"B-side of the album's lead single, ""Dancing in the Dark"". The track would appear as one of two songs (along with ""Cover Me"") on a CD3 released in 1988, but was not included on any Springsteen album until ""Tracks"" in 1998, and ""18 Tracks"" in 1999, both these titles being anthologies of Springsteen's outtakes-and-B-sides. Springsteen's version of ""Pink Cadillac"" is often compared to the ""Peter Gunn"" theme by Henry Mancini, which it resembles in its main riff and saxophone break. In 2006, Bruce Springsteen appeared on a recording of ""Pink Cadillac"" by Jerry Lee Lewis on his album ""Last Man"
"Cadillac Ranch (Bruce Springsteen song) ""Cadillac Ranch"" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen that was first released on Springsteen's 1980 album ""The River"". In 1981 it was released as a single in Europe, backed by ""Be True"" in France and by ""Wreck on the Highway"" in the UK. Although it was not released as a single in the US, it did reach #48 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. A favorite in concert, a live version was included on ""Live/1975–85"". A version was also included on the documentary film ""Blood Brothers. ""Cadillac Ranch"" is an exuberant, playful rocker"
"from ""Cadillac Ranch."" Cadillac Ranch (Bruce Springsteen song) ""Cadillac Ranch"" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen that was first released on Springsteen's 1980 album ""The River"". In 1981 it was released as a single in Europe, backed by ""Be True"" in France and by ""Wreck on the Highway"" in the UK. Although it was not released as a single in the US, it did reach #48 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. A favorite in concert, a live version was included on ""Live/1975–85"". A version was also included on the documentary film ""Blood Brothers. ""Cadillac Ranch"" is an"
"more lighthearted lyric. The first lyrics Springsteen wrote for ""Pink Cadillac"" were: ""They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple but man I ain't going for that/ I know it was her pink Cadillac"". The auto imagery was inspired by Elvis Presley's 1954 rendition of ""Baby Let's Play House"" in which Presley replaced the original lyric: ""You may get religion"" with: ""You may have a pink Cadillac"", a reference to the custom painted Cadillac that was then Presley's touring vehicle. First recorded by Springsteen in an acoustic version in early January 1982 in the session whose tracks would comprise the"
"the song on their 1984 album ""Plain Dirt Fashion"" as well as the 1991 live album ""Live Two Five"". In 1986, Savoy Records (in the UK), released a 12"" single, by Lord Horror, which was a cover of ""Blue Monday"" (by New Order), but with its lyrics replaced by the lyrics to ""Cadillac Ranch"" instead. The single didn't chart though, mainly because it wasn't stocked in many record shops, due to its controversial artwork. The track is also available on a Savoy Records compilation album, ""Savoy Wars"", which was released in 1994. Daniel Johnston's song ""Funeral Home"" takes its melody"
"Forbidden Colours ""Forbidden Colours"" is a 1983 song by David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The song is the vocal version of the theme from the Nagisa Oshima film ""Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"" (in certain territories retitled ""Furyo""). It appears on the film's soundtrack album and was released as a single on Virgin Records in 1983 (the second collaborative single release by Sylvian and Sakamoto, following 1982's ""Bamboo Houses""). The title of the song is taken from Japanese writer Yukio Mishima's 1953 novel ""Forbidden Colors""; although not directly related to the film, both works include exploration of homosexual themes. In 1984"
"""Pink Cadillac"" was released as that album's third single in March 1988, returning Cole to the Top Ten for the first time since 1978 in April 1988 to ascend to a #5 peak - matching Cole's previous Pop chart best with ""I've Got Love on My Mind"" - that May. Cole's ""Pink Cadillac"" also reached #9 R&B, #16 A/C and - via a remix by David Cole (no relation) and Robert Clivilles - #1 on ""Billboard"" Hot Dance Club Play chart. According to Cole, ""word got back"" to her that Bruce Springsteen ""thought it was very cool that a woman"
"4, becoming the 29th best-selling single of the year. The recording also won Springsteen his first Grammy Award, picking up the prize for Best Rock Vocal Performance in 1985. In the 1984 ""Rolling Stone"" readers poll, ""Dancing in the Dark"" was voted ""Single of the Year"". The track has since gone on to earn further recognition and is as such listed one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song) ""Dancing in the Dark"" is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen."
"was certified Gold by the RIAA. Everlasting (Natalie Cole album) Everlasting is an album by American singer Natalie Cole, released on June 14, 1987. The album is considered Cole's commercial comeback and features production by duo The Calloways who contributed to the track ""Jump Start"", a cover of Bruce Springsteen's ""Pink Cadillac"", which reached the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 Top 10, and the hit ""I Live for Your Love"". Also included are the Bacharach and David songs ""In My Reality"" and ""Split Decision"" along with a cover of ""When I Fall in Love"". ""More Than the Stars"" features José Feliciano"
"copies sold. After four weeks on chart, it reached number one on August 4, 1984. According to ""Billboard"" magazine, the album spent 24 consecutive weeks at #1 on the ""Billboard"" albums chart (August 4, 1984 to January 18, 1985), and more than 32 weeks in the top 10, becoming one of the top soundtracks ever. ""Purple Rain"" traded the #1 album chart position with Bruce Springsteen's ""Born in the U.S.A."" twice, during 1984 and 1985. ""Purple Rain"" was present on the ""Billboard"" 200 for one hundred twenty two weeks. The album was certified 13 times platinum by the RIAA on"
"The Colour of Spring The Colour of Spring is the third studio album by English rock band Talk Talk, released in 1986. Musically, ""The Colour of Spring"" was a major step away from the synthesised pop of early Talk Talk, with a greater focus on guitars, pianos, and organs on such songs as ""Life's What You Make It"", ""Living in Another World"" and ""Give It Up"". It had a sound described by the band as much more organic than their earlier records, with the improvisation that was to dominate on their later works already apparent in the recording process. The"
"Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song) ""Dancing in the Dark"" is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. Adding uptempo synthesizer riffs to his sound for the first time, the song spent four weeks at number two on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and sold over one million singles in the U.S. It was the first single released from his 1984 album ""Born in the U.S.A.""; it became his biggest hit and helped to propel the album to become the best-selling album of his career. The song is written in the key of B major with"
"these were Bruce Springsteen's ""Pink Cadillac"" (later covered by Natalie Cole) ""Broken Bicycles"", the Jonathan King-written ""Everyone's Gone To The Moon,"" and Peter Gabriel's ""Here Comes The Flood"" -- all of which she had performed live on her 1982-1983 concert tour ""De Tour"", later released on VHS/DVD as ""Art or Bust"". The ballad ""All I I Need To Know"", composed by renowned songwriting team Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Tom Snow, which had peaked at #77/39 on the US Singles and A/C charts with Midler in late 1983, was some five years later covered by Linda Ronstadt on her album"
"Brilliant Disguise ""Brilliant Disguise"" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 album ""Tunnel of Love"". It was released as the first single from the album, reaching the #5 position on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart in the United States. The follow-up single, ""Tunnel of Love"", also reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, giving Springsteen two consecutive #1's. The single reached the top ten in four additional countries including Canada and Ireland and the top twenty in Australia, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. ""Brilliant Disguise"" was nominated for Best Male"
"a tempo of 149 beats per minute in common time. Springsteen's vocals span from G to G. In a first-for-Springsteen effort to gain dance and club play for his music, Arthur Baker created the 12-inch ""Blaster Mix"" of ""Dancing in the Dark"", wherein he reworked the album version. The remix was released on July 2, 1984. The result generated a lot of media buzz for Springsteen, as well as actual club play; the remix went to #7 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, and had the most sales of any 12-inch single in the United States in 1984."
"In 1987, she changed to EMI-Manhattan Records and released the album ""Everlasting"", which returned her to the top of the charts thanks to singles such as ""Jump Start (My Heart)"", the top ten ballad, ""I Live For Your Love"", and her dance-pop cover of Bruce Springsteen's ""Pink Cadillac"". That success helped ""Everlasting"" reach one million in sales and become Cole's first platinum album in ten years. In 1989, she released her follow-up to ""Everlasting"", ""Good to Be Back"", which produced the number two hit ""Miss You Like Crazy""; it also achieved international success, reaching the top ten in the United"
"Blues"" and Carter Family's ""John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man"". Despite its bleak themes, it has been a reasonably popular song in concert, with 379 live performances through May 2014. A live version was released on the album ""Live/1975–85"". During a September 22, 1984 Born in the U.S.A. Tour concert in Pittsburgh, Springsteen used the introduction to ""Johnny 99"", to respond to President Reagan referencing the message of hope in Bruce Springsteen's songs, stating ""The President was mentioning my name the other day, and I kinda got to wondering what his favorite album musta been. I don't think it"
"first EP ""Chassis"". ""Cadillac Ranch"" is the name of a Bruce Springsteen song on his 1980 album ""The River"", later covered by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The band Atomic Tom filmed a video at Cadillac Ranch in November 2011. Pixar's 2006 animated film ""Cars"" depicts a ""Cadillac Range"" as a mountain formation; the film's credits directly acknowledge the Ant Farm collective and the ""Cadillac Ranch"". In a case of art-imitating-art-imitating-art, that image from the film ""Cars"" has been constructed as a centerpiece of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure. In the final scene of the ""King of the Hill"""
"rock and roll musicians ""Little E and the Mello-Tone Three"" (""Little E""'s actual name was Emil O'Conner), although the bright red offered in 1962 on an Impala had a promotional name of Roman Red. Minneapolis post punk trio Hüsker Dü entitled an album ""Candy Apple Grey"". Fender introduced Candy Apple Red as a custom color for their Stratocaster and Telecaster range of guitars in 1963. The color quickly became one of Fender's most popular colors after Sunburst and Black. Pink Floyd's David Gilmour's main instrument of choice from 1984 to 2005 was a 1983 Candy Apple Red Fender American Vintage"
"""Boum-Badaboum"" for Minouche Barelli in 1967, which had finished fifth. Composed by Georges Augier de Moussac with lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg, the song was originally titled ""Black Lolita Blues"", however Ursull, the first black woman to represent France at the Contest, declined to perform it due to the pejorative connotations of the word. The rewritten version met with her approval and has become something of a fan favourite. The song itself deals with the need to overcome the prejudices of skin colour. Ursull sings that ""When someone talks to me about skin colour/I have the blues which sends shivers down"
"country music stations in the United States. The computer-animated music video premiered on CMT in November 2006. Bette Midler added ""Pink Cadillac"" to the set list for her 1982-83 De Tour tour and recorded the song for inclusion on her 1983 ""No Frills"" album; however, Springsteen blocked the release of Midler's version on the grounds that ""Pink Cadillac"" wasn't a ""girl's song"". According to the Midler biography ""Still Divine"" by Mark Bego, Midler was severely disappointed by Springsteen's veto, which forced her to record a new track (""Beast of Burden"") for ""No Frills"" at considerable expense. Midler's August 1984 video"
"Green Is the Colour ""Green Is the Colour"" is a track on Pink Floyd's 1969 ""More"". It was composed and written by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour. A tin whistle is heard in the song, played by drummer Nick Mason's then-wife Lindy. A live version of the song was released as the third single to promote ""The Early Years 1965–1972"" box set in October 2016. Live arrangements of the song were performed as a full electric band piece and at a slower tempo. Richard Wright built a calm sheen of warbling organ sound throughout, which created a more"
"Everlasting (Natalie Cole album) Everlasting is an album by American singer Natalie Cole, released on June 14, 1987. The album is considered Cole's commercial comeback and features production by duo The Calloways who contributed to the track ""Jump Start"", a cover of Bruce Springsteen's ""Pink Cadillac"", which reached the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 Top 10, and the hit ""I Live for Your Love"". Also included are the Bacharach and David songs ""In My Reality"" and ""Split Decision"" along with a cover of ""When I Fall in Love"". ""More Than the Stars"" features José Feliciano on vocals and guitar. The album"
"is titled as ""Oh Dear! What Should the Color Be?"". ""Seven Old Ladies"" was assigned motif number X726.4.1 by Hoffmann. The oldest recovered American text of this song is in ""The One, The ""Only"" Baker House Super-Duper Extra Crude Song Book"" (on pages 1–2) that was probably compiled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology around 1955. Many other versions are in print or have been recorded, including a recording by Oscar Brand in volume 3 of his record series. British variants are recorded as ""Three Old Ladies"" in Baring Gould's ""Mother Goose"". One variant, recorded by Laycock, has 21 old women."
"different color"" scene, Jell-O powder was used to color the white horses. Asbestos was used to achieve some of the special effects like the witch's burning broomstick and the fake snow that covers Dorothy as she sleeps in the field of poppies. The film is widely noted for its musical selections and soundtrack. The music was composed by Harold Arlen, and the lyrics were written by Yip Harburg, both of whom won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ""Over the Rainbow"". The song was ranked first in two lists: the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs and the Recording Industry"
"the sound became a defining characteristic of that decade's popular music. The British band Duran Duran made repeated use of the recording technique, heard prominently on the drums on the 1984 hit single ""The Wild Boys"" as well as the 1985 James Bond theme song ""A View To A Kill"". Bruce Springsteen used the effect on his 1984 hit ""Born in the U.S.A."", the drums being played by Max Weinberg. The song ""Some Like It Hot"" by The Power Station opens with a drum solo that features the effect prominently. The song ""Hounds of Love"", produced and released by Kate"
"of social disintegration and isolation, beside a form of good-time rock and roll revivalism. The genre reached its commercial, artistic and influential peak in the mid-1980s, with Springsteen's ""Born in the USA"" (1984), topping the charts worldwide and spawning a series of top ten singles, together with the arrival of artists including John Mellencamp, Steve Earle and more gentle singer/songwriters as Bruce Hornsby. It can also be heard as an influence on artists as diverse as Billy Joel and Tracy Chapman. Heartland rock faded away as a recognized genre by the early 1990s, as rock music in general, and blue"
"by Portastatic on their 2003 ""Autumn Was a Lark"" album. Bobby Jean ""Bobby Jean"" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, from his 1984 album ""Born in the U.S.A."" Although not released as a single, it reached number 36 on the ""Billboard"" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. ""Bobby Jean"" was one of the last songs from the album to be recorded, and was considered a musical breakthrough for Springsteen during the recording, with its more accented rhythm and near dance groove. The title character's name is somewhat gender ambiguous, allowing for various interpretations. Nonetheless, ""Bobby Jean"" is often considered"
"Miss Celie's Blues Miss Celie's Blues, also known as ""Sister"", is a song from the Steven Spielberg movie ""The Color Purple"" (1985), with music by Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton and lyrics by the two of them with Lionel Richie. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song in 1986. During the song, composed in a blues/ragtime style, the singer explains to her ""sister"" that she has her in her mind as a kindred spirit. She sings that after a long period of loneliness on the road, she has finally become ""someone"" and hopes that"
"the song, and indeed the entire second side of the ""Tunnel of Love"" album. Springsteen himself wrote about the song ""after '85 I'd had enough and turned inward to write about men, women and love, things that have previously been on the periphery of my work."" The song was later released on the compilation album ""The Essential Bruce Springsteen"". ""Brilliant Disguise"" has been ranked as the #1192 best song of all time, as well as the #27 song of 1987 and the #214 song of the 1980s, in an aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net. The song has also been"
"Pop Vocal Performance at the 1988 Grammy Awards. Like much of the ""Tunnel of Love"" album, ""Brilliant Disguise"" was recorded in Springsteen's home studio, called Thrill Hill East, between January and May 1987 with several members of the E Street Band. On this song, Springsteen played several instruments and is backed by Roy Bittan on keyboards (where the 40th Roland D-50 internal patch ""Rock Organ"" was heard), Danny Federici on organ and Max Weinberg on drums. The lyrics of ""Brilliant Disguise"" represent a confession of self-doubt on the part of the singer. The emotions expressed in the song include confusion,"
"decided to use several of the May 1982 recordings on ""Born in the U.S.A."" ""I'm Goin' Down"" beat out contender ""Pink Cadillac"" for a spot on the album. ""I'm Goin' Down"", which features a prominent drum performance and possesses an energetic feel, deals with the frustration of diminishing sexual activity in romantic relationships. As a single, it reached No. 9 in the United States and the top 40 in Sweden, Canada, and Italy. The song, which has received positive appraisal from critics, has not been performed often by Springsteen since his Born in the U.S.A. Tour; between 2009 and 2014,"
"to the protagonists of earlier Springsteen records, in this song he appears naive and vulnerable rather than bold and innocent. The song's title comes from Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. Cadillac Ranch is a sculpture showing ten Cadillac automobiles with their hoods buried in the ground. Springsteen used Cadillac Ranch as a metaphor for his theme; that these once elite cars are now expendable. Among the real life people namechecked in the song are Burt Reynolds, Junior Johnson and the deceased James Dean. However, in concert Springsteen can be flexible with the names used. For example, in 1985 concerts in"