i heard the title track on am radio upon its release and was immediately struck by the four-note opening riff--it's one of the very few songs that embedded in my memory the first time i heard it (a couple of credence and byrds songs had the same effect). i've never been as over-the-moon about the whole album--"jungleland" is kind of a slog and the production always sounded over-compressed to me. @larsma, never knew that about korvettes.
Where were you when you first heard ""Born To Run"?
It was 1975. I was on the floor of my childhood home listening to Syracuse University college radio station, WAER, on my Pioneer Sx-737 tuner. I was blown away from start to finish.
Prior to that release, music critic Jon Landau was quoted, "I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen".
Where were you when you first heard it?
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@thecarpathian - yeah, if you ever want to know anything useless that nobody cares about, I'm a great source! |
That is a common misnomer. ... "E. J. Korvette" was coined as a combination of the initials of its founders (Eugene and Joe) and a re-spelling of the naval term corvette, a nimble sailing warship and later World War II sub-destroyer. The company's founding in 1948 (two years before the Korean War) disproves the urban legend that the name was an acronym for "Eight (or Eleven) Jewish Korean War Veterans". |
Have a great weekend.... 
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