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
Cadillac Ranch (Bruce Springsteen song) to the protagonists of earlier Springsteen records, in this song he appears naive and vulnerable rather than bold and innocent. The song's title comes from Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. Cadillac Ranch is a sculpture showing ten Cadillac automobiles with their hoods buried in the ground. Springsteen used Cadillac Ranch as a metaphor for his theme; that these once elite cars are now expendable. Among the real life people namechecked in the song are Burt Reynolds, Junior Johnson and the deceased James Dean. However, in concert Springsteen can be flexible with the names used. For example, in 1985 concerts in