4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (Live Video Version featuring Danny Federici)

"Music video by Bruce Springsteen and Danny Federici;Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band performing 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy). (C) 2008 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN"

[@davidxavier7868]

"C'mon brother ... we'll start, just Danny and I ..." Man, this brings a tear to the eye. A lifetime playing rock and roll together, and at the end it was just as it was at the start, just two dudes playing this beauty on a stage.

[@djsguitars01]

So sad to see that less than 4 weeks after this show was filmed he was gone........his Hammond playing ( & accordion playing) are etched in my memory from all those albums & tours..

[@adamredfield]

Without Danny, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band would have been a great rock and roll band, but would not have been a great sea shore rock and roll band. Danny gave us the salt water taffy, the smell and sound of the waves, the cotton candy and the miniature golf. For me, that difference is as wide as the Atlantic Ocean. I miss you in the band, Danny. Thank you for everything.

[@annapohoryles4409]

without these Big/Great guys the E-street band is another but not a bad band!!! Still tears and still love for them !!!

[@georgeteller1516]

This is my favorite Springsteen song. Jersey all my life. Summer at the shore is unparalleled. Dated a lady from Watertown, NY a few years ago. Brought her to Belmar in summer. She said, "I could get used to this". That relationship was too distant to work. I'm 65yo and will continue to walk the beach, swim in the surf (scuba dived off Jersey for 30yrs), and girl watch as long as I can.

[@lucashenriquegarcia3037]

Oh boy that comment was straight up to my soul.

[@richardbrucemusic]

Bruce himself could not have said it any better. Or did he? ;-)

[@adamredfield]

@@richardbrucemusic oh for sure. Bruce has said it far better than I ever could. :)

[@cashflowinvestor23]

Checking in today on July 4th 2024. I went through a very tough time when I lost my job last year and my son was diagnosed with Leukemia. Bruce / the E street band and their music helped me get through.

[@jasonpushy]

yeah. i have to watch this a few times a year

[@dennissirman6584]

Bless Up. The Boss did good stuff.

[@kieranchong9692]

From his biography: “of course, we all grow up, and we know its only rock n roll... but its not. After a lifetime of watching a man perform his miracle for you, night after night, it feels an awful lot like love”

[@kambramareburger-erskine1574]

Thanks Boss

[@Pexster]

Just finished Bruce's memoir, and he says that this song was Danny's choice to play as he knew he was near the end. It was his farewell to E Street. What a perfect choice . . . RIP

[@scottcoraci4327]

Sad, I knew Danny personally in the early 80's, I remember spending a lot of time with him once just before BITUSA was released it, he never mentioned it once.

[@danmandich2843]

AS WE AGE and LOSE friends like I have! CRUISING and singing BRUCE SONGS! REST in Peace my BUDDIES! STILL singing!

[@danmandich2843]

RIP!

[@rrangerbob]

Danny, you are missed. Clarence, too.

[@richardbrucemusic]

Perfect choice and the perfect summer seashore song. I ran away from an abusive home and spent the summer of '74 down Wildwood ;-) and this was our anthem. Not that we had a flag to fly - just our long hair, our tattered denim shorts, and our cassette tapes. But that (and some cold beer) was all we needed. Bruce and cold beer down the shore for the entire summer - ahh, the memories. Thanks, Danny! Inspired me to write this song soundcloud.com/richardbrucemusic/summer-of-love-1974

[@NevadaBoss]

I was at the Tampa show the day after Danny's funeral and when they opened the show with a spotlight on his empty keyboards wasnt a dry eye in the house..when they closed the show with I'll Fly Away Bruce was wiping off tears. There was only one Phantom....addendum: my dear friend, Sandy, just passed 08/31/24..every time I saw Bruce she'd ask me "so...did he do MY song?"...miss you forever bud. xo.

[@bobjob66]

Imagine it is going to be the last sing you play with someone who has been in your band since you were about 17 years old....amazing

[@atticus1712]

I was there. Not a dry eye to be found.

[@soupdragonuk]

@@atticus1712 I can't say I blame you. I still break down when I hear this version of "Sandy". This song isn't really Bruce's this song belongs to Danny, the same as Jungleland belongs to Clarence.

[@taltalim18]

One of my favorite Bruce & E Street Band songs since I first heard it on the radio as a pre teen in the late 80’s. 🥰

[@taltalim18]

@@atticus1712 Where was this concert @ the former NJ Meadowlands?

[@creamydistortion]

Brian May and Roger Taylor will have that experience one day too...

[@LongtimeTimMcGrawFan]

I was at the concert. Danny was my fav Phantom Dan what an amazing Artist beautiful organ ahh miss him. When Bruce announced he flew him in to Indpls I screamed I knew he was in the later stages of cancer damn Then he passed 2 weeks later broke my heart. He will Never be forgotten ❤️

[@H-mv2jp]

Danny sure can make that accordion sing. He adds his magic to the lovely tune that Bruce wrote. Together they show how old friends and colleagues can improve an early song. No jealousy between them, just respect.My favourite version of this underplayed song.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@hugogonzalez-ym9zg]

Imposible not to cry with this performance. What a wonderful tribute to danny. Rest in peace my friend

[@soupdragonuk]

I still cry each time I hear this version, and it's been 13 years since we lost the Phantom.

[@anelladambrosio2513]

​@@soupdragonukciao amici! 🙋‍♀️😍😘💘🍀

[@ronfrankl]

Their friendship was so special. Nobody played with Bruce for longer. And I never heard Danny play better than he did on this. RIP, Little Danny.

[@JimWelsh-f6l]

So damn sad that we have to lose such great people like Dan. And the big man sucks being old

[@dianac.penaloza9914]

That accordion is magic! We miss you Danny!

[@adityajejurkar]

Hits right your heart

[@MattSmith-iq1ld]

As Bruce said, our dear Danny brought the sounds of the Jersey Shore and folk music to Bruce's music. Each person in that band had a role. He is still missed.

[@tonygaffney7798]

this captures all of our Sandy's and those days. Thank you Bruce. God bless Danny and Clarence.

[@richardbrucemusic]

@James Boyer great story and surely a treasured memory. Wow!

[@creamydistortion]

My Sandy is insanely hot 🔥. 😂 And we met on the 4th of July. 🎉

[@stevenfink9659]

Bruce said to Danny....I love you at 6:57. So much class. This was their last performance and they knew the cancer was taking it's toll. @2:30 is also a split second of lifelong friendship

[@bonesc7201]

I'm going to tell you what... that was the most touching memory of Danny I've ever seen...

[@amanhismusicareneverparted5366]

Phantom Danny Federici changed my entire life by just one kind gesture on fine night. He gave my Dad our first two tickets - comps - for The Darkness Tour’s 2nd Leg Opener at Jadwin Gym on the Princeton University Campus here in New Jersey on November 1, 1978. I never looked back except in wild wonder on my good fortune that lead to my taking this band, these men, this music into my life for just about my entire life. Seen ‘em all over, met nearly each a time or two, lectured and wrote about it here and there and much more. You see, the day Phantom Dan descended the stairs from his apartment out in back of my Dad’s Elberon Liquors store just north of Asbury Park, he ended up walking into that liquor store and said to my dad, Sonny Savoth, something about how his band was just catching on and asking whether his son would be interested in seeing them. That was me! My dad didn’t know Bruce or his music but he knew Danny as a good man and kind client - but maybe he remembered my talking about Bruce, playing his songs as the drummer in my little high school band in Red Bank. So my dad, no doubt in his usual Hawaii shirt in honor of his time spent in Hawaii as a sniper ready to hit Japan in WWII but instead chasin’ hula girls, accepted my two tickets to paradise. That single act of kindness by the most down to earth, most natural musician by Bruce’s account changed my life. So on this Fourth of the 24th year of his century, I thank Danny again for making my Dad a hero in his young boy’s eyes when he walked into our little Little Silver home and asked me if I was interested in seeing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. And this band to me then wasn’t what the band is to the public now. It’s not the same but we who were there know. Band now is a souvenir relic of times that once were. Now it’s $2000 a seat; back then on that night it was free. Back then and for most of the time the band was the E Street band at its best before the loss of Danny and Clarence, E Street was a place in the heart, not a bucket list oldies act for the well to do. And years later after Danny died, the night of his funeral in my near-hometown of Red Bank, New Jersey, I was riding through the Florida night and got stopped by a Federal Interdiction Unit for blowing a stop Sign at 4 am the early morning of the coming night the E street Band was to perform their first night without Danny. I wasn’t drunk - not high - neither was ever much my thing and it was April 2008. I’d bought tickets to Tampa months in advance guessing Danny would have recovered from the melanoma by that time. I guessed sadly wrong. It was his funeral show but I was proud to be there. I told the Floridian officer straight about how I’d flown down from Jersey, how I’d just been driving around all night starting in Tampa, listening to all my best bootlegs where Danny and his B3 shone bright in so many E street nights. I was mourning the only way I knew how: in the folds and embrace of Danny’s music. Danny’s. Kitty live and so many more. Now maybe I didn’t articulate things as well that morning but the officer got it. We ended up talking about their hometown hero Tom Petty in the early morning sweet fragrance of the nearby magnolia trees, then we each went our ways. And later that night, I took a college buddy Fred Nowicki to see the band in Tampa and we stood in that pit and we were shocked but comforted to cry along with damn near all the other fans standing there as the band roared through Backstreet as their first song, Danny’s B3 draped in black bunting. Thank you, Danny Federici, the most Irish looking Italian named guy in the band with the Italian guys with Dutch names, for changing my life and the lives of so many, especially all those musicians that played in every band you were in. You were a mighty wind. Little Eden truly is rising on this Fourth of July 2024 in your memory.

[@Tearstojoy]

"yeah, love me tonight, for I may never see you again." Jesus, that's poignant. The fact that they are blood brothers, this as a fitting tribute to Danny boy, more than Sandy girl. He flew away home to be in Heaven with all of the other angels that blessed us for a time, such as this one. Love, it's the only thing that remains forever.

[@davidormiston1898]

I'm pretty sure this is from Danny's last and only performance with E street on this tour. And Bruce knew he wasn't doing well. Danny asked Bruce if they could play this one last time. The song reminded him of when they were young. R.I.P to the phantom.

[@libragirl4471]

I play this as I’m heading down to the beach every summer.Such emotion

[@U2onTV]

This was the last performance of the 1975-2008 version of the E Street Band as Danny died not too long after this video was shot. RIP to him and The Big Man.

[@nonosquare4218]

thank you for sharing that info-which makes me swoon even more when I watch....be still my heart

[@juanrivera6109]

U2onTV This performance of the Boss and Danny is one of the simplest and greatest. And Danny on that accordion adds to the beautiful melancholy of the song. I didn't know he had passed away, all i know is that somewhere he'll be playing that accordion as only he could.

[@scottcoraci4327]

Hasn't been the same since, anyone that goes to just see Bruce is missing a lot of other people the have been behind him for 40 years

[@EldaGranlund]

No one can replace dannys original special sound on the organ. Just cant listen to this without remember back when i drove in to ocean ave, asbury park listen to this in my mustang. Rip danny.

[@adriannahadjiloucas2810]

Miss Frankie , our Carnival Sounds from Freehold NJ !! Miss you Big Man !!! Their is no one that could ever take your place

[@TenthAvenue94]

I come from a small seaside town, where summers are hot and nights are warm, where there is not that much to do apart from going to the beach or enjoying a walk by the sea. This song reminds me of all those endless summer nights spent chasing "girls who all promised to unsnap their jeans", sleeping on the beach all night and just fooling around. It's also during one of those summers that I met my first true love, with whom I would then spend 3 wonderful years together. Funny thing is, she dumped me all of a sudden on a 4th of July. She said she had "lost her desire for me". Eventually I fully moved on with my life, but everytime I listen to this song it moves me deep inside. Who knows if she still dresses like a star, in one of those little seaside bars. Oh well, enough! Now let me close my eyes, and remember :) love from Italy.

[@kbermann]

How Bruce kept it together throughout the song ...

[@perebonetoltra7384]

Cuiden la tierra es el unico sitio dende existe el Boss con estas canciones preciosas.

[@NadaSurferTube]

4th of july, 2020 checking in. love this song for always.

[@joefronti6901]

I listen to this song other times of the year,but I always have to hear it a few times on the 4'th of July.

[@davidmacpherson3009]

Greetings from the West Coast of Scotland. Loved Danny’s input in to this my favourite Bruce song.

[@willmoser655]

2021 here

[@juanrivera6109]

What I love about artists is the ability to tell a story that brings us along. Bruce Springsteen does that effectively and beautifully 😍. This song does that.

[@Bossladyone2]

Danny and Clarence were Gifts from the gods of music to us. They unconditionally unwrapped their notes and graced their audience with E STREET BAND love for each and every one of us to enjoy and embrace. I believe that Danny and Clarence are busy at this moment choosing which musician waiting in the wings will be honored with THE GIFT to keep the circle of musical greatness alive and well. I am hoping that THE BOSS is shopping for some shoes. My heart is in Asbury Park . I am tired.

[@snigglini289]

Can not watch this without a tear in my eyes. Rest in power, Danny! ❤️

[@jackglacken2045]

And what a great tribute this video is to Danny. I think Bruce told him he loves him and then kissed him. Awesome stuff.

[@scottcoraci4327]

He did tell him that. :(

[@junesmith9396]

Jack Glacken oh yes.

[@deborama19]

Danny and Clarence's deaths hit him hard. He's a guy who feels his feelings, we all know that. These guys were so close for so long.

[@donmcallister3745]

Sandy is the song that introduced me to Bruce Springsteen way back when… thanks for all the music and memories… Godspeed Danny and Clarence… rest well… Peace 💐

[@easton1337]

Bruce did ask Danny before his last concert before he went into hospital to treat his cancer what last song he wanted to play, and this was his answer. :)

[@edmcloughlin8045]

Thanks

[@jackglacken2045]

Bruce is amazing how he studied and absorb his life around him. Not many of us would place any significance on a summer spent on a Jersey boardwalk. He makes it poetic.

[@taltalim18]

It certainly made this Boston girl from the suburbs dream about spending summers on the Jersey shore back in the late 80’s when I first heard this song. 🥰

[@scottcoraci4327]

I can smell the boardwalk and ocean just watching this.

[@antonioandiOS]

Scott Coraci agreed, I go to a beach town in New Jersey every year the week of 4th of July, Sea Isle City. Every time I here this song I think about being there

[@danielkraus1040]

every time when i hear this song and see the end of the video it makes me cry, rip phantom dan and big man

[@dansullivan541]

One of his best

[@robertzirpolo7353]

I think this song shows the connection they had from a young age and was truly a tribute as the last song they played in concert together. There couldn't have been a dry eye in the place. RIP Danny

[@cdfelo13]

Oh my God. Makes me cry every time I see this. I think of the stories Bruce tells of the early days when he and Danny and the other original members of his band were struggling to make it and get their break. Unbelievable the 40+ year run they had together, occasional side projects notwithstanding. Rest in Peace, Danny and Clarence!

[@dale3ntaz]

Danny's last performance w the E Street Band. Goodbye Danny we all miss you

[@IdahoNick1]

One of my favorites. Nothing takes it home like this song- so many memories of that boardwalk back then capture and preserved. I'm 60 years old but listening to this, I go back to being 15 and being one of those boardwalk rats. God bless, Danny!

[@beatles1000]

Amen my friend

[@peterowen9183]

6:55 and the love in their eyes. This was always more than a band - it's family. And when one of the family passes, the whole family is affected. RIP Danny.

[@joshuabrooks4907]

The "Madam Marie" mentioned in this song recently passed away, and I think Bruce dedicated this song to her as well.

[@johnberman7347]

She died many years ago...probably around when this video was done

[@elpapa1635]

I've heard this about 200 times and each time the warm tears trickle down.

[@Piedero]

OMG, it's really the 4th of july today!!!

[@quackattack87]

Wow...the looks they exchanged....a lifetime of love and friendship

[@machia-mw1lm]

Danny Frederici, his sound gave E Street a unique sound.......Bruce is one of those artists whenever he sings a song, it sounds like the first time you heard it.

[@brucefredrick6229]

I know many people who don't really care that much for his music and then see him live...he is like NO other...3.5 hours at least, NONSTOP energy...absolutely in love what he does, his audience, etc...

[@mjh5437]

Led Zeppelin often played that long,and sometimes even for 4 hours.

[@chriscianciolo5823]

@@mjh5437 Led Zep was a mess most of the time live lol, come on

[@trfesok]

That happened to me in 1978. I didn't care for his voice. I took the ticket (EIGHT DOLLARS) off a friend's hand. I was amazed. Bruce and Clarence on "She's the One"..unforgettable.

[@marieperez6609]

After that it will never be the same again. Live long Danny. We the E Street fans will always miss you.

[@MyClau1971]

Danny Federici’s accordion always sounds Italian to me. We often find the best of ourselves in the other ones. God bless Danny, Clarence and I love you forever Bruce.

[@tga1232000]

I always think that too. My Italian uncle played the accordion and I have great memories of him playing. He, like Danny, was taken too soon

[@dgrichmondbc]

Beautiful and bittersweet. RIP Phantom. The stage to Bruce's right will never look right without you there. Thank you for everything.

[@russeli1941]

Home Grown! That's Bruce, nothing fake about this man.

[@chuckbruzan3769]

RIP Danny Federici

[@johnwalls7170]

Atlantic City NJ guy here.... boardwalk memories for me

[@lornemyers]

It is so sad to see a Bruce concert now without Danny and Clarence there. However, the show must go on!!!!

[@mathmusic1490]

Danny made MANY of the beautiful keyboard and accordion sounds..........for a good stretch of Bruce's career, one could say he WAS the sound of the E Street Band. Melanoma got him.................

[@donellefeltham2648]

Lorne Myers aq

[@pretorious700]

Everybody should listen to this on July 4th, much more inspiring than jingoistic "patriotic" music.

[@warflynn]

Happy Birthday Phantom Danny!! You are sorely missed Blood Brother

[@danmandich2843]

WOW! REST IN PEACE!

[@stefanoceruolo3551]

Thank u ~ boss ~ paino man~ jazz singer ~ king ~ sixto !!!! U all grew me up ! Emotions

[@trfesok]

In my Hollies playlist with cover. Allan Clarke and The Hollies were among the first people to draw attention to Bruce's early stuff.

[@jackychan1474]

Being a kid who lives 2 towns away from Asbury Park, where I have been several times, this song means the world to me and makes my heart sing!!!

[@johnk7668]

If you gotta go, go like this RIP Danny

[@moossee1]

What an incredible tribute to a lifelong brother......amazing.......

[@rehoby]

This is one of those moments that makes you feel glad to be alive and appreciative of the little things. Thank you Bruce, thank you Danny for creating the sound of the ESB.

[@rymo555]

Miss you Phantom Dan.

[@36flamingo63]

Danny Federici with his Fantini accordion....... For me, this mix of Italian sounds, names, sensations, what a great sadness

[@robinbewley9096]

Danny and the " big man"...are making beautiful music in heaven...

[@kjakejakejakek]

my god, the way they look at eachother made me just start bawling. :( it's like he knew there wasn't much time left :(

[@michellehalpin7995]

True friendship since the beginning

[@georgeteller1516]

Born and raised in Jersey. Summers down the shore. I'm 64 now and go there year 'round. This is what it's all about.

[@bobandrayfan1]

RIP Danny. Thanks Boss!

[@rosiebloem]

We named our first Born Sandy.. :-))

[@michellehalpin7995]

Friends till the end❤💔.RiP Danny on the Boardwalk forever...❤

[@kennethhancock3824]

One of the best songs Bruce has written and played.

[@bullyvxr]

The finest version I have ever heard of this.

[@sophiezane4252]

Terry Powers I miss you so much Danny. I wish you had written a memoir. I think I could really relate to your rebellious character and I love what you add to the band. God Bless Danny Boy!!

[@ulithomsen6859]

"The aurora is rising behind us" - Still and forever his best and heartbraking songs

[@JA-pm4pu]

Seventy-nine people gave downvotes to a guy dying of cancer on the last song he chose to play....gotta love the Internet.

[@adriannahadjiloucas2810]

WHat do they know .. Probably Trump fans

[@no834]

Republicans

[@italozomer]

4th of July of 2023 I'm here. Greetings from Santa Catarina, Brazil 🇧🇷

[@teundekok8096]

Beatifull ❤️

[@davidtorresfernandez]

Our tribute to two giants: Dani and The Big Man..............for ever.

[@DanielJimenez-ep8ij]

Long Life to E Street Family

[@johnozed]

I've watched this dozens of times, and it is still so sweet.

[@williamkennedy4123]

He will always be missed. God Bless Danny

[@trapnextone]

I was at this concert. It was the first Springsteen show I'd seen. This was one of the only songs on the set list I didn't know, and regrettably I spent the whole song waiting for something more exciting to happen. I wish now I could have appreciated the significance of this song at the time. It's a beautiful song.

[@martinzaehringer1697]

Every 4th of July I make a point of playing this song

[@1910MIC]

The accordion, so emotional. I love it. Thank you Danny

[@brendan3174]

Sad and beautiful at the same time. RIP Danny. Jersey pride.

[@brucefredrick6229]

Danny hadn't been on stage since Nov 2007 at this point...he had a few weeks and they knew it..died one month later. Don't know HOW they held themselves together, really. They loved each other deeply...Phantom was the only member of the band to "reduce me to a screaming mess" as Bruce said, but also the most fluid, intuitive musician he'd ever known and loved.

[@91thunderroad]

5 years today without Danny. always alive in our hearts,minds and soul. Always alive trough music. We miss You Phantom Dan.

[@boxer1656]

R.I.P. Danny 🖖

[@annapohoryles4409]

Oh, dearest Mr.Springsteen - pandemic time or not - you are the cure !!! Pls, stay healthy !!! LOVE !!!

[@paulhedeen7659]

His best song. The old e street stuff is the strongest and most evocative.

[@pycargue2248]

This is what i called , the old good times ! just wonderful! thanks !

[@ojmccaf63]

I had a friend named Sandy who pass away and this song allways reminded me of her!!!

[@petrafranklin6591]

I still love this song, the Arcodion and Bruce voice is a perfect match..RIP Danny

[@daviddennison4201]

RIP Danny you guys were and always will be the best

[@PatrickColemanDuncan]

RIP Danny.

[@pauladomalewski8069]

Thank you for inviting us into a very intimate moment

[@jeffwynings3782]

Quickly becoming one of my favorite Bruce songs.

[@Buckshot1957]

Flemington’s finest right there. Thank you for letting me hang awhile with you. RIP Danny

[@scotmoser8716]

Anyone who lived near Asbury park or Jersey shore can relate to this song. Fortunate to see Bruce and band in their formative years in those settings. This story really paints the scene right down to the smells on boardwalk.

[@NJTP1]

Beautiful song, lived in Asbury Park , moved away 2 years ago, had been only a few blocks from the Stone Pony. Love the Boss, The Big Man and Danny are with us Still.

[@martineschuhler2840]

Très beau moment......c'est beau une amitié comme celle là....en plus du talent ❤❤❤

[@juangarrotedemarcos884]

Today and always, Phantom Danny