"GLORY DAYS" ● BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
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"GLORY DAYS" ● BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
The Song● Glory Days
Writer● Bruce Springsteen
Producers● Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, and Steve Van Zandt
Recorded● Early 1984 at the Power Station, New York City
Released● May 1984
Players●
:: Bruce Springsteen -- vocals, guitar
:: Clarence Clemons -- saxophone
:: Danny Federici -- keyboards
:: Roy Bittan -- keyboards
:: Garry Tallent -- bass
:: "Miami" Steve Van Zandt -- guitar, mandolin, vocals
:: Max Weinberg -- drums
Album● Born In The U.S.A. (Columbia, 1984)
Also on●
:: Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1995)
:: The Essential Bruce Springsteen (Columbia/Legacy, 2003)
Born in the U.S.A. ● Bruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A. is Bruce Springsteen’s seventh studio album, released on June 4, 1984, by Columbia Records. The album was recorded with the E Street Band and producers Chuck Plotkin and Jon Landau. The album is Springsteen's most commercially successful release and one of the best-selling albums of all time.
"Glory Days" was the fifth single released from Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. album.
In the song, Springsteen poked fun at nostalgia with two vignettes. In the liner notes to his Greatest Hits album, he wrote, "The first verse (about meeting a high school baseball player) actually happened, the second verse (about a high school classmate and single mother) mostly happened, the third verse, of course, is happening now."
The video for the song, a performance clip set in a pool hall, was shot in Asbury Park and directed by filmmaker John Sayles.
"Miami" Steve Van Zandt, who left the E Street Band after the recording of Born In The U.S.A., made a cameo appearance in the video.
The Born In The U.S.A. album was Springsteen's commercial breakthrough, topping charts everywhere and selling over an estimated 18 million copies worldwide. The album also earned Springsteen his first Grammy Award, for Best Rock Performance, Male.
KWXY Music Radio regularly plays the music of Bruce Springsteen, and many of the tracks from the album Born in the U.S.A., including Glory Days. Listen to the Sound of the Desert for more than 50 years, KWXY ● 92.3FM 1340AM ● streaming at kwxy.com and ivoxradio.com