| 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) - V1 | 5:47 | US5 / BIS / ROOI / SA914 / ET / ETRJ |
| 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) - V2 | 5:35 | PS / EY / ROOI / SA914 |
| 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) - V3 | 5:31 | WIESS / ESSENTIAL / CHAPTER / BESTOF / 1975 single |
Note: The only dates recorded in Sony's logs are on August 9 and September 23, 1973 at 914 Sound Studios. V1, the instrumental backing track, and V2, the original vocal take, with "Now, Sandy, them northern angels lost their desire for us…" may have been recorded at the August 9 session. V3, the album version, uses the original backing track, but with overdubs and mixing probably from September 23, including Bruce adding a new final verse. Written in early 1973 at Diane Lozito's (Bruce's girlfriend at time) Bradley Beach house, it was, according to Springsteen, "a good-bye to my adopted hometown and the life I'd lived there before I recorded. Sandy was a composite of some of the girls I'd known along the Shore. I used the boardwalk and the closing down of the town as a metaphor for the end of a summer romance and the changes I was experiencing in my own life." Diane says she was Sandy, along with the "Thundercrack" girl and Rosalita, too.