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Old Time Rock and Roll" is a song written by George Jackson and Thomas E. Jones III, with uncredited lyrics by Bob Seger. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was recorded by Seger for his tenth studio album Stranger in Town .
George Henry Jackson (March 12, 1945 – April 14, 2013) was an American blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll/rock and soul singer-songwriter. His prominence was as a prolific and skilled songwriter: he wrote or co-wrote many hit songs for other musicians, including "Down Home Blues", "One Bad Apple", "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "The Only Way Is Up".
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It originated from African American music such as jazz , rhythm and blues , boogie-woogie , electric blues , gospel , and jump blues , [ 3 ] as well as ...
HBTV (Hanna-Barbera Television) is a series of animated music videos created by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1985 and 1986 featuring clips from various animated Hanna-Barbera programmes. The animated videos were similar to Disney 's D-TV and MTV and were originally broadcast as interstitials between segments of the syndicated programming block ...
"Night Moves" was named by Rolling Stone as Best Single of the Year for 1977 and was included in their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at No. 301. [30] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, [31] Seger's only such selection.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic writes in his interview, "These 12 tracks casually illustrate her facility with both soft rock and old-time rock & roll, and if the set list leans heavily on oldies, the combination of guts and polish makes her renditions memorable." [1]
His most recognizable performances include the saxophone introduction to "Turn the Page" [5] 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 ...
Rock 'n' Roll is the fifth and final solo studio album by English musician John Lennon. Released in February 1975, it is an album of rock and roll songs from the late 1950s and early 1960s as covered by Lennon.