If you are looking for a soundtrack to get you going on Labor Day Weekend, here’s a reminder that Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” was released 50 years ago this week — and its vitality and eloquence are undiminished.

Set against a backdrop of Vietnam War fatigue, economic malaise and the then-shocking Watergate corruption scandal that toppled a president, “Born to Run” was a collection of short stories written by a guy who grew up lower middle-class and seemed to have lived them.

Cinematic songs such as “Thunder Road,” “Tenth Avenue Freeze-out,” “Jungleland,” “Meeting Across the River” and the under-appreciated “Night” were anthems for the marginalized, the lonely and the disillusioned. Springsteen’s protagonist got his hands dirty, drove hand-me-down cars on two-lanes that could take

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