Jl from EarthThere are two references to 'points' in the first verse: shoes and bosom.

And I think that’s the attraction of the sadness of this perfect song. I feel in the song, there’s regret he didn’t marry her. So, It’s unlikely she would have remained a ‘wonderful ‘ memory. For the 1st time in history, it was unprecedented. well, so many people started divorcing in the 1970’s. The reason it remained a wonderful memory for Bob Sefer is probably because it remained a passing love affair. So as we know, this song was based on a actual girl he knew who was cheating with him in the early 1960’s.

But when people are young they are entitled to make mistakes. Even in 1977.Īnd so, there was less hurt in my opinion, in regards to infidelity.

You really could steal away to the woods and do things no one would ever come to know of. The era we lived in when this song came out was totally different, socially and in terms of technology. Most people commenting here would know what I mean. Melinda from AustraliaThis song evokes a time and place that will never come again.Why is that line/bridge famous, and what does it mean? or refer to? Somonewhomissedherowngeneration from Mi'The famous bridge in this song, where Seger strips it down and sings 'I woke last night to the sound of thunder,'.Each ended up selling 5 million copies.Īs for the 'Night Moves' single, it rose to #4 in March 1977, making the heartland rocker a national name. For the rest of the year and most of 1977, both albums were on the chart. When the Night Moves album entered the chart at #84 on November 13, Live Bullet was hanging around at #159. Night Moves was released in October 1976, with the title track issued as the lead single. It quickly found a following and outsold every other Seger album. A big break came in April 1976 when his label, Capitol, seeing the success of Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive, issued a Seger live album, Live Bullet, recorded at two of his Detroit concerts in 1975. He had been Michigan famous ever since his first album in 1969, which had the solid hit 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man.' That song went to #17 on the Hot 100, but over the next few years, he struggled to make a national impact. 'Night Moves' was a breakthrough hit for Seger, introducing the heartland rocker to a much wider audience. It's also the only track on Night Moves with female backing vocals, which were provided by Laurel Ward, Rhonda Silver and Sharon Dee Williams, a trio from Montreal that happened to be in town. Seger's guitarist and sax player returned to Detroit, but the rest of the crew kept working on a very stubborn song Seger had been toiling over: 'Night Moves.' When it started to come together, Richardson brought in the local guitarist Joe Miquelon and organist Doug Riley to play on the track along with Seger and two members of his band: bass player Chris Campbell and drummer Charlie Allen Martin. They quickly recorded three songs that weren't that memorable.

They needed one more for the album, so Seger's manager booked three days at Nimbus Nine Studios in Toronto with producer Jack Richardson. Four songs on the Night Moves album were recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, and another four at Pampa Studios in Detroit with Seger's Silver Bullet Band.

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