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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 first major hit for the label, it reached No. 5 in the US and No. 4 in the UK by May, launching a successful series of singles. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc in September 1971. [3] His debut album, Introducing Lobo, came in May 1971. In June his second single, "She Didn't Do Magic", was released.
"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 ]
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.
Introducing Lobo is the debut album by Lobo, released in 1971 on Big Tree Records. [1] [2] The album peaked at #178 on the Billboard 200 in its first release. It was re-released in 1973 and peaked at #163 on the same chart. "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming his first top 40 hit.
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]
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.
The album featured selections composed by Lobo, including "Let Me Down Easy", which was originally issued only as an album track on the project. [1] The album was produced by Phil Gernhard was released on Big Tree Records in October 1972 as a vinyl LP .