Bruce Springsteen - The E Street Shuffl
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.