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I thought I go old school on you today. I was walking around my place yesterday morning singing this song. Fire ~ Pointer Sisters

“Fire” is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and originally intended for use by Elvis Presley. It was recorded first by Robert Gordon during 1978, and he received some modest album-oriented rock radio broadcasting with it. It was then recorded and released by The Pointer Sisters later during 1978, and they gained a major success from it, scoring number two during early-February 1979 on the U.S. pop chart.

Although he performed the song live from his 1978 tour onwards, Springsteen himself did not release his own recording of the song until his 1986 Live/1975-85 album, which contains his (heavily edited, to eliminate on-stage hijinks) December 16, 1978 performance. This version was released as a single (which contained the only “official” live version of “Incident on 57th Street”, until its appearance on Live in Barcelona, as B-side), but did not succeed, scoring only number 46 on the U.S. pop chart. A music video for the song was released at the time, but confusingly showed a completely unrelated 1986 acoustic performance at a Bridge School Benefit concert.