"Night Moves"
Single by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
from the album Night Moves
Released	January 1977
Format	7-inch
Recorded	Toronto, 1976
Genre	Rock
Length	5:25
Label	Capitol Records
Writer(s)	Bob Seger
Producer(s)	Jack Richardson, Bob Seger
Chart positions
4 (U.S.)

"Night Moves" is a song written and performed by heartland rocker Bob Seger, from his 1976 album Night Moves. Released as a single, it began charting in early 1977, and eventually reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. In doing so, it almost singlehandedly turned Seger's career from being a popular regional favorite into a national star. Image File history File links Nocover. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Robert Clark Bob Seger (May 6, 1945-) was an important figure in American rock and roll and pop music in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues to be influential today. ... Night Moves is an album by American rock band Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music). ... 7 may mean: A seven-inch single gramophone record A seven-inch extended play (EP) gramophone record This number-oriented article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Rock and roll. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Robert Clark Bob Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician from Michigan, who after years of local Detroit-area success starting in the mid-1960s, achieved his greatest national success starting in the mid-1970s and extending into the 1980s. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Jack Richardson, C.M. (b. ... Robert Clark Bob Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician from Michigan, who after years of local Detroit-area success starting in the mid-1960s, achieved his greatest national success starting in the mid-1970s and extending into the 1980s. ... A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. ... In the late 1970s and 1980s, one of the most popular forms of rock and roll was heartland rock. ... Robert Clark Bob Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician from Michigan, who after years of local Detroit-area success starting in the mid-1960s, achieved his greatest national success starting in the mid-1970s and extending into the 1980s. ... Night Moves is an album by American rock band Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music). ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ...

Recorded by Seger and the Silver Bullet Band in Toronto, "Night Moves" is a mid-tempo number that starts quietly with acoustic guitar. Bass guitar and drums are introduced as the song's setting is described: 1962, cornfields, '60 Chevy. An intense summertime teenage affair is described, knowingly more sexual than romantic, with short instrumental lines breaking the evocative imagery sometimes in mid-sentence. Piano, female backing vocals, and organ are added as the song's emotional nostalgia builds momentum. Then suddenly it stops, as the narrative flashes forward to 15 or so years later. To a quiet acoustic guitar, the narrator, awakened by a clap of thunder and unable to fall back asleep, ponders a different sense of the title phrase. Then the rest of the instruments fall back in, for an extended coda vamp of the chorus. Robert Clark Bob Seger (born May 6, 1945) was an important figure in American rock and roll and pop music in the 1970s and 1980s, whose music continues to be influential today. ... Acoustic guitar can refer to the following musical instruments: Nylon and gut stringed guitars: Renaissance guitar Baroque guitar Romantic guitar Classical guitar, the modern version of the original guitar, with nylon strings Flamenco guitar Steel stringed guitars: Steel-string acoustic guitar, also known as western, folk or country guitar Twelve... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... “Corn” redirects here. ... Chevrolet (IPA: ʃɛv. ... A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... A backup vocalist is a vocalist that sings in harmony with the lead vocalist, with other backup vocalists, or alone but in the background of a song. ... Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany The organ is a keyboard instrument played using one or more manuals and a pedalboard. ... This article is about the narrative device. ... Thunder is the sound of the shockwave caused when lightning instantly heats the air around it to up to 30 000 °C (54 000 °F). ...

Music writer Samuel Delliance of The New York Post wrote in 1977, "'Night Moves' is supposed to take place in Michigan in the early 1960s, but it is timeless and placeless. You can be across the street from Kissena Park in Queens in the early evening with no one in sight and the song will suddenly flood your mind just as it did Seger's." In his 1979 volume Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island, famed rock critic Greil Marcus selected the single "Night Moves" for inclusion on same, writing simply: "The mystic chords of memory." The first edition of The New York Post of July 6, 2004 incorrectly declared that U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry would choose U.S. Representative Dick Gephardt to be his vice-presidential running mate that day (in reality, Kerry chose John Edwards). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. ... Greil Marcus is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. ...

"Night Moves" was named by Rolling Stone as Best Single of the Year for 1977. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll [1], Seger's only such selection. This article is about the magazine. ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at sunset. ...

Seger recorded a special version of "Night Moves" for the 1981 animated film American Pop. This version, with Seger's guitar replaced by a piano, has never been released on any album. Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... American Pop is a 1981 American animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi. ...

Links

• Night Moves lyrics at SegerBob.com