"Honey" Bobby Goldsboro (billboard #1 today 1968)

[niyad]

Honey (Bobby Goldsboro song)
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"Honey"
Bobby Goldsboro Honey single cover.jpg
Single by Bobby Goldsboro
from the album Honey
B-side "Danny"
Released February 17, 1968[1]
Format Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Recorded January 30, 1968[1]
Genre Country
Length 3:55
Label United Artists
Songwriter(s) Bobby Russell
Producer(s) Bob Montgomery
Bobby Goldsboro singles chronology
"Pledge of Love"
(1967) "Honey"
(1968) "Autumn of My Life"
(1968)

"Honey", also known as "Honey (I Miss You)", is a song written by Bobby Russell. He first produced it with former Kingston Trio member Bob Shane. Then he gave it to American singer Bobby Goldsboro, who recorded it for his 1968 album of the same name, originally titled Pledge of Love.

The song's narrator mourns his deceased lover, beginning with him looking at a tree in their garden, remembering how "it was just a twig" on the day she planted it (with his disapproval). This single about the loss of a loved one hit No. 1 the week after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Further, the Hot 100 top 10 run of "Honey" began the week of the King assassination and ended the week of the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and no other Hot 100 entry had a top 10 run that spanned that same time interval.[2]

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Thanks for the info! I remember that song well.

I was 15 and listened to top 40 constantly!

[niyad]

2. you are most welcome. song always made me tear up.

[Control-Z]

3. That song would come on my father's

radio alarm in the mornings while I was still in bed. I would lay there with my head under the covers and cry every time because I thought it was about my mom, who had died. I was pretty young still.

[niyad]

5. I am so sorry if that brought back such unhappy memories.

[nolabear]

9. I had the exact same experience.

My mother died in March of 68. I was thirteen. It would come on the radio and my father would go still. I really hated it.

[msongs]

4. practically shakespearean lyrics - what the heck/hugged my neck. ouch nt

[Dave Starsky]

8. Goldsboro's lyrics were always ridiculous.

Like something an inexperienced--though undeniably earnest--junior high schooler would write.

My dad always made fun of his songs whenever they played. I, of course, joined in. We had a lot of laughs together listening to those songs.

Years later in life, as a grown man, I found myself working on a video project for which Bobby Goldsboro had done the music. My team was faced with a ridiculously tight deadline for delivery, but we encountered an editing-related question that only the musical director could resolve. Goldsboro had left us his home phone number if there were any questions, but it was 1:00 a.m, so I wasn't sure whether I should call him or not. I had never met the man; he might be a real asshole.

So about 1:15 a.m., I called him. I couldn't believe that he answered right away. (This was years before cell phones.) He was friendly, helpful, and grateful that we were asking about this stuff before the final product went out. He was such a cool, easygoing, and patient guy that within about five minutes, I felt bad that I had ever made fun of him in my life.

[niyad]

11. thank you so much for sharing that sweet memory. I remember watching him on an

afternoon talk show, talking about what a klutz he was. sliced his toe open on rice krispies!!

[Paladin]

6. Not one of '68's epic tunes, in my opinion. (nt)

[Demovictory9]

10. sad song. I remember it.

[frogmarch]

12. Slipped and almost hurt herself And I laughed till I cried

For me, any tenderness there might have been in the song was destroyed at the very beginning:

See the tree, how big it's grown
But friend it hasn't been too long
It wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad,
The first day that she planted it
Was just a twig
Then the first snow came and she ran out
To brush the snow away
So it wouldn't die
Came runnin' in all excited,
Slipped and almost hurt herself
And I laughed till I cried

UGH.