Pink Cadillac (song) B-side of the album's lead single, "Dancing in the Dark". The track would appear as one of two songs (along with "Cover Me") on a CD3 released in 1988, but was not included on any Springsteen album until "Tracks" in 1998, and "18 Tracks" in 1999, both these titles being anthologies of Springsteen's outtakes-and-B-sides. Springsteen's version of "Pink Cadillac" is often compared to the "Peter Gunn" theme by Henry Mancini, which it resembles in its main riff and saxophone break. In 2006, Bruce Springsteen appeared on a recording of "Pink Cadillac" by Jerry Lee Lewis on his album "Last Man
The River (Bruce Springsteen album) mix of the frivolous next to the solemn. This was intentional, and in contrast to "Darkness", for as Springsteen said during an interview, "Rock and roll has always been this joy, this certain happiness that is in its way the most beautiful thing in life. But rock is also about hardness and coldness and being alone ... I finally got to the place where I realized life had paradoxes, a lot of them, and you've got to live with them." On November 8, 2009, at a concert, Bruce Springsteen spoke about the album, saying: ""The River" was a record that