Springsteen Spector Palladium

Springsteen’s Be My Baby was recorded at the legendary Palladium in New York City in 1967. The song was a huge hit for Springsteen and Spector, who was an unlikely replacement for Springsteen. Spector first met Springsteen when John Lennon introduced him to Jimmy Iovine, who was then working with Steve Van Zandt’s side project Southside Johnny. The band was in New York for their first show at the Palladium.

Ronnie Spector, who had been an important figure in Springsteen’s career, brought the band together again in 1977. When the band disbanded, Spector brought them back together again, albeit a less successful one. Springsteen repeatedly praised Spector’s vocals during their performance of Be My Baby and shouted “this song is special!”

In addition to the album’s title track, the record also features a story from the band’s early days. “Growin’ Up” features a spaceman reminiscence, and “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)” contains a snippet of the Shaft theme. Backstreets magazine published a lengthy interview featuring Springsteen’s manager Steve Paraczky. Backstreets has updated the interview.

Springsteen joked that he was surprised at the turnout, but didn’t let the small crowd dampen his enthusiasm. According to rumors, Springsteen may have inherited the Jackson Browne song ‘The Pretender’. The tour bus had been traveling to New York from Chattanooga a few hours earlier and forgot to invite Max Weinberg, who had played lead guitar during the show.

The setlist for the concert is listed in the Eyewitness tab, and includes a thirteen-song partial setlist. Fans will recall that the show featured a rare performance by “Kitty’s Back”. The song was not performed again for two more years, until 1978. The original plan was to perform at Nashville’s Memorial Auditorium, but the band sold less than 1,000 tickets. The audience was not sufficient to fill the stadium. The Nashville Tennessean newspaper reported on the concert and wrote a story about it.

“Something In The Night,” features a new last line. The show returns to its original set with “Incident On 57th Street.” Springsteen slips in his lines of “Talk To Me” during the second set. A representative asked Springsteen about his future during an interview with Eric Kjellberg of CBS. He replied that he was going to move to California.