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Me and You and a Dog Named Boo

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"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo"
Single by Lobo
from the album Introducing Lobo
B-side"Walk Away From It All"
ReleasedMarch 1971
StudioElectric Lady Studios
Genre
Length2:53
LabelBig Tree
112
Songwriter(s)Kent LaVoie
Producer(s)Phil Gernhard
Lobo singles chronology
"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo"
(1971) 		"She Didn't Do Magic/I'm the Only One"
(1971)

"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" is the 1971 debut single by Lobo. Written by Lobo under his real name Kent LaVoie, it appears on the Introducing Lobo album.

Composition

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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. Finally, after I got back home to Florida, I decided to turn the phrase around to 'me and you.' I was thinking about it, sitting in a room that had a big sliding glass door overlooking the back yard. My big German Shepherd dog: Boo, came running around the corner and looked in at me. I said: 'Well, now, that’s kinda freaky. How about putting 'a dog named Boo’ into the song?” That’s literally how it came about. All of a sudden the song really started coming together. I hadn’t been to any of the places mentioned in the song except Georgia, but I just kept putting in places that sounded far away like Minneapolis and L.A."[3]

Impact

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The single peaked at number 5 on the Hot 100 and was the first of four of his songs to hit number 1 on the Easy Listening chart, where it had a two-week stay at that top spot in May 1971.[4] The song also reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1971[5] and spent four weeks at number 1 in New Zealand.[6]

Internationally, "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" was Lobo's second most successful song among more than 15 single releases, surpassed only by "I'd Love You to Want Me" the following year.

Chart history

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Cover versions

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  • Later in 1971, country artist Stonewall Jackson recorded the song, which was his final Top 40 hit on the US country chart, peaking at number 7.[19]
  • Perry Como recorded the song for his 1971 album I Think of You.[20]
  • In 1972, a version was sung by The Brady Kids in the episode "Who Was That Dog...?" on their Saturday morning cartoon show.
  • Agnes Chan recorded the song for her 1972 album Original I (A New Beginning).[21]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny (July 31, 1943). "Lobo | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  2. ^ a b Lanza, Joseph (February 1, 2005). "The Cake Out in the Rain: The Carpenters and the Sugar-Depression 1970s". Vanilla Pop: Sweet Sounds from Frankie Avalon to ABBA. Chicago Review Press. p. 181. ISBN 1-55652-543-5.
  3. ^ "Kent Kavoie ...The Singer Called Lobo". Mybestyears.com. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 148.
  5. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 326. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  6. ^ "Flavour of New Zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  7. ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  8. ^ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 5386." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
  9. ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 5385." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
  10. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Me and You and a Dog Named Boo". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  11. ^ "Flavour of New Zealand, 26 February 1973". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  12. ^ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Rock.co.za. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  13. ^ "Lobo: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  14. ^ "Lobo Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  15. ^ "Lobo Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
  16. ^ "Top Singles of '71". RPM100. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012.
  17. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1971/Top 100 Songs of 1971". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  18. ^ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 25, 1971". Archived from the original on October 6, 2016. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  19. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 170.
  20. ^ "Tracks on I Think of You - Perry Como (June 1971) | SecondHandSongs". SecondHandSongs.
  21. ^ "Tracks on Original I (A New Beginning) - Agnes Chan (1972) | SecondHandSongs". SecondHandSongs.
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