I mean, "Night Moves?" I like the song but it just doesn't work there. Such a shame because before that that whole scene in the studio felt like it was building up to something big.
I read the director wanted to use "Free Bird" instead. Not sure how that would've worked but picturing the final montage set to Free Bird seems a lot more fitting.
See, I feel the director heard the question wrong, or got it mixed up himself. Night Moves makes perfect sense in the content of the story and also the timeline of the music.
What I THINK Ralph Bakshi meant to say was that Blue Suede Shoes was not the song he wanted to use, but rather Freebird.
I posted a longer winded theory and explanation elsewhere, but BSS is from the 50's and 60.s, depending on what version youre going with, it makes little sense to go from Night Moves or (as some theorize) Free Bird, which are from the 80's to BSS. Given that all the other songs show the progression of music, I dont see why you would end the movie with a song that goes backwards.
Also, I really take issue with people who say Night Moves doesnt fit.
"Out past the cornfields, where the woods got heavy"
recall that monologue with Tony when he's droning on and on about corn
"Out in the back seat, of my 60 chevy"
bit of a stretch here, but I'd imagine the car Tony stole in the beginning of his segment was a 60 Chevy
"She was a black haired beauty with big dark eyes"
now we're over to Pete's stuff here, that girl he was living with.
It just seems like Night Moves was 100% intended to be the song used for that scene, too many references to scenes in the movie to be coincidental.
I have no doubt Bakshi wanted Freebird, I just think he wanted that instead of Blue Suede Shoes instead.