Bobby Goldsboro



Bobby Goldsboro (born January 18, 1941)[2]  is an American pop and country singer-songwriter. He had a string of pop and country hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including his signature No. 1 hit "Honey", which sold over one million copies in the United States.



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[hide]  *1 Biography  ==Biography[edit] == ===Early life[edit] === Goldsboro was born in Marianna, Florida.[2]  In 1941, Goldsboro's family moved 35 miles north from Marianna to Dothan, Alabama.[1]  He graduated from Dothan High School in 1959 and later enrolled at Auburn University. Goldsboro left college after his second year to pursue a musical career. He played guitar for Roy Orbison from 1962 to 1964. ===Career[edit] === Goldsboro's solo career picked up steam with the top ten hit "See the Funny Little Clown". The single, written by Goldsboro, reached No. 9 on the U.S. national charts in early 1964. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.[2]  It was to be the first of a string of similar awards. Goldsboro would go on to have 16 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and 12 on the country chart.[1] [3]  In 1966 he recorded "It's Too Late" with "Too Many People" on the B-side. Although Goldsboro was not a prolific performer of dance music, both of these songs were huge hits with Northern soul in Great Britain and were played extensively.[4]  His biggest hit was 1968's "Honey", a tearjerker about the death of a man's young wife.[1] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-jwpop_3-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  The song, written by Bobby Russell, was recorded in one take.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tomR_5-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  It became the largest-selling record in the world for 1968 and topped the Hot 100 for five weeks, reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart on two separate occasions (1968 and 1975),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-British_Hit_Singles_.26_Albums_6-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  and was a No. 1 single in Australia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_Book_of_Golden_Discs_2-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  It also became his first country hit as well.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]
 * 1.1 Early life
 * 1.2 Career
 * 2 Discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 3 References
 * 4 Bibliography
 * 5 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From 1973 to 1975, Goldsboro hosted the successful syndicated television variety series The Bobby Goldsboro Show.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One of Goldsboro's compositions, "With Pen in Hand", was recorded by several artists, including a Grammy-nominated pop version by Vikki Carr that reached the "Top 40", in 1969; Johnny Darrell had taken the song to No. 1 on the US country chart a year earlier. Goldsboro's "The Cowboy and the Lady" became a "Top 10" country hit as "The Cowgirl and the Dandy" for Brenda Lee in 1980; Dolly Parton had also covered it in1977, and John Denver had a hit with the song in 1981.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">"Summer (The First Time)", a 1973 reminiscence about a 17-year-old boy's first sexual experience with a 31-year-old woman<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed], was a Top 20 hit in the U.S. and reached number 9 in the UK.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ukc_7-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  It was voted the all-time greatest "summer" song in England's history.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]  Using a repeating piano riff, 12-string guitar, and an orchestral string arrangement, the song was suggestive enough to spark some controversy<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;">[clarification needed]. A follow-up, "Hello Summertime", was written by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway and hit No. 14 in the UK in late 1974.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ukc_7-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-British_Hit_Singles_.26_Albums_6-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the 1990s, he composed the music for the CBS situation comedy Evening Shade. In 1995, he created the fifty-two episode children's television series The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon. Goldsboro voiced all the characters, wrote all the scripts, and played all the musical instruments.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  Goldsboro is also an accomplished oil painter. His paintings are carried in major art galleries and have sold all over the world.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Key: <sup style="line-height:1;">1  Indicates titles that were awarded gold disc status.