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  • Sep 23, 1949
    Bruce Springsteen is born at Monmouth Memorial Hospital in Long Branch, New Jersey. He earns a country hit as a songwriter with Mel McDaniel's "Stand On It." His "Atlantic City" is named among the 500 greatest country singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Jul 29, 1956
    Singer Patti Scialfa is born in Deal, New Jersey. In 1991, she marries Bruce Springsteen, the writer of Mel McDaniel's country hit "Stand On It"
    May 13, 1960
    Actress Julianne Phillips is born in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She marries Bruce Springsteen in 1985. During their four-year marriage, Springsteen's "Stand On It" becomes a country hit for Mel McDaniel
    May 22, 1966
    Bruce Springsteen writes his first song in the back seat of a Mercury on the way to a recording session. A future Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, he will also write the Mel McDaniel country hit "Stand On It"
    Jun 9, 1972
    Columbia Records signs Bruce Springsteen to his first recording contract as a solo artist. During his tenure with the label, he records "Atlantic City," deemed one of country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation publication
    Jan 5, 1973
    Columbia releases "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.," the debut album from singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen. The Boss is destined to earn a country hit as the songwriter of Mel McDaniel's "Stand On It"
    May 9, 1974
    Bruce Springsteen performs "Born To Run" live for the first time when he opens for Bonnie Raitt at the Harvard Square Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Boss and the song will appear in the first verse of Pat Green's "Feels Just Like It Should"
    Aug 3, 1974
    Anne Murray is booed off stage when she follows Bruce Springsteen at a concert in New York's Central Park
    Aug 6, 1974
    Bruce Springsteen holds the final recording session for "Born To Run" at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York. The rock anthem gets referenced in Eric Church's 2012 country hit "Springsteen"
    Oct 27, 1975
    Rocker Bruce Springsteen makes the covers of both Time magazine and Newsweek. Eleven years later, he's covered in the country charts when Mel McDaniel remakes his song "Stand On It"

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