Artist: Lobo
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Asian moon
Year: 1994
Tracks: 21
The Best of Lobo
Year: 1990
Tracks: 18
Just A Singer
Year: 1974
Tracks: 10
Best remembered for soft-rock perennials like "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" and "I'd Love You to Want Me," Lobo was the assumed name of singer/songwriter Roland Kent LaVoie, born July 31, 1943 in Tallahassee, FL. At 17 he joined the Rumors, whose ranks also included future luminaries like country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons, country-pop compartmentalise Jim Stafford, and illustrious drummer Jon Corneal. From at that place LaVoie accompanied the University of South Florida, connection the Sugar Beats and fashioning his recorded debut on their 1964 single "What Am I Doing Here?" Although the group proved passing, it inaugurated a protracted collaborationism between LaVoie and bandmate Phil Gernhard, world Health Organization would later bring forth all of Lobo's hits; together they besides helmed the Jim Stafford favorites "Spiders & Snakes" and "Wildwood Weed." Stints in the Little-Known Uglies and Me & the Other Guys followed earlier LaVoie issued his debut solo single, "Happy Days in New York City," in 1969. Two age later, he recorded "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo"; detection the song's hit potentiality -- but besides wary of succumbing to one-hit-wonder freshness position -- he adopted the Lobo soubriquet, and after the single cracked the Top Five in the spring of 1971, many fictitious the record was the product of a group and non a solo pretend. The album Introducing Lobo also yielded the minor hits "I'm the Only One" and "California Kid."
Whatever his original intentions, LaVoie maintained the Lobo assumed name for the follow-up, 1972's Of a Simple Man, and the gambit worked; the album scored his biggest chart hit, "I'd Love You to Want Me," as well as another Top Ten smash, "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend." With 1973's Peace pipe, Lobo earned threesome more than Top 40 hits: "It Sure Took a Long, Long Time," "How Can I Tell Her," and "Standing at the End of the Line." However, outside of "Don't Tell Me Goodnight" from the 1975 LP A Cowboy Afraid of Horses, LaVoie's commercial momentum dissolute as the decennary continued, and subsequently notching a number 23 impinge on in 1979 with "Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love," his chart run was over. After a scant remain at Elektra, in 1981 he formed his have label, Lobo Records (after rechristened Evergreen), cathartic a series of little-noticed singles before self-effacing from acting in 1985. Lobo returned to responsibility in 1989 with the Taiwanese acquittance Am I Going Crazy; his popularity in the Far East is inactive strong. In 1995 he signed to the Singapore-based Pony Canyon imprint for a number of new LPs, including Asian Moon, Sometimes, and You Must Remember This.
