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"Atlantic City" is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska. Springsteen has often played the song in a full band arrangement in concert.
The song makes reference to a number of longtime Atlantic City features including the rolling chairs and the boardwalk. [2] The salt-water air (the Jersey Shore's temperatures are cooler than the city during the summer and made Atlantic City an especially popular attraction prior to air conditioning being widespread) is also mentioned. [2]
Jericho is the eighth studio album by Canadian-American rock group the Band.Coming seventeen years after their "farewell concert", it was released in 1993 and was the first album to feature the latter-day configuration of the group, as well as their first studio album in 16 years and their first release for the Rhino subsidiary Pyramid Records.
A cover of this song by the Rolling Stones was released the same year as the original version. Their version was released as a single only in Australia, South Africa and Rhodesia, and peaked at No. 1 in the first two (the song was the band's first No. 1 hit in Australia) and at No. 2 in Rhodesia.
[5] The song played on the show were relatively intense renditions, as highlighted by Springsteen's vocals and much of the instrumental accompaniment. The sombre, folk-oriented "Atlantic City" was played in a rock setting, with a rhythm intro on electric guitar as well as Springsteen's solos on the outro.
A concept album, Songs from Ragtime: The Musical, featuring the Toronto cast was released on February 11, 1996. In 1998, ... In Atlantic City, Evelyn Nesbit's career ...
It has direct links with certain songs on Nebraska: the protagonist in "Johnny 99" notes that he has "debts no honest man could pay," repeating a line used by the protagonist in "Atlantic City", [3] [7] and, like the title song, "Johnny 99" is about a murderer [3] — though rather than being a psychopath like the protagonist in the title song ...
A clip of the demolition of the main dome of the hotel is featured in the video for Bruce Springsteen's song "Atlantic City." The second act of the 1925 Broadway musical comedy "No, No, Nanette" is set in the Marlborough-Blenheim and the song "Peach of the Beach" contains the lyric: "You can bet Nanette is the prize and pet of the Marlborough ...