A Silver Bullet of a Song

Theme song Thursday!

This week, we discover the breadth of the term "theme song" as we see that any song that encourages me somehow counts.


Behold: Frankie, by Bruce Springsteen. Yes. Him again. Can't help it. He was on the brain from last week. And then I got the idea of silver bullets on the brain this week. The twain met.

I am always glad to listen to this. It puts me in a good mood if I'm not in one already. A silver bullet if there ever was one.

And, if I may dare to venture, it's one of the great love songs sung by a rock n' roll artist. I think there a few different standards we can use to measure whether a song qualifies as a great love song. One of them is simple enough: Would I want so and so to sing it to me?

In the case of Frankie, the answer: Uh, yeah.

Here's Springsteen on the piano, singing un-plugged; lyrics included, a lovely version



Here's a plugged in version--not as great a recording released on Tracks, but no one has posted that version Youtube, and it's not like I'm going to.