“It rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen.”įrom a distance, Springsteen looked the part of the jingoistic flag-waver. “America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts,” Reagan said. Reagan himself invoked Springsteen’s name during an August 1984 campaign stop in New Jersey. The track explodes before Springsteen even utters a single word, casting red, white, and blue filters on a set of lyrics imbued with many more colors and layers.Ĭasual radio listeners in 1984 were bound to hear “Born in the U.S.A.” as an ode to patriotism, and the perfect soundtrack for President Reagan’s “Morning In America” campaign. In the opening seconds of Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 single “Born in the U.S.A.,” Weinberg, the drummer for Springsteen’s E Street Band, laid down some ferocious snare hits, invoking cannon blasts and fireworks and all the national pride associated with those sounds.
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