{"id":26452,"date":"2017-01-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=26452"},"modified":"2026-08-09T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:52:35","slug":"rotd-matr-gary-u-s-bonds-bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-out-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/05\/rotd-matr-gary-u-s-bonds-bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-out-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1981, Bruce and Steve Van Zandt produced Dedication<\/em>, a comeback album for one of their musical heroes, Gary U.S. Bonds. It worked: Bonds indeed came back to the charts, leading off with Bruce’s original song “This Little Girl,” which peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n

Dedication<\/em> worked so well that the trio decided to do an encore. In 1982, Bonds released his follow-up album–also produced by Bruce and Steve–entitled On the Line.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Dedication\u00a0<\/em>included three original songs written by Bruce;\u00a0for\u00a0On the Line<\/em>, Bruce contributed a whopping\u00a0seven<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Only one of those seven songs became a hit single though: the comical but slyly topical “Out of Work,” which reached as high as #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of ’82.<\/p>\n