{"id":20082,"date":"2022-06-29T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=20082"},"modified":"2022-07-06T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:00:45","slug":"this-day-in-music-dancing-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2022\/06\/this-day-in-music-dancing-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day In Music &#8211; Dancing In The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1984 &#8211; It was this day in music we first met <em>Courteney Cox<\/em> in a music video for <em>Bruce Springsteen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Before <em>Friends<\/em> fame.\u00a0 Before anyone really knew her name she was invited on stage to dance with &#8220;The Boss&#8221;.\u00a0 On purpose.\u00a0 Not like it is meant to look in the video.<\/p>\n<p>They had tried to shoot a studio video for the song &#8220;Dancing In the Dark&#8221; but it never happened.\u00a0 The song is doing well, climbing the charts, and MTV at the time was wanting a video to play.\u00a0 So as Bruce Springsteen gets ready for his live show in Minnesota, he gets Brian DePalma to come to his show with cameras, and a then unknown actress, Courteney Cox.\u00a0 \u00a0She is planted in the crowd, to stare at &#8220;the Boss&#8221; awestruck, fanning over the legend, and it&#8217;s during the sax solo, she is brought onstage to look like the ultimate fan experience, getting to dance with Bruce Springsteen. Seriously, who didn&#8217;t want to be HER?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a moment so many people won&#8217;t forget.<\/p>\n<p>Her part is the only thing staged.\u00a0 The crowd is real and so is the performance.\u00a0 The crowd didn&#8217;t even realize they were filming until Bruce plays the song again, and AGAIN, Courteney comes up to dance.<\/p>\n<p>MTV puts the video in rotation as soon as they can, and the song climbs to #2 on the Hot 100, and the next six songs from the album all reach the Top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Courteney Cox would go on to land a role on Family Ties, playing the girlfriend of Alex Keaton (Michael J. Fox) the last two seasons of the show and we know where she went from there &#8211; in 1994 she stars in Friends, which runs for ten years, becoming one of the highest-rated shows every season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/129kuDCQtHs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1984 &#8211; It was this day in music we first met Courteney Cox in a music video for Bruce Springsteen. Before Friends fame.\u00a0 Before anyone really knew her name she was invited on stage to dance with &#8220;The Boss&#8221;.\u00a0 On purpose.\u00a0 Not like it is meant to look in the video. They had tried to","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":20124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5406,5407,5408],"class_list":["post-20082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-courteney-cox","tag-dancing-in-the-dark"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 19:23:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2022\/06\/this-day-in-music-dancing-in-the-dark\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20082"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20088,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20082\/revisions\/20088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}