

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – No Nukes
5/30/2025 | 1h 23m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Celebrate the 1979 “No Nukes” concerts featuring newly restored footage of Bruce’s epic performance.
Witness the legendary band on the cusp of superstardom in the “No Nukes” concerts of 1979, with recovered and restored footage of their epic performance. Features live favorites “Badlands,” “The Promised Land,” “Thunder Road,” “Born to Run” and more.
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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – No Nukes
5/30/2025 | 1h 23m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Witness the legendary band on the cusp of superstardom in the “No Nukes” concerts of 1979, with recovered and restored footage of their epic performance. Features live favorites “Badlands,” “The Promised Land,” “Thunder Road,” “Born to Run” and more.
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[CROWD CHEERING] One, two... [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING] ♪ I've been working real hard to get my hands clean ♪ We'll drive that dusty road from Monroe to Angeline ♪ To buy you a gold ring and a pretty dress of blue ♪ Baby just one kiss will get these things for you ♪ A kiss to seal our fate tonight ♪ A kiss to prove it all night ♪ Prove it all night ♪ There's nothing else that we can do ♪ Prove it all night, prove it all night ♪ I'll prove it all night for you ♪ Everybody's got a hunger ♪ A hunger they can't resist ♪ There's so much that you want ♪ You deserve much more than this ♪ But if dreams came true ♪ Oh, wouldn't that be nice ♪ But this ain't no dream we're living through tonight ♪ You want it, you take it ♪ You pay the price ♪ Prove it all night, prove it all night ♪ Prove it all night, girl, and call the bluff ♪ Prove it all night, prove it all night ♪ I prove it all night for your love ♪ Tie your hair back in a long white bow ♪ Meet me in the fields behind the dynamo ♪ You hear their voices telling you not to go ♪ They made their choices and they'll never know ♪ What it means to steal, to cheat, to lie ♪ What it's like to live and die ♪ To prove it all night, prove it all night ♪ Nothing else that we can do ♪ Prove it all night, prove it all night ♪ I'll prove it all night just for you ♪ I'll prove it all night, prove it all night ♪ I'll prove it all night, prove it all night ♪ I'll prove it all night, prove it all night ♪ I'll prove it all night, prove it all night ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ Hey, hey!
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ Prove it all night!
♪ Whoa, alright [VOCALIZING] ♪ I'll prove it all night ♪ Prove it all night ♪ I'll prove it all night ♪ Prove it all night ♪ I'll prove it all night ♪ Prove it all night ♪ Prove it all night ♪ Prove it all night ♪ [CROWD CHEERING] One, two... ♪ Lights out tonight ♪ Trouble in the heartland ♪ Got a head-on collision ♪ Smashin' in my guts, man ♪ Caught in a crossfire ♪ That I don't understand ♪ But there's one thing I know for sure, girl ♪ I don't give a damn ♪ For the same old played-out scenes ♪ I don't give a damn ♪ For just the in-betweens ♪ Honey, I want the heart, I want the soul ♪ I want control right now ♪ Talk about a dream ♪ Try to make it real ♪ You wake up in the night ♪ With a fear so real ♪ You spend your life waiting ♪ For a moment that just don't come ♪ Well, don't waste your time waiting ♪ Badlands, you gotta live it everyday ♪ Let the broken hearts stand as the price you've gotta pay ♪ Keep pushin' till it's understood ♪ These badlands start treating us good ♪ Workin' in the fields ♪ You get your back burned ♪ Workin' 'neath the wheel ♪ You get your facts learned ♪ Baby, I got my facts ♪ Learned real good right now ♪ You better get it straight, darling ♪ Poor man wanna be rich ♪ Rich man wanna be king ♪ And a king ain't satisfied ♪ Till he rules everything ♪ I wanna go out tonight ♪ I wanna find out what I got ♪ I believe in the love that you gave me ♪ I believe in the faith that can save me ♪ I believe in the hope and I pray ♪ That someday it may raise me ♪ Above these badlands ♪ You gotta live it everyday ♪ Let the broken hearts stand ♪ As the price you've gotta pay ♪ Keep pushin' till it's understood ♪ These badlands start treating us good ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa [VOCALIZING] ♪ For the ones who had a notion ♪ A notion deep inside ♪ That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive ♪ I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me ♪ I wanna find one place ♪ I wanna spit in the face of these badlands ♪ You gotta live it everyday ♪ The broken hearts stand ♪ As the price you've gotta pay ♪ We'll keep pushin' till it's understood ♪ These badlands start treating us good ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ Badlands ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ Badlands ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ Badlands ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ Badlands ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ [CROWD CHEERING] How you doing tonight?
[CROWD CHEERING] That's good.
Me, too.
I'd like to do this next song for... For John Hall, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Campbell.
They're the musicians who had the conviction and the energy to put this together what we're doing down here.
And I did this for Jackson Browne.
[CROWD CHEERING] And that little boy.
Oh, wrong harmonica.
[PLAYING HARMONICA] The Promised Land.
[CROWD CHEERING] [PLAYING HARMONICA] ♪ On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert ♪ I pick up my money and head back into town ♪ Driving 'cross the Waynesboro county line ♪ I got the radio on and I'm just killing time ♪ Working all day in my daddy's garage ♪ I'm driving all night chasing some mirage ♪ Pretty soon, little girl, I'm gonna take charge ♪ The dogs on Main Street howl ♪ 'Cause they understand ♪ If I could take one moment into my hands ♪ Mister, I ain't a boy ♪ No, I'm a man ♪ And I believe in a promised land ♪ I've done my best to live the right way ♪ I get up every morning I go to work each day ♪ But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold ♪ Sometimes I feel so weak I want to explode ♪ Explode and tear this whole town apart ♪ Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart ♪ Find somebody itching for something to start ♪ The dogs on Main Street howl ♪ 'Cause they understand ♪ If I could wish one moment into my hands ♪ Mister, I ain't a boy ♪ No, I'm a man ♪ And I believe in a promised land ♪ There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor ♪ I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm ♪ Gonna be a twister to blow everything down ♪ That ain't got the faith to stand its ground ♪ Blow away the dreams that tear you apart ♪ Blow away the dreams that break your heart ♪ Blow away the lies that leave you nothing ♪ But lost and brokenhearted ♪ The dogs on Main Street howl ♪ 'Cause they understand ♪ If I could take one moment into my hands ♪ Mister, I ain't a boy ♪ No, I'm a man ♪ And I believe in a promised land ♪ And I believe in a promised land ♪ And I believe in a promised land ♪ Come on!
[VOCALIZING] [PLAYING HARMONICA] [CROWD CHEERING] [CHEERING CONTINUES] ♪ I come from down in the valley ♪ Where, mister, when you're young ♪ They bring you up to do ♪ Like your daddy done ♪ I met Mary when we were in high school ♪ When she was just 17 ♪ We'd drive out of that valley ♪ Down to where the fields were green ♪ We'd go down to the river ♪ And into the river we'd dive ♪ Oh, down to the river we'd ride ♪ Then I got Mary pregnant ♪ And, man, that was all she wrote ♪ And for my 19th birthday ♪ I got a union card and a wedding coat ♪ We went down to the courthouse ♪ And the judge put it all to rest ♪ No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle ♪ No flowers, no wedding dress ♪ That night we went down to the river ♪ And into the river we'd dive ♪ Oh, down to the river we'd ride [PLAYING HARMONICA] ♪ I got a job working construction ♪ For the Johnstown Company ♪ But lately there ain't been no work ♪ On account of the economy ♪ And all them things that seemed so important ♪ Well, mister, they vanished right into the air ♪ Now I act like I don't remember ♪ Mary acts like she don't care ♪ But I remember us riding in my brother's car ♪ Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir ♪ At night on those banks I'd lie awake ♪ Pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take ♪ Now the memories come back to haunt me ♪ They haunt me like a curse ♪ Is a dream a lie if it don't come true ♪ Or is it something worse ♪ That sends me down to the river ♪ Though I know the river is dry ♪ Oh, down to the river we'd ride [VOCALIZING] ♪ Down to the river ♪ My baby and I ♪ Oh, down to the river we ride ♪ [VOCALIZING] [VOCALIZING] [CROWD CHEERING] [CROWD CHEERING] All right, this is...
This is for...
This is for Diane and Jackie and Owen, who come to my hotel and bother me every Wednesday, bringing me a whole bunch of cheap presents.
They bring you the kind of stuff, they're like those little knick-knack things.
Jesus.
Anyway, I'm not gonna do the song they asked for, but I'm gonna do this one for you, all right?
Here we go then.
♪ The screen door slams ♪ Mary's dress waves ♪ Like a vision she dances across the porch ♪ As the radio plays ♪ Roy Orbison singing for the lonely ♪ Hey, that's me and I want you only ♪ Don't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone again ♪ Don't you run back inside ♪ You know just what I'm here for ♪ You're scared and you're thinking ♪ That maybe we ain't so young anymore So...
CROWD: ♪ Show a little faith, there's magic in the night ♪ You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're all right ♪ Oh, and that's all right with me ♪ You can hide beneath your covers ♪ And study your pain ♪ Make crosses from your lovers ♪ Throw roses in the rain ♪ Waste your summer praying in vain ♪ For a savior to rise from these streets ♪ Now I ain't no hero, that's understood All the redemption I can offer, girl ♪ Is b is dirty hood ♪ With a chance to make it good somehow ♪ What else can we do now ♪ Except roll down the window ♪ And let the wind blow back your hair ♪ The night's busting open ♪ These two lanes will take us anywhere ♪ We got one last chance to make it real ♪ To trade in these wings on some wheels ♪ Climb in back ♪ Heaven's waiting down on the tracks ♪ Oh, come and take my hand ♪ We're riding out tonight to case the promised land ♪ Oh, Thunder Road ♪ Oh, Thunder Road Oh, Thunder Road ♪ Lying out there like a killer in the sun ♪ Hey, I know it's late, we can make it if we run ♪ Oh, Thunder Road, sit tight ♪ Take hold Thunder Road ♪ Well, I got this guitar ♪ And I learned how to make her talk ♪ My car's out back ♪ If you're ready to take that long walk ♪ From your front porch to my front seat ♪ The door's open but the ride ain't free ♪ And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken ♪ But tonight we'll be free ♪ All the promises will be broken ♪ There were ghosts in the eyes ♪ Of all the boys you sent away ♪ They haunt this dusty beach road ♪ In the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets ♪ They scream your name at night in the street ♪ Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet ♪ In the lonely cool before dawn ♪ You hear their engines roaring on ♪ You get to the porch, they're gone on the wind ♪ So Mary climb in ♪ It's a town full of losers ♪ We're pulling out of here to win ♪ [CROWD CHEERING] [PLAYING PIANO] ♪ The rangers had a homecoming ♪ In Harlem late last night ♪ And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine ♪ Over the Jersey state line ♪ Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge ♪ Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain ♪ Rat pulls up his pants ♪ Together they take a stab at romance ♪ And disappear down Flamingo Lane ♪ The maximum lawman run down Flamingo ♪ Chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl ♪ The kids round here look just like shadows ♪ Always silent, holding hands ♪ From the churches to the jails ♪ Tonight all is silent in the world ♪ As we take our stand... Say it now!
CROWD: ♪ Down in Jungleland ♪ The midnight gang's assembled ♪ And picked a rendezvous for the night ♪ We're gonna meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign ♪ That brings this fair city light ♪ There's an opera out on the turnpike ♪ There's a ballet being fought out in the alley ♪ Until the local cops ♪ Cherry Tops, rip this holy night ♪ The street's alive as secret debts are paid ♪ Contacts made, they vanished unseen ♪ Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades ♪ Hustling for the record machine ♪ The hungry and the hunted ♪ Explode into rock 'n' roll bands ♪ That face off against each other out in the street CROWD: ♪ Down in Jungleland ♪ In the parking lot ♪ The visionaries dress in the latest rage ♪ Inside the backstreet girls are dancing ♪ To the records that the DJ plays ♪ Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners ♪ Desperate as the night moves on ♪ Just one look and a whisper, they're gone [PLAYING PIANO] ♪ Beneath the city two hearts beat ♪ Soul engines running through a night so tender ♪ In a bedroom locked ♪ In whispers of soft refusal ♪ And then surrender ♪ In the tunnels uptown ♪ The Rat's own dream guns him down ♪ As shots echo down them hallways in the night ♪ Nobody's watching when the ambulance pulls away ♪ Or when the girl shuts out that bedroom light ♪ Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz ♪ Between what's flesh and what's fantasy ♪ And then the poets down here don't write nothing at all ♪ They just stand back and let it all be ♪ In the quick of the night they reach for their moment ♪ And try to make an honest stand ♪ But they wind up wounded ♪ Not even dead ♪ Tonight in Jungleland ♪ [VOCALIZING] [CROWD CHEERING] ♪ The night was young ♪ The moon was yellow ♪ And the leaves came ♪ Tumbling down ♪ Spread out now, Rosie ♪ Doctor come cut loose her mama's reins ♪ You know playin' blind man's bluff ♪ Is a little baby's game ♪ You pick up Little Dynamite I'm gonna pick up Little Gun ♪ Together we're gonna go out tonight ♪ And make that highway run ♪ You don't have to call me lieutenant, Rosie ♪ I don't want to be your son ♪ The only lover I'm ever gonna need's ♪ Your soft, sweet little girl's tongue ♪ You're the one ♪ Dynamite's in the belfry, baby ♪ Playin' with the bats ♪ Little Gun's downtown in front of Woolworth's ♪ Tryin' out his attitude on all the cats ♪ Papa's on the corner ♪ Waitin' for the bus ♪ Mama, she's home in the window ♪ Waitin' up there for us ♪ She'll be there in that chair when they wrestle her upstairs ♪ 'Cause you know we ain't gonna come ♪ I ain't here on business ♪ I'm only here for fun ♪ You're the one ♪ Rosalita, jump a little lighter ♪ Senorita, come sit by my fire ♪ I just want to be your lover, ain't no lie ♪ Rosalita, you're my stone desire ♪ Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knees Willie ♪ You know they're gonna be there ♪ Gonna be Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy ♪ They'll be coming up for air What are we gonna do?
♪ We're gonna CROWD: ♪ Play some pool, skip some school ♪ Act real cool, stay out all night ♪ It's gonna feel all right ♪ Ro-Ro-Ro-Ro Rosie, come out tonight ♪ Rosie, come out tonight ♪ Windows are for cheaters ♪ Chimneys for the poor ♪ Closets are for hangers ♪ Winners use the door ♪ Use it, Ro ♪ Rosalita, jump a little lighter ♪ Senorita, come sit by my fire ♪ I just want to be your lover, ain't no lie ♪ Rosalita, you're my stone desire ♪ Bring it down.
Break!
[MOUTHING] Come on.
On the piano, with his doctorate in rock n' roll, Professor Roy Bittan.
[CROWD CHEERING] On the guitar, auteur, writer, producer, man of many talents.
Writer of such hits as I Don't Want To Go Home, This Time It's for Real, and many others.
Ladies and gentlemen, Miami Steve Van Zandt.
[CROWD CHEERING] On the bass guitar, passion player to the world, Mr. Garry W. Tallent.
[CROWD CHEERING] On the drums, the Mighty Max.
On the organ, Mr. Dan Federici.
[CROWD CHEERING] Last but not least, king of the known world, master of the universe, and the only man who will successfully challenge Ted Kennedy for the presidential nomination for the Democratic Party, if he wants to... -The Big Man, Clarence Clemons.
-[CROWD CHEERING] Burn it up!
[INAUDIBLE] ♪ I know your mama, she don't like me ♪ 'Cause I play in a rock 'n' roll band ♪ I know your pop don't dig me ♪ But he never did understand ♪ Papa lowered the boom, locked you in your room ♪ I'm comin' to lend a hand ♪ Riding to liberate you, confiscate you ♪ I want to be your man ♪ Someday we'll look back on this ♪ It will all seem funny ♪ Tra-la-la ♪ Now you're sad, your mama's mad ♪ Papa says he knows that I don't have any money ♪ Your papa says he knows that I don't have any money ♪ Your papa says he knows that I don't have any money ♪ This is his last chance ♪ To get his daughter in a fine romance ♪ A record company, Rosie ♪ Gave me a big advance ♪ And my tires were slashed and I almost crashed ♪ The Lord had mercy ♪ My machine, she's a dud ♪ Out stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey ♪ Well, hold on tight Stay up all night ♪ Rosie, I'm comin' on strong ♪ By the time we meet the morning light ♪ I will hold you in my arms ♪ I know a pretty little place in Southern California ♪ Down San Diego way ♪ A little cafe ♪ They play guitars all night and day ♪ You can hear them in the back room strummin' ♪ Hold tight, baby, don't you know I'm comin' ♪ Everybody sing [VOCALIZING] Whoa!
♪ Rosalita, jump a little lighter ♪ Senorita, come sit by my fire ♪ I just want to be your lover, ain't no lie ♪ Rosie, you're my stone desire ♪ [CROWD CHEERING] One, two... ♪ In the day, we sweat it out on the streets ♪ Of a runaway American dream ♪ At night, we ride through mansions of glory ♪ In suicide machines ♪ Sprung from cages on Highway 9 ♪ Chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected and steppin' out over the line ♪ Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back ♪ It's a death trap, a suicide rap ♪ We gotta get out while we're young ♪ Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run ♪ Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend ♪ I want to guard your dreams and visions ♪ Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims ♪ Strap your hands across my engines ♪ Together we could break this trap ♪ Run till we drop Baby, we'll never go back ♪ Oh, will you walk with me out on the wire?
♪ Girl I'm just a scared and lonely rider ♪ But I gotta find out how it feels ♪ I want to know if love is wild ♪ I want to know if love is real ♪ Oh, can you show me?
One, two... ♪ Beyond the palace, hemi-powered drones ♪ Scream down the boulevard ♪ The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors ♪ And the boys try to look so hard ♪ The amusement park rises bold and stark ♪ Kids are huddled on the beach in the mist ♪ I wanna die with you, Wendy, on the street tonight ♪ In an everlasting kiss One, two, three, four!
♪ The highway's jammed with broken heroes ♪ On a last chance power drive ♪ Everybody's out on the run tonight ♪ But there's no place left to hide ♪ Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness ♪ I'll love you with all the madness in my soul ♪ Oh, someday, girl, I don't know when ♪ We're gonna get to that place ♪ Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun ♪ Till then, tramps like us ♪ Baby, we were born to run ♪ Wendy, tramps like us ♪ Baby, we were born to run ♪ Come on, Wendy, tramps like us ♪ Baby, we were born to run ♪ [VOCALIZING] [CROWD CHEERING] Thank you!
Thank you!
[CROWD CONTINUES CHEERING] [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING] ♪ Now, now ♪ Stay ♪ -I'd like to bring out... -[CROWD CHEERING] ...Mr. Jackson Browne.
[CROWD CHEERING] Mr. Tom Petty.
Tom Petty.
Miss Rosemary Butler.
[CROWD CHEERING] [INAUDIBLE] ♪ Ah, stay ♪ Ah, just a little bit longer ♪ We want to play just a little bit longer ♪ Now, your mommy don't mind ♪ And your daddy don't mind ♪ If we take a little time and we leave it all behind ♪ And sing one more song ♪ Oh, won't you stay ♪ Just a little bit longer ♪ Please, please, please say you will ♪ Say you will ♪ Just put your sweet lips on mine ♪ Tell me that you love me ♪ All of the time ♪ Won't you stay ♪ Just a little bit longer ♪ Please, please ♪ Say that you're gonna ♪ Jackson don't mind ♪ Bruce don't mind ♪ If we take a little time and we leave it all behind ♪ Sing ♪ One more song ♪ Stay ♪ Ah, just a little bit longer ♪ We want to... ♪ Please, please, please ♪ Just a little bit longer ♪ The promoter don't mind ♪ And the Garden don't mind ♪ If we take a little time and leave it on the line ♪ And sing one more song ♪ Stay -♪ Ah, just a little bit longer -♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪ Stay -♪ Ah, just a little bit longer -♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪ Stay -♪ Ah -♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪ One more song ♪ Rosemary Butler, Tom Petty, Jackson Browne.
[CROWD CHEERING] ♪ Devil with a blue dress ♪ Blue dress, blue dress ♪ Devil with a blue dress on [SCREAMS] ♪ Devil with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress ♪ Devil with a blue dress on ♪ Fee, fee, fi, fi, fo, fo, fum ♪ Look at Molly now Here she comes ♪ Wearin' her wig hat and shades to match ♪ She's got high-heel sneakers and an alligator hat ♪ Wearin' her diamonds, wearin' some rings ♪ She's got rings on her fingers and everything ♪ devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress ♪ Devil with the blue dress on All right!
♪ Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress ♪ Devil with the blue dress on ♪ Wearin' her perfume, Chanel No.
5 ♪ Got to be the finest-looking woman alive ♪ She looks so pretty every time she walks by ♪ The boys are too nervous even to say hi ♪ Not too skinny, not too fat ♪ She's a real humdinger and I like it like that ♪ Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress ♪ Devil with the blue dress on Come on, now!
♪ Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress ♪ Devil with the blue dress on ♪ Good golly, Miss Molly ♪ Sure like to ball ♪ Good golly, Miss Molly ♪ Sure like to ball ♪ When you're rockin' and rollin' ♪ Can't hear your mama call ♪ From the early, early mornin' till the early, early night ♪ See Miss Molly rockin' at the House of Blue Lights ♪ Good golly, Miss Molly ♪ Sure like to ball ♪ When you're rockin' and rollin' ♪ Can't you hear your mama call?
♪ Well, see ♪ See, see rider ♪ Come on, see ♪ What you've done ♪ Well, I said see ♪ See, see rider ♪ Come on, see ♪ What you've done ♪ You made me love you ♪ Now, now, now your man has gone ♪ Well, I'm going ♪ Gonna see my baby ♪ Mama, and I won't be ♪ Back till fall ♪ Well, I'm going ♪ Gonna see my baby ♪ Mama, and I won't be ♪ Back till fall ♪ And if I find myself a good girl ♪ Mama, I might not come back at all Let's go!
♪ Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, wont you come along with me ♪ Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, wont you come along with me ♪ You know I love you, baby Don't leave me in misery ♪ Spinnin', spinnin', spinnin' Spinnin' like a spinnin' top ♪ Spinnin', spinnin', spinnin' Spinnin' like a spinnin' top ♪ You know I love you, baby ♪ Oh, God, I just can't stop ♪ [CROWD CHEERING] Roy.
A little help from The Big Man.
[PLAYING SAXOPHONE] Are you ready to dance now?
-Mighty Max.
-[DRUMS PLAYING] [MOUTHING] Let's rock!
[INAUDIBLE] Bring it down a little bit, huh?
I've been asked by the management of the hall to make an emergency announcement.
It's an emergency medical announcement.
Please... Bring it down, guys.
-[MUSIC STOPS] -Uh...
The management has asked me to announce...
Please, please.
It's an emergency.
That if there's anybody in the house that has a weak heart or a weak stomach, or has recently had a heart or brain transplant, to please leave the hall during the next five minutes of the show as it might be dangerous to your health.
[CROWD CHEERING] Now, in case you don't want to go, you might have missed it coming in, but me and the guys, we got together and on the side, we sell this little... We got... We're selling this little insurance policy.
Yes.
That's if you're hurt any time during the next five minutes...
It's terrific.
It's really great.
I got to tell you about it.
If you suffer any damages, or if you get mugged coming into the Garden by the concessionaires outside, or if you fall from the cheap seats, you know.
[CROWD CHEERING] Or... Now, listen.
If you got a mother, a wife, a dog, I don't care.
If you've got something home, this is something that can really help you out.
I happen to have one right here.
[CHUCKLES] Um... Are there any takers?
No?
Once, twice.
Gone.
All right.
You asked for it.
[CROWD CHEERING] See, it ain't so bad when we do this.
And it don't hurt too much.
You might get away with a short trip to the emergency room when we do this.
And you might even survive with just a light case of shock when we do this.
[MUSIC STOPS] [CROWD CHEERING] But...
But when we do this... [MUSIC PLAYING] [MOUTHING] Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Ready!
Ready!
All right then!
♪ Devil with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress ♪ Devil with a blue dress on ♪ Devil with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress ♪ Devil with a blue dress on ♪ Thank you.
Thank you.
[CROWD CHEERING] A one.
A two.
A one, two, three, four.
[VOCALIZING] Come on, come on!
♪ Don't you know that I danced ♪ I danced till a quarter to three ♪ With the help, last night, of Daddy G ♪ He was swingin' on the sax, the girls and me ♪ We're dancin' all over the room ♪ People were dancin' like they were mad ♪ Swingingest band they had ever had ♪ Swingingest song that could ever be ♪ Night with Daddy G ♪ Don't you know that ♪ I never had it so good ♪ I know you never could ♪ Get down with that jive ♪ And take a band like the Church Street Five ♪ Oh, don't you know that I danced ♪ I danced till a quarter to three ♪ With the help, last night, with Daddy G ♪ Everybody was as happy as they could be ♪ Swingin' with Daddy G ♪ Go Daddy!
♪ Blow, blow Daddy!
♪ Blow!
♪ Well, don't you know ♪ I never had it so good ♪ I know you never could ♪ Get down with that jive ♪ And take a band like the Church Street Five ♪ Oh, don't you know that I danced ♪ I danced till a quarter to three ♪ With the help, last night, with Daddy G ♪ Everybody was as happy as they could be ♪ Swingin' with Daddy G ♪ Blow Daddy!
[VOCALIZING] ♪ Bring it up a little now ♪ Up a little bit now ♪ A little bit louder ♪ Up a little bit now ♪ A little bit louder ♪ A little bit now ♪ I wanna hear it now ♪ A little bit louder ♪ Well, don't you know that I... ♪ With the help, last night, with Daddy G ♪ Swingin' on the sax with the girls and me ♪ Dancin' all over the room ♪ People were dancin' like they were mad ♪ Swingingest band they had ever had ♪ Swingingest song that could ever be ♪ A night with Daddy G ♪ Go Daddy!
That's all I can stand!
[CROWD CHEERING] I can't stand no more!
[CROWD CHEERING] [INAUDIBLE] [CHEERING CONTINUES] I can't go on like this.
I'm 30 years old.
My heart's starting to go on me.
I can't...
I can't...
I can't...
I don't want you to beg.
I don't want you to beg.
[CROWD CHEERING] ♪ Well, don't you know that... ♪ With the help, last night, with Daddy G ♪ Swingin' on the sax with the girls and me ♪ Dancin' all over the room ♪ People were dancin' like they were mad ♪ Swingingest band they had ever had ♪ Swingingest song that could ever be ♪ Night with Daddy G ♪ Tired yet?
One, two, three!
♪ I'm just a prisoner ♪ [CROWD CHEERING] Of rock 'n' roll!
One, two, three!
[CROWD CHEERING] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] ♪ I wanna rave on ♪ Well, the little things you say and do ♪ Make me want to be with you ♪ Rave on, it's a crazy feelin' ♪ I know you got me reelin' ♪ When you say, "I love you" ♪ I wanna rave on ♪ The way you kiss and hold me tight ♪ The way you dance all through the night ♪ Rave on, it's a crazy feelin' ♪ I know you got me reelin' ♪ When you say, "I love you" ♪ I wanna rave on ♪ Rave on, it's a crazy feelin' ♪ I know you got me reelin' ♪ I'm so glad ♪ That you're revealin' your love for me ♪ Rave on, rave on and tell me ♪ Tell me not to be lonely ♪ Tell me you love me only ♪ Rave on to me ♪ Well, the little things you say and do ♪ Make me want to be with you ♪ Rave on, it's a crazy feelin' ♪ I know you got me reelin' ♪ When you say I love you ♪ I wanna rave on ♪ I wanna rave on ♪ I wanna rave on ♪ I wanna rave on ♪ I wanna rave on ♪ I wanna rave on ♪ Thank you!
[CROWD CHEERING] Thanks for your support.
You've been great.
[CROWD CHEERING]
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