Honey (Bobby Goldsboro song)

Infobox Single
Name = Honey


Artist = Bobby Goldsboro
from Album = Honey
Released = 1968
Format = Vinyl
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = United Artists
Writer = Bobby Russell
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =

• #1 (U.S.)
• #2 (UK)

Last single = "Autumn of My Life"
(1968)
This single = "Honey"
(1968)
Next single = "The Straight Life"
(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 in the U.S. in 1968 (see 1968 in music) and spent five weeks at the top of the Billboard Pop Singles Chart, from April 7 to May 11, and three weeks atop Billboard's 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 Adult Contemporary chart. "Honey" reached number two on the UK Singles Chart, and a re-release of the single in 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". [ [http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/04/19/eye.ent.worstsong/?section=cnn_mostpopular/ CNN: Worst Song of All Time] ] Nonetheless, it remains heavily played on the radio and has been covered 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 ("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 ("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)

ee also

*Hot 100 number-one hits of 1968 (USA)
*List of songs in English labeled the worst ever

Notes

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