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

I Don't Want To Go Home

I Don't Want to Go Home was the first album by seminal New Jersey rock/R&B band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. The work helped establish the basis of the Jersey Shore sound....

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. Popeye" features Kenny 'Popeye' Pentifallo on vocals with The Coasters

The Coasters

The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group that had a string of hits in the late 1950s. Beginning with "Searchin'" and "Young Blood", their most memorable songs were written by the songwriting and producing team of Leiber and Stoller...

 on background vocals. The track "First Night" features The Satins

The Five Satins

The Five Satins are an American doo-wop group, best known for their 1956 million-selling song, "In the Still of the Night."-Career:The group, formed in New Haven, Connecticut, consisted of leader Fred Parris, Lou Peebles, Stanley Dortch, Ed Martin and Jim Freeman in 1954. With little success, the...

 on background vocals and 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...

 on duet vocals. "Little Girl So Fine" features background vocals by The Drifters

The Drifters

The Drifters are a long-lived American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1963, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed to serve as Clyde McPhatter's backing group in 1953...

. The album also features a cover of Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...

's "Without Love".

Track listing

1. "This Time It's for Real" (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...
   
   ) - 4:07
2. "Without Love" (Aretha Franklin
   Aretha Franklin
   Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
   
   , Ivory Joe Hunter
   Ivory Joe Hunter
   Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid 1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby" . He was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The...
   
   ) - 4:32
3. "Check Mr. Popeye" (Dolores Johnson) - 3:56
4. "First Night" (Steven Van Zandt) - 4:38
5. "She Got Me Where She Wants Me" (Steven Van Zandt) - 4:06
6. "Some Things Just Don't Change" (Steven Van Zandt) - 3:39
7. "Little Girl So Fine" (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...
   
   , Steven Van Zandt) - 3:51
8. "I Ain't Got the Fever No More" (Steven Van Zandt) - 5:29
9. "Love On the Wrong Side of Town" (Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt) - 3:11
10. "When You Dance" (Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt) - 5:25

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
• Al Berger - bass, vocals
• Eddie Manion - baritone saxophone, vocals
• Kevin Kavanaugh - piano, vocals
• Kenny 'Popeye' Pentifallo - drums, tambourine, vocals ("Check Mr. Popeye")
• Billy Rush (credited as Little Willie Rush) - guitar, vocals
• Richie Rosenberg - trombone, vocals
• Tony Palligrosi - trumpet, vocals
• Carlo Novi - tenor saxophone, vocals
• 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...
  
   (credited as SMS) - guitar, vocals (duet "First Night")
• Ernest 'Boom' Carter - conga, tympani
• Bobby Malach - tenor sax ("Love On the Wrong Side of Town")

• The Drifters
  The Drifters
  The Drifters are a long-lived American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1963, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed to serve as Clyde McPhatter's backing group in 1953...
  
   - background vocals ("Little Girl So Fine")
  • Charlie Thomas
  • Doe Greene
  • Ellsbury Hobbs
  • Don Thomas

• The Coasters
  The Coasters
  The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group that had a string of hits in the late 1950s. Beginning with "Searchin'" and "Young Blood", their most memorable songs were written by the songwriting and producing team of Leiber and Stoller...
  
   - background vocals ("Check Mr. Popeye")
  • Carl Gardner
  • Earl Carroll
  • Jimmy Norman
  • Ronnie Bright

• The Satins
  The Five Satins
  The Five Satins are an American doo-wop group, best known for their 1956 million-selling song, "In the Still of the Night."-Career:The group, formed in New Haven, Connecticut, consisted of leader Fred Parris, Lou Peebles, Stanley Dortch, Ed Martin and Jim Freeman in 1954. With little success, the...
  
   - background vocals ("First Night")
  • Fred Parris
  • Richard Freeman
  • James Curtis
  • Nate Marshall

• Sugar's Strings:
  • Joe Parente - conductor
  • Florence Rosenwig - violin
  • Marion Head - violin
  • David Madison - violin
  • Chock Parker - violin
  • Barbara Sonies - violin
  • Diane Barnets - violin
  • Nardo Poy - viola
  • Pete Rosato - viola
  • Davis Barnett - viola

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
• Don Meehan - engineer
• Ken Robertson - assistant engineer
• Stan Kalina - mastering