"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."

Impact

The single peaked at #5 on the

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and was the first of four of his songs to hit #1 on the

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chart, where it had a two-week stay at that top spot in May 1971. The song also reached #4 in the

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in July 1971 and spent four weeks at #1 in New Zealand. 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 "

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" the following year.

Chart history

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Cover versions

* Later in 1971, country artist

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recorded the song, which was his final

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hit on the US country chart, peaking at #7. *

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recorded the song for his 1971 album ''I Think of You''. * In 1972, a version was sung by ''

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'' in the episode "Who Was That Dog...?" on their Saturday morning cartoon show. *

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recorded the song for her 1972 album ''Original I (A New Beginning)''.

References

1971 debut singles Lobo (musician) songs Songs written by Lobo (musician) Stonewall Jackson (musician) songs Number-one singles in New Zealand 1971 songs Big Tree Records singles Songs about dogs {{1970s-single-stub