Bob Lind is an American

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 folk music

Folk music

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 singer-songwriter

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 who reached the height of his success during the 1960s. Lind is best known for his transatlantic chart hit

Hit record

A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...

 single

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, "Elusive Butterfly

Elusive Butterfly

"Elusive Butterfly" is a popular song by Bob Lind released in 1966, which reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also recorded and released in 1966 in the UK by the Irish singer Val Doonican...

", which reached #5 on both the US

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 and UK

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 chart

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s in 1966.

Career

Lind signed a recording contract

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 with Liberty Records

Liberty Records

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' subsidiary

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, World Pacific Records, in 1965, and it was on that label

Record label

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 that he recorded "Elusive Butterfly." The single may have done even better on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 had there not been competition from established Irish recording artist Val Doonican

Val Doonican

Val Doonican is an Irish singer. From 1965 to 1986 he was a regular fixture on the BBC Television's schedule with The Val Doonican Show, which featured his own singing performances and a variety of guest artists...

, who released a cover version

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 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. Lind also wrote "Cheryl's Goin' Home", which was covered by Adam Faith

Adam Faith

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. It was Faith's last British hit.

Over 200 artists - including Sonny Bono

Sonny Bono

Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.-Early life:...

, Cher

Cher

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, Glen Campbell

Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...

, Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...

, Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...

, Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

, Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sandra Sinatra is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains best known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"....

, The Four Tops, Richie Havens

Richie Havens

Richard P. "Richie" Havens is an African American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense, rhythmic guitar style , soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.-Career:Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children...

, Hoyt Axton

Hoyt Axton

Hoyt Wayne Axton was an American country music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. As he matured, some of his songwriting efforts became well...

, Blues Project

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, The Cascades

The Cascades

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, and Petula Clark

Petula Clark

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 - have covered songs written by Lind, but as a recording artist, he remains a one-hit wonder

One-hit wonder

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.

Lind retired from the music industry in 1969 to pursue other interests. In more recent years he has resided in Florida

Florida

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 and works as a writer. He is the author

Author

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 of five novels, and has written for such supermarket

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 tabloids as the Weekly World News

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and the Sun

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Lind returned to music in 2004, when he began performing again and established an official website. In 2006, RPM Records re-issued the album Since There Were Circles, and in 2007, Ace Records (UK)

Ace Records (UK)

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 released Elusive Butterfly: The Complete 1966 Jack Nitzsche Sessions.

The British band, Pulp

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, have a song named after him: "Bob Lind (The Only Way Is Down)", from their album, We Love Life

We Love Life

Initial critical response to We Love Life was very positive. The album received an average score of 84 at Metacritic, based on 20 reviews. The music review online magazine Pitchfork Media placed We Love Life at number 194 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.-Track listing:All songs written...

. A Lind recording, "Cool Summer" was also included on the compilation album

Compilation album

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, The Trip, compiled by Pulp's Jarvis Cocker

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 and Steve Mackey

Steve Mackey

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Singles

• "Wandering" / "Hey Nellie Nellie" - Verve Folkways 5018 (1966)
• "Elusive Butterfly" / "Cheryl's Goin' Home" - World Pacific 77808 (1966) - UK
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   #5; US
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   #5
• "Remember The Rain" / "Truly Julie's Blues" - World Pacific 77822 (1966) - UK #46
• "I Just Let It Take Me" / "We've Never Spoken" - World Pacific 77830 (1966)
• "San Francisco Woman" / "Baby Take Me Home" - World Pacific 77839 (1966)
• "Goodtime Special" / "It's Just My Love" - World Pacific 77865 (1967)
• "Goodbye Neon Lies" / "We May Have Touched" - World Pacific 77879 (1968)

Albums

• Don't Be Concerned - World Pacific WP 1841(mono)/WPS 21841 (stereo) (1966)
• The Elusive Bob Lind - Verve Folkways FT 3005 (mono)/FTS 3005 (stereo) (1966)
• Photographs Of Feeling - World Pacific WP 1851/WPS 21851 (1966)
• Since There Were Circles - Capitol ST-780 (1971)
• You Might Have Heard My Footsteps - The Best Of Bob Lind - EMI America 53128 (1993)
• Live at the Luna Star Cafe (2006)
• Elusive Butterfly: The Complete 1966 Jack Nitzsche Sessions - Big Beat 265 (2007)

External links

• Official website
• Bob Lind appreciation website
• Spectropop's Bob Lind page has album and touring information.
• "Elusive Butterfly" Lyrics