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Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods

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Website
  
Official website

Genres
  
Pop music, Garage rock

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Years active
  
1965–1980; 1996–present

Origin
  
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States (1965)

Albums
  
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, Christmas with Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, The Best Of

Members
  
Robert Walter Donaldson , Mike Gibbons, Rick Joswick

Record labels
  
ABC Records, Three Kids Music

Similar
  
Paper Lace, Terry Jacks, Jim Stafford, Peter Callander, Andy Kim

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Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods are an American pop music group, known mainly for their 1970s hit singles, "Billy Don't Be A Hero" and "Who Do You Think You Are".

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History

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The band was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1965 by their leader Bo Donaldson. They were first discovered while touring with The Osmonds in the early 1970s and signed with Family Productions, releasing their first single in 1972, "Special Someone", but their big break came after moving to ABC Records and working with the record producer Steve Barri in 1973. Although their first single with ABC, "Deeper and Deeper," failed to make a big impression on the charts, beginning in 1974, the band began a string of hit songs. Their first two (and largest two) hits were cover versions of British hit songs whose original versions had not been hits in the U.S.: "Billy Don't Be A Hero" (a cover of a #1 UK Paper Lace song that reached #1 for 2 weeks on the Hot 100 with the Heywoods' version) and "Who Do You Think You Are" (written by Clive Scott & Des Dyer of Jigsaw, which originally became a hit for Candlewick Green and reached #15 on the Hot 100 with the Heywoods' version). This was followed by their last top-40 hit, "The Heartbreak Kid" (# 39 Hot 100), and their ominously titled last Hot 100 hit, "Our Last Song Together" (#95 on the Hot 100, the last song written by the Sedaka-Greenfield tandem before its breakup). "Billy Don't Be A Hero" sold over three and a half million copies, receiving a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in June 1974.

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In 1975 they began a migration across three other record labels as the hits dried up by the end of the decade. By 1978, they were known as "The Bo Donaldson Band" and eventually split after trying country music with no success in the 1980s. They reformed again in 1996 as a nostalgia act and still make appearances, most notably in the Barry Williams hosted nostalgia show, Original Idols Live.

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In 1996 Varese Vintage Records released Best of Bo Donaldson And the Heywoods, a 15-song compilation of material originally released on Family Productions (1972) and ABC Records (1973–1975). The CD contains all their charted singles and, in fact, includes 9 of the 11 songs featured on the 1974 LP Billy Don't Be a Hero (#97 on the Hot 200). The CD booklet includes liner notes written by Gordon Pogoda and the CD features such highlights as "Who Do You Think You Are", "The House on Telegraph Hill", and "The Heartbreak Kid". In 1975, the band was working on a second album of material for ABC including "Our Last Song Together", released as a single (and which made the pop charts), and "Take Me Make Me Yours", which to this day remains unreleased. Ultimately the group left the label and joined Capitol Records, where they recorded songs by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, the writing/producing team behind the UK act The Sweet.

Lead singer and trumpeter Mike Gibbons died on 2 April 2016.

Members

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  • Robert Walter "Bo" Donaldson - keyboards
  • Mike Gibbons - lead vocals and trumpet
  • David Krock - bass guitar and backing vocalist
  • Rick Joswick - lead vocals and tambourine
  • Gary Coveyou - saxophone, flute and backing vocalist
  • Baker Scott - guitar (1974)
  • Richard Brunetti - drums

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    Songs

    Billy Don't Be a HeroBo Donaldson and the Heywoods · 1974
    Who Do You Think You AreBo Donaldson and the Heywoods · 1974
    Our Last Song Together

    References

    Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods Wikipedia


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