# What was the first song of your first Springsteen show?

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**Created:** [October 9, 2014, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-song-of-your-first-springsteen-show/700848 "2014-10-09T11:32:50Z")\
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> [@Bridget\_Burke](#):
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> Not sure.
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> Back in 1975, Columbia was supposedly wondering how to promote Springsteen. The East Coast critics were creaming their jeans over him but–would he play in Peoria? The local Columbia rep suggested they send him to Houston, it being even more un-Yankeelike than Peoria. So he & his band came down on the train & played Liberty Hall.
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> I saw all the shows. He went over real well & Columbia decided he might be worth it…

According to [this site](http://www.setlist.fm/), he played 2 shows at the Houston Music Hall in '75, both opening with “Incident on 57th Street”.

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