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 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