You Mean So Much To Me

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Springsteen composition circa 1971. Recorded by Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes with Ronnie Spector, 1976.

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Performances

Performed live 15 times (not including snippet performances). 1977-05-13 Monmouth Arts Center, Red Bank, NJ (Late) 1977-05-13 Monmouth Arts Center, Red Bank, NJ (Early) 1977-05-12 Monmouth Arts Center, Red Bank, NJ 1977-04-17 Stone Pony (The), Asbury Park, NJ 1974-01-29 Muther's Music Emporium, Nashville, TN 1974-01-12 Joint In The Woods (The), Parsippany, NJ 1974-01-06 Joe's Place, Cambridge, MA 1973-11-17 Roxy Theatre, Philadelphia, PA (Late) 1973-10-20 Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH 1973-07-31 My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY (Late) 1973-05-31 Alpha Sound Studios, Richmond, VA 1971-07-29 D'Scene, South Amboy, NJ (Early) 1971-07-23 Guggenheim Bandshell, Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, New York City, NY 1971-07-22 D'Scene, South Amboy, NJ (Early) 1971-07-10 Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ

Performances broken down by tour (not including rehearsals and snippet performances) Performed at 0 show(s) of 130 on the 2023-25 International Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 266 on the Springsteen On Broadway run. Performed at 0 show(s) of 14 on the Summer '17 Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 75 on the The River Tour 2016. Performed at 0 show(s) of 33 on the High Hopes Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 133 on the Wrecking Ball Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 83 on the Working On A Dream Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 99 on the Magic Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 56 on The Seeger Sessions Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 72 on the Devils & Dust Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 7 on the Vote For Change Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 120 on The Rising Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 132 on The Reunion Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 127 on The Ghost Of Tom Joad Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 102 on the World Tour 1992-93. Performed at 0 show(s) of 20 on the Human Rights Now! Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 67 on the Tunnel Of Love Express Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 156 on the Born In The U.S.A. Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 138 on The River Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 111 on the Darkness On The Edge Of Town Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 54 on The Lawsuit Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 116 on the Born To Run Tour. Performed at 5 show(s) of 201 on The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle Tour. Performed at 1 show(s) of 166 on the Greetings From Asbury Park Tour. Performed at 9 known other show(s), plus 0 public tour rehearsal(s).

On The Tracks

YOU MEAN SO MUCH TO ME

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Note: Written in early 1971 as "When She Sings To Me"; title was changed to "You Mean So Much To Me" later in the year. Bruce introduced the song as "When She Sings To Me" in July 1971. Rehearsed at Challenger East Surfboard Factory, though apparently not on the evening of March 14, 1972, because it was absent from the tapes recorded by Tinker West. It was performed throughout 1971, although the circulating live versions mostly stem from the middle months. First caught on tape July 10, 1971 by The Bruce Springsteen Band. Another song that would be ranked in the top tier of Springsteen's pre-CBS portfolio. Bruce obviously felt this was one of his best early creations, as he continued to perform it live (in an acoustical arrangement) regularly throughout 1973 and 1974. There are no records of it being recorded at 914 Sound Studios for Greetings or The Wild, The Innocent, but many undocumented sessions are known to exist during mid-1973, held between 12 midnight and dawn, to avoid having to pay the studio. It is likely most of the base tracks for The Wild were recorded in mid-June 1973 in this fashion, and would explain why most of that information is also missing. However, perhaps the biggest mystery is how the money-conscious Mike Appel and his partner Jimmy Cretecos could fail to record a demo for publishing purposes, unless they used the May 31, 1973 WGOE broadcast tape. Never officially released by Springsteen, it was first bootlegged on 'Deep Down In The Vaults' in the 1990s. In late 1975, Steve Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen decided to get their friend John Lyon and his band Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes a contract and record an album. Bruce helped out by donating two of his compositions to the effort, "You Mean So Much To Me" and "The Fever". At the Record Plant one day, he ran into Ronnie Spector, who had been invited by Van Zandt. Inspired, he quickly wrote an arrangement for "You Mean So Much To Me" as a duet for Ronnie and Southside Johnny (borrowing from his BSB days), which became the closing song on side 2 of the Jukes' debut album, I Don't Want To Go Home. Ronnie agreed to tour with the Jukes throughout 1976–1977, and their duet was a regular encore and show closer.

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