Bobby Goldsboro
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'''Bobby Goldsboro''' (born '''Robert Goldsborough''', [[January 18]] [[1941]], [[Marianna, Florida|Marianna]], [[Florida]]), is an [[United States|American]] [[country music|country]]/[[popular music|pop]] [[singer]], as well as a [[songwriter]].
==Career==
When he was a [[adolescence|teenager]], Goldsboro's family moved 35 miles north from Marianna to [[Dothan, Alabama|Dothan]], [[Alabama]]. He graduated from [[Dothan High School]] in 1959, and later enrolled at [[Auburn University]]. He left college after his second year to pursue a musical career.
After three years playing [[guitar]] for [[Roy Orbison]], he set out on a [[solo (music)|solo]] career in 1964. He soon had a [[Top 40|Top Ten]] [[hit single|hit]] with his own composition "See the Funny Little Clown."
Other [[Top 40]] hits from the 1960s and 70s included:
* "Whenever He Holds You"
* "Little Things"
* "Voodoo Woman"
* "It's Too Late"
* "Blue Autumn"
* "Me Japanese Boy I Love You"
* "[[Honey (Bobby Goldsboro song)|Honey]]"
* "Autumn of My Life"
* "The Straight Life"
* "Watching Scotty Grow"
"Honey" was a [[Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1968 (USA)|Number One hit]] in [[1968 in music|1968]] in the [[Billboard Hot 100]]. The [[single (music)|single]] reached Number 2 in the [[UK Singles Chart]], selling in excess of one million copies. In [[Australia]], "Honey" also made it to No.1, rated No.10 overall for 1968, and is ranked at No.25 on the Oz Net Music Chart's Top 100 for the 1960s. It also reached Number 1 on the country chart and became his first country hit. It was also the beginning of his hits becoming more successful on the country charts than on the pop charts.
Goldsboro wrote some of his hits, one in particular, "With Pen in Hand", was [[sound recording and reproduction|recorded]] by several [[musician|artists]], the biggest of which was a [[Grammy]]-nominated pop version by [[Vikki Carr]] that was a Top 40 pop hit in the United States and the [[United Kingdom|UK]] in 1969; while [[Johnny Darrell]] took his version to number 3 on the [[United States|U.S.]] country chart a year earlier. Goldsboro would also record his own version of the song in 1972, but it only graced the lower regions of the pop charts. In the 1970s he had more hits, including "Watching Scotty Grow," (a country Top 10 that nearly made the Top 10 on the pop charts as well, peaking at #11 in 1971), "Summer (The First Time)," "Hello Summertime," "Butterfly for Bucky," and "Me and the Elephants."
In 1973, "Summer (The First Time)" was his last major pop hit. From 1973 to 1975, he hosted the [[television syndication|syndicated]] [[television]] [[variety show|variety]] [[Television program|series]], ''The Bobby Goldsboro Show''.
With his pop career winding down, in the early 1980s, Goldsboro had several Top 20 country hits with "Goodbye Marie", "Alice Doesn't Love Here Anymore" and "Love Ain't Never Hurt Nobody" all released in 1981. His song, "The Cowboy and The Lady" became a Top 10 country hit as "The Cowgirl and The Dandy" for [[Brenda Lee]] in 1980 and for [[John Denver]] in 1981; [[Dolly Parton]] had also [[cover version|covered]] it in 1977. During that decade, Goldsboro retired from performing to produce children's entertainment.
In the 1990s, he [[composer|scored]] the [[soundtrack]] to the [[CBS]] [[situation comedy]], ''[[Evening Shade]]'', and in 1995, he launched the children's television series ''The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon''.
==References==
*[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B6185 All Music Guide]
*Wood, Gerry (1998). "Bobby Goldsboro". In ''The Encyclopedia of Country Music''. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 205.
==External links==
* [http://www.bobbygoldsboro.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.classicbands.com/goldsboro.html Classic Bands]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbXHJPf7r2E Performance of ''Summer (The First Time)''] on the Shirley Bassey Show (BBC2, 7 April 1976)
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