Track Listing

1. Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
2. She Didn't Do Magic
3. I'm the Only One
4. California Kid and Reemo
5. Simple Man
6. I'd Love You to Want Me
7. Big Red Kite
8. Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend
9. It Sure Took a Long, Long Time
10. How Can I Tell Her
11. Rock & Roll Days
12. Goodbye Is Just Another Word
13. There Ain't No Way
14. Love Me for What I Am
15. Standing at the End of the Line
16. Rings
17. Don't Tell Me Goodnight
18. Would I Still Have You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58534 in Music
• Brand: LOBO
• Released on: 1993-06-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
The biggest hits and best album tracks from an unforgettable staple of '70s AM radio!

Customer Reviews

Two classics plus other interesting songs
There are two very different Best of Lobo compilations and this review, like all the others, is listed with both of them. There are only a few tracks on both, although they are the most important tracks. The budget-priced Curb compilation includes tracks from different record labels, while the Rhino compilation, which actually contains a greater number of songs, focus exclusively on his best period from 1971 to 1975.

His three American top ten hits were Me and you and a dog named Boo (a novelty song, but brilliantly done), I'd love you to want me (a song he offered to the Hollies before deciding to release his own version after they wanted to change it and take half the songwriting royalties) and Don't expect me to be your friend. The first two of these were also huge hits in Britain. He had several other lesser American hits, but no more UK hits.

Lobo's style could variously be described as soft rock or folk-pop. Actually it was a mix of all these elements. If you like Bread, but you'd like something a bit more folksy, Lobo may be just what you're looking for.

As to which Best of Lobo to buy, well, you could buy both if you're really keen as there's not much overlap. If you only want the three famous songs, you may as well buy the Curb collection as it's cheaper. If, like me, you like to explore beyond the hits, the Rhino compilation is worth the extra cost.

Classic Seventies - Nearly A Lost Artist
Lobo is one of those talented artists from the Seventies that everyone has heard of, but can't place. His most famous hit was, "Me And You And A Dog Named Boo", a number one hit with a romantic breezy feel with simple chords and lyrics. "I'd Love You To Want Me" was also a big number with Robert Johnson guesting as back-up falsetto vocalist.

The rest of the album is a smart selection of love songs and low key poetic verses of the typical Top 40 genre, but presented extremely well. "A Big Red Kite" is masterful in it's simplicity and mood and "A Simple Man" contains Lobo's earmarked guitar work. A special selection is "Rings", a huge 1971 hit by the group Cymarron that Lobo sings with the same magic.

If you like one of the songs on this collection, you'll like them all. It's first rate seventies pop.

Rhino version is nice, but incomplete - Curb version has re-recordings
There are two different CD's with the same title "The Best of Lobo", one released by Rhino and the other released by Curb. For some reason the reviews for one CD show-up on both listings.

The Rhino release is the best Lobo compilation available. It includes nearly all of his hits and some of his better album cuts. It is however missing two of his last hits from 1979's Lobo album, "Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love" which reached 23 on the Billboard singles chart and went all the way to number 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and it's follow-up "Holdin On For Dear Love" which charted in 1980. Other than those oversights, this is a good summary of Lobo's career. Nothing groundbreaking here, just some fun folk-pop songs and some melancholy ones that probably would have been bigger hits had Lobo been a country star. A pretty good collection - 4 stars.

The Curb CD contains the latter two hits along with re-recordings of his earlier hits, which are not as good as the originals. Only 2 stars for the Curb CD. The only reason to purchase the Curb CD is if you want the 1979 songs. Otherwise, stick with the Rhino release!