Artist	Song
Bruce Springsteen	It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City (Demo)
The Lovin' Spoonful	Summer in the City
The Crystals	Uptown
The Brian Setzer Orchestra	Jet Song (from West Side Story)
Ben E. King	Spanish Harlem
Marvin Gaye	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Bob Dylan	Spanish Harlem Incident
The Viscounts	Harlem Nocturne
Patti Smith Group	So, You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
Neil Young	On Broadway
Van Morrison	Slim Slow Slider
Patty Labelle & the Blue Belles	I Sold My Heart to the Junk Man
Grover Washington, Jr. (with Paul White)	Midnight in Manhattan
Fantastic Johnny C	Boogaloo Down Broadway
Cannonball Adderley	Walk Tall
The Spirits of Rhythm	Junk Man
Tom Waits	Somewhere (from West Side Story)
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band	Incident on 57th Street
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band	Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band	New York City Serenade

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Being a Thematic Variorum of the Second Side of the Scooter's Second Album
LPs had two sides -- and the sequencing thereof once had a vital r(le in the production. It's true. At parties, you might get called upon to enter into a spirited debate over "Resolved: that Abbey Road, Side Two is more excellent than Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Side Four." Hope you brought your index cards.
The flipside of The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle has always been a favorite of mine. It takes the Escape/Redemption thing into the gritty uptown areas and lets it loose on an interesting cast of characters. There's pimps with axe-handles and streetboys with switchblades, gold-heeled fairies with thirty-eights and stack-heeled ladies with a pronounced tendency to boogaloo. And the piano and the sax are something else.
So, what are we doing here? Trying to create an aural landscape in which that second side, the three songs at the end of this mix, can re-enact itself. You, too, can escape and be redeemed. Bruce is the Junk Man of our hearts: listen to the Junk Man, ah, listen to the Junk Man -- he's singing.

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