Part 2 in a new series spotlighting songs that are covered too frequently to feature individually–this time we take a look at five great versions of “Dancing in the Dark.”
Category: Cover Me
When Southside Johnny took ill and couldn’t perform, Little Steven saved the day by assembling an All-Star Revue to cover Junior Wells’ classic “Little By Little.”
It’s the first song Bruce and Joe Grushecky ever performed together and one of the greatest mysteries of rock and roll.
Did a surprising E Street through-line inspire Air Supply’s 1983 cover of Bruce’s 1973 classic?
One time only: Bruce and Billy Joel team up on Billy’s ode to blue-collar communities. Could there be a song better suited for a Billy and Bruce duet?
One time only: Bruce paid tribute to Harry Chapin by covering “Remember When the Music” and acknowledging Chapin’s influence on his social activism.
Auckland-based Tom Sutcliffe turns in a tender reading of Bruce’s signature song.
One time only: Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp team up on John’s famously misinterpreted 1983 single.
They played it live for at least a decade prior, but in 2019, Big Heard Todd and the Monsters teamed up with Blues Traveler’s John Popper on a terrifically fun (if overly faithful) cover of “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).”
One time only: At an Atlanta soundcheck on the Tunnel of Love Tour, Bruce covered the musical inspiration for one his greatest anthems.