Freehold
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Sep 24, 2026
Levon PutneyHOST
64 as well in High Point.
Levon PutneyHOST
63 in Freehold.
Levon PutneyHOST
We'll be back at 6.30 with a New Jersey 101.5 News Flash.
Levon PutneyHOST
Coming up next, Jersey Thing with Eric Scott.
Mark EllisonHOST
Question one: when and where was Bruce Springsteen born? Answer: September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch, New Jersey.
Mark EllisonHOST
Springsteen was born in Long Branch and grew up in nearby Freehold.
Mark EllisonHOST
His New Jersey roots shaped the place-based storytelling that became a hallmark of his Heartland rock.
Mark EllisonHOST
Question two: which 1982 Springsteen album came from four-track home demos? Answer: Nebraska.
ChrisHOST
Sorry.
DinkHOST
Yeah, one of Springsteen's most autobiographical songs about Freehold, New Jersey, where he's from.
DinkHOST
Starts a childhood memory with him riding through town on his dad's lap and driving the car.
DinkHOST
So to me, it kind of hit when I was younger because it kind of reminded me of me and my dad because we also had a Buick.
Mike RogersHOST
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen.
Mike RogersHOST
He was born on this date in 1949 in Freehold, New Jersey.
Austin YorkHOST
Happy birthday, boss.
Austin YorkHOST
Completely overrated.
Mike RogersHOST
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen.
Mike RogersHOST
Born on this date in 1949 in Freehold, New Jersey.
Austin YorkHOST
Happy birthday, boss.
Austin YorkHOST
Completely overrated.
Kyle MillerHOST
Surely a very lucrative job.
Kyle MillerHOST
Some interesting references, geographical references in the song, including Highway 9, referring to Route 9 in New Jersey, which went through Springsteen's hometown of Freehold.
Kyle MillerHOST
And he sang about another Jersey road, Route 88, in the song Spirit in the Night.
Kyle MillerHOST
And just a classic, uh, Bruce Springsteen song with some great lyrics.
Steven GroothuisHOST
That's what I thought Jersey City was.
Steven GroothuisHOST
This guy did for Jersey City, to me, what Bruce Springsteen did for Freehold and what Michael Jordan did for the University of North Carolina.
Steven GroothuisHOST
He actually made me lament my suburban roots.
Steven GroothuisHOST
Being from the suburbs might have well been a derogatory term.
Corey NathanHOST
In some ways, what happened afterward brought me right back to what I was trying to write about in the first place.
Corey NathanHOST
The piece is about Freehold, New Jersey, my hometown.
Corey NathanHOST
Technically, our actual address was Freehold adjacent in the English town area where Bruce Springsteen's granddad lived.
Corey NathanHOST
Nonetheless, when people ask where I'm from, I just say, you know, Bruce Springsteen song, my hometown.
Corey NathanHOST
That's my hometown, because for all intents and purposes, it is.
Corey NathanHOST
Here's a little from what got published.
Corey NathanHOST
When I got to high school about 25 years after Bruce, there wasn't just Freehold High School.
Corey NathanHOST
The borough, as we called it, was one of five separate campuses within the greater Freehold Regional High School District.
Tim FriedmannHOST
Yeah,
Frank OstHOST
because I think he actually was born in Freehold.
Frank OstHOST
Was that anywhere near where you were?
Tim FriedmannHOST
Freehold? Maybe possibly, yeah.
Tim FriedmannHOST
So we might have bumped into each other on the boardwalk.
Tim FriedmannHOST
Asbury Park, you know, New Jersey.
Dan ZarroCORRESPONDENT
From the Edison Heating and Cooling Weather Desk, I'm Chief Meteorologist Dan Zarrow.
Levon PutneyHOST
It's seventy-five degrees in Belmar, sixty-five in High Point, seventy-four degrees in Freehold.
Levon PutneyHOST
We'll be back at six thirty with the New Jersey 101.5 News Flash.
Levon PutneyHOST
Coming up next, Jersey Being with Eric Scott.
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