Rock Legend Had 17 STRAIGHT FLOPS… This B-Side” Took ‘em to the Top of the Charts!—Professor of Rock

Bob Seger had been a regional sensation for over a decade but when it was all said and done he had only had one hit in 15 years and by 1976 it had been 8 years since that hit. He couldn’t seem to break through. Well, one night after seeing a popular film of the time he started to have a vision for a song. the 70s rock classic NIGHT MOVES was a very emotional and private experience from his adolescence and sometime later he wrote it at an A&W Drive-in after ordering a burger.. rumor is he wrote it on his tab… He wrote it about a teenage tryst. She ended up marrying somebody else and broke his heart but he turned it into a breakthrough smash single, transforming him into one of American Rock’s greatest rock storytellers. and to think due to a mix-up at his label it almost ended up being a b side… The story is next on Professor of rock

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It’s time for another episode of our series #1 in our Hearts where we discuss a song that was so grand, it should’ve been a number-one hit on the billboard hot 100

Bob Seger watched the beloved "coming of age" movie American Graffiti in 1973. One of the biggest box office hits of that year. As he was leaving the theater, he was overwhelmed with a spirit of nostalgia. Bob loved the imagery of the car culture of the 60s depicted in American Graffiti, an era when ‘cruising’ down a main drag was THEE way to connect with your friends and hook up with members of the opposite sex.

The movie fueled a burning desire in Bob to tell his story of growing up in southeast Michigan and share the private experience of a teenage tryst he had with a black-haired beauty who had big dark eyes. Bob was 19… she was 20. The tale of Seger’s first carnal relationship, and his first broken heart, was immortalized in a breakthrough composition that Bob called “Night Moves.”

Inspired by descriptive imagery projected by Kris Kristofferson in his ’69 opus “Me and Bobby McGee,” Seger recalled his fondest memories that captured the “freedom and looseness” of adolescence. By the end of high school, Bob was running with a rougher crowd, because of his status as a musician. Everybody wanted to be his buddy.

The group of friends that he socialized with would often have parties they called “grassers”, which entailed driving to a farmer’s field outside of their native Ann Arbor- where they would park their cars, and turn on the headlights to dance their “night moves.”

Bob met the object of his desire at one of those sweet summertime “grassers.” According to the Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, the woman’s name was Rene Andretti. Bob & Rene began a heated romantic relationship, although Rene had a serious boyfriend who was away from home- working in the military.