Tony Carey - "A Fine Fine Day"
1984
Tony Carey isn't from the Garden State, but "A Fine, Fine Day" has New Jersey all over it. The video is Sopranos-light (and shot a decade-plus before Jersey's own Tony Soprano and family appeared!), telling a darker story than what is alluded to in the song. The tune itself is a first-rate Bruce Springsteen knockoff, Carey haunts the Springsteen ballad side effectively, leaving the rocker side of Bruce to John Cafferty with "On The Dark Side." Both tunes are from '84, I hear Springsteen himself had a good year also.