“Shakedown” by Bob Seger

Bob Seger's "Shakedown" roared out of the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack in 1987, a slick slab of pop rock. The music came from Harold Faltermeyer, who also scored the film, and Keith Forsey, with Seger writing the words.

It paid off like no other Seger single. The song went to No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Cash Box Top 100, the only time he got that far on either, and it spent four weeks on top of the Album Rock Tracks chart, his second No. 1 there. Canada's RPM 100 had it at No. 1 as well. In 1988 it was up for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song, losing both to Dirty Dancing's "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", and Little Richard performed it at the 60th Academy Awards.

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