Live 21 Oct 1994 version
[Someone onstage (spoken intro):] Thanks a lot ladies and gentlemen, it is star time. Are you ready for star time?
[Someone onstage (spoken intro):] thank you and thank you very kindly. This evening it's a pleasure to introduce you at this particular time, national, and internationally known as the hardest working man in show business.
[Bruce Springsteen (spoken intro):] Who knows the whole thing by heart?
You're dirty and sweet, clad in black, don't look back and I love you
You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah
Well you're slim and you're weak, you got the teeth of the hydra upon you
You're dirty sweet, you're my girl
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
You're built like a goddamn car, baby
Like a 1957 Corvette
Shake my shoes, shake it off
I got to love you and I love you, oh
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Baby if you ever plan to motor west
Take my way as the highway, baby, that's the best
Come on and get your kicks on Route 66
Well she winds now from Chicago to L.A.
More than two thousand miles all the way
Get your kicks on Route 66
Come on man!
Go to Missouri, Saint Louie, Oklahoma, go
You'll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona
And ten ten ten two two one
Whenever you have a plan to motor west
Take my way as the highway, baby, that's the best
You get your kicks on Route 66
[guitar solos]
[harmonica solo]
Well you wind to Saint Louie, down to Missouri
Oklahoma City looks, you'll see
Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona
Barstow, Boston, San Bernadino
Baby you, you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
One more time!
Get your kicks on Route 66
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[John Eddie (spoken):] Don't fucking say a thing!
(GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 is a 1946 song by The King Cole Trio. See the original The King Cole Trio version for more details.
The above lyrics are for the live 21 Oct 1994 performance of (GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 at The Playpen in Sayreville, NJ, during a guest appearance with John Eddie. The song also featured Elliott Murphy, Greg Kihn, and Marshall Crenshaw. The song started as T. Rex's GET IT ON, but was messed-up after the first verse and Springsteen rescued the situation by transforming it into (GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66. Springsteen sings backup vocals on the chorus during the GET IT ON part and sings lead vocals during the (GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 part.
Murphy, Kihn, and Crenshaw had each performed a solo set that night, followed by a set by Eddie and his band. Springsteen then joined Eddie onstage, as did the three other artists, jamming together on four songs.
(GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 is knows to have been performed at least twice in Springsteen's early years, in 1971 and 1972 in Highlands, NJ. Very little is known about shows from this early period, and therefore, the song may have been played on some more dates in 1971 and 1972, and possibly earlier.
(GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 is known to have been performed at least once during the Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Tour, on 18 Jul 1973 in New York City, NY. Very little is known about the 1972 and 1973 shows, and therefore, the song may have been played on some more dates.
(GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 is known to have been performed at least once during the Born To Run Tour: one time during the 1st leg (73 know dates / 81 known shows, between July and December 1975) and zero times during the 2nd leg (35 know dates, between March and May 1976). Some of that period's setlists are incomplete or unknown, and therefore, the song may have been played on some more dates during the Born To Run Tour.
(GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 was performed off-tour on 23 Oct 1980 at Old Timers' Café in Seattle, WA, during a guest appearance with Phil Hamilton.
(GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 was performed off-tour on 12 Jun 1982 at Big Man's West in Red Bank, NJ, during a guest appearance with Sonny Kenn.
(GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 was performed off-tour on 29 Sep 1989 at Matt's Saloon in Prescott, AZ, during a guest appearance with Mile High Band.
(GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 was performed off-tour on 21 Oct 1994 at The Playpen in Sayreville, NJ, during a guest appearance with John Eddie. The song also featured Elliott Murphy, Greg Kihn, and Marshall Crenshaw.
(GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 was performed off-tour on 13 Nov 1994 at Castaic Lake in Castaic, CA, during a guest appearance with Jackson Browne at the eleventh annual Love Ride charity motorcycle ride.
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(GET YOUR KICKS ON) ROUTE 66 [Live 21 Oct 1994 version]