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And that's the sound that we ended up with.

All these different guys played what they knew of horns. Mainly Mad Dog Vincent Lopez, Albee Tellone played the sax or something. First of all, comes on with that Salvation Army horn sound, which was played by the guys in the E Street Band. Springsteen replied: 'That's a quirky tune, you know, quirky song. In an October 2020 interview on BBC Radio 2, Dermot O'Leary asked Springsteen about THE E STREET SHUFFLE. It was just the dance you did every day and every night to get by.' I wanted to describe a neighborhood, a way of life, and I wanted to invent a dance with no exact steps. The cast of characters came vaguely from Asbury Park at the turn of the decade.

It was the early 70's: blues, R&B, and soul on Major Lance's '60s hit 'Monkey Time,' a dance song. In his 1998 book Songs, Springsteen wrote: 'The opening cut, 'The E Street Shuffle,' is a reflection of a community that was partly imagined and partly real. Little Angel picks up Power and he slips on his jeans Oh, Little Angel hangs out at Easy Joe's, it's a club where all the riot squad goes when they're cashin' in for a cheap hustleД«ut them boys are still on the corner loose and doin' that lazy E Street ShuffleДЄnd as them sweet summer nights turn into summer dreams When the sparks light on E Street when the boy-prophets walk it handsome and hotДЄll them little girls' souls grow weak when the man-child gives them a double shot (Come on, baby!) (Come on, baby!) (You gotta get ready!) (Come on, girl!) (Oh!) (Whoa, oh, oh, oh, everybody form a line) She's deaf in combat down on Lover's Lane Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain't got no brains The newsboys say the heat's been bad since Power Thirteen gave a trooper all he had in a summer scuffleДЄnd Power's girl, Little Angel, been on the corner keeping those crazy boys out of trouble

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Now those E Street brats in twilight duel flashlight phantoms in full star streamДown fire trails on silver nights with blonde girls pledged sweet sixteen Well, the kids down there either dancing or hooked up in a scuffleДressed in snake-skin suits packed with Detroit muscle Them teenage tramps in skin-tight pants do the E Street dance and everything's all right Them schoolboy pops pull out all the stops on a Friday night It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.Д«ut mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead.Sparks fly on E Street when the boy prophets walk it handsome and hotДЄll the little girls' souls grow weak when the man-child gives them a double shot Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? As Ray navigates this double life, he begins to see who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes. The heist doesn't go as planned they rarely do. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa-the 'Waldorf of Harlem'-and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn't ask questions, either. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time.Д¬ash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home.ДЇew people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his faГ§ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. 'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked.' To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family.

about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel' ( San Francisco Chronicle). From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is вЂњfast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny.

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