Or is it something worse?" Watch the video for Prove It All Night from Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's Live in New York City for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. The rhythm guitar work is quite faint, but fits the groove and feel of the song. Recommended by The Wall Street Journal On the Darkness Tour, Bruce prefaced the song with an instrumental piano and guitar introduction that was often longer than the song itself. Thus it can be experienced as either humorous or sincere. New Video from Passaic 9-20-78. When fame and fortune are out of the question, what keeps a band onstage? Baby, tie your hair back in a long white bow, Meet me in the fields out behind the dynamo, You hear the voices telling you not to … Prove it all night, Girl there's nothing else that we can do, So prove it all night, prove it all night, And girl I'll prove it all night for you. By J.R. Jones @Jr_Jones He pulled away the glove. It was also played by request in São Paulo, Brazil, on September 18, 2013. The fact that seeing her and then trying to convince her that someday he'll be everything she wants is classic Springsteen, emitting rays of ambition and hope through the cracks of his character's otherwise discouraging life. "Prove It All Night" nije bila redovita pojava na koncertima Springsteena i E Street Banda. The single gained little traction with Top 40 radio stations, reaching only #33 on the Billboard Hot 100. Amato, and Music from EZTV! Prove it all night, prove it all night Prove it all night, girl, and call the bluff Well prove it all night, prove it all night Girl I prove it all night for your love. Prove It All Night (’78 Introduction), May 18, 2012, Barcelona Fans yearned for its return. [opinion] Excerpts of one such performance from a July 1, 1978, Berkeley Community Theatre show were heard during a syndicated radio interview with New York disc jockey Dave Herman on the King Biscuit Flower Hour, and this version would become a fan favorite still referred to decades later; one of the criticisms of Springsteen's 1986 Live/1975-85 box set was that it omitted any such version of the song. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop‑up player! Each of its songs bask in the bleakness, the disparage, and the malignity of Springsteen's portrayal of the city and its decay of promise. "Prove It All Night" (1978) " Badlands " (1978) " Prove It All Night " is the penultimate song on Bruce Springsteen 's fourth studio album Darkness on the Edge of Town , and the first single released from it. The song begins with a piano intro played by Roy Bittan. PROVE IT ALL NIGHT was performed off-tour on 21 and 22 Sep 1979 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY, during the MUSE Concerts For A Non-Nuclear Future. 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Prove It All Night It's late, the bar's deserted, and they've played this song a million times before. with co-host Nate K.! Prove it all night, Girl there’s nothing else that we can do, Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life. Pjesma se počela izvoditi na turneji 1978., a našla se na kompilaciji Live/1975-85 . An earlier take of the song has different lyrics; several lines and verses from "Something in the Night" were used instead. The live 21 Sep 1979 version and the live 22 Sep 1979 version of PROVE IT ALL NIGHT were released on the No Nukes 1979 official live download in 2018. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J./The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle/Darkness, Blinded by the Light [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]. Complete your Bruce Springsteen collection. To Springsteen fans, by far the most famous arrangement of it occurred during their 1978 Tour, when it was reshaped into an eleven-minute epic with a long, howling guitar-over-piano introduction and a frenetic organ-and-guitar-over-drums outro. The song was ranked as the #6 single of 1978 by Dave Marsh and Kevin Stein[4] and as one of the 7500 most important songs from 1944 through 2000 by Bruce Pollock. The protagonist promises to prove his love all night, a vow that can be seen as either opportunistic or youthfully optimistic, depending on one's point of view. Lyrically the song is similar to other Springsteen numbers such as "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" and "Thunder Road". Joe Jack from The Dead Milkmen writes personalized songs for pledges of $100 or more!! "Prove It All Night" has been a semi-regular selection in Springsteen and E Street Band concerts since its release. Within its lines, Springsteen sings of once again exiting the boundaries of the city with his girl he wants to impress, as she represents a symbolic characterization of innocence and wholesomeness while he signifies the coarseness and unrefined stature of the city. [2] However, it gained considerable play on progressive rock and album-oriented rock radio formats. A kiss to prove it all night. Prove it all night, prove it all night girl and call the bluff Prove it all night, prove it all night and girl I prove it all night for your love [Verse 3] Baby, tie your hair back in a long white bow Meet me in the fields out behind the dynamo You hear the voices telling you not to … ! 7:04. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Bruce Springsteen - Prove It All Night at Discogs. Prove it all night, prove it all night girl and call the bluff, prove it all night, prove it all night and girl, I prove it all night for your love. The entire E Street Band impresses in “Prove It All Night,” but freed from the time constraints of a 45rpm single, “Prove It All Night” expands into a Steel Mill-worthy guitar showcase. Playing via … In a concert in Barcelona during the Wrecking Ball Tour, Springsteen surprised the audience by playing the song again in the 1978 arrangement. Prove it all night, prove it all night girl and Call the bluff, Prove it all night, prove it all night and girl, I prove it all night for your love. With: David Rees, Maeve Higgins, Sam Taggart, J.D. Prove it all night, prove it all night girl and call the bluff, Prove it all night, prove it all night and girl, I prove it all night for your love. Prove it all night, prove it all night girl and call the bluff, prove it all night, prove it all night and girl, I prove it all night for your love. Playing via … "Prove It All Night" was again performed in this arrangement on two occasions on the River Tour in November 1980. He also played it in Manchester to a rapturous response from the crowd. Furthermore the statement is not supported by any outside source. Prove it all night, Girl there's nothing else that we can do, Except prove it all night, prove it all night, And girl I prove it all night for you. As he asks in "The River," another song he performed on Thursday night, "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? 7:16. Guitar, guitar pro, bass, drum tabs and chords with online tab player. Bruce said it was unlikely to happen. Clarence Clemons' sax playing holds the song up while Roy Bittan's piano aids in the tune's destitute-like air. [3] A live version of the song did finally appear on Springsteen's 2001 release Live in New York City documenting the Reunion Tour,[1] as did a Rising Tour performance on the 2003 Live in Barcelona DVD, but both were in a shorter, more conventional treatment. March 21, 2015: PROVE IT ALL NIGHT - MARATHON SHOW #2! 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