Re: Patti/Bruce /Because The Night

[skywalker <skywalker919919>]

cool details, thanks Dave!

I can't recall where I (embarrassingly recently) read or heard this, but didn't Patti change the arrangement to Rock--hadn't Bruce written/played it slow in the sessions, but preferred Patti's very different treatment and later Bruce took to performing it as a rock song thanks to Patti?

coyote

----- Original Message ----
From: "AskDaveLTC" <AskDaveLTC>
To: pgrabar; babel-list
Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:47:26 AM
Subject: Re: Patti/Bruce /Because The Night

In a message dated 5/1/2008 1:25:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
pgrabar writes:

Does  anyone have the definitive answer as to how Patti and Bruce came  
to  write Because The Night Together?  Did he write the music and she  
the lyrics?

Phil



Phil,

Here's the story as I know it. It comes from piecing together stuff from  
bruce and patti books. Bruce and Patti were both in the same recording studios  
back then ('77 & '78)and Jimmy Iovine, who was the recording engineer for  
Bruce on Darkness On The Edge of Town and was the producer on Patti's Easter  
album, got the ball rolling by approaching Bruce to see if he had a song that  
would be good for Patti as he was trying to get her a "hit." Bruce offered  
Because The Night, which was a work in progress at that point. He had the music  
down but still working on the words. The chorus was pretty well set but the  
verses were in a state of flux. Bruce, in that period, wrote the music first and  
the words second. 

Patti, got his demo and then re-wrote the lyrics to suit her in  places. So, 
they didn't actually work on it together. Her lyrics have  stayed pretty 
constant other than how she's played it musically over the  years but Bruce's 
lyrics would continue to evolve over the years but you can see  the differences by 
comparing his differing lyrics with hers.  

Patti did write her lyrics late one night in NYC (from a Patti book) while  
waiting for a phone call from Fred in Detroit that didn't come until late  in 
the night. Thus, her line, "love is a ring, the telephone," she specifically  
said was her waiting for Fred's call. The rest of it was written along the same 
lines as she was waiting for his call that night.  

You can compare the lyrics from her version to those listed for Bruce's  
versions on KillingFloor.com.

_http://www.brucespringsteen.it/Brucex.htm_ 
(http://www.brucespringsteen.it/Brucex.htm) 

At Michael Stipe's suggestion, the version they did of BTN on the Vote For  
Change Tour was Patti's version.

HazyDavy



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