born in the usa alternate cover
LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 4, 2019…ON THIS DATE 35 YEARS AGO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN RELEASED HIS MOST SUCCESSFUL ALBUM COMMERCIALLY, THE ALBUM ‘BORN IN THE USA’
THE ALBUM WAS DRIVEN BY 7 HIT SINGLES ‘DANCING IN THE DARK’ ‘BORN IN THE USA’ ‘GLORY DAYS’ ‘I’M GOING DOWN’ ‘MY HOMETOWN’ ‘ I’M ON FIRE AND ‘COVER ME’
THE RECORD SOLD OVER 30 MILLION COPIES AND WAS NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY AS THE ‘ALBUM OF THE YEAR’
IT ALSO HOLDS THE DISTINCTION AS THE FIRST CD MANUFACTURED IN THE USA FOR COMMERCIAL RELEASE. IT WAS PRESSED WHEN CBS RECORDS OPENED UP THEIR MANUFACTURING PLANT IN INDIANA IN 1984. PRIOR TO THIS PLANT OPENING, ALL COMPACT DISCS WERE IMPORTED FROM JAPAN
HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR ‘BORN IN THE USA’
