Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
| "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" | ||||
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| Single by Bruce Springsteen | ||||
| from the album The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle | ||||
| B-side | "Night" | |||
| Released | December 1979 (Netherlands) | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Studio | 914 Sound, Blauvelt, New York | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll | |||
| Length | 7:00 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bruce Springsteen | |||
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"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" is a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen, from his The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle album, and is especially famed as a concert number for Springsteen and The E Street Band. The song, which clocks in at just over seven minutes, is a story of forbidden love between the singer and the eponymous Rosalita, whose parents disapprove of his life in a rock and roll band. It is included on the compilation albums The Essential Bruce Springsteen and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Greatest Hits. In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked it the 446th greatest song of all time on their updated 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.