Me and You and a Dog Named Boo explained

Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
Cover:Me_and_You_and_a_Dog_Named_Boo_-_Lobo.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Lobo
Album:Introducing Lobo
B-Side:Walk Away From It All
Released:March 1971
Genre:
Length:2:53
Label:Big Tree
112
Producer:Phil Gernhard
Next Title:She Didn't Do Magic/I'm the Only One
Next Year: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

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

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

Weekly charts

Chart (1971)Peak
position
Australia KMR[7] 8
New Zealand (Listener)[8] 1
South Africa (Springbok)[9] 6
US Cash Box Top 1008

Year-end charts

Chart (1971)Rank
Australia 65
Canada [10] 98
UK 43
US Billboard Hot 100[11] 59
US Cash Box [12] 94

Cover versions

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny . Lobo | Biography . . July 31, 1943 . March 4, 2014.
  2. Book: Lanza, Joseph. Vanilla Pop: Sweet Sounds from Frankie Avalon to ABBA. The Cake Out in the Rain: The Carpenters and the Sugar-Depression 1970s. 1 February 2005. Chicago Review Press. 1-55652-543-5. 181.
  3. Web site: Kent Kavoie ...The Singer Called Lobo . Mybestyears.com . March 6, 2021.
  4. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Joel Whitburn . 2002 . Record Research . 148.
  5. Book: Roberts , David . 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited . London. 1-904994-10-5. 326. British Hit Singles & Albums.
  6. Web site: Flavour of New Zealand - search listener . Flavourofnz.co.nz . October 4, 2016.
  7. Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W . 1993. 0-646-11917-6. Kent Music Report.
  8. Web site: Flavour of New Zealand, 26 February 1973. Flavourofnz.co.nz. August 3, 2023.
  9. Web site: SA Charts 1965–March 1989. Rock.co.za. September 5, 2018.
  10. Top Singles of '71. RPM100. https://web.archive.org/web/20121020224403/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.7590&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=mhe12pta2k83e08udtq66ot062. October 20, 2012.
  11. Web site: Top 100 Hits of 1971/Top 100 Songs of 1971. Musicoutfitters.com. August 3, 2023.
  12. Web site: Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 25, 1971 . July 15, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161006205612/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/1971YESP.html . October 6, 2016 . dead .
  13. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 170.
  14. Web site: Tracks on I Think of You - Perry Como (June 1971) SecondHandSongs. SecondHandSongs.
  15. Web site: Tracks on Original I (A New Beginning) - Agnes Chan (1972) | SecondHandSongs . SecondHandSongs .

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