1 - Persecution Smith [A side 1966 HideOut 1014]
2 - Chain smokin' [B side 1966 HideOut 1014]
3 - East side story [A side 1966 HideOut 1013]
4 - Vagrant Winter [A side 1967 Cameo 743]
5 - Ballad of the Yellow Beret [A side 1966 Are You Kidding Me Records 1010]
6 - Heavy Music,part 1 [A side 1967 Cameo 494]
7 - Sock it to me Santa [A side 1966 Cameo 444]
8 - Florida time [B side 1966 Cameo 444]
9 - East side sound [B side 1966 HideOut 1013]
10 - Very few [B side 1967 Cameo 743]
11 - Looking back [B side 1966 Are You Kidding Me Records 1010]
12 - Heavy music part 2 [A side 1967 Cameo 494]
In 1966 Seger left Brown's group but retained him as a producer. As Bob Seger and the Last Heard,Seger had his first big Detroit hit with "East Side Story",which sold 50,000 copies,mostly in the Detroit area and led to a contract with Cameo-Parkway Records.Another of Seger's biggest early hit singles locally was "Heavy Music" in 1967,which sold even more copies and had potential to break out nationally when Cameo-Parkway went out of business .Nevertheless,"Heavy Music" would stay in his live act for many years to come.Bob Seger began his musical career in 1961 in Detroit as a member of The Decibels,where he first met his future manager and record producer,Punch Andrews.Seger returned to Ann Arbor where he played with The Town Criers and then Doug Brown and the Omens.With them,he released his first single in 1965 for the local Hideout Records label.In 1966 Seger sang on Doug Brown and the Omens' parody of Barry Sadler's song "Ballad of the Green Berets" which was re-titled "Ballad of the Yellow Beret" and mocked draft dodgers.Soon after its release Sadler and his record label threatened Brown and his band with a lawsuit and the recording was withdrawn from the market.
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