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Just a Singer is the fourth album by Lobo, released in 1974 on Big Tree Records. The album, along with A Cowboy Afraid of Horses, was reissued in 1997 by Rhino Records as a single issue. It contains covers of various hit songs. [1] The album peaked at No. 183 on the US Top LPs chart.
Roland Kent LaVoie (born July 31, 1943), better known by his stage name Lobo (which is Spanish for wolf), is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", "I'd Love You to Want Me", and "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend". [1]
A Cowboy Afraid of Horses is the fifth album by Lobo and his final album on Big Tree Records, released in 1975. The album, along with Just a Singer, was reissued in 1997 by Rhino Records as a single issue under the said title. [1] [2] The album peaked at No. 151 on the US Top LPs chart, becoming his final album to chart to date.
It was a hit for singer Lobo and was released as a single in 1979 from his self-titled album. [1] The song was Lobo's final Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at No. 23, and his fourth and final No. 1 song on the Adult Contemporary chart, which it topped for two weeks in September/October 1979. [2]
"Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend" is a song written and recorded by American singer Lobo that appears on his album Of a Simple Man. Released in 1972, the single peaked at No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was his third of four songs to top the Billboard Easy Listening chart, where it had a two-week stay at No. 1. [3]
Peter Yarrow, one third of the chart-topping 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary — which helped popularize Bob Dylan as the voice of a generation — co-writer of the song “Puff, the Magic ...
The "Puff, the Magic Dragon" songwriter's reputation took a hit when he pleaded guilty to taking indecent liberties with a 14-year-old in 1969; he later received a presidential pardon.
By Ryan Jones (Reuters) -American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on Tuesday at the age of 86, his publicist said.