<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Golden Rainbow" (1972) </Td> <Td> "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" (1972) </Td> <Td> "Jimmy Loves Mary - Anne" (1973) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Golden Rainbow" (1972) </Td> <Td> "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" (1972) </Td> <Td> "Jimmy Loves Mary - Anne" (1973) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" is a 1972 song written and composed by Elliot Lurie and recorded by Lurie's band, Looking Glass, on their debut album Looking Glass . The single reached number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100 charts, remaining in the top position for one week . It reached number two on the former chart for four weeks, stuck behind Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)", before reaching number one, only for "Brandy" to be dethroned by "Alone Again (Naturally)" the week after . Billboard ranked it as the 12th song of 1972 . Horns and strings were arranged by Larry Fallon . </P> <P> The lyrics tell of Brandy, a barmaid in a busy western seaport harbor town which serves "a hundred ships a day ." Though lonely sailors flirt with her, she pines for one who's long since left her because he claimed his life, his love, and his lady, was "the sea ." </P>

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