Jerry Masters, who was a recording engineer at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, told the story: "We cut a demo of "Old Time Rock and Roll" on the writer of the song, George Jackson (Jackson-Jones), there at the studio when we didn't have anything else to do. It was a great demo, along with some others we cut that day. Bob Seger liked the song so much he tried to cut it himself, but after numerous tries, with the Swampers and with his band, he finally gave up.

He and Punch Andrews decided to buy the demo track from us and put his vocal on it, and that ended up being the record. It's a classic. (SongFacts). "Old Time Rock and Roll" hit in 1979 and was featured in the Tom Cruise film Risky Business.