Dear Jessie

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"Dear Jessie"
"Dear Jessie" cover
Single by Madonna
from the album Like a Prayer
Released December 2, 1989
Format 7" Single ,3" CD Single
Genre Pop
Length 4:21
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s) Madonna
Patrick Leonard
Madonna singles chronology
"Oh Father"
(1989)
"Dear Jessie"
(1989)
"Keep It Together"
(1990)

"Dear Jessie" is a single by Madonna released in December of 1989 in Europe, from the album Like A Prayer, (1989). The song was inspired by co-writer Patrick Leonard's daughter, Jessie.

The music video was made by Animation City. The video does not feature Madonna, except as an animated fairy.

The single sold strongly in the UK during the Christmas period peaking at #5 with sales in excess of 300,000.

The chorus of the song was used for the successful 1999 single "Dear Jessie" by a German eurodance-project called Rollergirl.

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