Open All Night (song)
| "Open All Night" | ||||
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| Single by Bruce Springsteen | ||||
| from the album Nebraska | ||||
| B-side | "The Big Payback" | |||
| Released | November 1982[1] | |||
| Recorded | June 23, 1982 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock, rock and roll | |||
| Length | 2:58 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bruce Springsteen | |||
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"Open All Night" is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska.
History
[edit]Of the 10 songs on Nebraska, "Open All Night" is the only one to feature an electric guitar. With a Chuck Berry-style guitar riff, the song tells the story of an unnamed narrator's all-night drive across industrial New Jersey to reach his girl, Wanda, whom he met when she was a waitress at the Route 60 Bob's Big Boy.
"Open All Night" was released as a single in the UK, backed by "The Big Payback",[2] but did not chart. It was also released as a single in The Netherlands and Spain.[2] Though never released as a single in the United States,[2] it garnered enough album oriented rock airplay to reach #22 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Springsteen performed this song infrequently until the Sessions Band Tour of 2006, when it was transformed into an eight-minute "show-stopping rave-up" whose already surreal lyrics[3] were made more strange by being rapped against a big band swing arrangement and a pseudo-Andrews Sisters female backing vocal trio.[4][5][6] This is the version that appears on the Live in Dublin CD and DVD.
Jay Farrar of Son Volt recorded a version which was released in 2005 on A Retrospective: 1995–2000.
In November 2014 Pearl Jam covered the song in Lincoln, Nebraska.[7]
Personnel
[edit]According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon:[8]
- Bruce Springsteen – vocals, guitar
References
[edit]- ^ "Great Rock Discography". p. 773.
- ^ a b c "Discography: Vinyl 7 in.: Alphab. sort". Killing Floor. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- ^ Jeff Vrabel (2006-05-31). "Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band". PopMatters. Retrieved 2006-06-30.
- ^ Melissa Block (2006-04-26). "Springsteen Speaks: The Music of Pete Seeger". All Things Considered. NPR. Retrieved 2006-06-30.
- ^ Greg Kot (2006-06-16). "The Boss pulls off celebrating Seeger". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original (fee required) on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 2006-06-30.
- ^ Glenn Gamboa (2006-06-24). "Boss' folksy party is a hit-and-miss affair". Newsday. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013.
- ^ "Pearl Jam "Open All Night" Live in Lincoln Nebraska 10-9-2014". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
- ^ Margotin, Philippe; Guesdon, Jean-Michel (2020). Bruce Springsteen All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. London: Cassell Illustrated. p. 214. ISBN 978-1-78472-649-2.
