THE MUSEUM IS OPEN! Bare followed with a folk-based song he co-wrote, “500 Miles Away From Home,” a Top Ten hit on both the country and pop charts in 1963-64. Bare's mother died when he was five. Please consult instructions for your web browser to disable or block cookies, or to receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer or mobile device. He also famously penned several Dr. Hook hits, including “The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone,’ ” a Top Ten pop smash in 1973. In the late '50s, he moved out to Los Angeles. Bare appeared in the 1964 movie A Distant Trumpet, but he disliked being stuck in the Arizona desert and was determined to move to Nashville, join the Grand Ole Opry and become a full-time country singer. It was followed by Tom T. Halls Margies At The Lincoln Park Inn. Bare switched record labels in 1970, signing with Mercury Records. Elsewhere on Great American Saturday Night, Silverstein’s lyrics cover topics such as weight loss and dating, and, hinting at the tunesmith and Playboy cartoonist’s more ribald humor, public nudity in “They Won’t Let Us Show It at the Beach.”. He admired the story of the country boy going to the city (By day I make the cars/By night I make the bars) so much that he recorded the song as Detroit City. Silverstein penned other songs for Bare including a Grammy-nominated hit, "Daddy What … Like many famous people and celebrities, Bobby Bare keeps his personal life private. A number of labels refused the record before the Ohio-based Fraternity Records bought it for 50 dollars; the fee also included the publishing rights. Its a great cheating song, says Bare, because you dont know if the guy is going to go back or not. By this time, Bare was recording consistently strong material, including an album about nostalgia, A Bird Named Yesterday, mostly written by Jack Clement.
With a live audience in the background helping to set the scene and offer support for the humble singer, Bare’s weather-beaten narrator wrings every ounce of vintage honky-tonk pathos from the tune without a hint of self-pity or resentment. Bare resumed his own career on leaving the army, but his singles (Lynchin Party, Sailor Man, Lorena) made little impact. Bobby Bare - Biography. The concept was simply one of stories, but Lullabys, Legends And Lies, released as a double album in the USA and a single album in the UK with no loss in music, has become a classic country album. His military stint over, Bare recorded for Fraternity until Chet Atkins signed him to RCA in early 1962.