Honey (Bobby Goldsboro song) 4675167 225683019 2008-07-14T21:51:51Z Petepait 7441877 Added "(five weeks)" {{Infobox Single | Name = Honey | Cover = Bobby Goldsboro Honey single cover.jpg | Artist = [[Bobby Goldsboro]] | from Album = Honey | Released = 1968 | Format = [[Vinyl record|Vinyl]] | Recorded = | Genre = [[Country music|Country]] | Length = | Label = [[United Artists Records|United Artists]] | Writer = [[Bobby Russell]] | Producer = | Certification = | Chart position = <ul><li>#1 <small>([[United States|U.S.]])</small></li> <li>#2 <small>([[United Kingdom|UK]])</small></li></ul> | Last single = "Autumn of My Life" <br />(1968) | This single = "Honey" <br />(1968) | Next single = "The Straight Life" <br />(1968) }} "'''Honey'''", also known as "'''Honey (I Miss You)'''", is a song written by [[Bobby Russell]] for American singer [[Bobby Goldsboro]]'s tenth album ''Honey''. The song's protagonist mourns his deceased lover, beginning with him looking at a tree in their garden, remembering "it was just a twig" on the day that they planted it together, then reflecting on their relationship before turning to the day "the angels came." ==Release== It was released as a [[single (music)|single]] in the U.S. in 1968 (see [[1968 in music]]) and spent five weeks at the top of the [[Billboard Hot 100|Billboard Pop Singles Chart]], from [[April 7]] to [[May 11]], and three weeks atop Billboard's [[Hot Country Songs|Hot Country Singles]] chart. It replaced "[[(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay]]" by [[Otis Redding]], and was replaced by [[Archie Bell & the Drells]]' "Tighten Up". It was Goldsboro's first and only number-one hit on the Pop Singles and Country Singles charts, and it was his first song to top the [[Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks|Adult Contemporary chart]]. "Honey" reached number two on the [[UK Singles Chart]], and a re-release of the single in [[United Kingdom|England]] in 1975 (see [[1975 in music]]) was also popular. In Australia it spent four weeks at #1 on the [[ARIA Charts]], replacing [[The Beatles]]' "[[Lady Madonna]]", and was the sixth most popular song of 1968. ==Reception== ''[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]]'' reported that the song frequently appears on "worst songs of all-time" lists, and in April 2006 [[CNN]] named it the "Worst Song of All Time".<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/04/19/eye.ent.worstsong/?section=cnn_mostpopular/ CNN: Worst Song of All Time]</ref> Nonetheless, it remains heavily played on the radio and has been [[cover version|cover]]ed many times. In the 1970s when British radio DJ [[Tony Blackburn]] was going through his divorce with his wife [[Tessa Wyatt]], he regularly played "Honey" and would comment live on air about how much he missed his wife.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} ==Cover versions== *Ed Ames (1968) *[[Eddy Arnold]] (''Romantic World of Eddy Arnold'', 1968) *[[Percy Faith]] (''Angel of the Morning-Hit Themes for Young Lovers'', 1968) *[[David Houston (singer)|David Houston]] (''Already It's Heaven'', 1968) *[[John D. Loudermilk]] (''Country Love Songs Plain and Simply Sung'', 1968) *[[Roger Miller]] (''A Tender Look at Love'', 1968) *[[Jimmy C. Newman]] (''Born to Love You'', 1968) *[[Gary Puckett & The Union Gap]] (''Young Girl'', 1968) *[[Tammy Wynette]] (''D-i-v-o-r-c-e'', 1968) *[[Leon Ashley]] (''Mental Journey'', 1969) *[[Jack Greene]] (''Love Takes Care of Me'', 1969) *[[Hank Snow]] (''Hits Covered by Snow'', 1969) *[[Lynn Anderson]] (''Lynn Anderson'', 1971) *[[Orion (singer)|Orion]] (''Reborn'', 1978) *[[Jim Nabors]] (''Country Side of Jim Nabors'', 1994) *[[Roger Whittaker]] (''Feelings'', 1994) *[[Sil Austin]] (''Great Sax'', 1995) *[[Billy Joe Winghead]] (''Precious Moments with Billy Joe Winghead'', 2003) *[[Lawrence Welk]] (''Upstairs at Larry's: Lawrence Welk Uncorked'', 2004) *[[Dean Martin]] (''Gentle on My Mind'', 1968) *[[Hana Zagorova]] (''Hany'', 1973) *[[Andy Williams]] (Honey, 1968) {{start box}} {{succession box | before = "[[(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay]]" by [[Otis Redding]] | title = [[Billboard Hot 100]] [[List of number-one hits (United States)|number-one single]] | years = [[April 13]] [[1968]] (five weeks) | after = "[[Tighten Up (Archie Bell & the Drells song)|Tighten Up]]" by [[Archie Bell & the Drells]] }}{{succession box | before = "[[Young Girl]]"<br />by [[Gary Puckett and the Union Gap]] | title = [[Cash Box]] [[Top 100 singles]] | years = [[April 20]] [[1968]] | after = "[[Tighten Up (Archie Bell & the Drells song)|Tighten Up]]" by [[Archie Bell & the Drells]] }} {{end box}} ==See also== *[[Hot 100 number-one hits of 1968 (USA)]] *[[List of songs in English labeled the worst ever]] ==Notes== <references/> ==References== *http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:8tkmu3y5an6k~T1 *http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:r69hs34ba3ng~T51 [[Category:1968 singles]] [[Category:1975 singles]] [[Category:Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles]] [[Category:Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles]] [[Category:Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks number-one singles]] [[Category:Bobby Goldsboro songs]] [[Category:Number-one singles in Ireland]]