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  • robert plant could never match this version even though he is considered one of the great voices, which i do think he is but this is just too dam good! :)

  • I've heard this song and i still like Waylon Jennings the best, i like Bobs singin but can,t stand all that organ music.I always thought Bob Segar was the best Rock singer ever. what a voice and wrote songs that will be played forever. I'm glad he findly made the hall of fame. What took so long? He should have been 25 years ago, i thought they were waiting 4 him to die. I rate this song A++++++++++++

  • This is the best rendition of this song, thank you brother Bob.

  • I just seen him and he was AWESOME, If you get a chance to see him in concert, do it. What impressed me more than anything was, he appreciated his band and the fans. He would thank everyone after each song.

  • 5*

  • I am a carpenter and a union one at that.My wife still loves me !!!

  • I am just praying he does another tour. If anyone knows anything...email me at lukdg@aol.com...subject Seger..thanks.

  • @TheLukdog He is on tour right now :) Check his tour dates. maybe he will be some place close to you soon.

  • @TheLukdog ANOTHER TOUR? This is it. See him while you can. I saw him at Staples in December. Only my 2nd show for my favorite performer. And it rocked!

    PS. Yes, what took the hall of fame so long? Bob is definately legendary!

  • best version ever!!! one of THE greatest vocals on any song, ever! 5 people are obviously fuckin idiots beyond comprehension!

  • Absolutly Outstanding,,,

  • I remember going to Livonia Youth Incorporated dances in the mid 60's. Bob Segar was a regular and everyone who heard his sound and danced the night away knew he was gonna make it big time. Without a doubt, he's the biggest music name Detroit ever produced.

  • magical! nuthin more to add!

  • bellissimaaaa!!

  • Just proves how timeless real talent is.

  • @TheSupergpop couldn't have said it better!!

  • now thats singing

  • GOD I LOVE SEGER.

  • Bob is the Best!

  • I've loved Bob since circa 1970. Also, I agree w/bigolyd 100%; and Springsteen is not in his class, either (or even close)!

  • my son is dancing next to me with this song right now!!!lol he is 3 y.o!!

  • The live version is better,one of the best live songs I've ever heard.

    

  • This sounds best by Bobby Darin,though this sounds good too.I love Bob Seger.He gave me a Baseball cap,while we were standing in line at Two Guys from Italy's Pizza,in Hollywood,years ago.It said on the front of it:Peppermint Patty. I said he had a cool hat,and he said yeah,but it would look better on me.And,then he sat it on my head. Lol! This was in the 70's.(I just aged myself,....Oops!)

  • @ChimeraAZ

    That is too cool!!! Thanks for sharing that story! :-)

  • An unbelievable talent!

  • Powerful version of this classic Tim Hardin song. Rock on, Bob!

  • Just saw Bob and his Bullets last Friday night. Even at 66 he had 12,000 people singing and dancing in the aisles! Never stop touring Bob, and telling your stories of life on the road.

  • He still puts on stand-on-your feet the whole two-hours live shows. The Silver Bullet Band is the best touring unit on the planet. ;-)

  • having a drink and listenning to this: im in heaven

  • SUPER SONG

  • Smokin' OP's is a masterpiece. Seger rocks like crazy from cutwater to wake. If all you've ever heard is Turn The Page, Against The Wind et al, you will be overwhelmed by Smokin' OP's. Granted, it's a cover album, but what a cover album.

  • This is good. No, this is very good. No its absolutely brilliant.

  • Is there a song that Bob Seger can't make his own? He truly is an american legend. God Bless you Bob. Thank you.

  • Lots of different artists have covered this song,but I think this is my favorite version.

  • @georgiajody U BET 

  • pisses over springsteen vocally ,to think dylan came higher than bob seger in a100great vocallists always makes me laugh

  • Oh what emotion, what true gut-wrenching singing! I have followed Bob Seger since the late 60's (Ramblin, Gamblin Man) and there is not a singer anywhere who can touch him. Toss in the Silver Bullet Band and one gets perfection. He's still out there singing and sounds great. About the only other person I would pay to see these days besides Bob Seger is Delbert McClinton. Wow--I love this song!!!! Thanks for posting.

  • This version brought me to my knees.

  • One of the best singers I've ever heard in my life,no doubt about it. A true original.

  • all that matters is the music. If it moves you than your all good. People move in different ways

  • hey,dishlike guy?dont you see you are alone???lol..sad!!!

  • jesus christ what a voice!

  • A true AMERICAN icon. Thank you for sharing...I forgot how g-damn good this version was...and Bob, thank you most of all. Your music still brings me joy!

  • 236 likes... and one idiot.

  • Seger was such a good looking man back in the day!!!!

  • @quitchawhining You know it, friend. What a man!!!!!!!

  • I think the improvised lyrics work really well, and I'm buying this album, having never really come across Mr Seger before. The Bobby Darin acoustic version is still my all time favourite though. Must be one of the most covered numbers in history.

  • I adore Robert Plant and absolutely love his version of this song. But I gotta go with Bob Seger with this version. He just owns it for me. Nothing against Plant, but Seger's souls shines in this one. But love both singers.

  • @Jebbi1956 I agree that he owns it. Seger just has that soulful voice and still does. I just love to listen to him....

  • @Jebbi1956 Agree 100%!!! Plant is excellent but Seger masters this one!!! Full of soul and heart!!!

  • This song rolls me away, convinced the death!!

  • i embed you bob seeger for life

    

  • WoW O-O!!

  • great version but to say that Seger is a better singer than Plant.?...come on! listen to Plants version again or anything else by him!

  • @pocahontas0366 Seger is great i have almost every album he made, yes better than Plant but theres one cat out there that was as good if not better. Ronnie Van Zant original Lynyrd Skynyrd 70s. Dont rip me up to bad for this just my opinion. Love Seger but RVZ is the man.

  • @pocahontas0366 Terrific version, to be true. If you like this version, give the Small Faces version a listen. Very reminiscent of Robert Plant ... actually better. It's like this one, raw, stripped down, authentic, and VERY cool. Give it a listen and tell me what you think. I discover more music on this site than anywhere else/

  • Never heard Bob sing this song before, he does a great job.

    I think he was as best when he did the rockin´ songs.

  • Notável esta música,interpretação perfeita!!

  • This is soul music - genuine

  • Bob totally rocks on this one~amazingly powerful vocals!!

    Love this guy!! :D

  • O.P.'s: Other People's (bumming a cigarette, might be a Detroit phrase, I was born in D-T)

  • Wow, I'm always constantly finding out stuff I've never known before, thank you OP. Believe you me, I really, really appreciate this. Thank you.

  • didn't know till i went to Plant that bob did this one as well! hallelujah! great song great men!

  • i've never really listened to either of them but sounds like seger's voice was a major influence on eddie vedder

  • Bob's cover of this song is smoking hot! I saw him in concert with a band called Brown Ghost in 1983 at a smaller, outside venue near Chicago with my best frind, Jim. J. T. Vincent....are you out there, James?

  • Bob was and still today a bad ass, Love his music.

  • This is one of the great rock n roll songs of all time....the arrangement with Teagarden & Van Winkle stands the test of time. Seger's vocal and Skip's B3 just blow the lid off of what was originally a folk song. This is Detroit rock at its best.

  • ܡܘܢ ܒܣܝܡܬܐܝܐ!!!!

  • I was right behind you judecreek

  • Long live the Small Faces. GREAT song.

  • All the "music" writers always rate Robert Plant as the greatest hard rock voice ever. Evidently they never heard of Bob Segar either. I think Plant is great, but he ain't even in Seger's league. Out of all the great characteristics of his voice, tone, key, incredible volume and power, his greatest ability may be his timing. On par with Elvis there.

  • @bigolyd Solid.

  • @bigolyd you may not know it but Bon Scott is rated higher than Plant. Of course I am speaking only of ACDC with Bon. The newer stuff is not worthy. Sad. Steve Marriot's version of If I were a Carpenter( Small Faces) has a lot of energy and emotion. But I agree, Bob did a good job. Seems like all the good singers are from the 60s and 70s- some 80s then fizzeled and became hard to find any one with talent b/c of the idiotic music industry. You have great taste!

  • @bigolyd I totally agree. Plant has a great voice but Seger just has "it". You can just feel the passion in his voice. Always been one of my favorite singer and songwriters.

  • @bigolyd Daltrey and Segar

  • A one in a million singer/songwriter like this is what really makes dumbass shows like American idol suck so bad. Talentless idiots vocalizing to tracks, make a big load of cash in less than a year. Meanwhile, it takes Seger 15 years for people to discover him. This country is nuts. This song in itself is unbelievable, it is hard to find a truly bad version. I especially love Johnny and June's version. Even though Seger improvises the lyrics a little, this version is out of this world.

  • @bigolyd Amrerican Idol,a spin off of Brit Idol,is totaly backwards .They find talent to give them instant fame and tell them to hit the road for tours..

  • @bigolyd You read my mind. I watched Carrie Underwood sing "Go your own way" with Lindsey Buckingham here earlier and thought exactly what you posted. The sound of Bob Seger flushing a toilet sounds better than anyone from American Idol.

  • @bigolyd Yes, he was our (Detroit's) own secret for a very long time! He kept at it because he loved it, and when he finally hit it big he was almost 30 yrs old. He'd been on the road a long time. As a songwriter, I just can't imagine who has written more intimate, rocking, soulful songs than Seger. He is a blue collar guy and that's what we love about him. He's been there and remembers....

  • @bigolyd Many of us were blessed to "discover" Bob Seger from his first album.  I lived in Central Florida and all of us rockers knew the great rocker from Michigan -- saw him in concert many, many times

  • @bigolyd Well said!

  • Such a different version than Darin, Hardin, etc. I love this song, thank you for posting, I had no idea he sang it!

  • One of the true gentlemen of the music industry and an absolute legend

  • @tank1964864 I agree~this song just blows me away! Bob is a living legend!

  • Thank you for posting this song - I have never heard it before but, have loved Bob Seger for 32 years. Ever since (I was 11) my older brother brought home the Stranger in Town album. It was not until I was 18 that I got to see him in concert at Saratoga. I cried the entire time. It was awesome. I sooo wanted to be his wife. Silly girl!

  • Love Bob Seger

  • As a Hammond organ musician, this song blows me away. A wailing B-3.

  • Gorgeous...want..want.want....­MORE.

  • If you can believe it, the entire album ''Smokin' O.P.'s" was recorded in the basement of a bowling alley, Pampa Lanes in Warren, MI. It had Skip Teagarden on organ and Alice Cooper's guitarist Michael Bruce on it. Best version of this song by far.

  • Amazing the memories this brings back! First heard Seger when he was still just a kid at a high school dance in GrandBlanc, MI. Have been following the man ever since. My concert journey's include stops at Sherwood Forest, Bay City Central High School, Cobo Arena . . . and I still have a guitar pick he handed me when I saw him at Sherwood Forest way back in '71. Will see him at Dow Arena at the end of this month.  The man STILL rocks! Thanks for sharing this!

  • @GrannieSallie - we saw him at Dow in Saginaw, too! Still amazing after all these years. I don't have the history "with him" that you do, but have always loves his music!

  • Bob and Steve Marriotte have this one all the way !

  • I once checked my record collection for all the Motown stuff and what I found between the thousends of soul records - this one from Bob Seeger. I think I bought it more than 40 years ago, because there is this tune on, which I liked most of the Four Tops.

    Nice to hear this version now here - so fresh and nice. Not listened to it since 1972...

  • Used to see him in the early 70's just outside of Flint at an outdoor Concert venue called " Sherwood Forrest."

  • Growing up in Detroit, Bob Seger was a mainstay in rock. He played more shows in Detroit than anywhere and I saw many of them. I was lucky enough to be 16 and sitting 18 rows from the stage during the taping of "Live Bullet" at Coco Hall. Still one of my favorite memories of my teens.

  • This goes to show the chumps out there that BOB did a hellava lot more than,Turn the page,Old time rock'n'roll,or your favorite lame,bar band overplayed tunehere and you know the tunes I'm talkin 'bout

  • Robert Plant all the way!

  • @wackee08 Never liked PLANTS voice.....too "nasal" and "whiney".

  • My favorite version of this tune!

  • Good one, but nothing compares to Bobby Darin's version from 1966

  • I'ts good but no as the Small Faces

  • Seger could take Baba O'riely and make it his own. Not serious, but it makes my point :)

  • @newfiecarolyn9 there are all kinds of carptners in my family i carryied jenny back then my kids and i prayed every night for you and jenny

  • In my opinion, the best version of this great tune!

  • @wolverine84 I agree!!

  • OMFG!  This is great!!!

  • The only version I think that can compare is Leon Russel's version on Carney.

  • I saw him do this live around '74....He quit doing it when he got famous again.

  • Segar is the man on vocals! first time ive heard him singin' this one...the man can sing

  • WOW !!!

  • Bob Rocks!

  • Blown away by this... Have played it 10 times in the last 24 hours...the Hammond organ is truly inspirational...

  • @mdh4747, This was back when Seger's music was organic. It's amazing how certain songs, like this, can inspire dozens of different artists to record their own versions of it over the course of 30 years.

  • i wish i was born back inj the 60's so i could enjoy all of this shit live

  • Hard to compare to Tim Hardin's original...very different style. The original brings out the story more and the true feeling (as did Bobby Darin's) but this is Bob Seger all the way. Awesome interpretation. Seger has a great rock voice...one of the best.

  • I have to agree w anyone who thinks this the best version. I'll be bold and say that its better than Tim Hardins original.

  • More memories! 1972

  • thanks for the memories

  • :o) Leslie (o; love to thee ;o)(o;

  • incredibimente favoloso...5*****

  • I thought no-one was ever going to post this phenomenal verion of this song on youtube - thank you so much! It's a killer version, mainly due to Skip Knape's fabulous organ (if you'll pardon the expression!) Who needs a lead guitar when you can play organ like that? - so solid on the left hand and so bluesy on the right! In the same league as the Animals' "House Of The Rising Sun". I'm excited!

  • Bravo Samire!!!!!!

  • I just happened upon this version and I must say it's probably the best of all of them? and that's saying a lot, because I thought the Four Tops was the best until now.

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