About the song... Dancing in the Dark is a platinum-certified 1984 song, written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. It spent four weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually sold over one million singles in the US alone. Adding up-tempo synthesizer riffs and some syncopation to his sound for the first time, it became his biggest hit and, as the first single released from Born in the U.S.A., propelled it to become the best-selling album of Springsteens career. Dancing in the Dark was the last song written and recorded for Born in the U.S.A. Springsteens producer and manager Jon Landau liked the album but wanted a sure-fire first single, one that was fresh and directly relevant to Springsteens current state of mind (because much of Born in the U.S.A. had been written two years earlier). Landau and Springsteen argued and Springsteen later wrote Dancing in the Dark. His irked mood from the days argument, combined with the frustrations at trying to complete the album, poured out into the lyrics. 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.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:05:01 +0000
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