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Bob Lind (born Robert Neale Lind , November 25, 1942, Baltimore, Maryland ) is an United States|American folk music singer-songwriter who helped define the 1960s folk rock movement in America and England cite web|url= http://www.southfloridafuntimes.com/bob-lind.html |title=Bob Lind's music helped define 'Folk Rock' |publisher=SouthFloridaFunTimes.com |accessdate=2-12-01-09. Lind is best known for his wikt:transatlantic|transatlantic hit record|chart hit single (music)|single , " ElusiveButterfly ",cite web|url= http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19799/m1/ |title=Show 40 - Ballad in Plain D: Bob Dylan. 1966& #93; : UNT Digital Library |last=Gilliland |first=John |year=1969 |authorlink=John Gilliland |work= Pop Chronicles |publisher=Digital.library.unt.edu |format=audio |accessdate=2011-04-29 which reached #5 on both the United States|US and United Kingdom|UK record chart|chart s in 1966, but continues to write, record and perform throughout America and Europe.
More than 200 artists - including Cher , Glen Campbell , Aretha Franklin , Dolly Parton , Eric Clapton , Nancy Sinatra , The Four Tops , Richie Havens , Hoyt Axton , The Kingston Trio , Johnny Mathis , and Petula Clark - have recorded songs written by Lind. http://www.boblind.com/artist.html Boblind.com
Career
In 1965, Lind signed a recording contract with Liberty Records ' subsidiary , World Pacific Records , and it was on that record label|label that he recorded "Elusive Butterfly." The single may have done even better on the UK Singles Chart had there not been competition from established Irish recording artist Val Doonican , who released a cover version of the song at the same time. In the end, both versions of "Elusive Butterfly" made #5 in the UK in the spring of 1966.cite web|url= http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dirv/vald.htm |title=Val Doonican |publisher=45-rpm.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2011-04-29cite web|url= http://www.everyhit.com/retros/index.php? page=rchart& y1=1966& m1=04& day1=1& y2=1966& m2=04& day2=1& sent=1 |title=Retro Charts |publisher=everyHit.com |date=2000-03-16 |accessdate=2011-04-29 Lind also wrote the cult standard "Cheryl's Goin' Home," which was covered by Adam Faith , The Blues Project , Sonny & Cher , John Otway , The Cascades and others http://www.boblind.com/artist.html Boblind.com. It was Faith's last British hit.
Plagued by drug and alcohol problems, Lind gained a reputation in the business for being "hard to work with." In 1969, Lind severed ties with World Pacific. Three years later, Capitol Records released Since There Were Circles , an album that was well-received by critics but not commercially successful. Lind dropped out of the music industry for a number of years. http://www.pauseandplay.com/boblind.htm Pause and Play
In 1988, he moved to Florida . He wrote five novels , an award winning play, and a screeenplay, Refuge , which won the Florida Screenwriters' Competition in 1991 http://mrdouglasanderson.com/2010/05/17/in-appreciation-of-bob-lind/ "In Appreciation of Bob Lind," Douglas Anderson.
For eight years he was a staff writer at the satirical supermarket supermarket tabloid|tabloids Weekly World News and Sun (supermarket tabloid)|Sun . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601293_pf.html Washingtonpost.com
Lind returned to music in 2004 when, at the urging of his friend Arlo Guthrie , he played The Guthrie Center in Beckett, Mass. http://palebloomsandbeyond.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/35/ Tending the Pale Bloom ,"Interview with Bob Lind" Since then Lind has been touring nonstop, playing England, Spain and Canada, as well as L.A., San Francisco, New York, Denver, Miami, Knoxville, Tennessee, Green River, Wyoming, and various cities in New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. http://www.boblind.com/tour.html/ Boblind.com
Lind established an official website in 2006. http://www.boblind.com Boblind.com That same year, RPM Records (United Kingdom)|RPM Records re-issued the album Since There Were Circles , and Lind self-released the Live at Luna Star album featuring performances of new material. In 2007, Ace Records (UK) released Elusive Butterfly: The Complete 1966 Jack Nitzsche Sessions.
The British band, Pulp (band)|Pulp , have a song named after him: "Bob Lind (The Only Way Is Down)", from their album, We Love Life . A Lind recording, "Cool Summer" was also included on the compilation album , The Trip , compiled by Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey .
In 2009, filmmaker Paul Surratt completed a concert/documentary DVD called Bob Lind: Perspective. http://www.boblind.com/LindDVD.html Boblind.com
Lind is currently at work on a new CD, with producer and veteran rock guitarist Jamie Hoover of The Spongetones .
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