Posted on 09/10/2018 5:37:00 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Lobo's real name was Kent LaVoie. He changed it to Lobo for show business reasons. Can you blame him for that? Anyway, he is still alive today, in fact thriving, at the age of 75 - which is the new 55 or so they say.
I don't know much about Kent's (Lobo's) personal life but he seems like a cool guy to hang around with. His very first hit, way back in 1971, is about hitting the open road with a girl and a dog - and a car that runs poorly. It's a forgotten song now but back in the day, this got a lot of radio plays. It hit #5 on the Hot 100 Billboard charts here in the U.S. and was a #4 song over in England.
Get this. "Me And You And A Dog Named Boo" was covered by The Brady Bunch. I will spare you the link to that horribly mangled rendition but it is out there if you care to do a search on it. Now The Partridge Family could sing. But The Brady Bunch could not. However, back in the day, if you were a family with a TV show, you sang, whether it was right or wrong.
Now back to Lobo (Kent LaVoie). He was born in Tallahassee, FL back in 1943 to a woman who moved shortly thereafter to Winter Haven where she raised that boy into a man. In 1961, when he was barely 18, he was in a local Winter Haven band that featured Gram Parsons and Jim Stafford! Now that's some trivia for you.
Kent sort of spent most of the 1960s piddling around Florida doing this and that as he honed his musical skills. It was in 1971 when he decided to change his name to Lobo (as Casey Kasem would say "He calls himself Lobo and he's at number 15 with a bullet this week") and almost immediately rocketed to fame with this here song.
"Me And You And A Dog Named Boo" is absolutely a pop gem and a very happy, optimistic song from a simpler time. When I was coming of age, I wanted myself to jump into a poorly running car with my dog, meet up with some girl, and hit the highway without a care in the world.
I should have done it!
I remember to this day
The bright red Georgia clay...
Oh, how I could visualize that when I was in Thailand in 1972.
I think that a lot of people remember this song. I would not call it forgotten.
I remember this song well. Hitting the road with a pretty girl would have been A-OK with me, with or without a dog.
Short story...
Before Dan Patrick had jobs at CNN, ESPN and began his own show network, he was on the radio at University of Dayton (WVUD) and later on a local rock station (WTUE) as the news/sports guy with his morning DJ partner.
He was known as Dan Pew here in Dayton.
Often when he did his bit, the DJ would play “Me And You And A Dog Named Boo” and both would sing the chorus but replace “Boo” with “Pew”.
I know this song primarily from the “Brady Kids” cover of it. It doesn’t get any more than ‘70s than that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MBm-KsTjKE
One of my favorites. Can’t count the number of times I’ve had to correct people who think the dogs name is Blue.
Pick em. I’d take the dog if it was a choice - the car too if it was one of them Hemi ‘Cuda’s. Got no use for some complaining, special needs female.
Bums were lucky old MacDonald didn’t shoot them and use them for fertilizer.
Nice tune though.
About that time met a girl. She moved off to Texas. Later I jumped in an old car with a cat named Momma and hit the road to catch up to her (that car ran great). Caught up to her and we’ve been together ever since. Probably heard that song a few times on the way.
I kind of remember it being on the country stations.
You are right, I used to think it was BLUE!
Are you picking up on my vibe? I was singing this song a few days ago for a few days and I don’t know why. I kept wonder who it was that sang it. I must have sent my question out to the universe and you picked it up. Thanks for supplying the answer. lol ;)
I loved that song when I was young (9 years old at the time.) It was in heavy rotation on the AM radio station to which I listened.
Mark
I love you too much to ever start likin’ you..now that’s a cool tune!
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