- 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.