Date: 1974-06-02 Location: The Toledo Agora, Toledo, OJ Label: - Catalog #: - Taper: ? Source: Audience Tape Transferred By: ? Transfer & Generation info: Total disc time: (43:36) 01 Angel Baby (8:51) 02 Does This Bus Stop At 82nd St (4:04) 03 Saint In The City (4:29) 04 Spirit In The Night** (Cut) (0:07) 05 For You (8:16) 06 Let The Four Winds Blow - I'm Ready (start cut) (9:57) Bonus track: 07 ANGEL BABY (Re-mastered) (7:52) Known faults: # Spirit in the Night is only 7 secs long! Notes from Brucebase: ONE show, with Springsteen & The E Street Band headlining. Partial setlist above is from a newly circulating audience tape. This likely represents less than half of the total performance. All but a few opening seconds of "Spirit" is cut, as well as the opening minute or so of the evening finale, "Let The Four Winds Blow". The audio quality is poor except during Bruce's opening spotlight acoustic solo, which is slightly better. Although this tape first turned up undated, there are several vital clues during the show that almost certainly pinpoint the tape to this date and venue. Bruce specifically identifies the group by the name "The E Street Band" (which places the show after February 1974) and also asks the audience how many of them have traveled from Detroit for this show (most respond yes - Toledo is only 70km from Detroit). This arrangement of the Fats Domino song combo "Let The Four Winds Blow - I'm Ready" was very unique to the mid-1974 period and similar to the following night's rendition in Cleveland. Beginning the show with one or two acoustic numbers had been a very consistent fixture of Springsteen's concerts up to this point. However the hiring of Mark Brickman as stage lighting director in July 1974 would pretty much end the opening acoustic solo spots in the show. From a historical and collector standpoint the key song here is "Angel Baby", an unreleased Springsteen composition from late 1972 that has never circulated before in either studio or live form (See below). Springsteen, identifying it as "a new song", performs it acoustically (with Clarence and Danny) and fortunately the tape is complete and the sound quality is somewhat better on this track because the crowd is quiet. Although "Angel Baby" bears no common melody or lyrics with "Sandy", both are love songs set along the summer Jersey shoreline. The fact that Bruce pulled this one out of his magic bag for this show may relate to his May 1974 conceptual draft document for the third album - it has "Angel Baby" as one of the 10 songs for the next album. Bruce later used a few tidbits of lyric from "Angel Baby" for his 1975 composition "Lonely Night In The Park", the as-yet uncirculating number from the BTR sessions. Additional notes on Angel Baby: Contrary to what the Brucebase says the song has been in circulation amongst some fans since at least the mid 1980's. It usually circulated as a single song, without the rest of the set, as such people always assumed it was from late 72 / early 73; many even assumed that it was an early version of Sandy. The song generally went under the title of "Dance on little Angel", and you will find reference to this song on many web sites and some publications - it is the same song as Angel Baby and the same performance. This show contains an additional remastered version of Angel Baby which brings the song to life after many years of low fidelity listening - Thansk go out to Keith for this one. And finally, the lyric has been in circulation for many years thanks to the work of 80's pioneers who produced the "Songs to Orphans Lyrics file", here they are: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Angel Baby - Bruce Springsteen. Well the broken down dock Where Little Angel she dances topless, at night down in Coral Inn Along the satin couch high above the bar She watches the surfers drift in just to waste away, this night away Oh, two ID's at the door And you're tripped into wonderland, filed with South Shore cruisers And blondies with false curvy features and sandals and soft hands Ah you meet a new girl and for a while, boy, you listen to the band Oh you got no money to get up, but you still got to dance And baby it feels more honest making love, making love on the sand She takes off her shoes, runs off into the night You catch up with her, you take her hand You lay your jacket down on the sand And she tries to make it alright And dance on, dance on Little Angel, dance Oh now baby don't laugh, oh little girl don't cry Night after night we searched, we searched for romance But somehow on nights like tonight we all die Well across the street in the Shady Bell Oh the fags come in to drink and dance Oh and the disco roller DJ blasts out a solid beat Strike a pose, everybody knows that you're the man All the floors just a sex machine Oh as wet hands force themselves into tight pants Well that ain't gonna get her loose But tonight you feel like taking a chance And so you strut across the floor, and with your last breath you say Baby, do you want to dance Oh the boardwalk is so quiet at 3 in the morning Oh and the wind blows life into a sleepy ferris wheel And somehow tonight even the streets ain't so boring Raped and ravaged, stripped and savage With no secrets left to reveal, specially on the front Well now the bars they close down And along the beach the lonesome army awaits you Oh the lost boys, they're waitin', watchin' her transformation, waiting to date you And them lost boys, oh they dress rough, skin and savage legs They hide beneath the pier, gettin' hard, drinkin' beer, waitin' to kiss you And once you're locked in their arms you wanna die But baby they wont let you Oh turn up the house lights, Little Angel gets paid And she goes in the back room to get changed She's out the door, down the street She turns the corner, towards her apartment On the beach she hears the lost boys call her name Oh Little Angel, bar Angel, bar Angel, Little Angel And so you gotta dance on, dance on through the night, Little Angel dance Well baby don't look so frightened, and please honey don't cry Because night after endless night, up and down this boardwalk we search for romance But on nights like this, with one last kiss, we all die ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Infofile updated: 2005-02-01