| "Open All Night" | ||||
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| Single by Bruce Springsteen | ||||
| from the album Nebraska | ||||
| B-side | "The Big Payback" | |||
| Released | November 22, 1982 | |||
| 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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"Open All Night" is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska .
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", [1] but did not chart. It was also released as a single in The Netherlands and Spain. [1] Though never released as a single in the United States, [1] 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 [2] were made more strange by being rapped against a big band swing arrangement and a pseudo-Andrews Sisters female backing vocal trio. [3] [4] [5] 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. [6]
According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon: [7]
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