{"id":36370,"date":"2022-07-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=36370"},"modified":"2022-07-21T06:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:44:39","slug":"matr-john-eddie-bruce-springsteen-and-friends-hey-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/matr-john-eddie-bruce-springsteen-and-friends-hey-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"MatR: John Eddie, Bruce Springsteen, and Friends: Hey Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Together with its flipside &#8220;Have You Ever Seen the Rain&#8221; (they were released as dual A-sides), &#8220;Hey Tonight climbed as high as #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 when Creedence Clearwater Revival released it in 1971.<\/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\/tk8ZRq7uzrk?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 was one of the band&#8217;s last hit singles and one of their best. So given Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s long-professed admiration for its songwriter John Fogerty, we might wonder why he&#8217;s never covered it in concert.<\/p>\n<p>Except he has&#8211;five times, in fact. But you couldn&#8217;t have caught most of them unless your kid went to school with Bruce&#8217;s kids, because each performance was at one of the annual fundraising benefits for the Rumson Country Day School, and only parents of students were allowed to attend.<\/p>\n<p>There was one exception, though. The first time Bruce performed &#8220;Hey Tonight&#8221; was in Sayreville, New Jersey, and if you were a John Eddie Fan you might have been there that night in October 1994 to catch Eddie&#8217;s set at The Playpen.<\/p>\n<p>And if you stayed through the encores, you&#8217;d have been there when Eddie invited some singer-songwriter friends of his to join him on stage, and you&#8217;d have been stunned when those friends turned out to be\u00a0Greg Kihn, Marshall Crenshaw, Elliott Murphy, and Bruce Springsteen.<\/p>\n<p>With such an incredible array of talent on stage, whose songs did they choose to play? They chose all covers, of course, starting with CCR&#8217;s 1971 hit single.<\/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\/2TAIm_y2JnQ?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 a hard-driving performance with traded vocals (we can clearly hear Bruce at the mic at times), and it was a great way to kick off the encore set. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/matr-john-eddie-and-bruce-springsteen-bang-a-gong-get-it-on\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/09\/matr-bruce-springsteen-john-eddie-and-friends-suspicious-minds\/\">here<\/a> for more of it.) Sadly, though, it was a one-off&#8211;at least for Bruce, who was still five years away from his next rock tour, and another three before he attempted &#8220;Hey Tonight&#8221; again at those RCDS benefits.<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re lucky, maybe a recording from one of those shows will surface one day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hey Tonight<br \/>\nFirst performed:<\/strong> October 21, 1994 (Sayreville, NJ)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:<\/strong> April 25, 2004 (Asbury Park, NJ)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One time only (in public at least): Bruce Springsteen covers John Fogerty&#8217;s 1971 hit single with John Eddie, Greg Kihn, Elliott Murphy, and Marshall 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