![]() ![]() It peaked at #6 in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia #8 in Columbus, Georgia, and #7 in Kansas City, Missouri. He spends all the money he earns on Cajun queens and he’s happy as he can be. His dad was a riverboat man and his mom is Cajun through and through. “Muddy Mississippi Line” is a song about a guy who works on a barge in New Orleans loading coffee beans. Though Goldsboro managed to place this single among the fifth of six in a row in the Top Ten US Adult Contemporary chart, the song performed poorly on the Billboard Hot 100. “Muddy Mississippi Line” was the title song from the album of the same name released by Bobby Goldsboro in July 1969. They all told Goldsboro, “you’ve got a hit record.” Among the singles Bobby Goldsboro released over the next year was “Muddy Mississippi Line”. But with “Honey”, all the session musicians stayed to hear the song played in the recording studio. Bobby told him that usually session musicians go out for a smoke or a break to get some snacks after a recording session has ended. In 2018, Warren Lawrence of WKNY radio in Kingston, New York, asked Bobby Goldsboro if he knew he had a hit record with “Honey” when he recorded the song. In 1968, “Honey” sold over five million records. This was a song that told a tragic story about a deceased lover. Nonetheless, “Broomstick Cowboy” peaked at #6 in San Jose (CA), #7 in Orlando (FL), #10 in Knoxville (TN) and Nashville (TN)Īfter a dozen efforts to get another hit in the Top 20 failed, Bobby Goldsboro recorded “Honey”. On the American Bandstand show, Dick Clark told Bobby Goldsboro he had to sing the B-side to “Broomstick Cowboy”, titled “Ain’t Got Time For Happy”. Goldsboro recalls, “half the stations in the country wouldn’t play it (“Broomstick Cowboy”). Many DJ’s gave the song a pass and it peaked at #53 on the national charts. He has to “learn to hate” and “learn to kill.” The lyrics teach: “It’s always been that way, my son, I guess it always will.” The song lamented the change in the boy who now has to call a man his enemy he once called friend and questioned why people had to die. Then he has to become a soldier and fight in a war. The song’s lyrics told about a young boy who plays with his broomstick cowboy and his toys. ABC banned the song from all the ABC affiliated radio stations. However, he told Goldsboro that ABC wouldn’t let “Broomstick Cowboy” be played on the show. Dick Clark had Bobby Goldsboro perform on American Bandstand. One of the singles he released during this period was “Broomstick Cowboy”. ![]() Of his next twelve singles released between 19, only three made the Top 40, and only marginally. The song went to #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Bobby Goldsboro was beginning to wonder if he was going to be remembered as a one-hit-wonder. Goldsboro’s next release, “I Don’t Know You Anymore”, failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100. Although the song about a Japanese boy and his affection for a Japanese girl was sweet-natured, the third person narration in the song didn’t connect with radio audiences during Beatlemania. Then Goldsboro released a Burt Bacharach-Hal David song titled “Me Japanese Boy I Love You”. “Whenever He Holds You” peaked at #39 on the Billboard charts. The following year he was the opening act on tour with The Beach Boys.Īfter “See The Funny Little Clown”, Bobby Goldsboro released several more singles. Subsequently, he was the opening act on a tour headlined by the Four Seasons. That year Goldsboro was the opening act on tour with the Rolling Stones. but didn’t appear on the CFUN charts in 1964. So he sat down in his parents living room and wrote “See The Funny Little Clown.” The song peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 when Goldsboro was turning 23 years old. But after sitting and listening to the three songs, Bobby thought none of them were hit material. Only one of these, “Molly,” made the Billboard Hot 100, and only marginally. In 1964 Goldsboro had his first of sixteen Top 40 hits in the USA with “See the Funny Little Clown.” Having switched labels, United Artists had sent him three songs to choose from in advance of recording, hopefully, a hit record. In 1962, Goldsboro released his first of four singles on Laurie Records. He roomed with Roy Orbison and they became close friends. From 1962 to 1964 Goldsboro toured with Orbison, including the tour where The Beatles appeared as the opening act on the UK tour with Orbison as headliner. Goldsboro learned is musical skills as he grew, by the age of twenty-one, Goldsboro became a guitarist for Roy Orbison. Shortly after his birth his family moved 35 miles north to Dothan, Alabama, where he was raised. #754: Muddy Mississippi by Bobby Goldsboroīobby Goldsboro was born in Mariana, Florida, in the Florida Panhandle in 1941. ![]()
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