Does anyone know who Bruce Springsteen originally wrote "Hungry Heart"!
Question:
Does anyone know who Bruce Springsteen originally wrote "Hungry Heart" for?
He originally wrote it for another performer but decided to keep it for himself.
Answers: When Springsteen met Joey Ramone in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Ramone asked him to write a song for The Ramones. Springsteen composed "Hungry Heart" that night, but decided to keep it for himself on the advice of his producer and manager, Jon Landau. Previously, upbeat and catchy Springsteen songs such as "Because the Night" and "Fire" had been given away and become hits for others, and Landau was anxious that that trend not continue.
The song is easy to assimilate on early hearings, as the verses and the choruses have the same underlying music. However, as with several other numbers on The River, the song's lyrics don't quite match the mood of the music:
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack!
I went out for a ride and I never went back.
Like a river that don't know where its flowing,
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hu-hu-hun-ga-ry heart
The title is drawn from a line in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem "Ulysses": "...always roaming with a hungry heart...." Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hungry_hear... Bonnie Rait