Doug Riley played the piano and organ on Bob Seger’s 1976 song ‘Night Moves’. Called in at the last minute during recording in Toronto, the Canadian musician helped elevate Seger’s autobiographical coming-of-age story into a fuller, more memorable arrangement.

Seger wrote the song over six months, drawing on a teenage romance and the rural parties he attended in the early 1960s. Riley, an experienced pianist, organist and arranger who had worked with Ray Charles, joined guitarist Joe Miquelon to complete the track in fewer than ten takes. Although Seger’s management initially doubted its potential, Capitol released it as the lead single and it reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100.