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02-May-1972 New York,NY CBS Studios,USA

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Version 01 - Growin' up
Version 01 - It's hard to be a saint in the city
Version 00 - Mary queen of Arkansas
Version 02 - If I were the priest

Notes:
ONE (informal) private audition that took place in front of an audience of two (John Hammond and Mike Appel) around 10:30AM upstairs in Hammond’s office in the A & R Department at Columbia Records. The above-mentioned setlist is culled from the scattered, collective recollections of the attendees. All songs were performed on acoustic guitar. THIS PERFORMANCE WAS NOT RECORDED. The performance lasted 30 - 40 minutes, so one or two additional songs were probably played – but those titles have never been articulated. In a 1980 interview Hammond mentioned he wasn’t all that enamored with “Mary Queen Of Arkansas”, but that he loved all the other songs Bruce performed that morning. Springsteen played “If I Was The Priest” only after a probing Hammond requested that Bruce sing something he wouldn’t otherwise play live. Springsteen has since mentioned that “If I Was The Priest” was written in late 1970 or early 1971 and that he’d performed it live during his late 1971 residency at The Student Prince. When Bruce was finished with this audition Hammond mentioned that he would need to see how Bruce interacted in front of a live audience, so Appel immediately went about organizing a local club performance for that evening.

03-May-1972 New York,NY CBS Studios,USA

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Version 02 - Arabian night
Version 01 - Cowboys of the sea [4.38]
Version 98 - Does this bus stop at 82nd street? [Tracks]
Version 98 - Growin' up [Tracks]
Version 03 - If I were the priest
Version 98 - It's hard to be a saint in the city [Tracks]
Version 01 - Southern son
Version 01 - Street queen ["Take 1"]
Version 01 - The angel
Version 01 - Two hearts on a true waltz time
Version 01 - Jazz musician [5.05]
Version 98 - Mary queen of Arkansas [Tracks]
Version 02 - Jazz musician [Slower than (1) 5.38]
Version 01 - Mary queen of Arkansas [It's just the fourth verse]

Notes:
These are "The Hammond Demos" Columbia job number #79682

Songs from this show can be found on:
18 TRACKS (Official release)
TRACKS (Official release)
EARLY YEARS VOLUME 2 : THE JOHN HAMMOND DEMOS 1972 (Bagel Boys Records)
FIRE ON THE FINGERTIPS (Chapter one digital records)
GENUINE TRACKS (THE) (Scorpion (Scorpio?))
ULTRA RARE TRACKS VOL.1 (Genuine Pig)
UNSURPASSED SPRINGSTEEN VOL. 3 (Yellow dog)
AS REQUESTED AROUND THE WORLD LIVE (CESCO Records)
BOSS OF THE BOARDWALK (THE) (Big Boss Man)
DO I HAVE TO SAY HIS NAME? (Devil Record)
RESCUED (Bornoby Records)
IN SESSION 72
MISSING TRACKS
DO I HAVE TO SAY HIS NAME? (Devil Record) (copy/repress)



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