{"id":25699,"date":"2017-01-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=25699"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:34:28","slug":"cover-me-rotd-clarence-clemons-and-the-red-bank-rockers-summer-on-signal-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/16\/cover-me-rotd-clarence-clemons-and-the-red-bank-rockers-summer-on-signal-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer on Signal Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the biggest joke in the world that it&#8217;s billed as the Red Bank Rockers&#8211;since any educated ear could pick out the sound of the E Street Band.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212; <em>Backstreets #9<\/em>, <em>Spring 1984<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We can forgive\u00a0<em>Backstreets\u00a0<\/em>for the error, because they certainly weren&#8217;t the only ones to swear that this 1983 instrumental track by Clarence Clemons and The Red Bank Rockers was really a Big Man-fronted E Street Band in disguise.<\/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\/WJ99dt7Eis0?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>Even that lead guitar sounds like Bruce, but it&#8217;s not&#8211;it&#8217;s actually David Landau, Jon&#8217;s brother.<\/p>\n<p>But to the degree that it sounds exactly like an E Street Band track, credit that to the songwriter and producer (or maybe co-producer, the record is murky on this one): The Boss himself.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know exactly when Bruce wrote &#8220;Summer on Signal Hill,&#8221; but we know it was recorded in the summer of 1983, and Max Weinberg (who also covered it in 1991 with Killer Joe) cites E Street Band rehearsals (but not recordings) of it in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Intriguingly, though, when the E Street Band rehearsed the song, it was known as &#8220;Now and Forever&#8221; &#8212; and it had lyrics. When Bruce donated the music to Clarence for an instrumental, he retitled it &#8220;Summer on Signal Hill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Signal Hill is most likely a reference to Telegraph Hill, the name of Bruce&#8217;s street (as well as a nearby park) where he lived from the Born to Run-era through 1981, which leads me to suspect that Bruce actually wrote the song even earlier than 1982.)<\/p>\n<p>The retitling appears to have been a late decision, however, because when the song was originally issued as the B-side to &#8220;A Woman&#8217;s Got the Power&#8221; in Australia, it was actually called &#8220;Now and Forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25731\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/16\/cover-me-rotd-clarence-clemons-and-the-red-bank-rockers-summer-on-signal-hill\/nowandforever\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nowandforever.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"nowandforever\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nowandforever.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25731 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nowandforever.jpg?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nowandforever.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nowandforever.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nowandforever.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nowandforever.jpg?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nowandforever.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dave Marsh set the record straight in the very next issue of <em>Backstreets, <\/em>but for many fans, the is-it-or-isn&#8217;t-it debate continued.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, <em>Backstreets\u00a0<\/em>finally got a chance to definitively settle the matter when Christopher Phillips had a chance to interview The Big Man himself. When asked who the studio musicians were on &#8220;Summer on Signal Hill,&#8221; Clarence flatly stated that they were his band, The Red Bank Rockers.<\/p>\n<p>Chris pressed once more: &#8220;It sounds for all the world like the E Street Band, and that&#8217;s sort of been an ongoing&#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s because the song was written like that, written by Bruce,&#8221; Clarence replied. &#8220;It&#8217;s his signature sound. Other musicians may play, but his songs will sound like him, sound like the E Street Band. So you&#8217;ve got that real E Street Band sound in there. But that was my band.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So we can consider the matter settled. Now we can turn our attention to the more important mystery:<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to those lyrics?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer on Signal Hill<br \/>\nRecorded:<\/strong> July 1983<br \/>\n<strong>Released:<\/strong> B-side single (1983, 1986)<br \/>\n<strong>Never performed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 March 1, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lost original Springsteen song survives as a Red Bank Rockers instrumental&#8211;but whatever happened to the 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