When The Boss wanted to sell records to the black kids he did what anyone would have done in the 80's, got Arthur Baker to re-edit Dancing in the Dark into a more DJ friendly version. Baker overdubbed synth lines, glockenspiels, additional vocal harmonies and chopped and echoed Springsteens vocal parts, all from tape.
The resulting remix, the Blaster mix, became the biggest selling 12" in 1984 and rocked dancefloors. Many of Springsteens fans hated the remix though, which lead to Bakers response: "I got really offended. What is so different? It has a fucking glockenspiel, which Bruce has used before, background vocals ... it's no different. See, if any of those mixes had come out before, with no one knowing the other version, no one would have said a word."
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