Born To Run - Studio Sessions - Potential Album Sequences

Potential Album Sequences

Some of the songs listed below are included on early draft listings of what Springsteen imagined "Album #3" (i.e., Born To Run) might look like. Bruce noted song timings for several of these tracks, so presumably recordings of some kind existed. Some of these lists are known, all apparently composed at some point in 1974, some have additions written later in the sessions in 1975.

Potential Sequence #1

Dates from very early in the sessions, perhaps as early as the spring of 1974, maybe even earlier.

Album #3
1.	Angel Baby
2.	Architect Angel
3.	Thundercrack
4.	Vision at Fort Horn
5.	Two Hearts
6.	Here She Comes
7.	Glory Road
8.	Janey Needs A Shooter
9.	Jungleland

Potential Sequence #2

Album #3
1.	Jungleland
2.	Song For Orphans
3.	Wild Billy's Lullaby (or Dream)
4.	Born To Run - Glory Road
5.	Lonesome Town (Blondie)
6.	War Roses
7.	Angel Baby (Broken Down Doll)
8.	Thundercrack
9.	Shanghai
10.	Harlem

Potential Sequence #3

Appears to be composed on the same sheet of paper. It is unknown whether the list is contemporary, or if Springsteen returned to the same page some time later to add a second track list. Source for the list is a display at the From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen exhibition, a typed version of which is reproduced in issue 89 of Backstreets magazine.

Album #3
1.	Born To Run
2.	Jungleland
3.	Baby & Me (Blondie)
4.	Lonely Night At The Beach
5.	Born To Win
6.	Wild Billy's Song To Orphans
7.	Shootout In Chinatown
8.	Street Fight
9.	Jr. Walker Groove - A Love So Fine
10.	Orbison - Born To Be Alone

Potential Sequence #4

Appears to be composed on the same sheet of paper. It is unknown whether the list is contemporary, or if Springsteen returned to the same page some time later to add a second track list. Source for the list is a display at the From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen exhibition, a typed version of which is reproduced in issue 89 of Backstreets magazine.

Album #3
1.	Born To Run
2.	Jungle Land
3.	A Love So Fine
4.	She's The One
5.	Lonely Night In The Park
6.	Thunder Hill
7.	Latin Song
8.	Street Fight
9.	Song For Orphans
10.	Dual
11.	Here She Comes Walkin'
12.	New Delinquent Lovers
13.	Glory Road

Potential Sequence #5

Comprises ten songs, eight of which include running times, which suggests they may have been recorded in the studio.

Album #3		38:00 (left 7:00)
1.	Angels Song	5:30
2.	Backstreets	6:00
3.	Lonely Night In The Park	4:30
4.	Down At The Club	4:00
5.	Glory Road / She's The One	6:00
6.	The Night	4:00
7.	Pretty Thing
8.	Born To Run	4:30
9.	Jungleland	10:00
10.	Theme For An Imaginary Waitress / In Wild Ones (Fontainbleu Waltz)

Potential Sequence #6

Two lists on the same page, both are sequences with song timings. The first has "The Club" crossed out (probably "Down At The Club"?), and "Jungle" ("Jungleland"?) added without a track-number. The second comprises eight songs initially, before Bruce added a ninth ("Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" in May 1975), and then two more ("She's The One" and "Meeting Across The River"), in different ink in June 1975. "Janey" is clearly considered to be left out to bring the new timings at 33:45, or with 8 songs also without "Janey", including "Tenth" to 39:20.

Album #3		33:00 (left 12:00)	Album #3		38:00 (left 6:00)
1.	The Night		1.	The Night - (Love So Fine)	3:00
2.	Thunder Road	4:30	2.	Thunder Road	4:30
4.	The Club	4:00	3.	Linda	4:15
5.	Lonely Night	4:30	4.	(Janey Needs A Shooter)	4:30
6.	Born To Run	4:30	5.	Jungleland	9:30
7.	Backstreets	6:00	6.	Born To Run	4:30
8.	Linda	4:45	7.	Backstreets	6:00
	Jungle	8:30	8.	Lonely Night	4:20
			9.	10th Ave Freeze	3:15
			10.	She's The One	4:30
			11.	Meeting Cross The River	2:43

Final Sequence #7

Album #3 - Final Sequence - July 2, 1975
Side One		Side Two
1.	Thunder Road	6.	Linda Let Me Be The One
2.	Tenth Avenue Freeze-out	7.	Meeting Across The River
3.	Lonely Night In The Park	8.	She's The One
4.	Jungleland	9.	Backstreets
5.	Night

Amended Final Sequence #8

Album #3 - Amended Final Sequence - July 7, 1975
Side One		Side Two
1.	Thunder Road	5.	Born To Run
2.	Tenth Avenue Freeze-out	6.	She's The One
3.	Night	7.	Meeting Across The River
4.	Backstreets	8.	Jungleland