Born To Run
Recording for this track began at 914 Sound Studios on January 8, 1974 (V1). According to Springsteen, the entire writing and recording process took six months, while he was living at a rented cottage at 7½ West End Court in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Though recordings from early 1974 have never surfaced, early lyric sheets of 'Glory Road' contain many lines that would be used in 'Born To Run', including the title. V2a is the original backing track recorded at 914 Sound Studios on May 21, 1974. V2b is from June 26, 1974, with dubs of Bruce's vocals to the V2a track. Bruce continued work on the song, adding lyrics and overdubs, at 914 Sound Studios, both in June and during a weeklong residency starting August 1, 1974. Finally, on August 6, 1974, V3, V4, and V5 were mixed down from seventy-two tracks to the sixteen available by engineer Louis Lahav. The core backing track, V3, was mixed, along with numerous test arrangements V4, with backing vocals, double-tracked