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That is “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)” with Clarence Clemons on the saxophone. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded the song in nineteen seventy-three for the album, “The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle.” It was just two years after Springsteen and Clemons met.

Clarence Clemons during a performance in February of 2009

How the two men first met is now famous. Clemons went to a club where the Springsteen Band was playing. Clemons said the night was rainy and windy. He opened the door, and the wind tore it off from the wall and blew it away. Clemons said the whole band was looking at him in the opening in the wall. He told the group “I want to play with your band.” Springsteen was maybe a little shaken by the “Big Man’s” exciting entrance. Clemons said the band leader said “Sure, you do anything you want.”

That moment was captured in the words to Springsteen’s song “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out.”

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Clarence Clemons was born in the coastal area of Virginia in nineteen forty-two. His musical future began with the surprise Christmas gift of a saxophone when he was nine.

Clemons died at his home in Florida on June eighteenth. He was sixty-nine years old.

Bruce Springsteen said he had lost his great friend and partner. He called the loss “immeasurable.” We leave you with the Big Man, Bruce Springsteen and the rest of the E Street Band performing “Born to Run.”