Introducing Rosie

Available on the two‐CD set Introducing Rosie (B Street). The source is an audience recording of only fair quality that contains CB Radio interference. The opening 30 seconds and Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) is missing about 20 seconds mid‐song, seemingly the result of a tape glitch. There are historical inaccuracies in the liner notes of the Introducing Rosie CD which have caused confusion over the years. The CD also incorrectly lists the audio as coming from the January 5 show. Yet, comments made by club owner Joe Spadafora prior to Twist and Shout offer compelling evidence this recording is from the January 6 show. A soundboard recording of the final eight songs of this show (the entire second set) had been in very limited circulation since the early 1990s.

However, four of these eight soundboard songs surfaced into the wider collector arena on various boots during the mid‐late 1990s. The four tracks that surfaced were as follows:

1. Let the Four Winds Blow on the CDs The Inner‐View (BTS), and the “The Bruce Springsteen Collection, Volume 2”. It was also issued on the CD “Play the Tuba and Run” (which on some specimens had the complete performance but in other cases had a cut version with the final four minutes missing).
2. Zero and Blind Terry on the four‐CD The Genuine Tracks: 1972–1996 (Scorpio).
3. Twist and Shout on the CDs The Inner‐View and “The Bruce Springsteen Collection, Volume 2”.
4. an edited (the 3–4 minute instrumental intro is missing) 5:59 version of Blinded by the Light on the three‐CD set Deep Down in the Vaults (E Street) in 1998.

The fact that most of these CD boots misidentified the source venue or date created much confusion that still lingers today. In early 2007 the soundboard of all eight songs in the second set finally surfaced (in excellent quality) into the mainstream collector market via the title Uber Series #21. This source contains the edited (cut) version of Blinded by the Light previously issued on Deep Down in the Vaults. This source is also available on pressed CDs Live From Joe’s Place (Godfather), and Second Set 1974 (Vintage Masters). The soundboard of the opening seven songs of this show (the entire first set) has not surfaced into the mainstream, it allegedly exists in the hands of only a few people. The noted recording of the soundcheck/audienceless Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? (perhaps only audio) has been in circulation on the CD The Inner‐View as Bonus Track, unknown Date/Location, and was released in 2017 in improved quality on the Odds & Sods (Crystal Cat) compilation. Also available is “Special Series #460, RLR Collection” (“LDB”), but dated wrongly being from August 20, 1973.