Open All Night (song)

"Open All Night" is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska.

History

Of the 10 songs on Nebraska, "Open All Night" is the only one to feature an electric guitar. With a Chuck Berry-style guitar riff, the song tells the story of an unnamed narrator's all-night drive across industrial New Jersey to reach his girl, Wanda, whom he met when she was a waitress at the Route 60 Bob's Big Boy.

"Open All Night" was released as a single in the UK, backed by "The Big Payback", but did not chart. It was also released as a single in The Netherlands and Spain. Though never released as a single in the United States, it garnered enough album oriented rock airplay to reach #22 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

The song shares a common lyrical structure and themes with two other Springsteen songs. The first is "State Trooper," also found on the Nebraska album. The other was "Living on the Edge of the World", recorded in 1979 but released as part of the four-disk box set Tracks in 1998.

Open All Night

Open All Night may refer to:

See also

Open All Night (book)

Open All Night (French: Ouvert la nuit) is a 1922 short story collection by the French writer Paul Morand. The book was the basis for a 1924 American film adaptation.

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Publication

Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française published the book in France in 1922. It was published in English in 1923, translated by Vyvyan Holland.Ezra Pound also translated the book in the 1920s, but was rejected by the British publisher Chapman and Dodd, which found the stories to be "unsuitable". Pound's translation was rediscovered in the 1970s and published by New Directions Publishing in 1984, in a shared volume with Tender Shoots.

Adaptation

The book was the basis for the American silent film Open All Night, directed by Paul Bern. The film premiered on 13 October 1924.

References

Open All Night (1924 film)

Open All Night is a 1924 silent film comedy produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. Paul Bern, better known as a writer and later husband of Jean Harlow, directed and Viola Dana, Jetta Goudal and Raymond Griffith starred. The screenplay is based on Paul Morand's 1922 short story collection Open All Night. It is an extant film at the Library of Congress, UCLA, George Eastman House and Cineteca Del Friuli. Actors Viola Dana and "Lefty" Flynn would soon marry after this film.

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