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The song, performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, was released as the B-side of the 1984 single "Cover Me". [3] Springsteen slightly rewrote it to replace a Waits line about "whores on Eighth Avenue" with "the girls out on the avenue", and added a verse about taking "that little brat of yours and drop[ping] her off at your mom's" [4] (This line was originally written for "Party ...
Bruce Springsteen performed "Jersey Girl" with Waits on August 24, 1981, and included it on his retrospective "Live/1975–85". [372] In 1987, he joined Springsteen, Elvis Costello, k. d. lang and others in a tribute to Roy Orbison at Los Angeles's Ambassador Hotel, filmed as Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night. [373]
Heartattack and Vine is the seventh studio album by Tom Waits, released on September 9, 1980, [1] and his final album to be released on the Asylum label. "On the Nickel" was recorded for the Ralph Waite film of the same name.
While Swordfishtrombones is widely credited as the Kathleen Brennan-inspired turning point in Waits’ career, he’d already met her while recording Heartattack and Vine, writing “Jersey Girl ...
[3] Waits performed the song, in truncated form, on the short-lived US television show, Fernwood 2 Night in 1977, during the promotion for Small Change. The appearance also included a short skit in interview form, premised on a broken-down tour bus, during which Waits asks to borrow money from hosts Martin Mull and Fred Willard.
Well, all except “Jersey Girl,” which I guess is two-thirds Tom Waits, and one-third Bruce. We picked songs from the albums I grew up hearing; “ Nebraska ,” “ Born in the USA ,” and ...
Billie Eilish seemed to arrive on the music scene almost fully formed. She had her own look (big, baggy clothes, eschewing the typical pop aesthetic) her own origin story (a homeschooled kid, the ...
Jersey Girl, an American romantic comedy starring Dylan McDermott and Jami Gertz Jersey Girl (2004 film) , an American romantic comedy starring Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler "Jersey Girl" (song) , a song composed and originally sung by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits