Only Appel and West were present at this first meeting. Springsteen performed two or three songs, some on piano and some on acoustic guitar. Appel was then employed at Pocketful Of Tunes Inc., Wes Farrell's publishing company in New York City, NY, and the meeting took place at Pocketful Of Tunes. On, Carl "Tinker" West, then-manager of The Bruce Springsteen Band, drove Bruce Springsteen to New York City to introduce him to Mike Appel, a songwriter who carried on his songwriting activities jointly with Jim Cretecos.
The auction site claims the first to be a setlist and the second to be a song list for Springsteen's first album, but they're both most probably lists of songs that Springsteen was considering taking into the studio at the very early stages of the Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. GROWIN' UP appears on two Springsteen handwritten song lists that were put up for auction in July 2012 (below left) and December 2013 (below right) on. See the "1971-1972 Auditions" section below for more details. Another solo demo of GROWIN' UP was performed during an informal audition for CBS Records on. It features Springsteen solo on vocals and acoustic guitar. It is not clear if the album version and/or the outtake version were from either the session or the sessions, or form a later session.Ī solo demo of GROWIN' UP was performed and recorded during Springsteen's first formal studio audition for CBS Records on, and was later published on the Tracks box set in 1998 and the 18 Tracks collection in 1999. According to Sony's logs of Bruce Springsteen's studio sessions, GROWIN' UP was cut on (the first studio session for the Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Bruce Springsteen plays guitar and sings vocals on this track (the album version), and is backed by Vini Lopez on drums, David Sancious on piano and keyboards, and Garry Tallent on electric bass. The album version and the outtake version are probably the same core recording, but a different vocal take. The above lyrics transcribed from the album version of GROWIN' UP.
The Jul-Aug 1972 sessions at 914 Sound Studios were produced by Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos, and Louis Lahav took the role of recording engineer. They were likely recorded around Jul-Aug 1972 at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, NY. Two studio versions of the song are in circulation among collectors: the album version and an outtake version. The track, as well as the whole album, was produced by Mike Appel and Jimmy Cretecos. album recording sessions at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, NY. GROWIN' UP was recorded during the Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. ELOISE, a 1972 unreleased demo, shares similar music with GROWIN' UP. GROWIN' UP was written in 1971, as Springsteen recalled when introducing the song during his concert in Cleveland, OH. I hid in the mother breast of the crowd, when they said "pull down" I pulled up
#GROWING UP LYRICS FULL#
Swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared, I was the cosmic kid in full costume dressīut my feet they finally took root in the earth but I got me a nice little place in the starsĪnd I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere and you know it's really hard to hold your breath I hid in the clouded warmth of the crowd, when they said "come down" I threw up I broke all the rules, strafed my old high school, never once gave thought to landing I had a jukebox graduate for first mate, she couldn't sail but she sure could singĪnd I pushed B-52 and bombed 'em with the blues with my gear set stubborn on standing The flag of piracy flew from my mast, my sails were set wing to wing I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "sit down" I stood up I strode all alone into a fallout zone, came out with my soul untouched I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch Well I stood stone-like at midnight suspended in my masqueradeĪnd I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade
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