Pink Cadillac (song) could [sing "Pink Cadillac"] and it would come out so great". (Springsteen had vetoed a 1983 release of Bette Midler's version of the song as gender-inappropriate, as detailed below.) The song was played on the 7836th episode of the American daytime television soap opera General Hospital on November 11, 1993, during a scene when Luke & Laura were in a pink cadillac car on their way to GH. Legendary rock and roll pianist Jerry Lee Lewis covered the song on his 2006 album "Last Man Standing" with additional vocals by Springsteen himself. The single was released in December 2006 on
The Essential Bruce Springsteen copies. It spent 13 weeks on the chart. The album was awarded gold and platinum records on December 16, 2003, by the RIAA, and has sold 1,079,000 copies in the USA. as of August 2013. "The Essential Bruce Springsteen" also reached #15 on the UK Albums Chart in 2013. The album was re-released with an updated track list in October 2015. The album received general acclaim from music critics, who appreciated its captivation of Springsteen's most recognizable hits throughout his career and called it "a better compilation album than "Greatest Hits"", which was released in 1995. The Essential Bruce Springsteen