“Sherry Darling” by Bruce Springsteen

"Sherry Darling" is the party on The River, Bruce Springsteen's fifth studio album, released in 1980, but it was written for the record before. He had it in hand for Darkness on the Edge of Town in 1978 and shelved it because it didn't suit that album's somber mood. On The River it gets its night out: a frat-house knees-up with crowd noise poured on top, a nod to early rock and roll like "Louie, Louie".

Clarence Clemons plays sax and percussion, Roy Bittan piano, Danny Federici organ, Garry Tallent bass and Max Weinberg drums, with Steven Van Zandt on guitars and Springsteen adding 12-string and harmonica. Springsteen produced it with Jon Landau and Van Zandt. Issued as a UK and European single in 1981, it missed the charts, but it has become a concert favorite and won over plenty of music writers.

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