"She aint a beauty, but hey she's alright": Springsteen Quiz

[Frostillicus]

Over the years, Bruce Springsteen has sung about a wide variety of women. See if you can identify the song that each of these ladies appeared in. Extra credit if you can quote a line in the song in which the woman in question’s name appears.

1a) Mary

1b) Mary

1c) Mary

1d) Mary

(4 different songs. Bruce must really have a thing for women named Mary!)

2. Wendy

3. Puerto Rican Jane

4. Kate

5. Crazy Janie

6. Missy Bimbo

7. Sandy

8. Kitty

9. Sloppy Sue

10. Candy

11. Wanda

12. Diamond Jackie

13. Spanish Rose

14. Sherry

15. Maria

16. Barefoot Girl
    Good luck!

PS Feel free to add additional names if you can think of them.

[Hello_Again]

@Frostillicus

Over the years, Bruce Springsteen has sung about a wide variety of women. See if you can identify the song that each of these ladies appeared in. Extra credit if you can quote a line in the song in which the woman in question’s name appears.

1a) Mary – Thunder Road – “Mary’s dress waves/ Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays…”

1b) Mary – The River – “Me and Mary met in High School, when we were just 17…”

1c) Mary – Mary’s Place.

1d) Mary

(4 different songs. Bruce must really have a thing for women named Mary!)

2. Wendy – Born to Run -“Wendy let me in I want to be your man I want to guard your dreams and visions”

3. Puerto Rican Jane

4. Kate

5. Crazy Janie – Jeez I can’t remember the name of the song but they lyric is something like “me and crazy Janie were making love in the dirt.”

6. Missy Bimbo

7. Sandy

8. Kitty

9. Sloppy Sue

10. Candy – In Candy’s Room

11. Wanda

12. Diamond Jackie

13. Spanish Rose – Do you mean Rosalita (Come Out tonight)? “Rosalita come sit by my fire”

14. Sherry

15. Maria

16. Barefoot Girl
    Good luck!

PS Feel free to add additional names if you can think of them.

You forgot Mary Lou, who loved Johnny in Reason to Believe (with a love pure and true)

I didn’t do as well as I thought I would. I feel like I have the other Mary on the tip of my tongue…

[ElvisL1ves]

1d Mary is also in “The Rising”

7 Sandy “Fourth of July”

[Chefguy]

Thunder Road
Mary’s Place

[Fretful_Porpentine]

15. “Highway Patrolman”

[Chefguy]

:smack: :smack:

[panamajack]

Crazy Janie’s in Spirits in the Night.

I don’t know any of the ones not mentioned, but there’s Cherry in

Meeting across the River

unless that’s who Sherry is supposed to be.

[astorian]

@Frostillicus

Over the years, Bruce Springsteen has sung about a wide variety of women. See if you can identify the song that each of these ladies appeared in. Extra credit if you can quote a line in the song in which the woman in question’s name appears.

1a) Mary

1b) Mary

1c) Mary

1d) Mary

(4 different songs. Bruce must really have a thing for women named Mary!)

2. Wendy

3. Puerto Rican Jane

4. Kate

5. Crazy Janie

6. Missy Bimbo

7. Sandy

8. Kitty

9. Sloppy Sue

10. Candy

11. Wanda

12. Diamond Jackie

13. Spanish Rose

14. Sherry

15. Maria

16. Barefoot Girl
    Good luck!

PS Feel free to add additional names if you can think of them.

1. One of the Mary’s got pregnant in “The River”

2. “My Hometown” (Last night me and Kate sat in bed and talked about getting out")

3. The Barefoot Girl is in Jungleland

[psycat90]

Puerto Rican Jane is from Incident on 57th Street

Maria is from Maria’s Bed

Sloppy Sue is from Rosalita

And others already answered the other ones I knew.

[Johnny_L.A]

This is my wife Audrey, she smells a bit but she has a heart of gold.

[Frostillicus]

13. Spanish Rose – Do you mean Rosalita (Come Out tonight)? “Rosalita come sit by my fire”
    Uhh, no. If I meant Rosalita, I would’ve typed the word “Rosalita”.

[pseudotriton_ruber_ruber]

“Missy Bimbo” sits in her chair and yawns in “Wild Billy’s Circus Song” (not nearly the exct title, but close enough for you to know which one I mean) on the Asbury Park album.

I think you’re misquoting in your title. It should be “You ain’t no beauty but hey you’re alright,” which my ex-wife heard and muttered “Just what every girl wants to be told.”

[Eonwe]

The missing Mary is from Mary Queen of Arkansas…

But on your bed Mary, I can see the shadow of a noose
I don’t understand how you can hold me so tight
and love me so damn loose

Spanish Rose is from Does This Bus Stop at 82nd St

Senorita, Spanish Rose,
wipes her eyes and blows her nose
uptown in Harlem, she throws a rose
to some lucky young matador

Diamond Jackie is from NY City Serenade

Diamond Jackie is so intact
and she falls so softly
beneath him

Kitty is from Kitty’s Back in Town… though honestly the only lyric I can think of with the name Kitty in it is just the ‘chorus’, Kitty’s back in town, oh, Kitty’s back in town. But I do remember that in that same song there hasn’t been a tally since Sally left the alley

Sherry is from I’m in Love With a Jersey Girl. No, wait, that’s another Sandy I think. Yeah, that one’s Sandy.

[Eonwe]

@pseudotriton ruber ruber

“Missy Bimbo” sits in her chair and yawns in “Wild Billy’s Circus Song” (not nearly the exct title, but close enough for you to know which one I mean) on the Asbury Park album.

I think you’re misquoting in your title. It should be “You ain’t no beauty but hey you’re alright,” which my ex-wife heard and muttered “Just what every girl wants to be told.”

That tune’s from The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle, actually.

[edwino]

How bout “Mary Queen of Arkansas” for one of the Marys? And obviously Sandy is from “4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy).”

[AveDementia]

Kitty’s not a woman. Kitty’s a cat.

[Hello_Again]

@Frostillicus

13. Spanish Rose – Do you mean Rosalita (Come Out tonight)? “Rosalita come sit by my fire”
    Uhh, no. If I meant Rosalita, I would’ve typed the word “Rosalita”.

Well then you forgot Rosalita too. So there!

[AuntiePam]

Sloppy Sue remains a mystery, but my daughter and I put our heads together and came up with the rest of them. What a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon, with Bruuuuuuuuuuce.

1a) Mary- Thunder Road

1b) Mary- The River

1c) Mary- Mary, Queen of Arkansas

1d) Mary- Straight Time

2. Wendy - Born to Run

3. Puerto Rican Jane - Incident on 57th Street

4. Kate - My Hometown

5. Crazy Janie - Blinded by The Light

6. Missy Bimbo -Wild Billy’s Circus Story

7. Sandy - 4th of July, Asbury Park

8. Kitty - Kitty’s back in Town

9. Candy - Candy’s Room

10. Wanda - Open All Night

11. Diamond Jackie - New York Serenade

12. Spanish Rose - Does this Bus stop at 82nd Street ?

13. Sherry- Sherry darling

14. Maria - Lost in the Flood

15. Barefoot Girl - Jungleland

[silenus]

@AuntiePam

Sloppy Sue remains a mystery,

Nope. psycat90 got that one in Post #9.

[AuntiePam]

Oops. Missed that on preview. I’m trying to think of some more, to keep this thread going, and as an excuse to play some more Bruce.