The Promised Land (Bruce Springsteen song)

"Promised Land"
Single by Bruce Springsteen
from the album Darkness on the Edge of Town
B-side"Streets of Fire"
ReleasedOctober 13, 1978 (UK)[1]
RecordedOctober 27, 1977 with overdubs December 1 and 27
StudioThe Record Plant, New York City, New York
Genre
Length4:28
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bruce Springsteen
Producer(s)Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau
Bruce Springsteen singles chronology
"Badlands"
(1978) 		"Promised Land"
(1978) 		"Hungry Heart"
(1980)

"The Promised Land" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen from his 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom, backed by another song from Darkness on the Edge of Town, "Streets of Fire", the third single from the album after "Badlands" and "Prove It All Night".[4][5] "The Promised Land" was also included on the compilation album The Essential Bruce Springsteen.[6]

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 70.
  2. ^ "100 Greatest Bruce Springsteen Songs". Rolling Stone. 11 December 2018.
  3. ^ Margotin & Guesdon 2020, pp. 114–115.
  4. ^ "The Promised Land". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  5. ^ Humphries, P. (1996). The Complete Guide to the Music of Bruce Springsteen. Omnibus Press. p. 30. ISBN 0-7119-5304-X.
  6. ^ Erlewine, S.T. "The Essential Bruce Springsteen". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-29.