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Greatest Hits (Bob Seger Album)
''Greatest Hits'' is a compilation album by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, released in 1994. Certified Diamond by the RIAA, it is Seger's most successful album to date. In December 2009, Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan confirmed that with nearly nine million copies sold. Bob Seger's ''Greatest Hits'' was the decade's best-selling catalog album in the United States, even out-selling The Beatles' '' 1'' and Michael Jackson's '' Number Ones''. By September 2011, the album had sold a total of 9,062,000 copies in the United States. Album art Californian photographer, Karen Miller, took photos of the band as part of two photoshoots for the album. The most popular pictures out of the first photoshoot were the railroad track scenes taken on the Southern Pacific railroad tracks north of Mojave, California. The single picture of Seger holding his guitar became the cover photo. Another photograph of the entire band on the same tracks was used for the centerfold of the booklet that came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Robert Clark Seger ( ; born May 6, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, breaking through with his first album, ''Ramblin' Gamblin' Man'' (which contained his Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (song), first national hit of the same name) in 1968. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the 'System' from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album ''Live Bullet'' (1976), recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album ''Night Moves (album), Night Moves''. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number Ones (Michael Jackson Album)
''Number Ones'' is a greatest hits album by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released on November 18, 2003, by Epic Records. ''Number Ones'' was Jackson's first proper compilation album with Epic Records, after the release of the first disc of '' HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I'' in 1995 (and after the re-release of that disc as a single album titled '' Greatest Hits: HIStory, Volume I'' in 2001). The album included Jackson's singles that reportedly reached number 1 in charts around the world, hence the album's name. ''Number Ones'' also features the last original single released during Jackson's lifetime, " One More Chance", released four days after the release of the album. ''Number Ones'' was successful around the world, originally reaching number one in the United Kingdom, among other countries. The album eventually returned to the top spot in the UK after Jackson's sudden death in 2009, and became the number one selling album in the United States for six non ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You'll Accomp'ny Me
"You'll Accomp'ny Me" is a song written and recorded by American rock singer Bob Seger. It appears on his album '' Against the Wind''. Content The song is in the key of E major with a main chord pattern of A–E. History It reached number 14 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. An entry in the ''Encyclopedia of Classic Rock'' describes the song as "forecast nghis career direction by crossing over onto ''Billboard''s Adult Contemporary chart". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote in a review of ''Against the Wind'' that "the record really starts to kick into high gear with 'You'll Accomp'ny Me,' a ballad the equal of anything on its two predecessors." Jim Harrington of ''The Mercury News'' selected "You'll Accomp'ny Me" as one of Seger's 10 best songs and as his "best love song." ''Billboard Magazine'' said that it "starts out as a melodic ballad and gains almost in- spirational momentum" by the end. ''Cash Box'' called it a "genteel mid-tempo romance," stating that "drum and wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Bullet
''‘Live’ Bullet'' is a live album by American rock band Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, released in April 1976. It was recorded at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan, during the heyday of that arena's time as an important rock concert venue. The album is credited, along with '' Night Moves'', with launching Seger's mainstream popularity. History Live' Bullet'' became a staple of FM rock radio in Detroit. Classics such as the live version of "Nutbush City Limits" and the medley of "Travelin' Man/Beautiful Loser" were among the most widely played live tracks on Detroit stations such as WWWW (W4), WRIF, and WABX. Other tracks such as "Let It Rock", "Turn the Page" and "Get Out of Denver" also received wide airplay in Detroit. The success of Seger's music at this time, however, was highly regional, with Seger still remaining quite unknown in adjacent media markets such as Chicago. Even in his home state of Michigan, Seger often struggled to garner mass appeal outside the Metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turn The Page (Bob Seger Song)
"Turn the Page" is a song originally recorded by Bob Seger in 1971 and released on his ''Back in '72'' album in 1973. It was not released as a single until Seger's live version of the song on the 1976 ''Live Bullet'' album got released in Germany and the UK. The song became a mainstay of album-oriented rock radio stations, and still gets significant airplay on classic rock stations. Inspiration "Turn the Page" is about the emotional and social ups and downs of a rock musician's life on the road. Seger wrote it in 1972 while touring with Teegarden & Van Winkle. Drummer David Teegarden (of Teegarden & Van Winkle and later the Silver Bullet Band) recalls: We had been playing somewhere in the Midwest, or the northern reaches, on our way to North or South Dakota. uitaristMike Bruce was with us. We'd been traveling all night from the Detroit area to make this gig, driving in this blinding snowstorm. It was probably 3 in the morning. Mike decided it was time to get gas. He was slowing do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Moves (album)
''Night Moves'' is the ninth studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Bob Seger, and his first studio album to credit the Silver Bullet Band. The album was released by Capitol Records on October 22, 1976. Although the front cover only credits backing by the Silver Bullet Band, four of the nine songs on the album feature backing by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. The album was well received by critics, and brought Bob Seger nationwide success. Three singles were released from the album; two of them made the top 40 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album became Seger's second to become certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and was his first to be certified platinum by the same association. It later achieved a certification of sextuple platinum. Reception ''Village Voice'' critic Robert Christgau wrote that the riffs on ''Night Moves'' are classic rock and roll riffs, like those performed by Chuck Berry or the Rolling Stones, and that the albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Moves (Bob Seger Song)
"Night Moves" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger. It was the lead single from his ninth studio album of the same name (1976), which was released on Capitol Records. Seger wrote the song as a coming of age tale about adolescent love and adult memory of it. It was based on Seger's own teenage love affair he experienced in the early 1960s. It took him six months to write and was recorded quickly at Nimbus Nine Studios in Toronto, Ontario, with producer Jack Richardson. As much of Seger's Silver Bullet Band had returned home by this point, the song was recorded with several local session musicians. Released as a single in December 1976, it reached number four on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Seger's first hit single since "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" from 1969. It also charted at number five in Canada and was a top 25 hit in Australia. The song was responsible for changing Seger from being a popular regional favorite into a national star. Background "Night Moves" ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Distance (Bob Seger Album)
''The Distance'' is the twelfth studio album by US-American rock singer Bob Seger. It was released in the final week of 1982 (see 1982 in music). It peaked at #5 on ''Billboard''s album chart and sold close to two million copies in the United States. Seger, influenced by the Woody Allen film ''Annie Hall'', originally intended the album to be built around the theme of relationships but eventually that fell apart when Seger decided that sticking to the theme too strictly would make the album "maudlin". Several songs based on the original theme made it on the album: the hit single " Even Now", "Love’s the Last to Know", "House Behind a House" and the album closer "Little Victories". The album's lead single, " Shame on the Moon", was one of Seger's biggest hits, holding at #2 for four weeks on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It also hit #1 Adult Contemporary and crossed over to #15 Country. Capitol Records had stopped manufacturing albums in the 8-track tape cartridge format ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roll Me Away
"Roll Me Away" is a song written by American rock artist Bob Seger on the album '' The Distance'' by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. The song was used as Seger's opening song on his Face the Promise tour in 2006–2007, his first tour in a decade. Background According to Seger the song was inspired by a motorcycle trip he took to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He stated: I wanted to do that for a long time. It was fascinating being out. The first night it was 42 degrees in northern Minnesota; the second it was 106 in South Dakota and all I had on was my shorts, and my feet were up on the handlebars to keep them from boiling on the engine. It was just silence and feeling nature. ''Rolling Stone'' critic Dave Marsh described it as an "anthemic" song and considers it Seger's best single. Marsh interprets the song as being about "leaving a shattered home for a life that has to be better, though it never quite is." Marsh elaborates that the narrator of the song has lost his love a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alto Reed
Alto Reed (born Thomas Neal Cartmell, May 16, 1948 – December 30, 2020) was an American saxophonist best known as a long-time member of Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band He was a 1966 graduate of Lake Shore High School in St. Clair Shores, Michigan Career His most recognizable performances include the saxophone introduction to " Turn the Page" and the saxophone solo in " Old Time Rock and Roll". Reed also recorded the soundtracks for two of Jeff Daniels' films, and performed with many bands and musicians, such as Foghat, Grand Funk Railroad, Little Feat, Otis Rush, Enchantment, Jamie Oldaker, George Terry, Dave Mason, Spencer Davis, Tico Torres, Dan Aykroyd, James Belushi, The Ventures, George Thorogood, Robin Gibb and in Romania with the band Holograf. After he attended a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony with Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band in 2004, Reed performed with The Ventures in 2008, and played at the Waldorf Astoria when the Ventures invite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Frost
Craig Frost (born April 20, 1948 in Flint, Michigan) is the keyboardist for Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band. He is also known as keyboardist for 1970s hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad. He plays organ, synthesizers, and piano. Frost expanded Grand Funk's "power trio" musical style, by adding another dimension to their music. Grand Funk scored its biggest hits after Frost joined the band in 1972, and his work is instantly recognizable on Grand Funk's #1 songs "The Loco-Motion" (a cover of Little Eva's hit) and "We're an American Band". He also contributed significantly to Grand Funk as a songwriter, in partnership with drummer Don Brewer. After the initial breakup of Grand Funk Railroad in 1977, Frost joined with former Grand Funk bandmates Don Brewer and bassist Mel Schacher to form the short-lived band 'Flint'. After the demise of Flint, Frost joined Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Robert Clark Seger ( ; born May 6, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami, Florida
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of municipalities in Florida, second-most populous city in Florida and the eleventh-most populous city in the Southeastern United States. The Miami metropolitan area is the ninth largest in the U.S. with a population of 6.138 million in 2020. The city has the List of tallest buildings in the United States#Cities with the most skyscrapers, third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over List of tallest buildings in Miami, 300 high-rises, 58 of which exceed . Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and international trade. Miami's metropolitan area is by far the largest urban econ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
