Let’s Think About Livin’ – BOB LUMAN***

Let’s Think About Living/Meet Mr Mud/Bad Bad Day/Every Time The World Goes Round/Jealous Heart/I Love You Because/Oh Lonesome Me/Throwin’ Kisses/Why Why Bye Bye/Dreamy Doll/I Love You So Much It Hurts/You Win Again

Texan country singer Bob Luman is now only remembered for his worldwide pop smash Let’s Think About Livin’ with its sardonic observations on contemporary society. (UK:18)

“Bob Luman enjoyed a special vocal gift that allowed him to alternately convey a sense of comfort as well as excitement. Eventually, Boudleaux Bryant penned Luman’s 1960 Top 10 hit Let’s Think About Living.”

“Bob Luman had a voice not unlike Elvis or even Johnny Horton, but his music was closer to the great Carl Perkins. Bob Luman's heyday was in the early 1960s when honky-tonk was being infused with original rock 'n' roll, and Luman's sound was the epitome of this movement.”

“His biggest hit, what we'd now call a 'crossover', was Let's Think About Living, which did well not only on the country charts, but the pop charts of the day as well. There are a few others that are immediately recognizable: You Win Again and Oh Lonesome Me. If you like true rockabilly, then this one is well worth owning.”

“Bob said at one of his concerts that the problem he had was the rock people said he sounded too country and the country people said he sounded too rock.”