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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]
Lobo had two other smaller hits in the Netherlands, but remained a one-hit wonder elsewhere in Europe. Apart from his music career, Lobo was a physics teacher at a Dutch school until retiring in 2021. [4] Lobo died on 19 January 2025, at the age of 69. [5]
"How Can I Tell Her" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lobo, from his third studio album Calumet. The song reached No. 22 on the US Billboard Hot 100 [1] and No. 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart. [2]
Calumet is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Lobo, released in 1973 on Big Tree Records. It was reissued in 2008 by Wounded Bird Records and includes six bonus tracks. [1] [2] The album peaked at No. 128 on the US Top LPs chart. Two of its singles were top 30 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and top 5 hits on the Easy Listening ...
The song was Lobo's highest-charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent two weeks at No. 2 in November. [2] [3] The single was the second of four of his songs to hit No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart, where it had a one-week stay at that top spot in December 1972. [4] It became a gold record.
Lobo recalls: "I was working on several songs, including a tune about traveling around the country with this girl, and I was trying to rhyme 'you and me.' Now 'me and you' would have been easier, but I was trying to do it with proper grammar. I couldn’t find anything to rhyme that fit what I wanted to say in the song.
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.
Lobo (musician) (born 1943), Roland Kent LaVoie, American singer-songwriter; Lobo (wrestler) (born 1975), Joseph Eubanks, American professional wrestler; Lobo Ismail (born 1974), Jordanian singer; Mikel Lejarza (born 1947), code name "El Lobo", Spanish intelligence service operative; Mr. Lobo (born 1970), American horror host; Ranjit Singh Lobo ...