''This Time It's for Real'' is the second album by New Jersey band

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes are an American musical group from the Jersey Shore sound, Jersey Shore formerly led by Southside Johnny. They have been recording albums since 1976 and are closely associated with Bruce Springsteen and The ...

, featuring three compositions by

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and

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, as well as an additional five by the latter. Like their first album, '' I Don't Want To Go Home'', there are a number of guest artists and duets, a trend that would be dropped for their next album, '' Hearts of Stone''. "Check Mr. Popeye" features Kenny "Popeye" Pentifallo on vocals with

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on background vocals. The track "First Night" features the Satins on background vocals and

on duet vocals. "Little Girl So Fine" features background vocals by

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.
According to Van Zandt, the two new Springsteen/Van Zandt compositions ("Love on the Wrong Side of Town" and "Little Girl So Fine") were written, at least in part, during recording sessions at Columbia Recording Studio in December 1976. Versions of both songs with unfinished lyrics appear on Van Zandt's compilation album '' The Early Work'', recorded in 1976-77. A third composition, "When You Dance", was written by the pair when they were both members of the Bruce Springsteen Band in 1971. The front cover photograph of the band was taken at Minetta Street,

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, New York City.

Track listing

# "This Time It's for Real" (

) - 4:07 # "Without Love" (

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) - 4:32 # "Check Mr. Popeye" (Dolores Johnson) - 3:56 # "First Night" (Steven Van Zandt) - 4:38 # "She Got Me Where She Wants Me" (Steven Van Zandt) - 4:06 # "Some Things Just Don't Change" (Steven Van Zandt) - 3:39 # "Little Girl So Fine" (

, Steven Van Zandt) - 3:51 # "I Ain't Got the Fever No More" (Steven Van Zandt) - 5:29 # "Love on the Wrong Side of Town" (Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt) - 3:11 # "When You Dance" (Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt) - 5:25

Personnel

Musicians

* Southside Johnny – lead vocals, harmonica * Al Berger - bass, vocals * Eddie Manion - baritone saxophone, vocals * Kevin Kavanaugh - piano, vocals * Kenny "Popeye" Pentifallo - drums, tambourine, vocals ("Check Mr. Popeye") * Billy Rush (credited as Little Willie Rush) - guitar, vocals * Richie Rosenberg - trombone, vocals * Tony Palligrosi - trumpet, vocals * Carlo Novi - tenor saxophone, vocals *

(credited as SMS) - guitar, vocals (duet "First Night") * Ernest 'Boom' Carter - conga, tympani * Bobby Malach - tenor saxophone ("Love On the Wrong Side of Town") *

The Drifters The Drifters are an American pop and R&B/soul vocal group. They were originally formed as a backing group for Clyde McPhatter, formerly the lead tenor of Billy Ward and his Dominoes in 1953. The second group of Drifters, formed in 1959 and ...

- background vocals ("Little Girl So Fine") ** Charlie Thomas ** Doe Greene ** Ellsbury Hobbs ** Don Thomas *

- background vocals ("Check Mr. Popeye") ** Carl Gardner ** Earl Carroll ** Jimmy Norman ** Ronnie Bright * The Satins - background vocals ("First Night") ** Fred Parris ** Richard Freeman ** James Curtis ** Nate Marshall * Sugar's Strings: ** Joe Parente - conductor ** Florence Rosenwig - violin ** Marion Head - violin ** David Madison - violin ** Chock Parker - violin ** Barbara Sonies - violin ** Diane Barnets - violin ** Nardo Poy - viola ** Pete Rosato - viola ** Davis Barnett - viola

Production

- producer * Don Meehan - engineer * Ken Robertson - assistant engineer * Stan Kalina - mastering

References

{{Authority control Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes albums 1977 albums Albums produced by Steven Van Zandt Epic Records albums