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Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
EXPANDED EDITION
is the debut
studio album
by the
American
singer-songwriter
It was produced from
June through
October 1972
by Mike Appel
and
Jim Cretecos
at the
budget-priced
914 Sound Studios.
The album was
released
January 5, 1973,
by Columbia Records
to average sales
but a
positive critical reception.
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
first charted in
the United Kingdom
on
June 15, 1985,
in the wake of
Springsteen's
Born in the U.S.A. tour
arriving in Britain;
it remained in
the top 100
for ten weeks.
In 2003,
the album was
ranked at
No. 379
in Rolling Stone's
"500 Greatest Albums
of All Time" list
and in
2013
the same magazine
listed
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
as one of the
"100 Greatest
Debut Albums
of All Time".
On November 22, 2009,
the album was
played in
its entirety
for the first time by
Bruce Springsteen
and the
E Street Band,
at the
HSBC Arena
in
Buffalo, New York,
to celebrate
the last show
of the
Working on a Dream tour.
Recording
Springsteen
and his
first manager
Mike Appel
recorded the album
at the
low-priced,
out-of-the-way
914 Sound Studios
to save as much
as possible
of the
Columbia Records advance,
and cut most
of the songs
during the
last week of
June 1972.
There was a
dispute not long after
the record was recorded
Appel and John Hammond
preferred the
solo tracks,
while Springsteen
preferred the
band songs.
As such,
a compromise was reached
the album was to
feature five songs
with the band
"For You",
"Growin' Up",
"Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?",
"It's Hard to be a Saint in the City",
and
"Lost in the Flood"
and five
solo songs
"Mary Queen of Arkansas",
"The Angel",
"Jazz Musician",
"Arabian Nights"
and
"Visitation at Fort Horn"
However,
when Columbia Records
president
Clive Davis
heard the
album submitted
on
August 10, 1972,
he felt that it lacked
a potential hit single,
and rejected it.
Springsteen quickly wrote
"Blinded by the Light"
and
"Spirit in the Night",
and recorded both
on September 11, 1972.
Because pianist
David Sancious
and
bassist
Garry Tallent
were unavailable,
a four-man band
was used
Vini Lopez
on drums,
Harold Wheeler
on piano,
Springsteen
on guitar,
and piano
(on Spirit in the Night only),
and bass,
and the
previously missing
Clarence Clemons
on saxophone.
Columbia accepted
the revised album,
and Davis was
personally pleased
with
Springsteen's response.
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