Sometimes one gets the odd knock on the door. I do not like door bells.

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Anyway, James Manning-san and I were deciding how to handle the requests for the 1978 live version of PROVE IT ALL NIGHT by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

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Ah. Talk about the good and the bad! We all (most of us) know Jimmy Deluva when he starts telling war stories from his backstage escapades from the late 1970s. One learns a lot – perhaps a little too much!

The afternoon began with Deluva looking at out tempo maps of both legal versions of Prove It All Night, one from the studio album DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, the other from the box-set ‘LIVE 1975-1985′. We had all 8 of these graphs lying on the floor, and who should give his patented PAINT IT BLACK door-knock? Jim Deluva (not real name – inside the industry – this is his Dallas/Ft Worth check-in name, ok?) looks at the graphs and starts one of his barrel roll laugh sessions. He laughed at the graphs for two minutes! “Hey, Spiron, manningsan – I’m not saying these are *wrong* – no man, they are fine.”

So I thought what could the problem be. What??? “So Jim, why are you laughing?” “Uh, like, guys, anyone who knows anyTHING about the Boss, or the Loss as those Losers down the Jersey Shore call him at the Stone Pony – just to be, like, cool. You ever see people working in D.C.? Ever? Look next time! They won’t look at the Capital, or the monuments, et al, because, hey, they are stupid! They think being a tourist is a bad thing. Lemme tell ya: I’ve been to every city and back: literally if you are a kind tourist and not a fake who tries to blend, you’ll get the best service.
Now about the song: that was Bruce’s one piece in 1978 where he began to travel with his univesal gym – he was getting buff, ok? Meanwhile, piano playing madman “professor” Roy Bittan was setting the new standard for pop piano music, after this album he put out a MONSTER, Making Movies, worth the Dire Straits. Roy was just on fire then. Fire I say! Now look at Bruce’s box set: he has Ry play a long drawn out background theme fitting of a Ken Burns movie as a backdrop to Bruce’s 20 minute THE RIVER story. On Prove it all night – the MOST genius thing Bruce ever had going – ok, one of the two – the other being Clarence Clemmons all over the Born To Run Album, with MOzart-esque bits in both Thunder-Road and Jungleland: ROY and Bruce trading licks on the 10 minute version of the 1978 Prove it all night, baby! Where’s that graph, my friend??!!”

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I was a little hurt.
So said, Jim and James and I went to YouTube – sure enough, the unreleased 1978 version. Readers, first, let me thank Jimmy Deluva for reminding me that I actually owned this tape in high school (taped from the King Biscuit Flower Hour – how old am I??!! Ouch). Moreover, it was burning. So James and I are all over that now.

For now though, as far as I KNOW, the only two legal versions of Prove It are those. Needless to say we looked for other tempo data about the song here before posting this set of graphs – the only ones that exist.

Bruce Springsteen - Prove It All Night lyrics

I've been working real hard, trying to get my hands clean,
Tonight we'll drive that dusty road from
Monroe to Angeline,
To buy you a gold ring and pretty dress of blue,
Baby just one kiss will get these things for you,
A kiss to seal our fate tonight,
A kiss to prove it all night.
(Chorus)
Prove it all night,
Girl there's nothing else that we can do,
Sp prove it all night, prove it all night,
And girl I'll prove it all night for you.


Everybody's got a hunger, a hunger they
can't resist,
There's so much that you want, you
deserve much more than this,
But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that
be nice,
But this ain't no dream we're living
through tonight,
Girl, you want it, you take it, you pay the price.

(Chorus)
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.

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 go,
They made their choices and they'll never know,
What it means to steal, to cheat, to lie,
What it's like to live and die.

(Chorus)
To prove it all night...

Lyrics | Bruce Springsteen lyrics - Prove It All Night lyrics

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THE LYRICS:
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JAMES MANNING-SAN
MARIANO CARLTON
BROOKLYN “JACKIE” MARONE
March 11, 2010
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