"Rush Hour" is one of the few successful singles by Jane Weidlin released in July 1988, original version taken from the album FUR. This is the super rare 12" extended remix version.
Format 7", 12", CD, cassette
Label EMI-Manhattan Records
Writer(s) Jane Wiedlin, Peter Rafelson
Producer(s) Stephen Hague
Peak chart positions
#9 (USA)
#12 (UK)
Jane Wiedlin singles chronology
"Blue Kiss" (1985)
"Rush Hour" (1988)
"Inside a Dream" (1988)
This single was backed by a fellow album track, the percussive, melancholy "End of Love". The 12" single featured an extended remix by Rusty Garner and an instrumental version.
"Rush Hour" was Wiedlin's most successful single, reaching the Top 10 in the USA and the Top 20 in Britain. The song is upbeat and features a mainly programmed backing, with an electric guitar solo. Its central hook is "Oooh you send me".
The music video which accompanied the single eschewed the traffic metaphor of the song for a lighter concept; a simple "performance" clip interspersed with footage of Wiedlin swimming with dolphins.
A cover version by Joyrider was heard in the closing seconds of the last episode in the second series of This Life, in 1997. The original was recently remixed by a team of producers including James Hockley and Ed Lucas, as well as two unnamed but "well known" music industry figures, under the moniker "SJB". This mix was featured on the Ministry of Sound 2007 Annual.
Tags: belinda carlisle go-gos circle sand leave light heaven place on earth get weak
