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“4th Of July Asbury Park (Sandy)” by Bruce Springsteen
From the album The Wild, the Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (1973)
“4th Of July Asbury Park (Sandy)” by Bruce Springsteen appears on 13 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2001 and 2025. It was first released in 1973 on the album The Wild, the Innocent & The E Street Shuffle. Its best result is #25 on the WMMR Top 50 Songs of Summer (2012). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,205 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" sits second on Bruce Springsteen's The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle from 1973, a love song to a girl named Sandy set on Independence Day in the Jersey Shore town, with the boardwalk's drifters and tired arcades crowding in on the romance. The narrator sounds worn down by the whole scene, and the gloom keeps threatening to smother what the two of them have.
Springsteen arranged it and plays guitar, Danny Federici's accordion gives it a wheezing, carnival-at-closing-time lilt, and Clarence Clemons, Garry Tallent and Vini Lopez keep everything low and tender, with Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos producing. It grew into one of his best-loved early songs and remains among his most popular ballads, and in Germany it even got a single release.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1021 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2009 | 34 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2012 | 25 | 93.3 WMMR | WMMR Top 50 Songs of Summer (2012) | 49 |
| 2012 | 818 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) | 885 |
| 2014 | 496 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) | 885 |
| 2016 | 282 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2020 | 386 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2021 | 508 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2022 | 927 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) | 1043 |
| 2023 | 836 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) | 1043 |
| 2023 | 278 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2024 | 431 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) | 1043 |
| 2025 | 379 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) | 1043 |
Also listed as: 4th of July, Asbury Park; 4th of July, Asbury Park (sandy); 4th of JulyAsbury Park (Sandy); 4th Of July Asbury Park; 4Th Of July Asbury Park; 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).
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