Fire is one of the few Bruce Springsteen tunes first recorded by another artist.

We begin at the beginning with Robert Gordon and Link Wray:

Next up, the songwriter’s own fiery live version:

The Pointer Sisters had the biggest radio hit with Fire. Note that it’s from the same album as Hypnotized,  featured in this space last Friday.

If you’ve ever wanted to hear Robin Williams sing a Springsteen song as Elmer Fudd, you’re in luck.

There are many other songs called Fire. This is my favorite:

That makes we wanna grunt like James Brown and say, Good gawd y’all.

That’s it for this week. I still cannot attend but let’s drink to Jazz Fest anyway. It’s what Patty, Bruce, and Ralph Lauren would want. Never argue with them.