I Don't Want to Go Home was the first album by seminal New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 rock/R&B band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. The work helped establish the basis of the Jersey Shore sound

Jersey Shore sound

The Jersey Shore sound is a genre of rock and roll popularized at the Jersey Shore on the Atlantic Ocean coast of New Jersey, United States, that goes by a variety of names or, more often, is defined by its artists...

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The album features a number of guest artists and duets, a tradition continued in their next album, This Time It's for Real

This Time It's for Real (album)

This Time It's for Real was the second album by seminal New Jersey Rock/R&B band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Like their first album I Don't Want To Go Home this album features a number of guest artists and duets, a trend that would be dropped for their next album Hearts of Stone. "Check Mr...

. The track "How Come You Treat Me So Bad" features a duet with Lee Dorsey

Lee Dorsey

Lee Dorsey was an African American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. Much of his work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by the Meters.-Career:...

, while "Broke Down Piece of Man" features a duet with Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt is an Italian-American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve...

, "It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion) features a duet with Kenny 'Popeye' Pentifallo, and finally "You Mean So Much To Me" features a duet with Ronnie Spector

Ronnie Spector

Veronica Yvette "Ronnie" Spector is an American rock and roll and popular music vocalist, and was the lead singer of the 1960s hit-making girl group, The Ronettes, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. She is known as the "original bad girl of rock and roll."-Personal...

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Track listing

1. "I Don't Want to Go Home" (Steven Van Zandt
   Steven Van Zandt
   Steven Van Zandt is an Italian-American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve...
   
   ) - 3:42
2. "Got to Get You Off My Mind
   Got to Get You Off My Mind
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   " (Solomon Burke
   Solomon Burke
   Solomon Burke was an American singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, mortician, and an archbishop of the United House of Prayer For All People. Burke was known as "King Solomon", the "King of Rock 'n' Soul", and as the "Bishop of Soul", and described as "the Muhammad Ali of soul", and as "the most...
   
   , J.B. Moore) - 3:13
3. "How Come You Treat Me So Bad" (Steven Van Zandt) - 3:23
4. "The Fever
   The Fever (Bruce Springsteen song)
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   " (Bruce Springsteen
   Bruce Springsteen
   Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
   
   ) - 5:06
5. "Broke Down Piece of Man" (Steve Cropper
   Steve Cropper
   Steve Cropper , also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T...
   
   , Joe Shamwell) - 3:28
6. "Sweeter Than Honey" (Steven Van Zandt) - 3:33
7. "Fannie Mae" (Bobby Brown
   Bobby Brown
   Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a...
   
   , Waymon Glasco, Morris Levy) - 3:22
8. "It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)" (Henry Glover
   Henry Glover
   Henry Glover was an American songwriter, arranger, record producer and trumpet player. In the music industry of the time, Glover was one of the more successful, and influential, black executives. He gained eminence in the late 1940s, primarily working for the independent King label...
   
   ) - 2:46
9. "I Choose to Sing the Blues" (Ray Charles
   Ray Charles
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   , Billie Holiday
   Billie Holiday
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   ) - 2:45
10. "You Mean So Much to Me" (Bruce Springsteen) - 3:44

Musicians

• Southside Johnny
  Southside Johnny
  Southside Johnny is an American singer-songwriter, who usually fronts his band Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes.-Early days:...
  
   – lead vocals, harmonica
• Kenny 'Popeye' Pentifallo – drums, vocals (duet "It Ain't the Meat")
• Kevin Kavanaugh – keyboards, vocals
• Billy Rush – guitar
• Alan Berger – bass
• Carlo Novi - tenor sax
• Steven Van Zandt
  Steven Van Zandt
  Steven Van Zandt is an Italian-American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve...
  
   – guitar, vocals (duet "Broke Down Piece of Man")
• Clarence Clemons
  Clarence Clemons
  Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. , also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. From 1972 until his death, he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone. He released several solo albums and in 1985, had a hit single with "You're a...
  
   (credited as Selmon T. Sachs) - bass vocals ("The Fever")
• Lee Dorsey
  Lee Dorsey
  Lee Dorsey was an African American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. Much of his work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by the Meters.-Career:...
  
   - duet vocals ("How Come You Treat Me So Bad")
• Ronnie Spector
  Ronnie Spector
  Veronica Yvette "Ronnie" Spector is an American rock and roll and popular music vocalist, and was the lead singer of the 1960s hit-making girl group, The Ronettes, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. She is known as the "original bad girl of rock and roll."-Personal...
  
   - duet vocals ("You Mean So Much To Me")

• The Miami Horns
  The Miami Horns
  The Miami Horns are a horn section best known for touring and/or recording with Southside Johnny, Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven and The Max Weinberg 7. They have also toured, performed and/or recorded with, among others, Diana Ross, Gary U.S...
  
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  • Rick Gazda – trumpet (mute solo "It Ain't the Meat")
  • Deacon Earl Gardner - trumpet, witness
  • Bob Malach - tenor saxophone
  • Louie 'The Lover' Parenti – trombone
  • Bill Zacagni - baritone saxophone

• Strings:
  • Charles Parker - violin
  • Robert Zelnick - violin
  • Naomi Anner - violin
  • Cathy Tait - violin
  • Nardo Poy - viola
  • Ken Dreyfus - viola

• Revelation (background vocals on "The Fever"):
  • Arnold McCuller
  • Arthur Freeman
  • Phillip Ballou
  • Benny Diggs

Production

• Steven Van Zandt
  Steven Van Zandt
  Steven Van Zandt is an Italian-American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve...
  
   - producer
• Jimmy Iovine
  Jimmy Iovine
  James "Jimmy" Iovine is an American music producer, entrepreneur and chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M.-Biography:...
  
  - engineer
• Dave Thoener - assistant engineer
• Mitchel Funk - photography
• Paula Scher - designer
• Bud Copeland - stylist

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