Over the last few years I have compiled a list of all officially released songs from a variety of sources, either Springsteens own songs or those in which he participated. I have now put this into a table on a website in which you can easily search and also filter by lots of data: http://schrefel.com/spareparts
Before I make this available to a wider public, I wanted to share it here. On the one hand to get feedback on the content, but also on the technical side. Therefore, please do not pass it on at the moment.
What the list contains:
Songs released by Springsteen, either officially, as a promo or for a radio show album.
Officially released songs by other artists in which he was involved as an artist or producer.
It contains only professionally “produced” releases, so it does not include acetates, CD-Rs, tapes or reel-to-reels.
Each song only appears once, so B-sides are listed on album and box releases if they were included there. In these cases, however, the year of the first release is also given.
For regular studio albums, the release year is usually also given as the year of recording, as the entire recording process is very often difficult to trace or even took several years.
Only fully recorded songs were taken from videos, not excerpts.
Streaming videos are also not included
I would especially like to thank the excellent Brucebase. Without their valuable information my list would have many gaps.
I would be very happy to receive any kind of feedback
Last edited by schrefel on Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.
That must've been a lot of work. Much appreciated.
Would you consider creating a "category" column? This was a collecor would be able to filter by songs release only on various albums, or Springsteen's guest appearnaces on other artists' releases...
You can already filter by albums where Springsteen has appeared as a guest: filter Guest = Bruce Springsteen
In the row "Album Artist" and "Performer" you can get more information on the release where he participated.
Not on the list are the songs where he was only a producer, as my interest was mainly in those where he was active as an artist. If you have a list of songs where he was only a producer, then we could add them to the list.
I've added Summer on Signal Hill, both Gary US Bonds releases, and American Babylon. There's also a new "Produced" column.
So if you want to find songs that Springsteen produced but didn't perform, you'll need to select the "Produced=Y" filter and for "Performer" select all except Springsteen.
If you have more songs that belong to this list or other ideas let me know.
