My Hometown

"My Hometown"
Single by Bruce Springsteen
from the album Born in the U.S.A.
B-side"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"
ReleasedNovember 21, 1985
RecordedJune 29, 1983[1]
StudioHit Factory, New York City
Genre
Length4:33 (album version)
4:10 (edit)
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bruce Springsteen
Producer(s)
Bruce Springsteen singles chronology
"I'm Goin' Down"
(1985)
"My Hometown"
(1985)
"War"
(1986)
A portion of the Karagheusian Rug Mill as it stood, long abandoned, in Freehold in 1990.

"My Hometown" is a single by Bruce Springsteen off his Born in the U.S.A. album as its closing track, that was the then-record-tying seventh and last top 10 single to come from it, peaking at #7 on the Cash Box Top 100[4] and #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It also topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart, making the song Springsteen's only #1 song on this chart to date.[5] The song is a synthesizer-based, low-tempo number that features Springsteen on vocals.

  1. ^ Heylin, Clinton (2012). Song By Song. London: Penguin. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  2. ^ https://www.wordsandmusic.it/my-hometown-bruce-springsteen/
  3. ^ "Born In the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen". Classic Rock Review. October 29, 2014. Archived from the original on February 12, 2024. Retrieved February 12, 2024. ...folk ballad
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2014). Joel Whitburn’s CashBox Pop Hits 1952-1996. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-209-0.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)

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