Bruce Springsteen Songs - The E Street Shuffle Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - The E Street Shuffle

Bruce Springsteen - The E Street Shuffle Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
Released: 1973

The E Street Shuffle Lyrics

The E Street Shuffle Song Chart

The name "E Street" was taken from the name of a road in Belmar, New Jersey, where piano player David Sancious' mother lived. The band needed a name, and one day when they were driving there, Springsteen saw the sign for E Street and thought it should be the name of the band, so his backing group became the E Street Band. Sancious left the band after this album to form a jazz group with E Street drummer Earnest "Boom" Carter.

The music was based on "The Monkey Time," a 1963 hit for Chicago soul singer Major Lance.

This was the first track on Springsteen's second album, The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, which made full use of The E Street Band for the first time. Members of the band played on his first album, but it was mostly Bruce and his guitar.

The characters in the lyrics were based on people Springsteen knew when he was growing up in New Jersey.

Springsteen: "I wanted to invent a dance with no exact steps. It was just the dance you did every day and every night to get by."

Bette Midler covered this.