Pink Cadillac (song) "Nebraska" album, "Pink Cadillac" was not formally recorded by Springsteen until the sessions for his "Born in the U.S.A." album, in the spring of 1983. At the end of one session, when most of the crew had left the studio, Springsteen impulsively cut a basic track of him singing "Pink Cadillac" to his guitar accompaniment; this track was completed with the E Street Band the following morning. Although not included on the completed "Born in the U.S.A" album, being bumped from the track list that April in favor of "I'm Goin' Down", "Pink Cadillac" was released in 1984 as the
Fire (Bruce Springsteen song) for the group's November 1978 album release "Energy" with Anita Pointer on lead. Record producer Richard Perry had introduced the song to the Pointers by playing them a tape of Bruce Springsteen singing it, causing Anita Pointer to say: "It's too low for me: I guess you want Ruthie to sing it" to which Perry replied: "No – I want you to sing it." Knight Ridder music critic Christine Arnold cited "Fire" as ""Energy" 's [main] highlight...Springsteen has created a song that might well have been done by the Ronettes in the '60s, and the Pointers inherit and develop the