Bobby Bare Biography
Bobby Bare (born Robert Joseph Bare Sr) is an American country musician, singer, and songwriter. He is famous for his singles Detroit City and 500 Miles away From Home. He is the father of Bobby Bare Jr who is also a musician. The CMA announced that Bare would be a 2013 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame in April 2013. Other 2013 Inductees include Cowboy Jack Clement and Kenny Rogers.
Bobby Bare Age
Bare is 85 years old as of 2020, he was born on 7 April 1935 in Ironton, Ohio, the U.S. He celebrates his birthday on 7 April every year and his birth sign is Aries. Bare will be turning 86 years old as of 7 April 2021.
Bobby Bare Height
Bobby stands at a height of 1.77 meters(5feet 9inches).
Bobby Bare Weight
Bare has a weight of 64kgs (141.09lbs).
Bobby Bare Parents
Bare was born and raised by her parents in Ironton. Our efforts to find out more about his family came to no avail as no such information is publicly available. Thus, the identity of Bare’s parents is still unclear. It is also not known if he has any siblings. We will update this section once this information is available.
Bobby Bare Wife
Bobby is married to Jeannie Sterling Bare. The couple got married in 1964 and are still together to date. The couple is blessed with a son Bobby Bare Jr. His son is also a musician best known for the songs “Marie Laveau”, “Detroit City” and “500 Miles Away from Home”.
Bobby Bare Net Worth
Bare has an estimated net worth of $44 million dollars as of 2020. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as a Singer. Through his various sources of income, Bare has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
Bobby Bare Early Music Career
During the 1950s, Bobby tried to se4ll his songs but repeatedly failed in the act. But he finally got a record deal with Capitol Records and recorded a few rock and roll singles. Just before he was drafted into the United States Army, he wrote a song called “The All American Boy” and did a demo for his friend, Bill Parsons, to learn how to record. Instead of using Parsons’ later version, the record company, Fraternity Records, decided to go with Bare’s original demo.
The record reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, but Fraternity erroneously credited Bill Parsons on the label. The same track, with the same billing error, peaked at No. 22 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1959. In 1965, an album of older recorded material, Tender Years (JM-6026), was released on the Hilltop label. That same year, the material was repackaged by Sears and released under the title Bobby In Song (SPS-115). These albums are not usually included in Bare’s published discographies.
Bobby Bare Music Career
Bare’s big break in country music came when Chet Atkins signed him to RCA Victor. His debut single for the label was 1962’s “Shame On Me”. Follow-up “Detroit City” reached No. 6 Country, No. 16 Hot 100, and in 1964 earned him a Grammy Award for Best Country and Western Recording. Then a surge of hits followed, including “500 Miles Away from Home” (based on a traditional folk ballad written by Hedy West as “500 Miles”) and Ian Tyson’s “Four Strong Winds”.
After two years at Mercury, Bare returned to RCA in 1973 and scored once more with Billy Joe Shaver’s “Ride Me Down Easy”, which nearly made the Top 10. Bare started to release novelty songs recorded live with selected audiences. One such song, “Marie Laveau”, topped the country chart in 1974; the song remains Bare’s only #1 hit. It was co-written by his friends Silverstein and Baxter Taylor, who received a BMI Award for the song in 1975.
In 1980, he almost cracked the Top 10 with “Numbers”, which came from his album Down and Dirty. On that album, Bare started to experiment with Southern rock, which continued with his following album, Drunk and Crazy. The next year, Bare returned to his country roots with his Rodney Crowell-produced album As-Is, featuring the single “New Cut Road”.
Bare was still doing well chart-wise into the early 1980s. In 1983, his duet with Lacy J. Dalton, “It’s A Dirty Job”, hit the Top 30. His last trip into the Top 30 came that summer with the novelty song “The Jogger”. He also released “Used Cars”, the theme song from the film of the same name.
In January and February 2012, Bare joined up with Petter Øien at the 2012 Melodi Grand Prix to choose Norway’s entry to the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in May. His song Things Change got through to the Norwegian final where Øien and Bare finished third.= On April 10, 2013, the CMA announced that Bare would be a 2013 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Other 2013 Inductees include Cowboy Jack Clement and Kenny Rogers. He has performed with other artists including Kenny Rodgers and Dolly Parton
Bobby Bare “Marie Laveau”
This was bobby’s only number one and the final top ten countries hit. It was written by Shel Silverstein and Baxter Taylor. “Marie Laveau” went to number one for a single week and spent a total of 18 weeks on the country charts.
Bobby Bare 500 Miles From Home
Robert wrote and released this song in 1963 and became commercially successful hitting the top 10 in the United States, Billboard Hot 100, as well as at the top 5 on both Country and Contemporary Charts.
Bobby Bare Detroit City
Bare released this song in May 1963 in Nashville Tennessee under the RCA Victor Label. The song hit Billboard Hot 100 in the United States as well as a top 5 on the United States Billboard Adult Contemporary
Bobby Bare Film Career
Bare was also given an opportunity to star in movies. He 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. He turned his back on Hollywood to pursue his country’s career.
Bobby Bare Albums
- 1963 Detroit City And Other Hits,500 Miles Away from Home
- 1964 The Travelin’ Bare
- 1965 Tunes for Two (with Skeeter Davis), Constant Sorrow
- 1966 The Best of Bobby Bare, Talk Me Some Sense, The Streets of Baltimore, This I Believe
- 1967 The Game of Triangles (with Norma Jean & Liz Anderson), A Bird Named Yesterday, The English Country Side (with The Hillsides)
- 1968 The Best of Bobby Bare – Volume 2
- 1969 (Margie’s At) The Lincoln Park Inn,(And Other Controversial Country Songs)
- 1970 Your Husband My Wife (with Skeeter Davis), Real Thing, This Is Bare Country,
- 1971 Where Have All the Seasons Gone, I Need Some Good News Bad
- 1972 What Am I Gonna Do?, High and Dry
- 1973 I Hate Goodbyes / Ride Me Down Easy, Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends, and Lies
- 1974 Singin’ in the Kitchen (Bobby Bare and Family)
- 1975 Hard Time Hungry, Cowboys and Daddys
- 1976 The Winner and Other Losers
- 1977 Me and McDill
- 1978 Sleeper Wherever I Fall
- 1980 Down & Dirty, Drunk & Crazy
- 1981 As-Is
- 1982 Ain’t Got Nothin’ to Lose
- 1983 Drinkin’ from the Bottle
- 1998 Old Dogs (with Waylon Jennings, Jerry Reed, & Mel Tillis)
- 2005 The Moon Was Blue
- 2012 Darker Than Light
- 2017 Things Change
Frequently Asked Questions About Bobby Bare
Bobby Bare born Robert Joseph Bare Sr on April 7, 1935, in Ironton Ohio is an American country musician, singer, and songwriter. He is famous for his singles Detroit City and 500 Miles away From Home
Bare is 85 years old as of 2020, he was born on 7 April 1935 in Ironton, Ohio, the U.S. He celebrates his birthday on 7 April every year and his birth sign is Aries. Bare will be turning 86 years old as of 7 April 2021.
Bobby stands at a height of 1.77 meters(5feet 9inches).
Bobby is married to Jeannie Sterling Bare. They got married back in 1964 and are still together to date.
Bare has an estimated net worth of $44 million dollars as of 2020. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as a Singer. Through his various sources of income, Bare has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
Because of security reasons, He has not shared his precise location of residence. We will immediately update this information if we get the location and images of his house
Bobby is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of her being sick or having any health-related issues.
Bobby Bare born Robert Joseph Bare Sr on April 7, 1935, in Ironton Ohio is an American country musician, singer, and songwriter. He is famous for his singles Detroit City and 500 Miles away From Home.