Bobby Bare finally got a record deal, with Capitol Records, and recorded a few unsuccessful rock and roll singles.
14 Facts About Bobby Bare
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Bobby Bare recorded two duet albums with Skeeter Davis and recorded six tracks as a trio with Norma Jean and Liz Anderson, which produced a major hit with "The Game of Triangles", a wife-husband-other woman drama that hit No 5 on the Billboard chart and earned the trio a Grammy nomination.
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Bobby Bare returned to RCA in 1973, after two years at Mercury.
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Bobby Bare started to release novelty songs recorded live with selected audiences.
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Bobby Bare later recorded a children's album with his family, mainly of Silverstein songs, called Singin' in the Kitchen.
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Bobby Bare signed with Columbia Records and continued to have hits like "Sleep Tight Good Night Man", which barely cracked the Top 10 in 1978, alongside continuing to score critical acclaim with his releases Bobby Bare and Sleeper Wherever I Fall.
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On that album, Bobby Bare started to experiment with Southern rock, which continued with his following album, Drunk and Crazy.
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The next year, Bobby Bare returned to his country roots with his Rodney Crowell-produced album As Is, featuring the single "New Cut Road".
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Bobby Bare was still doing well chartwise into the early 1980s.
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Bobby Bare released "Used Cars", the theme song from the film of the same name.
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Bobby Bare acted in a Western with Troy Donahue, A Distant Trumpet, and had a memorable scene being branded for desertion, and a few episodes of the TV series No Time for Sergeants.
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Bobby Bare turned his back on Hollywood to pursue his country career.
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In 1985, Bobby Bare signed with EMI America Records where he scored three low-charting singles.
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In 2012, Bobby Bare performed a duet of the song "I'd Fight The World" on the Jamey Johnson album Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran.