1 spot by Duran Duran's " The Reflex" and that year's song of the summer, Prince's " When Doves Cry"). 2 (his highest-charting song to date) beginning J(it was kept off the No. Released as a single prior to the album's release, the song entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart on May 26, 1984, at no. Reception Ĭash Box said that the song "is classic Springsteen: gutsy vocals set to a hard-driving backbeat" and "an added surprise is the addition of the synthesizer to the inspired playing of the E-Street Band." Chart performance The 12-inch single was released May 9, 1984, and was the highest-selling 12-inch single in the US that year. Six takes of "Dancing in the Dark" were recorded on February 14, 1984, at The Hit Factory, and after 58 mixes, work was completed on March 8, 1984. It sums up his state of mind, his feeling of isolation after the success of his album The River, and his frustrations of trying to write a hit single. You want another one, you write it." Despite this reaction, Springsteen sat in his hotel room and wrote the song in a single night. "Look", he snarled, "I've written seventy songs. According to journalist Dave Marsh in the book Glory Days, Springsteen was not impressed with Landau's approach. Springsteen wrote "Dancing In the Dark" overnight, after Jon Landau convinced him that the album needed a single. The song is listed among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. "Dancing in the Dark" was also successful worldwide, becoming Australia's highest-selling single of 1984 (despite peaking at number five on the Kent Music Report), peaking at number one in Belgium and the Netherlands, and charting within the top 10 in seven other countries. It was the first single released from his 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A., and became his biggest hit, helping the album become the best-selling album of his career. 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. " Dancing in the Dark" is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. 1984 single by Bruce Springsteen "Dancing in the Dark"
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