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In My Imagination (Album Version)
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In My Imagination (Album Version)
Album: Rumble Doll
Released: Jan 1, 1993
Label: columbia

BIO

Vivienne Patricia Scialfa, the New Jersey native with a just-earned degree from NYU had come to the city to test her music. She paid early dues on the street--literally. She developed a favorite busking spot on Sheridan Square, in the heart of Greenwich Village. "It was tough playing on a corner filled with this tremendous amount of noise and input, but it was so empowering, so freeing," she says. "I was doing my own music, making my living my own way, on my own terms." Soon, Patti became a regular on the city's club scene as well, working on her own and with a circle of friends. Occasional waitress stints paid the rent. As her talent became better known, she found work backing up David Johansen, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, even the Rolling Stones. When Bruce Springsteen asked her to join the E Street Band in 1984 for the "Born In The USA" world tour, she took the gig. Meantime, she continued to write her own material and made demos that earned her a contract with Columbia Records. Around 1986 Patti started focusing more on her own music again, and with the strength of her own demo, she was signed to the Columbia label (1986 or 1987?). She worked on and off with her own music in between E- Street tours and giving birth and raising children. Then finally in 1993 the first album was finished... and as they say the rest is history. In her Greenwich Village days, together with Soozie Tyrell and Lisa Lowell, she formed a street group known as Trickster. Both Soozie and Lisa appears on her albums. The movie No Looking Back - 1998, features a clip of Romeo and an unrealised track Big Girl Now (full length).

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  • Genre: Folk Rock / Lyrical / Rock

    Location This Space Is Owned & Run By ~ JT, Sw

    Profile Views: 175262

    Last Login: 7/28/2012

    Member Since 2/16/2007

    Website www.pattiscialfa.net

    Record Label Columbia Records

    Type of Label Major

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THIS IS A FAN SPACE!
I am NOT Patti Scialfa! I do NOT know her and I have NO way of contacting her or forwarding your messages! This is a FAN SPACE for Patti Scialfa's solo career and her music career before the E - Street Band! I do not have any contact with Columbia Records or any official contact person for Patti what so ever! This space is just so people can enjoy her music. PLEASE leave a COMMENT if you want Patti to have a chance of reading it, PLEASE do NOT send messages intended for Patti! If you have any info, photos, comments about the space or whatnots.. or if you just wanna say hi to me (JT), please do so in a MESSAGE. If you don't have a MySpace and want to contact me ~JT. Just Send me an e-mail at: pattiscialfaspace@yahoo.se Thanks ~JT.

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Juli 28. 2012. THE UPLOAD PRIVILEGES HAS BEEN UNSUSPENDED! Lets see how long it will last. ~ JT

October 9. 2009. THE SPACE UPLOAD PRIVILEGES HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED! I tried to put up a few more songs as a lot of you requested. And unfortunately MySpace permanently suspended the upload privileges. I'm confident the space will not be deleted. However I'm not sure if I have the time to try and get the upload privileges back, it's not very likely any officials will bother with this anyway. ~ JT

MUSICIANS ON PLAY IT AS IT LAYS - 2007

Patti Scialfa - (vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, Wurlitzer organ)
Cliff Carter - (keyboards)
Steve Jordon - (drums and percussion, acoustic guitar)
Nils Lofgren - (guitars, pedal steel guitar, dobro)
Bruce Springsteen - (Hammond B3 organ, acoustic guitars, electric guitar, harmonica)
Willie Weeks - (bass)
Ron Aniello - (guitar, keyboards)
Crusher Bennet - (percussion)
Jeremy Chatzky - (bass)
Mark Stewart - (cello, guitar, banjo)
Scott Tibbs - (synthesized strings)
Soozie Tyrell - (violin, background vocals)
Lisa Lowell, Michelle Moore, Cindy Mizelle and Curtis King - (background vocals) ............

MUSICIANS ON 23rd STREET LULLABY - 2004

Patti Scialfa - (vocals, recorder, harpsichord, harmonium, field organ, Hammond b-3 organ, keyboards)
Nils Lofgren - (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric 12-string guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro, mandolin, bass guitar)
Marc Ribot - (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, baritone guitar, nylon-string guitar, dobro, tres, banjo)
Bobby Bandiera - (acoustic guitar, electric guitar)
Larry Campbell - (electric guitar, cittern)
Bruce Springsteen -(electric guitar, keyboards)
Soozie Tyrell - (violin, background vocals)
Jane Scarpantoni - (cello)
Clifford Carter - (piano, Wurlitzer piano, field organ, Hammond b-3 organ, Mellotron, keyboards)
John Medeski - (piano)
Greg Cohen - (double bass)
Steve Jordan - (bass guitar, drums, percussion, loops, background vocals)
Will Lee, Willie Weeks - (bass guitar)
Lisa Lowell, Antoinette Moore, Michelle Moore, Tiffeny Andrews - (background vocals).

MUSICIANS ON RUMBLE DOLL - 1993

Patti Scialfa - (vocals, keyboards, drum programming)
Mike Campbell - (guitar, bass, drum programming)
Tim Pierce, Nils Lofgren, Bruce Springsteen - (guitar)
Soozie Tyrell - (violin, background vocals)
Benmont Tench, Roy Bittan, Cliff Carter - (keyboards)
Jim Keltner, Kenny Aronoff, Gary Mallabar, Zachary Alford - (drums, percussion)
Russ Kunkel - (drums)
Bobbye Hall, Rob Jaczko - (percussion)
Lisa Lowell - (background vocals).

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