# Jackie Blue

"jackie blue" is a track recorded by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils for their second album It'll Shine When It Shines released in 1974: released as a single in February 1975 - subsequent to the album's unsuccessful lead single "Look Away" - "jackie blue" became the band's second Top 40 hit - their 1974 debut single "If You Wanna Get to Heaven" having reached #25 - and easily their career record, reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 while spending two weeks at #1 (May 10–17, 1975) on the Cashbox Singles Chart. It was also a hit internationally: #2 in Canada, #9 in New Zealand, #10 in South Africa, and #27 in Australia. == Background == Ozark Mountain Daredevils drummer Larry Lee wrote "jackie blue" - inspired by a male drug dealer and bartender (he later remarked he never saw him during the day) who he'd once known - in embryonic form at Nixa Trout Farm, where the Daredevils conceived and rehearsed the songs for their album It'll Shine When It Shines in the final months of 1973.