I married my wife June 8, 1974 . TODAY is our 49th anniversary. We got married 3 Days after I got home from Viet Nam. We immediately got in our newly purchased 1969 Ford 500 for $900.00 and drove from our childhood homes in NYC across the country to San Fransico. No dog yet...😊. We never did settle in one place. Always picking up and moving around the country. We have moved around and been through every state in the USA and much of Canada and Mexico. Just traveling , working, and enjoying life. We are both 70 and recently settled and bought a farm house, have a big garden , two wonderful sons, their wives and our grandson. Would not change one minute.
Back in the 70s my cousin had a cur dog that we hog hunted with named Boo. He named him from this song. I met the love of my life in 1978, we started dating in August of 79, and just celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary this past Sunday. She's still a beauty. And I agree, our love songs were the best.
Congratulations on the 41st 🎊♥️🎆🎉 My first real love was back in the late '70's and I wish we had been able to make it work. Nice to know some were lucky!
@@rodneytyus that's immediately where my mind went. My baby sister started dating her husband in 1982 while both were sophomores. They dated, then graduated in 85, got jobs, and they planned their perfect wedding for 1988. Still married.
This is a classic from 1971, such a unique song. I often go to Pop Quiz's and this often comes up! Another good song by him is 'I'd love you to want me'.
Yup, I remember my older sister had a Lobo album. Along with "Me and You and a Dog named Boo" which was quite a common song heard on the radio, I really liked the song "I'd Love You to Want Me" as was already suggested. It's a very emotional song.
Aww, I love this song!! 70s soft rock is my absolute FAVORITE! ETA: The 70s WERE a whole different world compared to now. So were the 80s. A much simpler time.
We just had a celebration of life for my Aunt today and we put this 45 record next to the picture memorial because it was her favorite song. We got back to my Uncles and I get the notification you did this song. So awesome made me tear up again.
I got married in 1971 so I can totally relate to this song. We both had jobs, though (I worked for an airline, he was a cop). I had travel benefits & he had a Harley so we were able to travel pretty much anywhere, anytime. It was as wonderful as you are imagining it. We're both retired now, but he still has a Harley & I still have my travel benefits! Life is still an adventure ... just takes a lot more planning than back in our carefree days. 🥰
Lobo had some fantastic songs. "How Can I tell Her About You" and "Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend." are two that I think you would like. " I Want You To Want Me" is an upbeat song you would like as well.
To Rob, the context to this song has a lot to do with the era in which it was made. The hippie, free-love movement along with Woodstock was fresh in the countries conscience even though it was beginning to fade. So, a song about living poor but happy was a confirmation of the times. Love how you two jump off the screen and provoke me and others to smile in such a folksy, welcome and accepting way in your presence.
Wow, I haven’t heard this song since I was 8 yrs old in ‘71! Great childhood memory of singing this in the car while it played on the radio. Thanks for this, you two!!!
OMG, you guys had me crying. This was my parents favorite song. I can still see them dancing in our living room together, both so young and beautiful, all radiant and smiles 😢
The 70's was a whole different world! We were fine without all the technology, you could hang with someone and not worry about people texting you or the person you were with. No caller ID for a while either. I didn't really see all animosity that I do now. The music was so real back then. It may have not been completely perfect, but I'm so glad I grew up then! You both would have loved it!
Yes!! Our social media was actually going to visit each other and we talked to each other and weren't distracted by electronics. I am soooo glad we didn't have any internet at all! This is a great simple song. 😊❤
Wow, it's been well over 40 years since I heard this song, and I remember every single word as though i just listened to it yesterday. Funny how things stay in your brain when you can't remember what you had for lunch yesterday.
This song kind of reminds me of a soft rock version of “Sloop John B”. 1970-1975 was a mixed bag of music: bubblegum pop, early funk, glam rock, singer-songwriter acoustic guitar songs, early metal which later would be considered hard rock, novelty hits, and love songs. This song fits in with those times. It has a relaxing, summer vibe to it.
I'd say extend past 1975 this sound of music storytelling songwriters from the heart went into the early 80s .,..70s by for was the Best decade for music masterpieces.
My teen years were the 70s and I love watching your channel to relive those great times. I also feel a little big smug because, after all, it was my music! P.S. Loved Lobo!
I was a teen in the 70's. Graduated high school in 78. It was a great time and so different then now. I did find my first love then. Even though it didn't last I still remember those times with bitter sweet tears. I'm also from Ga. so, my memories are vivid of the red dirt roads. Thanks guys.
This is one of my fave songs of all time...The freedom of youth back in the 70's was real and this song gives you that vibe.....I actually would call my last dog "Boo" even though that wasnt his real name.
Wow! 😃 I haven't heard this song in ages! 😂 great reaction! again thanks for the great memories 🥲 love Jay's honesty. Your absolutely right the best love songs are from the 70's, recommend some live Chicago, Tanglewood, song "Beginnings" Thank you Peace!🙏
You two are great! Amber, you have such a great grasp on how we did things in the 70's. You would have loved it, as I treasure the memories now YOU give back to me. ❤ I thank you both.
I'm so glad you reacted to this! This is one of my and my wife theme songs. She nicknamed our beloved dog Otto "Boo" without ever having heard this song. The first time I played it for her, she was over the moon - we have always love road trips, and we logged many many miles as me and her and a dog named Boo. Sadly, we lost our beloved Boo last year to cancer - he was gone way too young, just a month shy of his eighth birthday. But that's enough sadness - you should really check out our other theme song, which is really more like our mission statement set to music: the late great hilarious Roger Miller, "You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd" - but you can be happy if you've a mind to!
I was in high school during the early 70s. Going to parks and fields with my girlfriends. Listening to love songs. Embracing the peace and love movement. I had my bellbottoms, suede fringe jacket and finger painted car. There was no better time to be a teen.
I've loved this song since it came out in 71. Thanks for reacting to this classic. I miss the 70's,,,,, love going back there in music. Y'all are groovy!!!😁😁
Hearing this song just tickles me. I was around 11 years old when this song came out in 1971, and this period was my awakening to music. Transistor radio, buying my first albums--what a great era to grow up in. There's a heartbreaker of a song about an Irish Setter called "Shannon" by Henry Gross you might want to check out.
I have always loved this song... every now and then, I look it up again because I want the hear the song and enjoy all the memories that go with it....
Great reaction once again, just such a beautiful song. I met my wife to be in 1979, and we are still together now. Coming up to 42 years of marriage in September. We met over the CB Radio, had an “Eyeball” (meeting) and I wouldn’t miss a year of it. Growing up on 70’s and 80’s music was awesome. She couldn’t get enough of Rod Stewart, and I couldn’t get enough of Suzi Quatro. GREAT TIMES.
Just instantly takes me back to a memory of being a kid down the park at my older brother's little league games. In between innings on the PA they would play this song and Joy to the world.
This song takes me back when I was driving a truck and had my buddy Shay riding with me. Even though it was just back in the late 1990s and early 2,000s. I lost Shay in 2005 but still miss him and driving
Thanks Amber and Jay for bringing back memories! I was hoping you would react to this when I saw it in the comments a while ago. When I was little, we had a dog named Barry. We adopted him from a woman who could no longer care for him. She was a huge fan of the Bee Gees and Barry Gibb!
i have a specific remeberence of this song..listening to it on my transistor radio,on a summer day,and yes after a summer rain, hearing the popsicle truck, running inside the house for a handful of change....and tes you could buy a popsicle for a handfull of change my favorite "sky blue" water sicle.
We used to skate to this one at our local skating rink back in the day. We would request it so that we could be sure it would be played. Any song that mentions animals I all for. Loved this song as a kid and still love it today. Lobo (real name Roland Kent LaVoie) had a lot of other hits, too including "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend", "I'd Love You To Want Me", "Don't Tell Me Goodnight" and "Rings". He was part of that soft rock sound of the 70's. He had a hit in the early 80's called "Where Were You (When I Was Falling In Love)".
Love Lobo! I'd Love You To Want Me, Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend, How Can I Tell Her, and Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love are all worth checking out!
I wish these days were as they were in the 70's. So much love, fun & feeling safe. I was 10 years old in 1972. Thank you God for putting me on this earth in the year of 1962!! I love you both for enjoying our era of music. It warms my heart!! ❤
I was young when this one released but of course it played for years. It's a tune that use to get stuck in my head. As a matter of fact, as I clicked on ur reaction to this gem .. I was already singing it. Mid 60's to mid 80's are my fave rock n roll times indeed which inc all 70's. Thnx yall .. ❣️☮️😊
As has been stated - "I'd Love You To Want Me," and "Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend" are great in their own right. The former spent 2 weeks at #2 in late 1972. The latter also was a Top10 hit several months later. "Me And You... was a Top 5 hit in 1971.
I fell in love in the 1970s. Love was special. We used to go parking on lovers lane and listen to the radio and talk for hours. I married and stayed married for 40 years, and he died. I eventually got over the grief and ran into my first love in the 7th grade, and now we are married.
One of MY favorite Soft Rock people from the 70’s ! Keep going down this Rabbit Hole, you’ll be pleasantly surprised! An overlooked, understated talent
My husband and I met when I was 13 and he was 14, 1972. We married in 1977 so this year will make 46 years of marriage. The music of the 70s brings back so many memories. This song is one of those warm & fuzzy memories and going to the drive in movies then the drive in BBQ restaurant so we were in the car with the radio on a lot. “Top Of The World” by The Carpenters was our song then and it is now. Thanks for making me smile.
I used to love this song when it came out. I used to imagine doing it one day. It still tugs at my heartstrings and makes me wonder what might have been. ❤❤✌🇨🇦
I think this may have been their biggest hit. I remember hearing a cover of it on the cartoon show "The Brady Kids" which came on Saturday mornings. The kids sang some original songs but some covers to and that was one of them. The only other Lobo song I know is "I'd Love You To Want Me".
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.
I met Mrs. Rick on the tarmac at Kadena AFB Okinawa Japan in Sept. 1973 late at night. She was one of the first military women assigned to the Island after the DOD changed the regulations to allow them to serve there. I was a young sailor, and we were saying goodbye to a friend from our Bible study. She had just gotten off the plane and was walking towards the terminal with several other Navy women. We stopped them and asked them if they were going to our base. We helped get their luggage and arranged transportation with the duty officer for them. Five months later I beat the odds of about 10,000 men for every woman, and we were the second Navy couple to get married on the Island. We would have been first but she dislocated her knee and didn't want to walk the aisle in a leg cast. We'll be celebrating our 50th in seven months.
My wife and I met in the early 70’s in high school. We got married after I graduated college in the mid 70’s. This song takes me back to those times like no other. Amber really understands the times well. She was born 30 to late. I even think Jay would have thrived in the 70’s. Oh, by the my wife are still married 45 years later.
Oh wow I remember when this came out, I was 7 years old!!! Thank you guys for this great memory. I love it that the younger generations are searching out the great music of my youth. Enjoy the ride, you have decades to experience!! Oh,,Amber is definitely a Hippie! Love you guys,, Rich.✌❤🙂
I love Lobo! A lot of great songs from him, and this was perhaps his most enduring song. He had one that charted higher ('I'd Love You to Want Me"), but I think this has been played more over the years. In a way, that's kind of funny, because the song is so much a story of its time. Others are more timeless in the lyrics, but this is the one that people have clung to. It's all great stuff, though. "Rings" is the one from Lobo you should listen to next. Musically, I think it holds up the best.
You have a knack of reacting to music that so many of us of a certain age automatically sing along to as if it was instinct! Amber gets it right about the feel of the seventies.
I've never heard this song before either. It is a sweet song. For some reason the title reminds me of the chorus from Hoyt Axton's song "Della and the Dealer".
Yay! This was one of my requests! I think for me, personally, this was one that I used to hear when my parents and I would take our Sunday drives. It brings me back to being a little kid, dozing in the backseat with my parents' voices and the music drifting around. Those were some of the sweetest memories of my life and this just puts me back in that place. Thank you! Y'all ought to also check out Canned Heat's "Going Up the Country." It's got a very Woodstocky sort of vibe.
This wonderful song is very special to me. At the time of the release my family and I had a boxer named Babe whose nickname was Boo. I’ve always felt like this was about my family and I.
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Jay & Amber, you'll love his "I'd Love You to Want Me" !!!
I second that!
Absolutely, same band😎
Totally agree with this suggestion! He had some other great songs, too.
Heard it today! ❤❤
@@collettedauphinais8381 Lobo was his stage name 😎
"Don't Expect Me to be Your Friend" by Lobo is a heartbreaker. Very sweet soft rock.
Great forgotten goody 👍
I wouldn't call eht song sweet, but it is depressing, and his best, IMO.
Lobo was pretty big in the '70's I think you guys would really love Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend, especially Amber!
@@sodoffbaldrick3038 And that song cuts deep!
I married my wife June 8, 1974 . TODAY is our 49th anniversary. We got married 3 Days after I got home from Viet Nam. We immediately got in our newly purchased 1969 Ford 500 for $900.00 and drove from our childhood homes in NYC across the country to San Fransico. No dog yet...😊. We never did settle in one place. Always picking up and moving around the country. We have moved around and been through every state in the USA and much of Canada and Mexico. Just traveling , working, and enjoying life. We are both 70 and recently settled and bought a farm house, have a big garden , two wonderful sons, their wives and our grandson.
Would not change one minute.
Welcome home, Bill, from a fellow 'Nam Veteran. Awesome song.
Lobo and Jim Stafford were in the same band together in high school. They both went on to have great success.
Love Jim Stafford!
I had forgotten about Jim Stafford. Great memory. "Spiders and Snakes" is a fun song.
Jim Stafford was a phenomenal guitarist
Wow, great trivia! Thanks.
Really ? I didn't know that
Back in the 70s my cousin had a cur dog that we hog hunted with named Boo. He named him from this song. I met the love of my life in 1978, we started dating in August of 79, and just celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary this past Sunday. She's still a beauty. And I agree, our love songs were the best.
Congratulations on the 41st 🎊♥️🎆🎉
My first real love was back in the late '70's and I wish we had been able to make it work. Nice to know some were lucky!
Why'd it take 3 years for you to marry?
Our 41st anniversary was May 29, congratulations to you and your significant other. 🎉
@@publicname60 Had to wait till we both graduated high school.
@@rodneytyus that's immediately where my mind went. My baby sister started dating her husband in 1982 while both were sophomores. They dated, then graduated in 85, got jobs, and they planned their perfect wedding for 1988. Still married.
I was a teenager in the 70's. We had the best music!!
This is a classic from 1971, such a unique song. I often go to Pop Quiz's and this often comes up! Another good song by him is 'I'd love you to want me'.
I ❤this song! So gentle and fabulous. One of my first guitar songs as well.
Thank you, this was one I suggested,too. LOBO❤❤❤
"I'd Love You to Want Me" might be my favorite by Lobo. I also like "Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend". Cheers.
Yup, I remember my older sister had a Lobo album. Along with "Me and You and a Dog named Boo" which was quite a common song heard on the radio, I really liked the song "I'd Love You to Want Me" as was already suggested. It's a very emotional song.
Oh I love "I'd love you to want me", such a great song!!
Aww, I love this song!! 70s soft rock is my absolute FAVORITE!
ETA: The 70s WERE a whole different world compared to now. So were the 80s. A much simpler time.
He has a great song called " Baby I'd love you to want me" also.
Man this song puts me back to pumping gas, fixing tires and washing windows. Thanks for the flashback!! Have a Thrilling Thursday!!
My husband too. He worked at 3 gas stations while in high school.
We just had a celebration of life for my Aunt today and we put this 45 record next to the picture memorial because it was her favorite song. We got back to my Uncles and I get the notification you did this song. So awesome made me tear up again.
Condolences for your family’s loss
Your aunt telling you she sees what you did for her. Fate.
My condolences for your aunts passing. I am having my husband's celebration of life this coming Saturday. Music is going to be a huge part of it.
@@deedledee1341 thank you
I got married in 1971 so I can totally relate to this song. We both had jobs, though (I worked for an airline, he was a cop). I had travel benefits & he had a Harley so we were able to travel pretty much anywhere, anytime. It was as wonderful as you are imagining it. We're both retired now, but he still has a Harley & I still have my travel benefits! Life is still an adventure ... just takes a lot more planning than back in our carefree days. 🥰
I can relate....
Lobo had some fantastic songs. "How Can I tell Her About You" and "Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend." are two that I think you would like. " I Want You To Want Me" is an upbeat song you would like as well.
To Rob, the context to this song has a lot to do with the era in which it was made. The hippie, free-love movement along with Woodstock was fresh in the countries conscience even though it was beginning to fade. So, a song about living poor but happy was a confirmation of the times. Love how you two jump off the screen and provoke me and others to smile in such a folksy, welcome and accepting way in your presence.
You nailed it my friend!👍✌️
Wow, I haven’t heard this song since I was 8 yrs old in ‘71! Great childhood memory of singing this in the car while it played on the radio. Thanks for this, you two!!!
He’s one of my all time favourite singers! I hope you’ll do more, especially “Don’t Expect Me To Be Your Friend. It’s a heartbreaker.
I Was 9 Years Old When This Cute Song Came Out Back In 1971, And I Remember Singing To, And With It In The Car Back Then . . . :-)
I was either 3 or 4, depending on what time of year it was released.
Speaking of the love songs of the seventies, Lobo's I'd Love You To Want Me is among the greatest love songs of all time.
This song came out when I was ten, I’ve always loved it, and yes, I’ve had several dogs named Boo!
OMG, you guys had me crying. This was my parents favorite song. I can still see them dancing in our living room together, both so young and beautiful, all radiant and smiles 😢
The 70's was a whole different world! We were fine without all the technology, you could hang with someone and not worry about people texting you or the person you were with. No caller ID for a while either. I didn't really see all animosity that I do now. The music was so real back then. It may have not been completely perfect, but I'm so glad I grew up then! You both would have loved it!
Yes!! Our social media was actually going to visit each other and we talked to each other and weren't distracted by electronics.
I am soooo glad we didn't have any internet at all!
This is a great simple song. 😊❤
Wow, it's been well over 40 years since I heard this song, and I remember every single word as though i just listened to it yesterday.
Funny how things stay in your brain when you can't remember what you had for lunch yesterday.
Lobo is THE BOMB!!!! I always loved to hear this one!!!
This song kind of reminds me of a soft rock version of “Sloop John B”. 1970-1975 was a mixed bag of music: bubblegum pop, early funk, glam rock, singer-songwriter acoustic guitar songs, early metal which later would be considered hard rock, novelty hits, and love songs. This song fits in with those times. It has a relaxing, summer vibe to it.
I'd say extend past 1975 this sound of music storytelling songwriters from the heart went into the early 80s .,..70s by for was the Best decade for music masterpieces.
My teen years were the 70s and I love watching your channel to relive those great times.
I also feel a little big smug because, after all, it was my music!
P.S. Loved Lobo!
I was a teen in the 70's. Graduated high school in 78. It was a great time and so different then now. I did find my first love then. Even though it didn't last I still remember those times with bitter sweet tears. I'm also from Ga. so, my memories are vivid of the red dirt roads. Thanks guys.
The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park and other Things...!!!
This is one of my fave songs of all time...The freedom of youth back in the 70's was real and this song gives you that vibe.....I actually would call my last dog "Boo" even though that wasnt his real name.
I can't imagine being without my iPhone now, but I don't think I missed anything in the 70s without one! You guys make ME smile every day!
Wow! 😃 I haven't heard this song in ages! 😂 great reaction! again thanks for the great memories 🥲 love Jay's honesty. Your absolutely right the best love songs are from the 70's, recommend some live Chicago, Tanglewood, song "Beginnings" Thank you Peace!🙏
I love "Color My World" by Chicago. Just beautiful.
Color My World was a popular wedding song back in the day.
You two are great! Amber, you have such a great grasp on how we did things in the 70's. You would have loved it, as I treasure the memories now YOU give back to me. ❤ I thank you both.
This was such a laid back song from my youth ❤
We used to love when this came across the radio on the old school bus...it was something we could all sing along with.
I'm so glad you reacted to this! This is one of my and my wife theme songs. She nicknamed our beloved dog Otto "Boo" without ever having heard this song. The first time I played it for her, she was over the moon - we have always love road trips, and we logged many many miles as me and her and a dog named Boo. Sadly, we lost our beloved Boo last year to cancer - he was gone way too young, just a month shy of his eighth birthday. But that's enough sadness - you should really check out our other theme song, which is really more like our mission statement set to music: the late great hilarious Roger Miller, "You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd" - but you can be happy if you've a mind to!
I was in high school during the early 70s. Going to parks and fields with my girlfriends. Listening to love songs. Embracing the peace and love movement. I had my bellbottoms, suede fringe jacket and finger painted car. There was no better time to be a teen.
Oh god. You guys are digging deep. Love this song.
We’re gonna get some more country in you Jay. You say you don’t have a bit of country and you you will one day. Love you guys keep it coming
Jay and Amber killing it today, I’m loving the song choices today!
Don't Expect Me to be Your Friend, I'd Love You to Want Me, and Rings are also great Lobo songs, really worth a listen !!!
I've loved this song since it came out in 71. Thanks for reacting to this classic. I miss the 70's,,,,, love going back there in music.
Y'all are groovy!!!😁😁
Hearing this song just tickles me. I was around 11 years old when this song came out in 1971, and this period was my awakening to music. Transistor radio, buying my first albums--what a great era to grow up in. There's a heartbreaker of a song about an Irish Setter called "Shannon" by Henry Gross you might want to check out.
I have always loved this song... every now and then, I look it up again because I want the hear the song and enjoy all the memories that go with it....
Growing up in the 70s I loved Lobo. Brings back So many memories. ❤️.
Great reaction once again, just such a beautiful song.
I met my wife to be in 1979, and we are still together now. Coming up to 42 years of marriage in September.
We met over the CB Radio, had an “Eyeball” (meeting) and I wouldn’t miss a year of it.
Growing up on 70’s and 80’s music was awesome. She couldn’t get enough of Rod Stewart, and I couldn’t get enough of Suzi Quatro.
GREAT TIMES.
I've always loved him. Grew up listening to him. The epitome of the seventies...easy, breezy...free!!
Just instantly takes me back to a memory of being a kid down the park at my older brother's little league games. In between innings on the PA they would play this song and Joy to the world.
Oh man, this sweet song brings back so many memories. Thank you for reacting to it.
This song takes me back when I was driving a truck and had my buddy Shay riding with me. Even though it was just back in the late 1990s and early 2,000s. I lost Shay in 2005 but still miss him and driving
I’d Love You To Want Me is my favourite 70s heartbreaker, well worth a listen
One of my all time favorite songs! ❤ Takes me right back to childhood!! Love it!
Thanks Amber and Jay for bringing back memories! I was hoping you would react to this when I saw it in the comments a while ago. When I was little, we had a dog named Barry. We adopted him from a woman who could no longer care for him. She was a huge fan of the Bee Gees and Barry Gibb!
Rita Coolidge "We're All Alone"
i have a specific remeberence of this song..listening to it on my transistor radio,on a summer day,and yes after a summer rain, hearing the popsicle truck, running inside the house for a handful of change....and tes you could buy a popsicle for a handfull of change my favorite "sky blue" water sicle.
I was in high school in the 70’s I met and married Jeff who I’m still with. I still listen to 70’s music.
There IS no other music......................
R. Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me...!!!!
We used to skate to this one at our local skating rink back in the day. We would request it so that we could be sure it would be played. Any song that mentions animals I all for. Loved this song as a kid and still love it today. Lobo (real name Roland Kent LaVoie) had a lot of other hits, too including "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend", "I'd Love You To Want Me", "Don't Tell Me Goodnight" and "Rings". He was part of that soft rock sound of the 70's. He had a hit in the early 80's called "Where Were You (When I Was Falling In Love)".
Love Lobo! I'd Love You To Want Me, Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend, How Can I Tell Her, and Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love are all worth checking out!
I wish these days were as they were in the 70's. So much love, fun & feeling safe. I was 10 years old in 1972. Thank you God for putting me on this earth in the year of 1962!! I love you both for enjoying our era of music. It warms my heart!! ❤
Another hippie vibe song "Chevy Van" by Sammy Johns. I can hear Jay now "What have you gotten us into?"
❤ this!!! Good memories! Thanks for reacting!
This was one of those songs that you heard about 10 times a day on pop radio way back when it came out.
I love Lobo!!!!!!! Don't Ask Me To Be Your Friend is a great one!
Gary Puckett. ...Young Girl, Woman Woman
This is such a fun song. Reminds me of my youth riding in the car with my older sisters
I was young when this one released but of course it played for years. It's a tune that use to get stuck in my head. As a matter of fact, as I clicked on ur reaction to this gem .. I was already singing it. Mid 60's to mid 80's are my fave rock n roll times indeed which inc all 70's. Thnx yall .. ❣️☮️😊
My favorite from LOBO is "I'd Love You To Want Me". Beautiful song.
The best time to learn about and fall in love was the 70s. It definitely was a hopeful time. All the music & tv reflected that ethos.
Any song with a dog in it will melt me.
Now 60, I had the privilege of growing up in the 70's. It was was all that and more, a magical time. A great Lobo song is " I'd love you to want me "
As has been stated - "I'd Love You To Want Me," and "Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend" are great in their own right. The former spent 2 weeks at #2 in late 1972. The latter also was a Top10 hit several months later. "Me And You... was a Top 5 hit in 1971.
I fell in love in the 1970s. Love was special. We used to go parking on lovers lane and listen to the radio and talk for hours. I married and stayed married for 40 years, and he died. I eventually got over the grief and ran into my first love in the 7th grade, and now we are married.
I love this song. Always have. I miss the 70s. Great job you guys.
I've always loved how this song starts in the south, goes through the midwest, and ends up on the west coast.
One of MY favorite Soft Rock people from the 70’s ! Keep going down this Rabbit Hole, you’ll be pleasantly surprised! An overlooked, understated talent
My daddy sang this to me as a child❤i love this song
My husband and I met when I was 13 and he was 14, 1972.
We married in 1977 so this year will make 46 years of marriage.
The music of the 70s brings back so many memories. This song is one of those warm & fuzzy memories and going to the drive in movies then the drive in BBQ restaurant so we were in the car with the radio on a lot.
“Top Of The World” by The Carpenters was our song then and it is now.
Thanks for making me smile.
I used to love this song when it came out. I used to imagine doing it one day. It still tugs at my heartstrings and makes me wonder what might have been. ❤❤✌🇨🇦
I think this may have been their biggest hit. I remember hearing a cover of it on the cartoon show "The Brady Kids" which came on Saturday mornings. The kids sang some original songs but some covers to and that was one of them. The only other Lobo song I know is "I'd Love You To Want Me".
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.
I met Mrs. Rick on the tarmac at Kadena AFB Okinawa Japan in Sept. 1973 late at night. She was one of the first military women assigned to the Island after the DOD changed the regulations to allow them to serve there. I was a young sailor, and we were saying goodbye to a friend from our Bible study. She had just gotten off the plane and was walking towards the terminal with several other Navy women. We stopped them and asked them if they were going to our base. We helped get their luggage and arranged transportation with the duty officer for them. Five months later I beat the odds of about 10,000 men for every woman, and we were the second Navy couple to get married on the Island. We would have been first but she dislocated her knee and didn't want to walk the aisle in a leg cast. We'll be celebrating our 50th in seven months.
My wife and I met in the early 70’s in high school. We got married after I graduated college in the mid 70’s. This song takes me back to those times like no other. Amber really understands the times well. She was born 30 to late. I even think Jay would have thrived in the 70’s. Oh, by the my wife are still married 45 years later.
Oh wow! I haven't heard this for decades. Thank you for reacting to this and taking me back in time.
Thanks so much for this one. Lobo is great. Love so many of his songs. Big Red Kite has always been a favorite of mine.
Oh wow I remember when this came out, I was 7 years old!!! Thank you guys for this great memory. I love it that the younger generations are searching out the great music of my youth. Enjoy the ride, you have decades to experience!! Oh,,Amber is definitely a Hippie! Love you guys,, Rich.✌❤🙂
His best hit by far is "I'd Love You to Want Me."
This is such a sweet little song, great choice 😁
Gotta do "don't expect me to be your friend" by LOBO !!!!🤘🔥🤘🔥
I love Lobo! A lot of great songs from him, and this was perhaps his most enduring song. He had one that charted higher ('I'd Love You to Want Me"), but I think this has been played more over the years. In a way, that's kind of funny, because the song is so much a story of its time. Others are more timeless in the lyrics, but this is the one that people have clung to. It's all great stuff, though.
"Rings" is the one from Lobo you should listen to next. Musically, I think it holds up the best.
Nice little freedom tune. Glad you enjoy it!
You have a knack of reacting to music that so many of us of a certain age automatically sing along to as if it was instinct! Amber gets it right about the feel of the seventies.
I've never heard this song before either. It is a sweet song. For some reason the title reminds me of the chorus from Hoyt Axton's song "Della and the Dealer".
I thought of that, too. Della and the Dealer is a great story song,too.
This came out the year I was born, but remember hearing on the radio in the 1970's. I was young
Yay! This was one of my requests! I think for me, personally, this was one that I used to hear when my parents and I would take our Sunday drives. It brings me back to being a little kid, dozing in the backseat with my parents' voices and the music drifting around. Those were some of the sweetest memories of my life and this just puts me back in that place. Thank you!
Y'all ought to also check out Canned Heat's "Going Up the Country." It's got a very Woodstocky sort of vibe.
They did it at Woodstock. Jay and Amber are you still doing any Woodstock Wednesdays?
Absotively, posilutely, the best soft rock songs are from the 70s. My era, and I loved it.
This wonderful song is very special to me. At the time of the release my family and I had a boxer named Babe whose nickname was Boo. I’ve always felt like this was about my family and I.
Remember this song from road trips with My Dad, great song! Thanks Jay and Amber!
My wife and I have been married 47 years and it started with Lobo and Me and You and a Dog named Boo.