The iconic song was also notoriously difficult for Mellencamp and his band to record. He said the notable clapping on the song was put there initially just to help everyone stay in time and manage the time changes. He also added about the song, "When I play it on guitar by myself, it sounds great; but I could never get the band to play along with me. That's why the arrangement's so weird. Stopping and starting, it's not very musical."
"Originally the line was Jack was not a football star, Jack was an African-American. In 1982, when I turned the song in to the record company, they went, ‘Whoa, can’t you make him something other than that?’
“And they said, ‘No, no, no, no.’ … So, anyway, through much debate and me being young, I said, ‘Okay, we’ll make him a football star.'"
The song spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard chart upon release in October of 1982. The publication said of the single, "The hooks here are in the storyline, which traces a blue collar romance 'in the heartland' where Cougar hails from, capped by taut guitar and percussion."
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