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Coming up, a tale of one of the most misjudged, underrated, and overlooked tracks that evolved into a classic rock favorite, Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. This song was sent to Hall of Fame rocker Bob Seger by a legendary group of session musicians searching for the perfect performer to bring it to life. When Seger recorded Old Time Rock and Roll, he says he rewrote all the verses and only kept the chorus, but refused a writing credit because he thought it would be a deep track. Seger never thought it would be a hit or even be released as a single. The problem is Old Time Rock and Roll became a hit after his band played it to standing ovations in concert and the song skyrocketed in popularity thereafter due to an iconic movie scene. Bob Seger didn’t receive any royalties. In fact, he likely lost millions upon millions of dollars. We take those old records off the shelf and reminisce NEXT on Professor of Rock!

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Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you remember the freedom rock commercial You’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia … make sure to subscribe below right now. I promise that you are going to love this channel. We also have a Patreon. There is skill and strategy behind picking songs to release as singles from an album consisting of multiple tracks. The conventional wisdom was always to release an uptempo banger first, and then save a slower track, or a ballad for later, maybe for the 2nd or third single. The time of year is also taken into account for what the single should be. The record industry has long believed that a ballad will perform better during the winter, maybe even during the holiday season, since people are not as active, and perhaps more sentimental.

It’s also critically important that the first or 2nd single is a hit, or you may not get to a 3rd or 4th single, because the album is not selling well enough, and the media will take that as a sign that the public doesn’t like the album, so they will cut their losses at that point instead of feeding what could be a stiff. Sometimes…even the specialists get it wrong, and are surprised by the success of a track they thought… would not work. One of the model examples of strategic planning, with a surprising outcome that perplexed the experts, is what happened with the marketing of Stranger in Town, the 10th studio album by Bob Seger, and his 2nd LP recorded with his Silver Bullet Band.

There was a track on that record that everyone, even Bob himself, did not believe in, yet it ultimately became one of the most popular jams of the Rock Era….A little nostalgic ditty titled “Old Time Rock and Roll”. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band were gearing up to collaborate on Stranger in Town, their 2nd album together. On a hunch, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, who often backed Bob in his studio recordings, sent Bob a demo of “Old Time Rock and Roll”, written by the trio of George Jackson, Thomas E. Jones, and Chuck Crozier.

The original demo that they sent to Bob featured George Jackson on vocals, which didn’t work for pitching it to Bob Seger. David Hood, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section bass player.