Bruce Springstenn - Drop On Down And Cover Me

[cansecoisgod]

Nice spelling genius

[originaldonk]

How come he suprises me after all these years. I should know better by now!

He´s still the one and only ... The Boss!!!

[Bossladyone2]

I hear the same Janey Don't  You Loose Heart and Cover Me also.

Old Tunes are Good Tunes

[Hargiwald]

A lot of his "alternative takes" seem to be completely different songs, just with the same or similar lyrics. It's funny how often he'd re-use unused lyrics, but never seems to have re-used music. I love Cover Me, but this is great. It's a shame he never came up with new lyrics for it and released it on a future album.

[christophehersent]

roy orbison and buddy holly haunt this song !!!

[lucater77]

mamma mia ke pezzo!  bruce mitooooooooooooooo!

[BaronM]

i hear Janey Don't You Lose Heart in addition to Cover Me.

[BaronM]

Yes, Bruce copyrights all his stuff that he records. Once it's on tape, the management crew take them and copyright them.

[Palakto]

Does anybody know, does Bruce own the rights to these? Or did he just record them and never copyright them, referring to all of these unreleased songs.

[buckeyesrule10]

@Palakto All I know is that he just recorded them i don't think he copyrighted any. Max said that he had like 60 or 70 outtakes from the Born In The U.S.A. album. So, there is a lot out there somewhere.

[Turtle152]

I am in awe of this song. I have no doubt it would've gone Top 10 if he'd put it out in the '80s.

[BrunoLeBoss]

@Turtle152 It did reach the Top 10. But it was the final version called "Cover Me", not as good as this alternate version, unfortunately...

[Turtle152]

@BrunoLeBoss Dave Marsh says the released version is a demo Bruce recorded for Donna Summer in '82. He kept it for himself, then soured on it and for a long time considered it ineligible for the album, which meant its lyrics could be donated to newer songs. My theory is that Bruce later came up with the 7-note riff for the unreleased version and needed a 7-syllable phrase to go with it. The phrase "cover me" only has three, so he added "drop on down and." Later the original returned to favor.

[rufaless]

bruce's voice was its best during born in usa recordings