Pink Cadillac (song) onstage to close the show with a duet of "Pink Cadillac". Etheridge has never recorded "Pink Cadillac" although her live performance is widely available as a bootleg recording. Carl Perkins recorded a version of "Pink Cadillac" on his album "Friends, Family & Legends" of 1992. Originally released on the album "Killbilly Hill" and again on their greatest hits album, 1980s country/rock band, Southern Pacific has a live recording of "Pink Cadillac". Brian Conley recorded "Pink Cadillac" for his 1993 "Brian Conley Sings" album. The 2003 album "Light of Day: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen" includes a rendition of "Pink Cadillac"
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