The E Street Shuffle

The "E Street Shuffle" is a dance, but unlike many songs about dances, Springsteen doesn't explain how to do it. "I wanted to invent a dance with no exact steps," he said. "It was just the dance you did every day and every night to get by."

The name "E Street" was taken from the name of a road in Belmar, New Jersey, where the band's piano player, David Sancious, lived with his parents (he was still a teenager). Springsteen liked the sound of it, so he named the group the "E Street Band." Sancious left the band after this album to form the jazz group Tone with E Street drummer Earnest "Boom" Carter.

The music was based on "The Monkey Time," a 1963 hit for Chicago soul singer Major Lance.