Jack & Diane Jack & Diane "Jack & Diane" is a 1982 hit rock song written and performed by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, then performing as "John Cougar." It appears on Mellencamp's album "American Fool". It was chosen by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as one of the Songs of the Century. The single spent four weeks at number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1982, and is Mellencamp's most successful hit single. According to Mellencamp, "Jack & Diane" was based on the 1962 Tennessee Williams film "Sweet Bird of Youth". He said of recording the song: "'Jack & Diane'
Jack Casey an opening on the Democratic ballot and his win accounted for one of the three seats picked up by the Democrats in the 1993 elections. In the Senate, Casey served on the Community Affairs Committee, the Economic Growth, Agriculture and Tourism Committee and the State Management, Investments and Financial Institutions Committee. Casey did not run for re-election in 1997, and in the Senate race that year Republican Diane Allen defeated the Democratic nominee Robert P. Broderick. Jack Casey John "Jack" Casey (born June 1, 1935) is an American Democratic Party politician who served one four-year term in the New Jersey