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 Asbury Park was the only beach in New Jersey affected by the Beach Commission law. In 1943, the New York Yankees held their spring training in Asbury Park instead of Florida. This was because rail transport had to be conserved during the war, and Major League Baseball's Spring Training was limited to an area east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River. With the opening of the Garden State Parkway in 1947, Asbury Park saw the travel market change as fewer vacationers took trains to the seashore. While the Asbury Park exit on the Parkway opened in