Chuck Berry - Around and Around

First performance: 29/07/1978

Coverinfo

Bruce covered the song 32 times: 
 
  • Darkness On The Edge Of Town Tour   
 
  • Rising Tour 
2002-12-13 - PEPSI ARENA, ALBANY, NY 
 
  • Off-Tour
1981-07-11 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK
Clarence Clemons
 
1982-05-08 - THE FAST LANE, ASBURY PARK
Beaver Brown
 
1982-05-29 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK
Beaver Brown
 
1982-06-13 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1982-06-20 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1982-06-27 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1982-07-25 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1982-07-31 - BIG MAN'S WEST, RED BANK
Sonny Kenn
 
1982-08-01 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1982-08-08 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1982-08-15 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1982-09-19 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1982-09-25 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1982-09-29 - ON BROADWAY, WESTWOOD, NJ
rumoured: with Billy Rancher
 
1982-10-03 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1983-04-24 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1983-06-18 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
The Diamonds
 
1983-07-10 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1983-08-14 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
 
1984-10-07 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
 
1987-04-12 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
 
 
1987-08-27 - TRADEWINDS, SEA BRIGHT
 
1987-10-31 - McLOONE'S RUMRUNNER, SEA BRIGHT
 
1987-12-05 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
Cats on a Smooth Surface
 
1988-08-21 - THE STONE PONY, ASBURY PARK
 
1989-09-23 - McLOONE'S RUM RUNNER, SEA BRIGHT
 
1990-02-12 - CHINA CLUB, HOLLYWOOD
 
1994-08-20 - MARZ AMERICAN STYLE, LONG BRANCH
Joe Grushecky
 
1996-08-10 - GRAND MOUNTAIN LODGE, WHITEFISH, MT
Toby Scott wedding reception
    

Songinfo

"Around and Around" is a 1958 rock song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry. 
 
 
 

Bruce on the artist

Bruce on around and around in 1978 :
 
"Let’s play....let’s play 'Round and 'Round.....we never played this, I’m gonna, I’m gonna screw 'em up now.... here’s a song we used to do, we were playing at a little bar, uh....in New Jersey called the Student Prince.....”You can’t play that without five beers....I still remember...."
 
When Chuck Berry died Bruce tweeted :

"Chuck Berry was rock's greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock 'n' roll writer who ever lived. This is a tremendous loss of a giant for the ages."
Springsteen and Berry played together on at least two occasions. As back up at the University of Maryland in 1973. Springsteen asked what songs they were going to do. Berry said : " we're going to do some Chuck Berry songs." More than 20 years later, Springsteen again played backup for Berry, at a concert at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, celebrating the opening of the Rock and Roll Music Hall of Fame.
 
Bruce had 3 performances together with Chuck Berry:

1995-09-02 Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inauguration concert
 
 
 
1987-01-21 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City
The second annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony. 

1973-04-28 Cole Field House, University Of Maryland, College Park, MD
One show, triple bill, with Chuck Berry headlining, [Lee Lewis]] second billed and Bruce and the boys opening. A show now steeped in legend. Berry's contract stipulated that it was the promoter's responsibility to supply him with a backing band for this concert. Apparently Bruce learned about a week before the show that the promoter was seeking a group to support Berry and immediately volunteered his band's services for free, which the promoter gladly accepted. There was no rehearsal or soundcheck with Berry, so Bruce and the boys improvised as best they could. The show was Bruce's first known appearance in Maryland. Bruce and the boys opened their part of the show with a 50-minute set, followed by a 60-minute set by Jerry Lee Lewis and his band. Chuck Berry (with Springsteen's entire band backing him, including Bruce and Southside Johnny) closed the evening's festivities with a 70-minute performance. Springsteen recounts some hilarious details in the 1987 Chuck Berry documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, but does not mention Southside Johnny’s appearance. Fearing that Berry might not want a harp player Bruce positioned Southside in the shadows at the extreme end of the stage. However Berry enjoyed the harp playing and near the end of the show he actually acknowledged Southside to the crowd saying "that white boy can blow, can’t he!" This almost sold out gig in the 15,000 seat Cole Field House was not without some controversy. Such was the demand to see the show that the school newspaper reported that twenty people were arrested when police spotted individuals sneaking into the concert via an open female lavatory window at the back of the building. Apparently 200-300 people made it in before the police caught wind of what was going on. 
 
Watch Bruce tells the story here 
 
List of songs co-credited to Bruce Springsteen and Chuck Berry:
 
   

Lyrics

They say the joint was rockin'
a goin' 'round and round
Yeah reelin' and a rockin' what a crazy sound
Well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down

Oh it sounds so sweet I gotta take me a chance
Rose out of my seat just had to dance
Started movin' my feet well a clappin' my hands
Well the joint started

Rockin' Going 'Round and around
Yeah reelin' and a rockin' what a crazy sound
A well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down

Twelve o'clock
Well the place as packed
Front doors was locked
Well the place was packed
When the police knocked
Both doors flew back
But they kept on a ....

Oh they kept on a....