Sunday, May 9, 2021

Bob Lind - Discography

BOB LIND 

Bob Lind has enjoyed a sizable cult following based on a rather small body of work; he released just four albums between 1966 and 1971 (one a collection of demos never intended for commercial release), and landed just one single in the Top 40, but he's acknowledged as one of the key artists in the '60s folk-rock boom, and over 200 different artists have recorded his songs. Robert Neale Lind was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 25, 1944. His family moved a great deal when he was young, but as a teenager he settled in Denver, Colorado and began singing rock & roll and rhythm & blues when he was in eighth grade. In high school, Lind formed a band called the Moonlighters, and while attending Western State University in Gunnison, Colorado, he led a rock group, Bob Lind & the Misfits, specializing in early rock covers. As a new breed of songwriters emerged on the folk music scene in the early '60s, Lind took up songwriting and started playing occasional shows at local coffee houses. He relocated to San Francisco, where he continued writing songs and playing small venues, and in 1965, he headed south to Los Angeles, where he scored an audition with World Pacific Records, a subsidiary of Liberty Records. World Pacific signed Lind to a record contract, and after he landed a publishing deal with Metric Music, he was introduced to producer and arranger Jack Nitzsche, who liked Lind's songs and agreed to work with him. With Nitzsche providing artful backdrops for Lind's emotionally literate songs, the two proved to be an inspired pairing in the studio, and World Pacific had high hopes for Lind's first single, "Cheryl's Goin' Home." However, several disc jockeys began playing the flipside, "Elusive Butterfly," and the song rose to number five on the Billboard Singles charts in 1966.
















6 comments:

old fan said...

Thanks for these and all your other work. Much appreciated.

Ozzieguy said...

Very welcome Old Fan.

Aussie said...

thank you Ozzieguy like this good upload tks from Aussie

Ozzieguy said...

Very welcome mate.

Verse and Rhyme said...

Hi Ozzieguy, Many thanks for the great, great stuff you've been sharing. May I make a request? Could you please place in every album's folder somewhere the name of the artist? Lately I've ended up with a lot of files where I don't know who they are by, after I put the albums all into a large folder, with no artist listed in the file title, or in any of the tags. Thanks for your consideration of this, and for all you do.

Ozzieguy said...

Oh sorry Verse and Rhyme, I shall try and place it onto the actual mp3. Maybe when you save an album name your folder the name of the artist. :-)
Many thanks for letting me know VandR
Best Wishes
Ozzieguy