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1982 single by Bruce Springsteen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Open All Night" is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska.
"Open All Night" | ||||
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Single by Bruce Springsteen | ||||
from the album Nebraska | ||||
B-side | "The Big Payback" | |||
Released | November 1982[1] | |||
Recorded | June 23, 1982 | |||
Genre | Folk rock, rock and roll | |||
Length | 2:58 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Songwriter(s) | Bruce Springsteen | |||
Bruce Springsteen singles chronology | ||||
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Of the 10 songs on Nebraska, "Open All Night" is the only one to feature an electric guitar. 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 was 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",[2] but did not chart. It was also released as a single in The Netherlands and Spain.[2] Though never released as a single in the United States,[2] it garnered enough album oriented rock airplay to reach #22 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Springsteen performed this song infrequently until the Sessions Band Tour of 2006, when it was transformed into an eight-minute "show-stopping rave-up" whose already surreal lyrics[3] were made more strange by being rapped against a big band swing arrangement and a pseudo-Andrews Sisters female backing vocal trio.[4][5][6] This is the version that appears on the Live in Dublin CD and DVD.
Jay Farrar of Son Volt recorded a version which was released in 2005 on A Retrospective: 1995–2000.
In November 2014 Pearl Jam covered the song in Lincoln, Nebraska.[7]
According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon:[8]
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