Prove It All Night

Infobox Single
Name = Prove It All Night


Artist = Bruce Springsteen
from Album = Darkness on the Edge of Town
B-side = "Factory"
Released = June 1978
Format = 7" single
Recorded = September-October 1977
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:54
Label = Columbia Records
Writer = Bruce Springsteen
Producer = Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen
Certification =
Chart position =

#33 (U.S.)

#90 (AUS)

Last single = "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out/She's the One"
(1976)
This single = "Prove It All Night/Factory"
(1978)
Next single = "Badlands/Streets of Fire"
(1978)

"Prove It All Night" was the ninth song on Bruce Springsteen's fourth studio album "Darkness on the Edge of Town", and the first single released from it.

The song tells the story of a young couple who pledge their love to each other on a trip to various towns. The entire song contains a sense of optimism that the two individuals' quest for love will someday be realized but, at the same time, it seems that the world is closing in on them in that the characters' chances of falling in love are growing more limited as time passes. The single gained little traction with Top 40 radio stations, reaching only #33 on the Billboard Hot 100; however it gained considerable play on progressive rock and album-oriented rock radio formats.

"Prove It All Night" has been a semi-regular selection in Springsteen and E Street Band concerts since its release. To the Springsteen faithful, by far the most famous arrangement of it occurred during their fabled 1978 Tour, when it was reshaped into an eleven-minute epic with a long, howling guitar-over-piano introduction and a frenetic organ-and-guitar-over-drums outro. Excerpts of one such performance from a July 1, 1978 Berkeley Community Theatre show were heard during a syndicated radio interview with New York disc jockey Dave Herman, and this version would become a fan favorite still referred back to decades later; one of the criticisms of Springsteen's 1986 "Live/1975-85" box set was that it omitted the 1978 "Prove It". A live version of the song did finally appear on Springsteen's 2001 release "" documenting the Reunion Tour, as did a Rising Tour performance on the 2003 "Live in Barcelona" DVD, but both were in a shorter, more conventional treatment.

External links

* [http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/ProveItAllNight.html Lyrics]