“Katmandu” by Bob Seger

Bob Seger wrote "Katmandu" by himself and put it on Beautiful Loser, the 1975 Capitol album that kicked off his run of ten straight platinum records. He co-produced it with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, and the credits are stacked: Roger Hawkins on drums, David Hood on bass, Barry Beckett on piano and organ, and a horn section of Harrison Calloway, Charles Rose, Harvey Thompson and Ronald Eades muscling in on top, while Seger blows harmonica and works the slide guitar.

The single edit climbed to 43 in the US, the best a Seger single had done since "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man", and the tune refused to stay put. It came back on the Live Bullet concert album, then turned up in the 1985 film Mask, on Freaks and Geeks and Supernatural, and in the 2009 documentary Journey to Everest.

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