This Time It's for Real explained

This Time It's for Real
Type:studio
Artist:Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Cover:SSJ This Time It's for Real cover.png
Released:April 1977
Recorded:November 1976 – February 1977
Studio:Columbia Recording Studio, New York, NY[1]
Length:43:00
Label:Epic
Producer:Sugar Miami Steven Van Zandt
Prev Title:I Don't Want to Go Home
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:Hearts of Stone
Next Year:1978

This Time It's for Real is the second album by New Jersey band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, featuring three compositions by Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt, as well as an additional five by the latter. Like their first album, I Don't Want To Go Home, there are a number of guest artists and duets, a trend that would be dropped for their next album, Hearts of Stone. "Check Mr. Popeye" features Kenny "Popeye" Pentifallo on vocals with The Coasters on background vocals. The track "First Night" features the Satins on background vocals and Steven Van Zandt on duet vocals. "Little Girl So Fine" features background vocals by the Drifters.[2] [3]

According to Van Zandt, the two new Springsteen/Van Zandt compositions ("Love on the Wrong Side of Town" and "Little Girl So Fine") were written, at least in part, during recording sessions at Columbia Recording Studio in December 1976. Versions of both songs with unfinished lyrics appear on Van Zandt's compilation album The Early Work, recorded in 1976-77.[4] A third composition, "When You Dance", was written by the pair when they were both members of the Bruce Springsteen Band in 1971.[5]

The front cover photograph of the band was taken at Minetta Street, Greenwich Village, New York City.[6]

Track listing

  1. "This Time It's for Real" (Steven Van Zandt) - 4:07
  2. "Without Love" (Carolyn Franklin, Ivory Joe Hunter) - 4:32
  3. "Check Mr. Popeye" (Dolores Johnson) - 3:56
  4. "First Night" (Steven Van Zandt) - 4:38
  5. "She Got Me Where She Wants Me" (Steven Van Zandt) - 4:06
  6. "Some Things Just Don't Change" (Steven Van Zandt) - 3:39
  7. "Little Girl So Fine" (Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt) - 3:51
  8. "I Ain't Got the Fever No More" (Steven Van Zandt) - 5:29
  9. "Love on the Wrong Side of Town" (Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt) - 3:11
  10. "When You Dance" (Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt) - 5:25

Personnel

Musicians

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Production

Notes and References

  1. Web site: This Time It's for Real . asburyjukes.net . https://web.archive.org/web/20100710004712/http://asburyjukes.net/1977/07/04/this-time-its-for-real/ . 23 February 2021. 2010-07-10 .
  2. Web site: Southside Johnny. Southsidejohnny.com. 19 September 2014.
  3. http://asburyjukes.net/1977/07/04/this-time-its-for-real/
  4. https://shop.udiscovermusic.com/collections/little-steven-and-the-disciples-of-soul/products/rock-n-roll-rebel-the-early-work-box-set
  5. Web site: 1976-12-00 Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, NY . Brucebase . 20 August 2019.
  6. Web site: Musical Maps.

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