| STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA - V1a | 4:13 | uncirculating |
| STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA - V1b | 4:11 | BACK / ASOBS / OST: PHILADELHPIA |
| STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA - V1c | 3:49 | 1994 single |
| STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA - V1d | 3:17 | GREATEST / ESSENTIAL / BESTOF |
| STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA - V1e | 2:53 | DDITV / 1994 b-side |
| STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA - V1f | 4:13 | promo-only cd |
| STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA - V1g | 3:43 | TOTP video mix |
| STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA - V2 | uncirculating |
Note: Written in mid-1993 and registered at the U.S. Copyright office on August 27, 1993. Released on December 30, 1993, as part of the Philadelphia soundtrack, then issued as a single in the U.S. on February 2, 1994. However, this is a song with a complex recording and release history. All recordings were co-produced by Springsteen and Chuck Plotkin.
The base track, V1a, was recorded in August 1993 at Bellevue Studios (the house next to the residence) at Thrill Hill Recording, 40 Bellevue, Rumson, New Jersey. Springsteen was on vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, and drum machine. Overdubs were recorded in September 1993, including a number of drum takes by Zack Alford. Various rough mixes were created on September 13 with Alford's live drums (probably at Thrill Hill West, Beverly Hills), but in the end they were rejected and Springsteen settled on the original drum machine backing.
V2 is a different recording of the song made in October 1993, apparently at A&M Studios in Los Angeles. It features Bruce on lead vocal, instrumentation provided by Springsteen and jazz virtuoso Ornette Coleman, bass and background vocals by Tommy Sims, and additional background vocals by Little Jimmy Scott. V2 was allegedly scheduled to be the officially released version up to early December 1993, when it was nixed at the last second, even after the song's video (which featured Little Jimmy extensively) was shot. The video had to be re-shot. A brief snippet of V2 (including the tell-tale vocals of Little Jimmy Scott) is actually heard about halfway through the movie (but it's V1b that is heard in the opening sequence of the movie).
Tommy Sims's bass and vocals were overdubbed onto the earlier demo to create V1b, which in December was selected as the album soundtrack version. V1c, the single mix, only adds Sims's vocals to V1a, and is trimmed to under four minutes. V1d is a significantly edited (one minute shorter) version of V1b, mixed for Greatest Hits, which was released on February 28, 1995. V1e is the version used for the commercially released video – it is the same base recording as V1b except that it features an alternate ("live") Springsteen vocal. V1f was released as a promotion-only single in the UK and Austria and this is allegedly yet another slightly different mix of V1b. V1g is the audio released as part of a black-and-white video shot in early 1994 at CBS TV Soundstage studios in New York and originally broadcast on the UK TV show Top Of The Pops. It is alleged to be yet another slight, but unique, mix variation.