SHAME
ON THE MOON
BOB
SEGER
SONGWRITER: RODNEY CROWELL
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE DISTANCE
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1982
Robert Clark Seger (/ˈsiːɡər/; born May 6, 1945) is an
American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area
artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger
System throughout the 1960s, breaking through with his first album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man(which
contained his first
national hit of the same name) in
1968. By the early
1970s, he had dropped the 'System' from his recordings and continued to strive
for broader success with various other bands. In 1973,
he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area
musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the álbum
Live Bullet(1976),
recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in
Detroit, Michigan. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio álbum
Night Moves.
On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based
Muscle Shoals
Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of
Seger's best-selling singles and albums.
A roots rocker with a classic raspy, powerful voice, Seger wrote and recorded songs
that dealt with love, women, and blue-collar themes, and is an example of a heartland rock artist. He has recorded many hits, including "Night Moves",
"Turn the Page",
"Still the
Same", "We've Got Tonite",
"Against the
Wind", "You'll
Accomp'ny Me", "Hollywood Nights",
"Mainstreet", “Shame on the Moon",
"Like a Rock",
and "Shakedown",
the last of which was written for the 1987 film Beverly Hills Cop II and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He also co-wrote the Eagles'
number-one hit "Heartache Tonight",
and his recording of "Old Time Rock
and Roll" was named one of the Songs of the
Century in 2001.
With a career spanning six decades, Seger has
sold more than 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's
best-selling artists of all time. Seger
was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Songwriters
Hall of Fame in 2012. Seger was named Billboard's
2015 Legend of Live honoree at the 12th annual Billboard Touring
Conference & Awards, held November 18–19 at
the Roosevelt
Hotel in New York. He announced his farewell tour in
September 2018.
"Shame on the Moon" is a song
written by Rodney Crowell and first
recorded for his eponymous
1981 album. It was subsequently covered by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band,
as the lead single from their 1982 album The Distance.
Glenn Frey joins
Seger on background harmony vocals on the song. The song spent four weeks at
number two on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart (blocked from the top spot by Patti Austin and James Ingram's "Baby, Come to Me"
and by Michael Jackson's smash
hit "Billie Jean")
and topped the adult
contemporary chart. The song also went to number
15 on the country chart in early
1983, marking Seger's only Top 40 entry on that chart. Tanya Tucker also
covered the song, for her 1983 album Changes.
Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that "his
trademark acoustic guitar sets the tone, followed by an easygoing vocal and
loping rhythm."
Speaking
with Creem in 1983, Seger said: "It's more like a western song - a cowboy
song - than it is a country & western song. And the track is flawless, the
best and tightest track on the album. We cut it in like two hours, and everyone
decided it was the miracle track. But then we had to decide whether to use it
or not because The Distance was going to be a real rock album. I
purposely didn't write any medium-tempo songs for this one because I wanted it
to be hard rocking with a few ballads for pacing. But we figured we'd throw it
on and see what happened. The next thing we know, the Capitol guys are saying,
'That's the single!' (laughs) Fine! Whatever it takes! So thank you, Rodney. It's
a great song, and I'm beholden to the lad for writing it."
Until you've been
beside a man
You don't know what he wants
You don't know if he cries at night
You don't know if he don't
When nothin' comes
easy
Old nightmares are real
Until you've been beside a man
You don't know how he feels
Once inside a woman's
heart
A man must keep his head
Heaven opens up the door
Where angels fear to tread
Some men go crazy
Some men go slow
Some men go just where they want
Some men never go
Oh, blame it on Midnight
Ooh, shame on the moon
Everywhere it's all
around
Comfort in a crowd
Strangers faces all around
Laughin' right out loud
Hey, watch where
you're goin'
Step light on old toes
'Cause until you've been beside a man
You don't know who he knows
Oh, blame it on midnight
Ooh, shame on the moon
Oh, blame it on midnight
Ooh, shame on the moon
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Blame it on midnight
You can blame it on midnight
Shame, shame, shame, shame on the moon
You can blame it on midnight
Shame on the moon
Blame it on the moon.
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