Southside Johnny - 1979-12-31 - Passaic, NJ (FM)

Southside Johnny 

& The Asbury Jukes

1979-12-31

Capitol Theatre

Passaic, NJ

WNEW-FM Brodcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. All I Want Is Everything

02. Your Reply

03. Talk To Me

04. Next To You

05. Got To Get You Off My Mind

06. Love On The Wrong Side Of Town

07. I Played The Fool

08. Paris

09. Take It Inside

10. Security

11. I'm So Anxious

12. The Time

13. Vertigo

14. Auld Land Syne

15. The Payback

16. Trapped Again

17. The Fever (patch used from 5:38 to 5:43)

18. On The Street Where You Live

19. I Don't Want To Go Home

20. Only Sixteen 

21. Send Me

22. Working On The Chain Gang 

23. A Change Is Gonna Come 

24. Bring It On Home To Me 

25. Havin' A Party

26. DJ Commnets, Crowd Cheer

27. This Time Baby's Gone For Good

28. Got To Be A Better Way Home (patch used from 5:04 to 5:21)

29. Hearts Of Stone

30. DJ Comments

31. Band Introductions

32. This Time It's For Real

33. DJ Outro

Southside Johnny - 1979-12-31 - Passaic, NJ (FM)

1979 - When Bruce Springsteen took the rock world by storm in 1975, he opened the door for other Jersey Shore acts to try to hit the big time. Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes are probably the 2nd best known band from that era. Their first three albums, I Don't Want To Go Home (1976), This Time It's For Real (1977), and Hearts Of Stone (1978), were filled with Stax R&B influences. All 3 discs were produced and arranged by Steve Van Zandt, the group's co-founder, who also played guitar in Springsteen's E Street band. Van Zandt's tune, I Don't Want To Go Home, became Southside's signature song, an evocative mixture of horn-based melodic riffs and sentimental lyrics. The band's repertoire also included The Fever, Talk to Me, This Time It's For Real, Love on the Wrong Side of Town, a wonderful cover of Sam Cooke's Having A Party, and the definitive version of Springsteen's Hearts of Stone. Unfortunately, Van Zandt left the band in 1979, and they never did achieve national prominence. This FM broadcast captures Southside and the Jukes closing out the 1970s, in their home state of NJ, on stage at the Capitol Theater on December 31, 1979, 42 years ago today.