“Old Time Rock and Roll” by Bob Seger

Bob Seger cut "Old Time Rock and Roll" for Stranger in Town, his tenth studio album, in 1978, and Capitol sent it out as a single the next year. George Jackson and Thomas E. Jones III got the songwriting credit, though Seger supplied lyrics of his own without putting his name on them. It's a sentimental, stomping look back at the records of rock and roll's first wave, sung with total conviction.

Then Hollywood got hold of it. Its turn in the 1983 film Risky Business gave it a second life that never ended: the Amusement & Music Operators Association ranked it number 2 among the top jukebox singles of all time in 1996, it made the Songs of the Century list in 2001, and the American Film Institute placed it at 100 in its 2004 poll of the great songs in American movies.

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