It was his first Top 20 pop hit of the ‘90s and the next-to-last of his great career. Tenenbaum recalls, proudly: “MCA’s great promotion team took it to #1 on the album rock chart and to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. Tenenbaum was awarded this RIAA plaque, representing the first 2 million in sales “Tony then said Tom had a great idea for a video for ‘Something in the Air’ and wasn’t sure he could come up with as good a video for ‘Mary Jane’s Last Dance.’ I told him, ‘You don’t choose singles based on whether you have a good video idea’.”

I said it was a great song and I thought we could get it played as easily as their choice. Tony asked if I thought we could get ‘Mary Jane’s Last Dance’ played. “I also pointed out that the Thunderclap Newman song hadn’t been a massive hit here. With them Indiana boys on an Indiana night Had a good lookin’ mama who never was aroundīut she grew up tall and she grew up right The president of the label agreed and joined in the argument.” And that’s why I argued for ‘Mary Jane’s Last Dance’ to be the single. I cared what happened after we got it played. “I told his manager, Tony Dimitriades, that I didn’t care how easily we could get a song played. “Tom felt that since it was already familiar at AOR, we could get it played easily,” says Tenenbaum. The Heartbreakers had been performing it on tour several years earlier. Although it was a hit in the U.K., where it reached #1, it stalled at just #37 in the U.S. The original recording by Thunderclap Newman, and produced by Pete Townshend, was released in 1969.

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