{"id":4894,"date":"2015-02-21T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:03:43","slug":"cover-me-aint-too-proud-to-beg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/21\/cover-me-aint-too-proud-to-beg\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t Too Proud to Beg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there was no &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Too Proud to Beg&#8221; by The Temptations, there would probably be no &#8220;Back in Your Arms&#8221; by Bruce Springsteen.<\/p>\n<p>When the quintet charted with their 1966 hit, it was their fourth #1 on the US R&amp;B chart, and their sixth Top 20 hit on the pop chart.\u00a0 But whereas their previous hits had been romantic ballads like &#8220;My Girl&#8221; or confident struts like &#8220;Get Ready,&#8221; &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Too Proud to Beg&#8221; starts off without any introduction&#8211;just a plea of desperation.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a man who know he done messed up and is willing to do anything to put it right&#8211;pride be damned.<\/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\/3s0TkufXA38?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>&#8220;Ain&#8217;t Too Proud to Beg&#8221; almost certainly struck a chord with Bruce, as he&#8217;s mined similar lyrical territory over the years, from &#8220;Fade Away&#8221; to &#8220;Talk to Me&#8221; to &#8220;Back in Your Arms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bruce first covered the Motown hit back on the Born to Run tour, in Detroit (appropriately), October 4, 1975.<\/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\/lwV9dJ2yJMs?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 you haunted the New Jersey bar scene over the decades since, you might have caught one of the rare repeats performances since then.<\/p>\n<p>But if you hoped to catch it on an actual tour, you&#8217;d have to wait all the way until the Wrecking Ball Tour, where Bruce played it by request in Limerick, Ireland, on July 16, 2013. 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