Open All Night (song)
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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
.
. 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 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", but did not chart. It was also released as a single in The Netherlands and Spain
. Though never released as a single in the United States, it garnered enough album oriented rock airplay to reached# 22 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks
chart.
The song shares a common lyrical structure and themes with two other Springsteen songs. The first is "State Trooper," also found on the Nebraska album. The other was "Living on the Edge of the World," recorded in 1979 but released as part of the four-disk box set Tracks in 1998.
Springsteen performed this song infrequently until the Sessions Band Tour of 2006, when it was transformed into an eight-minute honky-tonk number. This is the version that appears on the Live in Dublin
CD and DVD.
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska
Nebraska (album)
-Themes:The album begins with "Nebraska", a first-person narrative based on the true story of 19-year-old spree killer Charles Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, and ends with "Reason to Believe", a complex narrative that renders its title phrase into contemptuous sarcasm...
.
History
Of the 10 songs on Nebraska, "Open All Night" is the only one to feature an electric guitarElectric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
. With a Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
-style guitar riff, the song tells the story of an unnamed narrator's all-night drive across industrial New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
to reach his girl, Wanda, whom he met when she a waitress at the Route 60 Bob's Big Boy
Big Boy (restaurant)
Big Boy is a restaurant chain with its headquarters in Warren, Michigan.Big Boy was started in 1936 by Bob Wian, in partnership with Arnold Peterson in Glendale, California, USA. Marriott Corporation bought the chain in 1967...
.
"Open All Night" was released as a single in the UK, backed by "The Big Payback", but did not chart. It was also released as a single in The Netherlands and Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. Though never released as a single in the United States, it garnered enough album oriented rock airplay to reached
Mainstream Rock Tracks
Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...
chart.
The song shares a common lyrical structure and themes with two other Springsteen songs. The first is "State Trooper," also found on the Nebraska album. The other was "Living on the Edge of the World," recorded in 1979 but released as part of the four-disk box set Tracks in 1998.
Springsteen performed this song infrequently until the Sessions Band Tour of 2006, when it was transformed into an eight-minute honky-tonk number. This is the version that appears on the Live in Dublin
Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin
Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin is a 2007 video and audio offering that captures in-concert performances from the Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour recorded in November 2006 at The Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. The release consists of a concert DVD,...
CD and DVD.