ITEM: In the last seven years, Bob Seger has had ten top ten records in Detroit.

ITEM: Of those ten, three have sold over 50,000 copies.

ITEM: One of them, “Heavy Music,” sold 66,000 copies in Detroit alone, despite the company which issued it folding just as it was breaking into the national charts. (“Heavy Music” still is a steady seller in Detroit.)

ITEM: In November of 1969, when the largest anti-war demonstrations were held, disc jockeys all over the country began to play a (then) two year old Seger single called “2+2=?” Sales zoomed but the new record company was too slow to reissue it.

ITEM: Of all the records Seger has had, not one of them has reached any higher than 17 in the national charts.

ITEM: Never has a Seger single been played in San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York.

QUESTION: If Bob Seger is as good as everyone who’s heard him agrees he is, why haven’t you ever heard of him?