 His manager at the time, Mike Appel, without informing Springsteen or Columbia Records, sent a cassette of the song to approximately forty disc jockeys across the US, including Ed Sciaky in Philadelphia, Kid Leo in Cleveland, and other DJs in Boston, New York, Houston, and Dallas.The song was then included on an endless stream of bootlegs, and was well-known to Springsteen fans as one of his best songs.When it failed to appear on "Tracks", along with "The Promise", another highly regarded unreleased song, a backlash occurred among fans on the Internet.