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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]
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.
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.
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.
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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 ...
Lobo explained that she responded in a normal tone of voice and volume. Despite not yelling, that prompted a response that surprised the UConn star and WNBA All-Star as she recapped the incident ...