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  • Writer: Bob Seger
  • Producers: Bob Seger and Ed “Punch” Andrews
  • Recorded: 1977 at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida
  • Released: 1978
  • Players:
    Bob Seger — vocal, piano, acoustic guitar
    Chris Campbell — bass
    David Teegarden — drums
    Robyn Robbins — organ
    Venetta Fields, Clyde King, Shirley Matthews — backing vocals
  • Appears on: Stranger In Town (Capitol, 1978)
  • Also on: Greatest Hits (Capitol, 1994)
  • “Still The Same” was the first single from the Stranger In Town album.
  • It peaked at Number Four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July 1978.
  • The Stranger In Town album peaked at Number Four on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold more than five million copies.
  • There was a song titled “Stranger In Town,” but Bob Seger chose not to put it on the album, and it remains unreleased.
  • Seger says the subject of “Still The Same” is actually “an amalgamation of characters I met when I first went to Hollywood — all Type A personalities, overachieving, driven. It was another great reason to base out of Michigan.”
  • Of recording the song, he says, “It was just Chris Campbell, David Teegarden, and me in the studio when we cut this.”
  • The song was also one of keyboardist Robyn Robbins‘s last performances with the Silver Bullet Band. Grand Funk Railroad member Craig Frost later replaced him.

FAST FORWARD:

  • In recent years, Seger has been concentrating on sailing. He captained his yacht Lightning to consecutive Bacardi Bayview Mackinac (pronounced MACK-in-awe) Race championships in 2001 and 2002.
  • Seger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.