After his December 1959 arrest under the Mann Act, Berry eventually served a one-and-a-half-year prison term, from February 1962 to October 1963, for transporting a girl, age 14, across state lines.

[2] The composition resembles Berry's first hit, "Maybellene," similarly featuring lyrics about pursuing a girl, though in "Nadine" the pursuit is not by car but on foot and by taxi.

)', released in February 1964, and then to the 1965 Dylan album Bringing It All Back Home, with its surreal story-songs, to hear the similarities.

Springsteen singled out the lines, I saw her from the corner when she turned and doubled back / Started walking toward a coffee-colored Cadillac.

[6] The song has been recorded by numerous artists including Steve Forbert, John Hammond Jr., Kevin Dunn, Waylon Jennings, Billy Boy Arnold, Dion, George Thorogood, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Juicy Lucy, Dire Straits, George Benson, Michael Nesmith, Motörhead, Dicky Lee, Stan Ridgway, and The Seldom Scene.