing I remember is his name was Gary, so I changed the name, because “Gary” didn’t sing very well. But the whole thing is absolutely what I was feeling. He was getting it and I wasn’t, and it was really tearing me up. And sexual angst is an amazing motivator to write a song. Actually, Oprah’s people tried to find her, and they got as far back as finding the stained glass guy. I couldn’t remember his name, but I said it was late ‘70s; they found him, and he had died 2 years earlier, and they’d thrown all his papers out a year after that. So we missed finding out who she was by a year. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-jessies-girl-so-amazing/552349/24 "2010-09-02T16:35:22Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > > [@JThunder](#): > > > > Like Jessie’s girl? > > I know I wish I could find a woman like that. This post is a guitar solo. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-jessies-girl-so-amazing/552349/25 "2010-09-02T19:59:50Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > It’s hard to define. It ain’t hard to define. He = Has girl. Me = Want to make her, or someone like her, mine. > [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Because the singer is gay and wants to be Jessie’s catcher. So it’s all just a charade? Something to play along with? Well, can you think of a reason not to? Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-jessies-girl-so-amazing/552349/26 "2010-09-03T03:10:53Z")
Maybe she’s bipolar. (Or is it borderline.) What man could resist? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-jessies-girl-so-amazing/552349/27 "2010-09-03T03:29:24Z")
Years after the original release, the song gained far greater meaning for me when I started thinking of Jessie as [Uncle Jesse from “Full House” and, as follows, “Jess(i)e’s Girl” became Lori Loughlin.](http://tv.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/becky-donaldson2.jpg) Lori Loughlin. Yum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-jessies-girl-so-amazing/552349.md?page=1)