Although De Palma had told him that it was she whom he was supposed to select, Springsteen thought she was just a pre-selected fan attending and did not know until afterward that she was a professional actress, brought in from New York City, who had already played in As the World Turns. The video is a straight performance video, with Springsteen not playing a guitar, allowing him to invite a young woman from the audience, performed by Courteney Cox, to dance along with him on the stage at the end. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed the song twice during that show to allow De Palma to get all the footage he needed. The first night was a pure video shoot, the second was on the opening date of the Born in the U.S.A. Music video ĭirected by Brian De Palma, the video was shot at the Saint Paul Civic Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on June 28 and 29, 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. 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 track has since gone on to earn further recognition and is as such listed one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In the 1984 Rolling Stone readers poll, "Dancing in the Dark" was voted "Single of the Year". The recording also won Springsteen his first Grammy Award, picking up the prize for Best Rock Vocal Performance in 1985. It was the 29th-best-selling single of the year. 1 on the Radio & Records CHR and AOR airplay charts. 1 spot for six weeks on Billboard's Top Tracks chart. It was also the first of a record-tying seven top 10 hit singles to be released from Born in the U.S.A. 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.
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