Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song)
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| Single by Bruce Springsteen | ||||||||||||
| from the album Born in the U.S.A. | ||||||||||||
| B-side | "Pink Cadillac" | |||||||||||
| Released | May 3, 1984 | |||||||||||
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| Recorded | March 1984 | |||||||||||
| Length | 3:59 | |||||||||||
| Label | Columbia | |||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Bruce Springsteen | |||||||||||
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"Dancing in the Dark" is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. With added uptempo synthesizer riffs and some syncopation to his sound for the first time, the song spent four weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually sold over one million singles in the U.S. alone. As the first single released from his 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A., it became his biggest hit and propelled the album to become the best-selling one of his career.
The song is written in the key of B major with a tempo of 149 beats per minute in common time. Springsteen's vocals span from G♯4 to G♯5.
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.
On the 2009 Working on a Dream Tour, the song appeared intermittently during the encores. However, Springsteen for the first time played a number of music festivals during the routing, and "Dancing in the Dark" closed all of them: Pinkpop Festival, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Glastonbury Festival, and Hard Rock Calling. When played live in recent years, the song features a harder, guitar-driven sound, with the distinctive synthesizer riff being supplied by Soozie Tyrell's violin.
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