ROMEO'S TUNE Written By Steve Forbert It's Take From " Jackrabbit Slim" Format: Vinyl A Side -- Track 1 Release Date: 1979 Label: EPIC (CBS) Distributed By CBS Records/CBS Inc. Produced By John Simon PERSONNEL Steve Forbert: Guitar, Harmonica And Vocals Joe Goin: Lead Guitar Bob Wray: Bass Bobby Ogdin: Piano Paul Errico: Organ Accordion Ron Keller: Trumpet Dennis Good: Trombone Roger Clark: Drums ABOUT HIM Steve Forbert (born Samuel Stephen Forbert, December 13, 1954) is an American pop music singer-songwriter. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980. Even though the sleeve of the album Jackrabbit Slim (1979) states that "Romeo's Tune" is "dedicated to the memory of Florence Ballard," the song is not really about the Supremes singer who died in 1976. The song was actually written about a girl from Forbert's home town of Meridian, Mississippi, but was dedicated to Ballard because, as Forbert explains, "That seemed! like such bad news to me and such sad news. She wasn't really taken care of by the music business, which is not a new story." Critics hailed him at the time as the "new Bob Dylan", given a similar vocal timbre and thoughtful songwriting. The front cover of his second album, Jackrabbit Slim, encourages such comparisons with its simplicity: a black-and-white photo of Forbert playing a well-worn Martin acoustic guitar with a capo on it, his shirt tinted green. The record was recorded in Nashville
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