Song title: Raise your hand
(Floyd , Cropper, Isbell) by Eddie Floyd (Stax 208),1967
Raise your hand
If there’s something you need
That you just don’t have
Well just don’t sit there
Feeling bad
Come on now get up
Try and understand
Just raise your hand
Baby here I am
You know I’m standing in line
I wanna give you my love
Please let me try
Come on now get up
Try and understand
Just raise your hand
Published on the following official releases:
- LIVE 1975-1985 (Album,1986)
- LIVE 1975-1985 SAMPLER (LP,1986)
- LIVE 1975-1985 SAMPLER (ARMED FORCES) (LP,1986)
First known live performance: 21/03/1976 Stone Pony, Asbury Park,NJ ,USA
Last known live performance: 17/05/2014 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville,CT ,USA
Song 'history':
41 perfomances were given during the Born to Run tour
Not much used during the Darkness tour, deserving only less than a dozen renderings
It only saw the light less than a dozen times in the whole River tour
The song made its first official apparition being included, as inedit track, in the 'LIVE 1975-85' box set
Widely used in the Tunnel of Love tour, as it was performed 54 times
Performed 13 times during the 1988 Amnesty International tour
Two only renderings for this song in the Reunion tour (27/08/1999 Fleet Center, Boston,MA ,USA and 25/09/1999 First Union Center, Philadelphia,PA ,USA)
One only rendering for this song in the Rising tour (30/08/2003 Giants Stadium, E.Rutherford,NJ ,USA)
Largely (57 times) played during the Working on a Dream tour
The Wrecking Ball tour counted 17 apparitions of this song
Bruce gave this song only two shots through the High Hopes tour (12/02/2014 Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide ,Australia and 17/05/2014 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville,CT ,USA)
The song was also played in informal happenings or off-tour appearances
Data from the www.brucespringsteen.it database