Career Goldsboro's career picked up steam with the 'See the Funny Little Clown.' The self-penned single reached No. 9 on the U.S. National charts in early 1964.
The Official Website of Bobby Goldsboro! Bobby goldsboro. Bobby Goldsboro (born 18 January 1941) is an American country music singer and composer. He was born in Marianna, Florida. When he was a teenager his family moved to Dothan, Alabama.
Goldsboro would go on to have 11 Top 40 hits on the national, and 12 on the country chart. His biggest hit was 's ', a maudlin tear-jerker about the death of a man's young wife. The song, written by, was recorded in one take. It topped the U.S. Chart for four weeks, reached Number 2 in the on two separate occasions (1968 and 1975), and was a #1 single in Australia. The single sold in excess of one million copies.
It also became his first country hit, and marked a career transition, as his songs became more successful on the country chart than on the pop side. Goldsboro's last Top 40 hit on the Hot 100 came in late 1973, but he remained a fixture in the country top 40 into the early 1980s. In early 1971, a plane Goldsboro was traveling on was hijacked to Cuba. Goldsboro said they were given lunch in Havana and generally well treated. From 1973 to 1975, he hosted the, The Bobby Goldsboro Show. One of Goldsboro's compositions, 'With Pen in Hand', was by several, including a -nominated pop version by that reached the Top 40 in 1969; had taken the song to #3 on the U.S.
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 in 1980; had also it in, and had a hit with the song in 1981. 'Summer (The First Time)', a reminiscence about losing one's virginity to an older woman, was a Top 20 hit in the U.S. Using a powerful repeating piano riff, 12-string guitar, some organ playing and a dramatic orchestral string arrangement, the song was suggestive enough to spark some controversy.
A followup, 'Hello Summertime', was written by and and hit #14 in the UK in late 1974. Goldsboro retired from full-time performing in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he the to the,. In 1995, he launched the children's television series.
Besides his musical activities, Goldsboro sells paintings on his official website. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits, p.128-129.
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The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, p.267. ISBN 0-8230-7690-3. Roland, Tom (1991). The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits, p.9.
ISBN 0-8230-7553-2. Bibliography. Wood, Gerry (1998). 'Bobby Goldsboro'.
In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. External links. at the. at.
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