Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden

In Pat's listing for this song, he lists two discs, but does not list
the soundtrack CD for Jerry Maguire (Sony 67910). I don't own this CD,
but Bruce's song is listed. Does this CD have the proper '97 single version?

Edited by PaulEschen

We played a version with some movie dialog added for a couple weeks during the song's chart run. I don't remember where we got it, but it might have been from the label rep on a CD-R. I doubt it was actually produced by CBS records though. Is this the alternate mix you're thinking of?

Several years ago, I posted the following information regarding Bruce Springsteen's "Secret Garden" in the "'DJ Edit' Additions..." thread:

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - SECRET GARDEN
Comments: When "Secret Garden" was first released in 1995, the LP version was featured on all DJ and commercial single copies. The single was pretty much a chart flop [it peaked at #63 on Billboard]. Two years later, a disc jockey at radio station KKRZ-FM in Portland created a new version of "Secret Garden" by adding bits of dialog from the movie Jerry Maguire throughout the song. This mix was circulated to other radio stations across the country and ultimately became a big Top 40 radio success. It's not clear if this "Jerry Maguire Mix" ever became an official radio promo release, but it does appear on my Promo Only: Mainstream Radio subscription series (run time is 4:26). The "Jerry Maguire Mix" has never been made commercially available on CD.

Edited by Todd Ireland

Paul:

The Jerry Maguire mix was never issued on a commercial single release so technically, no, it can't really be classified as a "45 version" in the traditional sense. However, the Jerry Maguire mix was definitely the version Top 40 radio jumped on in 1997 and this no doubt propelled the song up the charts. I also seem to recall Springsteen's record label did not issue additional quantities of the 1995 CD single to retail outlets when the Jerry Maguire mix became a bigger hit in 1997, so I don't think it would be accurate to classify the LP version released in 1995 as the 45 version either, especially when it more or less bombed on its own during its original release.

I just found a website that has a history of the song
(www.SpringsteenLyrics.com) It is on a CD release, The Morning Zoo
Bootleg - Z-100, of which only 8000 copies were made.