HOLLYWOOD KIDS^©

They're Hollywood kids each and everyone
With a high class smile and a little baby's tongue
Lonely hard-head losers dressed in the tinsel of the times
Learn all the latest lines and the order in which they come

So perfumed sweet and so obscene
Like the fancy dancers of our dirty green
Oh they know hello and goodbye but not what goes in between
Yeah and its such a scene on Saturday night

Fifth Avenue freaks straight off the racks
They swear you can buy and sell your soul on a good day outside

They're Hollywood kids each and everyone
And on Sunday back into their holes they run
And on Monday here I stand alone on this littered stage
Like an animal who forgot he was in a cage
Just a restless soul, just waiting for 'em to come
Them Hollywood kids each and everyone

Yeah that's it through that one

The first know performance of this song was on 14 Feb 1972 in Mike Appel's office at Wes Farrel's publishing company (Pocketful Of Tunes Inc.) in New York City, NY, to an audience of three: Mike Appel, Jim Cretecos, and Bob Spitz. All songs were played on acoustic guitar during this performance. This performance was not recorded.

Later recorded at Jim Cretecos' apartment in New York City in May-Jun 1972 (read below). The above lyrics refer to that recording which later appeared on the semi-legal CD Before The Fame.

From Brucebase, about the May-Jun 1972 recordings at Jim Cretecos' apartment in New York City, NY:

A week or so following this May [1972] 3rd CBS session Springsteen finally signed his "Exclusive Songwriting Agreement" with publisher Sioux City Music (Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos). It was following the signing of this Agreement that Springsteen began a series of May-Jun demo sessions for Sioux City Music at two New York City locations: Wes Farrell's Pocketful Of Sounds Studios (where Appel was still employed) and at the apartment of Bruce's co-manager Jim Cretecos. There were multiple sessions held at each location and the session dates at the two locations may have actually intertwined. Cretecos' apartment was utilized due to the limited availability of the studio at Pocketful Of Sounds. Cretecos was an electronics engineer and was able to emulate a reasonable recording environment in his apartment – so much so that it is difficult to distinguish some of the recordings Bruce made in Cretecos' apartment from those made in a professional studio.

...The Cretecos apartment tapes never circulated in any form until the early 1990's, when Jimmy Cretecos sold most of this audio (as well as substantial audio in his collection from both the Pocketful Of Sounds and 914 Sound Sessions) to a third party – and it was this third party (JEC Music) that brazenly attempted to claim copyright of the material and to release (or sub-lease to others to release) it commercially. Bruce took the matter to court in both the UK and USA – litigation that, all totaled, spanned nearly 7 years (1994 – 2001). In the end Bruce won both the UK and USA cases convincingly – however not before nearly all of the material had leaked out on various unauthorized and/or bootleg CD releases.