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
Bruce Springsteen was advocating for the rights of the common working-class man. The song was widely misinterpreted as jingoistic, and in connection with the 1984 presidential campaign became the subject of considerable folklore. In 1984, conservative columnist George Will attended a Springsteen concert and then wrote a column praising Springsteen's work ethic. Six days after the column was printed, in a campaign rally in Hammonton, New Jersey, Reagan said, "America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts. It rests in the message of hope in the songs of a man so many young Americans admire—New Jersey's own, Bruce Springsteen." Two