Bruce Springsteen
Greetings From Asbury Park
New Jersey

Springsteen released his first album in January 1973 on the Columbia record label. The album, Greetings From Asbury Park New Jersey, was a financial flop, selling only 25,000 copies in its first year on the market. Heralded as the "new Dylan," Springsteen viewed the album as a chance to "release" a lot of ideas that he couldn't get across playing in the clubs and bars in Jersey. Years later, Springsteen would comment, "Geez, what the hell was I thinking about when I wrote all that stuff?" Several of the album cuts turned into long-time fan favorites.

Included in the album were the following songs:

Blinded by the Light
Growing Up
Mary, Queen of Arkansas
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
Lost in the Flood
The Angel
For You
Spirit in the Night
It's Hard to be a Saint in the City

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West Chester University
History 650
Seminar in 20th Century
American Popular Culture
Dr. Charles Hardy
Fall 2003
Joseph O'Brien