{"id":2966,"date":"1980-01-03T11:00:30","date_gmt":"1980-01-03T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:16:20","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-sherry-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1980\/01\/03\/roll-of-the-dice-sherry-darling\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherry Darling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-nine percent of the time, Bruce picks the right take of a song to officially release. With &#8220;Sherry Darling,&#8221; however, I humbly submit he got it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to this outtake from the\u00a0<em>Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em> sessions, recorded more than three years before the release of <em>The River,<\/em> and tell me that it&#8217;s not superior to the final release.<\/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\/2vY-5RMGjWA?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>If that doesn&#8217;t bring a goofy grin to your face, I don&#8217;t know what will. That&#8217;s pure joy in performance form. Here&#8217;s the album version for comparison&#8211;still a great track of course, but a bit more restrained:<\/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\/FCS3mewzWSo?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>Whichever version you prefer, &#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; is perhaps the epitome of &#8220;Party Bruce,&#8221; the persona he wears when he abandons all pretext of social consciousness, melodrama, and inner demons and just cuts loose.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, while &#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; first appeared on the grab bag party album that is\u00a0<em>The River<\/em>, its origins date back years, earlier, to the\u00a0<em>Darkness on the Edge of Town\u00a0<\/em>sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Bruce and Stevie having a blast playing it for what must certainly be the earliest recording captured on tape, let alone video:<\/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\/JUerFF6xKZ4?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>&#8230;and here&#8217;s the very first public performance, from early in the Darkness Tour&#8211;Charleston, West Virginia, on August 4, 1978&#8211;still more than two years before it would be released on vinyl, and with still-in-progress lyrics:<\/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\/GGbQrp6s3rE?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>It&#8217;s easy to figure out why Bruce didn&#8217;t release it sooner&#8211;it would have been jarringly out of place on the sober\u00a0<em>Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em> album. But it&#8217;s also easy to figure out why he played it often on the Darkness Tour&#8211;and pretty much exclusively in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; is a summer song, not only in its setting (with a &#8220;hot sun beating on the black top&#8221; and the &#8220;girls melting on the beach&#8221;), but also in its spirit. &#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; is loose, carefree, and the biggest problem on the narrator&#8217;s shoulders is the ever-present mother of his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>In early performance, Bruce called for the audience to create lots of &#8220;party noises,&#8221; which the E Street Band would eventually supply on vinyl. That&#8217;s because &#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; is meant to evoke the classic fraternity rock sound&#8211;or as Bruce would put it, where the audience is louder than the band.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; is raucous by design&#8211;we have too much fun to take issue with the callousness and short fuse of the protagonist, who is nearing his limit of what he&#8217;ll put up with for his girl:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Your Mamma&#8217;s yapping in the back seat<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tell her to push over and move them big feet<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Every Monday morning I gotta drive her down to the unemployment agency<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Well this morning I ain&#8217;t fighting, tell her I give up<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tell her she wins if she&#8217;ll just shut up<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But it&#8217;s the last time that she&#8217;s gonna be riding with me<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He talks a good game, doesn&#8217;t he? But listen to his tone soften toward the end of the chorus, and you can&#8217;t help but suspect he&#8217;s perhaps bluffing a bit:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>And you can tell her there&#8217;s a hot sun beating on the black top<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She keeps talking she&#8217;ll be walking that last block<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And she can take a subway back to the ghetto tonight<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Well I got some beer and the highway&#8217;s free<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And I got you and baby you&#8217;ve got me<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hey, hey, hey, what you say, Sherry Darling<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re young, and you have nothing but time, a car, a girl, and some beer&#8230; it&#8217;s pretty clear that our hero&#8217;s frustration is less about his girl&#8217;s mom, and more about the fleetingness of summer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Now there&#8217;s girls melting on the beach<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And they&#8217;re so fine but so out of reach<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8216;Cause I&#8217;m stuck in traffic down here on 53rd Street<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Now Sherry my love for you is real<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But I didn&#8217;t count on this package deal<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And baby this car just ain&#8217;t big enough for her and me<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just a <em>bit<\/em> of doubt here: so many girls, so little summertime! Is Sherry really worth the aggravation?<\/p>\n<p>Bruce answers that in the last chorus, where the protagonist suddenly lapses into romantic rhapsody:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Let the brokenhearted love again<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sherry, we can run with our arms open wide before the tide<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To all the girls down at Sacred Heart<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And all you operators back in the park<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Say hey, hey, hey, what you say, Sherry Darling<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, girls&#8211;and enjoy your conquests, you operators&#8211;our guy has Sherry, and that&#8217;s all he needs and wants.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get suckered by the bravado and the machismo&#8211;&#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; is as romantic as &#8220;Drive All Night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And can we talk about the band for a minute? It takes a lot of practice and a ton of camaraderie (and a great bandleader) to sound this loose and free-wheeling and yet still hold together. &#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; captures not only the skill but also the spirit of the E Street Band at the top of their game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; continues to be a summer staple&#8211;outside of both River tours (1980-81 and 2016), it pretty much only ever gets performed in the hotter months&#8211;and when she comes out, you know you&#8217;re in for a loose, fun evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus clip:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On his 2005 solo tour stop in Grand Rapids, Bruce performed &#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; by himself on electric piano for the first and only time. It&#8217;s novel, but far from essential. &#8220;Sherry Darling&#8221; needs a peanut gallery.<\/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\/TlYjluwtyls?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><strong>Sherry Darling<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Recorded:<\/strong> May 1979 &#8211; April 1980<br \/>\n<strong>Released:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The River<\/em> (1980)<br \/>\n<strong>First performed:<\/strong> August 4, 1978 (Charleston, WV)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:<\/strong> November 3,, 2024 (Toronto, ON)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 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