Bruce on the artist
2020-07-15 SiriusXM Studio, New York City
Bruce plays the song during his "From My Home, To Yours… Part 8" on Sirius XM's E Street Radio, wrapping around theme "Summertime, Summertime". Bruce tells stories about Freehold, Manasquan, Asbury Park, Route 33, the Hazlet, Eatontown and Shore Drive-In theaters and other places. Plus he reveals he likes to go skinny-dipping.
The 2019 studio album "Western Stars", released on June 14, 2019 is stated by Bruce as heavily influenced by "Southern California pop music" of the 1970s, including artists such as Glen Campbell and Burt Bacharach.
1973-04-07 Norfolk Scope, Norfolk, VA
Bruce and band are opening for headliner The Beach Boys (minus Brian Wilson, who wasn’t touring with the group at the time).
1963-07-00 Springsteen Residence, Freehold, NJ
The surf music craze, which had been largely confined to California during the previous year, finally explodes nationally in the U.S.A. during the summer of 1963, with four huge-selling singles released (and all charting top five or better) in rapid succession: "
Pipeline" (May 1963 - The Chantays), "
Surfin' U.S.A." (June 1963 - The Beach Boys), "Surf City" (July 1963 - Jan and Dean) and "
Wipe Out" (August 1963 - The Surfaris). Springsteen is heavily influenced by these four singles, particularly over the course of the next twelve months.