Album · Bob Seger
Back in ’72 by Bob Seger
Back in ’72 is an album by Bob Seger, released in 1973. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 83 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Turn the Page”, on 72 lists and voted number one once.
Back in '72, Bob Seger's sixth studio album, came out in 1973 as the first new record on Palladium, the label run by his manager Punch Andrews, who also produced it, with distribution through the Reprise arm of Warner Bros. It catches Seger after he'd dropped the System from his name and before the Silver Bullet Band, which he put together that same year: a Detroit rock and roller with a raspy, bruised voice, still scrapping for a national audience.
The song that outlived everything else on it is "Turn the Page", a slow, smoky ballad that rock radio has never let go of, and the Live Bullet version, cut at Cobo Arena in 1975, turns up on the countdowns too. The album itself is harder to find: it's one of three early Seger records that have never been reissued on CD.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Back in ’72 on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turn the Page#160 of all time | 72 | #1 | 1 | 1994–2026 | |
| 2 | Turn The Page (Live Bullet) | 8 | #4 | – | 2020–2025 | |
| 3 | Turn The Page (Live) | 3 | #5 | – | 2004–2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.