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BLP sources|date=September 2007Cleanup-rewrite|date=March 2009Infobox musical artist | name = Bobby Bare| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Robert Joseph Bare| birth_date = Birth date and age|1935|04|07| origin = Ironton, OH , United States | instrument = Guitar| genre = Country music|Country | label = RCA Records Mercury Records Columbia Records | years_active = 1958 in country music|1958 & ndash; Present (time)|Present | associated_acts = Skeeter Davis , Waylon Jennings , Petter Ψien | website = http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.dukes3/ and http://home.earthlink.net/~ohfoster Robert Joseph "Bobby" Bare (born April 7, 1935, Ironton, OH ) is an United States|American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr. , also a musician.
Early career
Bare had many failed attempts to sell his songs in the 1950s.Citation needed|date=May 2007 He finally signed with Capitol Records and recorded a few rock and roll songs without much chart success.Citation needed|date=May 2007 Just before he was drafted into the United States Army|Army , he wrote a song called "The All American Boy" and did a demo for his friend, Bill Parsons, to learn and record. Instead of using the version Bill Parsons did later, the record company, Fraternity Records , decided to use the original demo recorded by Bobby Bare. The record reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 , but they made an error: the singles' labels all credited the artist as being "Bill Parsons." Whitburn, Joel (2000). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits , p.49. ISBN 0-8230-7690-3.Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits , p.38-39. ISBN 0-8230-7632-6. The same track, with the same billing error, peaked at #22 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1959.cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 419
Career at RCA (19621970)
Bare's big break in country music came when RCA Records ' Chet Atkins signed him. The first song he released on the label was "Shame On Me" in 1962. His second RCA release, " Detroit City ," was his first top-ten Country single, reaching number six. It also hit number 16 on the pop charts. In 1964, he also received a Grammy Award for Best Country and Western Recording for the song Detroit City. Then a surge of hits followed, including " 500 Miles Away from Home " (based on a traditional folk ballad written by Hedy West as "500 Miles") and Ian Tyson 's " Four Strong Winds ." In 1965 he received two Grammy nominations for Best Country & Western Vocal Performance and Best Country & Western single for the song Four Strong Winds. In 1966, he received a Grammy Nomination for Best Country & Western Male Vocal Performance for his song Talk Me Some Sense. He also recorded with Skeeter Davis , Norma Jean (singer)|Norma Jean and Liz Anderson . "The Game of Triangles", a wife-husband-other woman drama that hit number five on the Billboard chart earned the trio a Grammy nomination. In 1968, he recorded an album with a group from England called The Hillsiders.Citation needed|date=July 2008The English Countryside, RCA Victor SF-7918 (LSP-3896) In 1969, he had a Top 5 hit with Tom T. Hall 's " (Margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn ".
Career at Mercury (19701972)
Bare moved to Mercury Records in 1970 and immediately scored a Top 3 hit with "How I Got To Memphis" and had two Top 10 hits from early Kris Kristofferson compositions, "Come Sundown" (1971) and "Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends," (1971). He also scored a #12 hit in 1972 with a version of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show 's pop hit " Sylvia's Mother ", written by Shel Silverstein .
Second career at RCA (19731977)
After a couple of years at Mercury, Bobby returned to RCA Records in 1973 and scored with Billy Joe Shaver 's "Ride Me Down Easy" which nearly made the Top 10.
Bobby Bare started to release novelty songs recorded live with selected audiences. One such song, " Marie Laveau ," reached the number one position on the country chart in 1974; it was his only number one hit. This song was co-written by his friends Shel Silverstein and Baxter Taylor , who received a BMI Award for the song in 1975.
Silverstein penned other songs for Bare including a Grammy-nominated hit, "Daddy What If," which he recorded with his five-year-old son, Bobby Bare, Jr. The song was an immediate success as well not only reaching #2 on the country charts but nearly reaching the Top 40 on the Pop charts. Bare's album, "Lullabys, Legends and Lies" became his most commercially successful album and Bobby had a new audience with pop radio once again playing his songs and a new following with college kids. These two songs, however, would become Bobby's last Top 10 hits. Bare later recorded a very successful album with his family, written mainly by Silverstein, called "Singin' in The Kitchen." It was nominated for best group category in Grammy Awards, but was declined by Bobby himself.Citation needed|date=May 2007 He continued to record critically acclaimed albums and singles. His biggest hits during this time included "Alimony" (1975), "The Winner" (1976), and " Drop kick|Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through The Goalposts Of Life)" (the world's only Christian - American football|football waltz , and a 1976 Grammy nomineeCitation needed|date=July 2008). In 1977 he recorded "Redneck Hippie Romance" Citation needed|date=May 2007 and "Vegas" (a duet with his wife Jeannie).
Concept album s were nothing new for Bobby, In 1967, Bare came up with a concept album called "Bird Named Yesterday," which was very successful.Citation needed|date=May 2007 His most successful concept album is "Lullabys, Legends and Lies". He also is the first to be given full control of his work and thus the very first Outlaw.Citation needed|date=May 2007
Career at Columbia Records (19781983)
Bobby signed with Columbia Records and continued to have hits like "Sleep Tight Good Night Man" a near Top 10 in 1978 and releasing critically acclaimed albums like "Bare" and "Sleeper Wherever I Fall". In 1979, he started off Rosanne Cash 's career in a big way by singing a duet with her called "No Memories Hangin' Round" which went Top 20 for them. In 1980, he scored a near Top 10 with "Numbers" which came from his album "Down and Dirty" where Bare started to experiment with Southern rock and continued this with his next album "Drunk and Crazy". In 1981, Bobby released an album entitled "As Is" which was produced by Rodney Crowell and returned Bobby back to his country roots with songs like "New Cut Road". Bare was still doing well chartwise into the early 1980s. In 1983, he released a Top 30 duet with Lacy J. Dalton called "It's A Dirty Job". His last trip into the Top 30 came that summer with the novelty song "The Jogger".
Eurovision 2012
On 4 February 2012, Bobby joined up with Petter Ψien at the Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012|2012 Melodi Grand Prix to choose the entry for Norway 's entry to the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Baku , Azerbaijan in May. His song, "Things Change", has got through to the Norwegian final, to be held on 11 February 2012.
Film career
Bobby Bare was also given an opportunity to star in the movies. He acted in a Western (genre)|Western with Troy Donahue , A Distant Trumpet , and a few episodes of the TV series No Time for Sergeants . He turned his back on Hollywood to pursue his career in country music .
Later career in country music and today
From 1983 to 1988, Bobby hosted Bobby Bare and Friends on The Nashville Network which featured Bobby interviewing songwriters who sang their hit songs on the show.
In 1985, Bobby signed with EMI America Records where he scored 3 charted singles, but none of these reached the upper regions of the charts.
In 1998, he formed the band, Old Dogs , with his friends Jerry Reed , Mel Tillis and Waylon Jennings .
In 2005, he recorded a new album after over 20 years, called The Moon Was Blue , producedAmerican Chronicle May 23, 2006, http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/10095 by his son Bobby Bare, Jr. , who is also a musician. He continues to tour today.
In nearly 50 years of making music, Bobby has made many firsts in country music. Bare is credited for introducing Waylon Jennings to RCA .Citation needed|date=May 2007 He is also one of the first to record from many well- known song writers such as Jack Clement , Harlan Howard , Billy Joe Shaver , Mickey Newbury , Tom T. Hall , Shel Silverstein , Baxter Taylor and Kris Kristofferson .Citation needed|date=May 2007
A"Daddy, What If" also peaked at #19 on the RPM (magazine)|RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in Canada.
Guest singles
Year
Single
Artist
US Country
1967
"Chet's Tune"
Some of Chet's Friends
38
Music videos
Year
Video
Director
2005
"Are You Sincere"
Roger Pistole
References
Reflist
Vinicur, Dale. (1998). "Bobby Bare". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music . Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp.& nbsp;2829.
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