Little Jeannie

Infobox Single
Name = Little Jeannie
Type = Single
Artist = Elton John
from Album = 21 at 33
B-side = "Conquer the Sun"


Released = May 1, 1980
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:46
Label = Rocket Records
Writer = Elton John / Gary Osborne
Producer = Elton John & Clive Franks
Chart position =

#33 (U.K.)

#3 (U.S.); #1 Adult Contemporary

Last single = Johnny B. Goode (1979)
This single = "Little Jeannie" (1980)
Next single = "Sartorial Eloquence (Don't Ya Wanna Play This Game No More?)" (1980)

"Little Jeannie" is a song by Elton John and Gary Osborne, recorded by John and released as a single in 1980; the song appears on John's album "21 at 33". It reached #3 on the Billboard pop chart in the United States, becoming the singer's biggest U.S. hit since 1976's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (a duet with singer Kiki Dee), and his highest-charting solo hit since 1975's "Island Girl". It also became John's fifth #1 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart, and it was certified gold by the RIAA. ["The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits", 6th Edition, 1996] The song can be described as an uptempo ballad. Instrumentally, it strongly resembles John's earlier hit "Daniel", with an electric piano and an acoustic guitar dominating the arrangement. Ironically, the later song features only one of the same instrumentalists--drummer Nigel Olsson--as the earlier song. Even the piano, played by John himself on "Daniel", is here played by James Newton-Howard.

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