{"id":618164,"date":"2026-04-20T00:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:58:18","slug":"the-1966-song-bruce-springsteen-would-listen-to-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618164\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1966 song Bruce Springsteen would listen to forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bruce<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Bruce Springsteen)<\/p>\n

Sun 19 April 2026 19:35, UK <\/p>\n

In the 1970s, Bruce Springsteen<\/a> emerged as the voice of the American everyman, singing songs about working-class life, pioneering a genre known as heartland rock. <\/p>\n

Following his commercially unsuccessful debut album,\u00a0Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.,\u00a0Springsteen found better luck with 1975\u2019s\u00a0Born to Run, scoring him a number three slot on the Billboard 200.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since then, Springsteen has become one of the most successful artists in American music, attracting masses of fans to his lengthy concerts just to catch a glimpse of \u2018The Boss\u2019 in action. Besides playing his own material at live shows, Springsteen often plays covers of other artists he admires, even releasing a whole covers album,\u00a0Only the Strong Survive, in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That instinct to revisit and reinterpret other artists\u2019 material has always been a crucial part of Springsteen\u2019s identity. Long before he was filling stadiums under his own name, he was a student of American songcraft, absorbing everything from soul and R&B to the crooning tradition that Sinatra helped define. Covering songs on stage wasn\u2019t just a crowd-pleasing exercise, it was a way of placing himself within that lineage.<\/p>\n

In that sense, his admiration for Sinatra feels less like a surprising detour and more like a natural extension of his own storytelling approach. While their sounds may differ on the surface, both artists built their reputations on embodying the emotional lives of their characters, whether that meant barroom loneliness, fleeting romance, or the quiet desperation of everyday existence.<\/p>\n

\"Frank<\/a>(Credits: Far Out \/ 20th Century-Fox)<\/p>\n

Springsteen greatly admired Frank Sinatra<\/a>, even inducting him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. The musician decided to cover \u2018Angel Eyes\u2019 in honour of Sinatra, a song composed by Matt Dennis, which the iconic crooner sang in 1958. <\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s another one of Sinatra\u2019s songs which Springsteen referred to as the one track he\u2019d be happy to listen to for the rest of his life. Speaking to Stephen Colbert, Springsteen revealed that \u2018Summer Wind\u2019 would be his pick, which was recorded by Sinatra in 1966, appearing on his album,\u00a0Strangers in the Night.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The track was initially written in German under the title \u2018Der Sommerwind\u2019, written by Heinz Meier with lyrics by Hans Bradtke. After Johnny Mercer transformed the song into English, it was first recorded by Wayne Newton. Eventually, other singers took a crack at the song, although Sinatra\u2019s version remains a favourite for many, such as Springsteen. <\/p>\n

Springsteen paid tribute to Sinatra\u2019s legacy<\/a> in his induction speech at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He shared, \u201cMy first recollection of Frank\u2019s voice was coming out of a jukebox, it was in a dark bar on a Sunday afternoon when my mother and I went in searching for my father, and she said, \u2018Listen to that\u2026 that\u2019s Frank Sinatra, he\u2019s from New Jersey.’\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a voice filled with bad attitude, life, beauty, excitement, nasty sense of freedom, sex and a sad knowledge of the ways of the world.\u201d He added, \u201cIt was the deep blueness of Frank\u2019s voice that affected me the most, and while his music became synonymous with black tie, good life, the best booze, women, sophistication, his blues voice was always a sound of hard luck, and men late at night with the last ten dollars in their pockets trying to figure a way out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen to \u2018Summer Wind\u2019 below. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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