20 versions, through the years
By: JAY LUSTIG | Published: 2025-07-12 20:08:00 | Source: www.njarts.net
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The cover of Bruce Springsteen’s 1987 single, “Fire.”
A sultry eight-minute-plus version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Fire” by New Jersey jazz singer Carrie Jackson (listen below), from her new Jersey Bounce album, got me exploring different versions of the song, and so I decided to put together this post, with 20 different takes on it, through the years.
It is fitting that there have been a lot of covers of this song, given that Springsteen originally saw it as something that someone else — Elvis Presley, specifically — could record. Springsteen wrote it after seeing Presley perform at The Spectrum in Philadelphia in May 1977, but Presley died in August 1977, without ever hearing it.
Springsteen considered it for his own Darkness on the Edge of Town album in…
