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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 ]
Male background vocalists, some of whom also joined in on guitar and keyboards, included Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, JD Souther and Steven Soles. The female background vocalists were k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes, and Bonnie Raitt. During the end credits, several of the band members are shown talking about how ...
Within a year, Bruce Springsteen recorded “Jersey Girl” as a b-side and even invited Waits to join him onstage at one concert, an early sign that some big names were paying attention to this ...
The B-side of the single, "Jersey Girl", was a live performance of a Tom Waits song, recorded on July 9, 1981, at Meadowlands Arena. Springsteen had introduced the song earlier in that special River Tour homecoming stand that opened the arena, slightly rewriting it to replace a Waits line about "whores on Eighth Avenue" and adding a verse that ...
29 Tom Waits. The anti-hero as a rock star: Low-key, low-voiced, ... and the one who has no issue weaving in and out of appearances with dynamos like Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Roger Waters ...
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 ...
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.