{"id":18721,"date":"2020-06-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=18721"},"modified":"2023-01-01T15:35:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T23:35:53","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-give-the-girl-a-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/roll-of-the-dice-give-the-girl-a-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: Give the Girl a Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t even remember writing it or recording it. It was like, &#8216;When did I do that?'&#8221; &#8211; <em>Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stone, December 10, 1998<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How talented a songwriter is Bruce Springsteen?<\/p>\n<p>So talented that he can write and record a killer pop song and later have zero recollection of ever having done so.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDbWHINPY0Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>That\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone\u00a0<\/em>quote wasn&#8217;t a joke: Bruce admitted to Mark Hagen in the January 1999 issue of <em>Mojo<\/em>, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t even know that &#8216;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8217; existed&#8230; wow, that&#8217;s pretty, that&#8217;s fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And to Patrick Humphries in <em>Record Collector<\/em> a month later: &#8220;&#8216;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8217;, the party thing from Darkness&#8230; I didn&#8217;t know that existed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s a little hard to definitively pin down the inspiration for the song, when the songwriter himself can only answer:\u00a0\u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/p>\n<p>Still, it seems highly likely that &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; was inspired at least in part by &#8220;Give Him a Great Big Kiss,&#8221; which The Shangri-Las took to #18 in 1964.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o-NhojnwMh8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Although the songs are different in style, the similar titles and choruses (&#8220;Tell her that you love her, tell her that you need her&#8221; vs. &#8220;Tell him that I love him, tell him that I care&#8221;) are a pretty unmistakable hat tip.<\/p>\n<p>Musically and stylistically though, &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; owes more to contemporary Springsteen originals like &#8220;So Young and in Love,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/12\/roll-of-the-dice-paradise-by-the-c\/\">Paradise by the C,<\/a>&#8221; and and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/27\/roll-of-the-dice-action-in-the-streets\/\">Action in the Streets<\/a>&#8221; (which are all basically the same song anyway).<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lyo0rHLAP8s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>But oh, those lyrics: pure pop perfection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Well now I ain&#8217;t looking for excitement<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Baby that&#8217;s just a fact<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If you want to get to her heart<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You better let her know just where you&#8217;re at<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Well I say<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It ain&#8217;t written in the sky above<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Well no fortune-teller told me this<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You gotta tell her that you love her<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tell her that you need her<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And give the girl a great big kiss<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Now if you&#8217;re such a fool you think<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It don&#8217;t matter, baby, what you say<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Maybe you better tell her how you&#8217;re feeling<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It ain&#8217;t gonna happen any other way<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8216;Cause darling it ain&#8217;t written in the sky above<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Well don&#8217;t you tell her who told me this<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You gotta tell her that you need her<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tell her that you love her<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And give the girl a great big kiss<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Yeah you better give the girl a great big kiss<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The romantic pep talk is a recipe that never fails. It&#8217;s a girl group staple (and we know Bruce loves his girl groups), not only for The Shangri-Las but also notably for The Exciters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G2sH6h0ViDg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>(That song would go on to have special significance for Bruce after he was struck by a red-headed woman performing it in a club one night, but that would be a few years up the road.)<\/p>\n<p>Billy Joel would try his hand at a similar confection a few years later as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p0pM5dm--yQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>But Bruce distilled the recipe down to its one essential ingredient: the kiss. And in combining those almost-exasperated lyrics with an ultra-carefree, swinging melody, he conjures a protagonist that comes off as encouraging rather than frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>That is, until the bridge gives away the game:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Now baby all I wanna do<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Is darling make sweet love to you<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aha! So the narrator isn&#8217;t giving a pep talk to someone else&#8211;he&#8217;s talking to himself. Suddenly, &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; becomes a song of courage, and that makes it all the more endearing.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of endearing: can we just appreciate how much fun the E Street Band is having here? From Danny&#8217;s star turn to Bruce&#8217;s &#8220;Bosstime!&#8221; solo to the overdubbed Horns of Love, &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; features the E Street Band at their most winning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Now I don&#8217;t know what the meaning is<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Why you wanna hide the things you feel and say<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But baby it&#8217;s just a natural fact<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Love was never meant to be that way<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>And darlin&#8217; it ain&#8217;t written in the sky above<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Well no fortune-teller told me this<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You gotta tell her that you need her<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tell her that you love her<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And give the girl a great big kiss<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Did I mention that they recorded this song during the dour <a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/05\/album-companion-darkness-on-the-edge-of-town\/\"><em>Darkness on the Edge of Town\u00a0<\/em><\/a>sessions (except for the horns, which were added a couple of decades later)? Bruce may not remember &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; specifically, but he remembers using songs like it to relieve the band after long series of takes tackling darker material.<\/p>\n<p>But the best part of &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; is still to come:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Give the girl a great big, great big, great big<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Give the girl a great big kiss<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That killer coda: The Big Man bounces his basso &#8220;give the girl a great big, great big, great big&#8221; while the Boss soars above him. It&#8217;s one of my favorite E Street moments on record. And you can tell Bruce feels the magic, because that coda ends up accounting for 25% of the entire song.<\/p>\n<p>But as fun as &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; is on record, it&#8217;s even more fun live&#8211;in part because it&#8217;s such a natural singalong, in part because of its irresistible hook, but mostly because it brings out the ham in Bruce.<\/p>\n<p>Once &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; was officially released on\u00a0<em>Tracks,\u00a0<\/em>Bruce wasted little time debuting it live. At the second of two warm-up shows for the Reunion Tour (which doubled in the early days as the Tracks Tour), Bruce called it a &#8220;silly&#8221; song and\u00a0 introduced it with a disclaimer: &#8220;We cut this for <em>Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em>, and you&#8217;re about to see why we didn&#8217;t use it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If he meant it didn&#8217;t fit with the album&#8217;s theme, well, duh. But if Bruce doubted &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; as a piece of power pop, he needn&#8217;t have worried. Watch this delightful debut build to a hilariously comical (and obviously pre-planned) climax:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJbzwgaln84?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>With a debut like that, why did &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; disappear for a decade after only two outings on the Reunion Tour? I have no idea&#8211;perhaps Bruce simply forgot about it again.\u00a0We didn&#8217;t hear it again until Bruce&#8217;s 2009 show in Hershey, and even then it was only in response to a venue-appropriate sign request.<\/p>\n<p>But Bruce&#8217;s best &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; was his last one, this time on the Wrecking Ball Tour. In granting a fan&#8217;s request, Bruce added the two essential ingredients missing from the song&#8217;s other live outings: brass and spontaneity.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this wonderful performance from Charlottesville in 2012, featuring a loose Bruce at his funniest, and get your signs ready for the next tour&#8211;because we need to hear &#8220;Give the Girl a Kiss&#8221; again soon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YN6n0O00DMQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>(As of this writing, lovestreet.com is still available.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Give the Girl a Kiss<br \/>\nRecorded:<\/strong> November 10, 1977 (brass recorded in 1998)<br \/>\n<strong>Released:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Tracks\u00a0<\/em>(1998)<br \/>\n<strong>First performed:<\/strong> March 19, 1999 (Asbury Park, NJ)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:<\/strong> October 23, 2012 (Charlottesville, VA)<\/p>\n<p>Looking for your favorite Bruce song? Check our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/roll-of-the-dice-album-by-album\/\">full index<\/a>. New entries every week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only Bruce Springsteen could write such a perfect pop song and have no recollection of it. 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