Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. Canada. They also later covered "Spirit(s) in the Night" and "For You" as well. In 2003, the album was ranked at #379 in "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and in 2013 "Rolling Stone" named "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." as one of the "100 Greatest Debut Albums of All-Time". The album also reached #60 on the "Billboard" 200 album chart. Springsteen and his first manager Mike Appel recorded the album at the low-priced, out-of-the-way 914 Sound Studios to save as much as possible of the Columbia Records advance, and cut most of the songs in a single
Asbury Park, New Jersey hall. At the same time, Asbury Park launched a first-class education and athletic program with the construction of a state-of-the-art high school overlooking Deal Lake. On September 8, 1934, the wreck of the ocean liner SS "Morro Castle", which caught fire and burned, beached itself near the city just yards away from the Asbury Park Convention Hall; the city capitalized on the event, turning the wreck into a tourist attraction. In 1935, the newly founded Securities and Exchange Commission called Asbury Park's Mayor Clarence F. Hetrick to testify about $6 million in "beach improvement bonds" that had gone into default.