Listen now to "Sunday Love," the opening track from TRACKS II's "lost" album TWILIGHT HOURS

Letters To You
Jun 12
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June 12, 2025

Below you can listen to "Sunday Love," the opening track from the "lost" Bruce Springsteen album Twilight Hours, which will be included in Tracks II: The Lost Albums, to be released worldwide on Friday, June 27:

As per today's official press release, Twilight Hours finds Springsteen exploring "orchestra-driven mid-century noir" with what Springsteen himself calls "romantic, lost-in-the-city songs" in "an ode to the great American pop music tradition." He was working on Twilight Hours while simultaneously creating what became his Western Stars album.

"At one time," says Springsteen in the press release, "it was either a double record [with Western Stars] or they were part of the same record... I love Burt Bacharach and I love those kinds of songs and those kinds of songwriters. I took a swing at it because the chordal structures and everything are much more complicated, which was fun for me to pull off. All this stuff could have come right off of those sixties albums." In the music of Twilight Hours, the release states, Springsteen also draws inspiration "from the vocal work of Frank Sinatra and Andy Williams, the prose of Flannery O’Connor and James M. Cain, and the Robert Mitchum film Out Of The Past."

In addition to the influences listed above, "Sunday Love" certainly draws lyrical if not musical inspiration from the Great American Songbook standard "A Sunday Kind of Love," recorded not just by many famous pop and jazz singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Frankie Laine, Louis Prima and his Orchestra (w/ Anita Leonard on vocals,) and Dinah Washington, but also many major artists of the doo-wop/rock-and-roll genres, including The Del Vikings, Dion, The Four Seasons, The Harptones (on the Bruce label, no less!,) Jan & Dean, and Asbury Park, NJ's own Lenny Welch.

Here are the full production credits for "Sunday Love," as written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen:

Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Percussion, Vocal, Producer: Bruce Springsteen

Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Producer, Recording Engineer: Ron Aniello

Drums: Max Weinberg

Bass: Kaveh Rastegar

Keyboards: Scott Tibbs

Background Vocal, Vocal: Patti Scialfa

Background Vocal: Soozie Tyrell

Background Vocal: Lisa Lowell

Recording Engineer: Toby Scott

Recording Engineer: Rob Lebret

Recording Engineer: Ross Petersen