Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"
Single by Bruce Springsteen
from the album The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
B-side"Night"
ReleasedDecember 1979 (Netherlands)[1]
Recorded1973
Studio914 Sound, Blauvelt, New York[2]
GenreRock and roll
Length7:04
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bruce Springsteen
Producer(s)
Bruce Springsteen singles chronology
"The Promised Land"
(1978) 		"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"
(1979) 		"Hungry Heart"
(1980)

"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.

  1. ^ "Springsteen singles".
  2. ^ "Brucebase, On the Tracks: The Wild the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle". Archived from the original on 2012-01-22. Retrieved 2007-07-27.