Album:
The song is on Night Moves which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 28 February 1977 and peaked at #13.
Songwriter:
Bob Seger
Producers:
Bob Seger, Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
Record label of Australian release:
Capitol
Live in 1980:
Songfacts:
Seger wrote Mainstreet about his high school years in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The song explores the promise of youth, and what Seger calls his “awakening” after being a quiet, awkward kid for most of his youth.
Seger recorded this song at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama. The studio was owned by four of the guys who played on the track: David Hood (bass), Jimmy Johnson (rhythm guitar), Roger Hawkins (drums) and Barry Beckett (keyboards). The lead guitarist on the session was Pete Carr.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/bob-seger/mainstreet
Lyrics:
I remember standin′ on the corner at midnight
Tryin’ to get my courage up
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown
Loved to watch her do her stuff
Through the long lonely nights
She filled my sleep
Her body softly swayin′
To that smokey beat
Down on mainstreet
Down on mainstreet
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