Coverinfo
Bruce used the song 2 times as a snippet:
1977-10-13 Stone Pony (The), Asbury Park, NJ
With Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. "
Soothe Me" includes snippets of "
Let's Get It On", "
Good Times", "
Baby Workout", and "
Shout". The date on this show is very possibly inaccurate, as Southside is confirmed to have been in Los Angeles the following night and, moreover, Bruce was recording in New York City on this date. However, lacking evidence for any specific other date, Brucebase has left the listing here.
Songinfo
Baby work out is a song written by Alonzo Tucker and Jackie Wilson and originally released by Jackie Wilson on his 1963 album Baby Workout . The song was also released as a single in 1963, with
I'm going crazy ( gotta get you out off my mind ) on the B-side. The track is about Wilson urging a girl to dance (work out) all night with him.
Bruce on the artist
2022-11-00 Stone Hill Farm, Colts Neck, NJ
Bruce records a series of promotional interviews from his home in support of Only The Strong Survive, The precise recording dates of these interviews are uncertain. One of them was with The Italian virginradio . Massimo Cotto asked Bruce during the Italian
virginradio interview about Jackie Wilson's greatness:
" As far as the performer goes, no one has ever beat Jackie Wilson. Jackie was a voice from heaven, understated, one of the smootest movers you've ever seen. I mean, if you get up a film on stage somewhere and watch how he moves... incredible, athletic, unbelievably athletic. I mean, Jackie Wilson was simply one of the ...and he is underrated to this day. He doesn't get attribution to the amazing talents and voice that he had. So he is really .... he was an incredible artist . "
Lyrics
Hey, you!
Come out here on the floor
Let's rock some more
Come out here on the floor
Honey, let's rock some more, yeah
Now when you get out here
Don't you have no fear
Put your hands on your hip
And let your backbone slip
And work out
Ah, my momma, move up, (first step)
Party move back, (second step)
Shuffle to the left, (third step)
Wobble to the right, (fourth step)
Now it's plain to see
You put a hurtin' on me
But it's a natural fact, ha!
I like it like that
So work out
Yeah, baby work out, (work baby, work out)
Honey, work out, (work baby, work out)
Ah, baby work out, (work baby, work out)
Shout and turn the joint out, (work baby, work out)
Work out, (work out)
Work out, (work out)
Work all night long, (work baby, work out)
Yeah, yeah!
(Around and around and around and around)
(Around and around and around and around)
(Around and around and around and around)
(Around and around and around and around)
(Ahhh)
Ahhh, baby, around and around we go
Don't you know, don't you know
Around and around we go
Where we stop, nobody knows
Yeah!
The band is swinging on the stand
We're moving in, we're moving out
Then we'll step back now
And end this dance with a shout
So work out
Now when I tell you to shout I want you to jump at it
Yeah, baby, let's shout, (shout, baby, shout, shout)
Honey, let's shout, (shout, baby, shout, shout)
Ah baby, let's shout, (shout, baby, shout, shout)
(Yeah, shout and turn it out, baby), yeah, (shout, baby, shout, shout)
Let's shout, (let's shout)
Let's shout, (let's shout)
Shout all night long, (shout, baby, shout, shout)
I gotta have it just one more time, now here we go, (work, baby, work out)
Around and around we go, (work, baby, work out)
Ahhh (work, baby, work out)
Around and around we go, (work, baby, work out)
Now work out, (work out)
Work out, (work out)
Work all night long, ahhh, (work, baby, work out)
(Work, baby, work out)
Work out, baby, (work, baby, work out)
Ah, work out woman, (work, baby, work out)
Shout and turn the joint out, (work, baby, work out)
Yeah, work out, (work out)
Work out, (work out)
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby...
[fades out]