Roland Kent LaVoie's 1971 hit defined his sound and kept him on the radio for decades.
For a quick sense of Lobo, just put on 'I'd Love You to Want Me' and maybe 'Me And You And A Dog Named Boo.' That's pretty much the story.
That 1971 single 'I'd Love You to Want Me' is still the song people know him by, a folk-pop ballad that topped the charts and stuck around on radio. It came from his self-titled debut on Big Tree Records, and while he had other tracks like 'Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend,' that first hit is what framed his career. The legal dispute with producer Phil Ramone later on didn't help, but the music from that early '70s period has its own quiet persistence.
He started with a folk sound on that 1971 debut and the hit that came with it. Over the '70s and '80s, his work shifted into other styles, and he performed with different backing musicians along the way.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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