BOBBY
GOLDSBORO
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FAMILY ALBUM
SIDE ONE
1. WITH PEN IN HAND (Bobby Goldsboro) (3:27)
2. THE GOLD HILL HOTEL (Bobby Goldsboro) (3:14)
3. RICHER MAN THAN I (Bobby Goldsboro) (2:57)
4. IT’S TOO LATE (Bobby Goldsboro) (2:15)
5. SEE THE FUNNY LITTLE CLOWN (Bobby Goldsboro) (2:35)
6. HARD LUCK JOE (Bobby Goldsboro) (2:47)
7. VOODOO WOMAN (Bobby Goldsboro) (2:14)
SIDE TWO
1. AUTUMN OF MY LIFE (Bobby Goldsboro) (3:25)
2. BROOMSTICK COWBOY (Bobby Goldsboro) (2:29)
3. HOBOES AND KINGS (Bobby Goldsboro) (3:02)
4. IT’S UP TO US (Bobby Goldsboro) (3:30)
5. THE GENTLE OF A MAN (Bobby Goldsboro/Dennis Curry) (3:24)
6. DOWN ON THE BAYOU (Bobby Goldsboro) (2:55)
7. MUDDY MISSISSIPPI LINE (Bobby Goldsboro) (2:41)
Promotional Item Only.
Consisting of Scrapbook, “Come Back Home” LP, “Honey” Silver Spotlight single,
and a special compilation album of previously-released songs.
1971 United Artists Records
UA SP58
Per “Solid Gold: The Popular
Record Industry” by R. Serge
Denisoff, page 181:
“Artists rarely feel their company is
doing enough for them. A strong
marketing campaign may offset
this attitude. Bobby Goldsboro
renewed his United Artist contract
because of a biographical family
album mailing sent to radio
stations. An elegant album with a
red cover and gold lettering
enclosed pages of pictures and
the performer’s previous
recordings. Marty Cerf recalls,
“When he saw this,” pointing to the
record package, “all of a sudden
how could he refuse to sign. This
was right on the verge of going to
Columbia, which has very large
friends down in Nashville. Some
of his closest buddies are with
Columbia.”
Sampling of Items Included
Side 1
Side 2
Billboard Magazine, December 11, 1971, page 4, General News
“U.A. MAKES UNIQUE PACK ON GOLDSBORO PROMO”
LOS ANGELES--Climaxing United Artists Records’ Bobby Goldsboro Month
promotion, which it’s claimed raised Goldsboro’s catalog sales some 30 percent,
the label has issued a unique 50-page facsimile family photo album tracing the
singer’s life story.
The Goldsboro Family Album took six months to assemble. It is being mailed to
1,500 radio stations and newspaper entertainment editors to coincide with release
of the new Goldsboro single, “A Poem For My Little Lady.”
The simulated red leather covers of the photo album are actually sleeves
containing two LP’s, Goldsboro’s current “Come Back Home” and a special
pressing combining all Goldsboro’s hit compositions, including such standards as
“It’s Too Late” and “Voodoo Woman.” The kit also includes Goldsboro’s 1969 single
of “Honey” which won the Record of the Year Grammy. (Note: The single was the
1969 “Silver Spotlight” re-issue of the 1968 hit, which was nominated for the
Record of the Year Grammy.)
“Bobby Goldsboro has been one of UA’s most consistent selling artists during his
eight years on the label,” said Marty Cerf of the UA creative services dept. “With
Goldsboro Month and now this Family Album promotion, we want to showcase
Bobby in a way that demonstrates all his outstanding contributions to today’s
music. It’s really not easy for record companies to reach the press with campaigns
for artists who are big in MOR and country as well as the Top 40 market.”
Bobby has said that many of the
family photos and other items used
in the project came from his
mother, and some were either
damaged or never returned to her.