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2021 PERSONAL APPEARANCES
IN MEMORIAM
NEW COMPACT DISC SETS AVAILABLE FROM EUROPE
UPCOMING
TELEVISION
APPEARANCES
CHAD STUART
Born David Stuart Chadwick
(December 10, 1941 – December 20, 2020)
Part of singing duo Chad and Jeremy
Toured with Bobby Goldsboro
in mid-1960’s on The Gene Pitney Show
Recorded Bobby’s songs:
“If You’ve Got a Heart”
“If She Was Mine”
and
“When Your Love Has Gone”
K.T. OSLIN
Born Kay Toinette Oslin
(May 15, 1942 – December 21, 2020)
Singer/Songwriter
Appeared on 1994 episode of
Burt Reynolds’ CBS-TV series
“Evening Shade” singing
songs written by
Bobby Goldsboro
GERRY MARSDEN
MBE
(September 24, 1942
– January 3, 2021)
Leader of
Gerry and the Pacemakers
group
Toured England
with Bobby Goldsboro
and Roy Orbison,
the Beatles
and others
in 1963
HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY
BOBBY GOLDSBORO
Monday, January 18th
“WATCHING SCOTTY GROW” IS THE
ALL-TIME HIGHEST-CHARTED SONG
INCLUDING “SCOTT” IN HISTORY
OF BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
Per Billboard Magazine 4/29/2020 tweet, “Watching Scotty
Grow” by Bobby Goldsboro is the highest-charting song with
the name “Scott” in their history. The #11 Pop song was also
#7 Country, and #1 Easy Listening for six straight weeks.
January 9, 1971: “Watching Scotty Grow” jumps from the
Number 7 position the previous week to knock “One Less
Bell to Answer” by the 5th Dimension out of the top spot on
Billboard’s Easy Listening chart. B.J. Thomas, Dionne
Warwick, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, Lynn Anderson, Tom
Jones, Ray Price and George Harrison round out the Top 10.
“Watching Scotty Grow” would go on
to spend six weeks in the #1 spot,
and become Billboard magazine’s
top Easy Listening / Soft Rock hit
for the entire year of 1971.
It peaked at #11 in the Top 100 and
at #7 on the Country charts.
May 2019 saw the UK release of two-disc set “With Pen in Hand - The Definitive Hits Collection” from Hump Head Records (HUMP 217).
The fifty-song collection featured many songs never before available on compact disc. Sound quality is inconsistent, with many songs
not from the original masters.
In October 2019, Hump Head UK also introduced a 2-disc set titled, “Del Reeves - Hits on the Billboard 1965-1978” (HUMP 218). This
was the first release to feature digital versions of two Reeves’ duets with Bobby Goldsboro, “I Just Wasted the Rest” and “Take a Little
Good Will Home.” The sound quality suggests the songs were taken from vinyl sources.
January 2020 brought the UK release of “The Very Best of Bobby Goldsboro,” a two-disc set from Not Now Records (NOT2CD 768).
The collection features twenty of Bobby’s hit songs re-recorded in the 1980’s, omitting “If You’ve Got a Heart” from the usual list. It
does include needle-drops of the four songs on Bobby’s first two solo single records from 1962 on Laurie Records, “You Better Go
Home” and “Molly,” along with the B-sides “Lonely Traveler” and “Honey Baby.”
November 9, 2020, Germany’s Bear Family’s BE! Records released an 8-disc set, “The Alabama Box - 1950s & 1960s Oddball Labels”
(CDBE618188), that included Bobby’s group The Webs appearing as “The Dothans,” with an instrumental performance of “Full House.”
No known programs with Bobby Goldsboro are currently scheduled to air. Consult local listings for channels such
as Antenna TV, RFD-TV, getTV, Circle TV and others for possible reruns of programs in which Bobby appeared.
His childrens’ series,“The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon,”airs on TBN Smile of a Child & TCT Kids.
Bobby Goldsboro appears in countless videos on YouTube.
A popular category of videos is “music reactions,”
where creators film themselves listening to a song
for the first time and comment. A sampling is shown here.
HONEY
India Reacts
10/25/2019
“He said, ‘I’m still bein’ good” and I giggled…
like if I died,
I would want to know, are you still bein’ good?!”
HONEY
Beats of the Heart,
Lyrics of the Soul
2/8/2020
HONEY
Trippy Hippie
8/10/2020
“She came running inside and fell,
dude, I’m sorry, that’s just funny stuff!”
“This is really great, man, this is really good…this is very nice”
“Wait, hold up, now…oh man, this is dark, that’s sad”
“(Wipes tear and clears throat) Okay, that was wild, man”
“It was a beautiful song, but at the same time just very sad”
WITH PEN IN HAND
Sincerely, K.S.O.
1/3/2021
Battle of Bobby Goldsboro and Vikki Carr versions
“Well, she hasn’t signed it yet, so let’s look on the brighter side…I’m
trying not to cry…Guitar intro was great…He said, ‘Can you take good
care of Johnny?’ and Vikki said, ‘Can you take good care of Jenny?’ --
I liked how they did that.”
“It is filled with emotion”
“The man…remembers all the great times he had with his Honey”
“The singer does a good job”
“I can actually feel what the artist is trying to portray”
HONEY
Enoma
2/22/2020
“Wow! This is a great listen…this was beautiful…when it comes to
topics like this, all humans are alike no matter which part we are
(from) they would all be connecting to this song equally…I like
every line of this song…I like the way it is all described by
him…nice, well-sung, beautiful voice…it’s as simple as it could be,
and it’s as innocent as it could be, and to listen to it was a delight.
I enjoyed every bit of it…these days we don’t have such things.
The 1984 TV special, “Scrooge’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas,”
featuring Bobby singing a rock version of “Winter Wonderland”
is now available to watch free on Tubi, a streaming service and website.
The April 3, 1978 episode of “The Jim Nabors Show”
featuring Bobby singing “Guitar Charlie Watson”
is now available free on IMDb TV streaming service
and for purchase on Amazon.
DON MILLER
(January 11, 2021 at age 80)
Founding member of The Vogues
Member of Vocal Group Hall of
Fame
Hits included “You’re the One”
and “Five O’Clock World”
Toured with Bobby Goldsboro,
including in
Vincennes, Indiana
in Spring 1966
50 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 4, 1971:
BOBBY GOLDSBORO AND BAND
ON AIRPLANE HIJACKED TO CUBA
MIAMI, Feb. 4 (UPI)—A man who said he was carrying explosives hijacked a
jetliner today carrying 27 persons and got out in Havana with a cheery “Right
on, baby.”
“Sorry to inconvenience you,” the hijacker said as he left the plane, “but this
will give you a chance to see Cuba.”
The Delta Airlines DC9, carrying 23 passengers and four crewmen, was
commandeered shortly after leaving Chicago this morning, bound for
Nashville, Tenn. It flew directly to Cuba and returned to Miami shortly after
4:30 P.M.
Among the passengers were the singer, Bobby Goldsboro, and his musicians.
Mr. Goldsboro described the hijacker as a well-dressed Negro who handed the
stewardess a note that she passed to the captain, Richard Blizzard of Miami,
while the hijacker remained in his seat in the tourist section of the plane.
Bobby’s fascinating account of the adventure will
be posted later, but click here to read the pilot
Dick Blizzard’s memory of the event from Sylvia
Wrigley’s “Fear of Landing” site, including fuel
supply miracle and nitro in turbulence:
Bass guitar player Steve Schaffer, Bobby, and
drummer Jan Kurtis arriving in Miami from Havana
after their Delta Airlines flight to Nashville was
hijacked to Cuba.
“Unbelievably, the only time I ever departed with full fuel tanks on a domestic
flight was the day I was hijacked. Having full tanks probably saved the aircraft
and all the lives on board. I think about it a lot. What are the odds of things
coming together like that? The only conclusion; it had to be luck – incredible
luck...
The hijacker had liquid nitro…When he taped the explosive to his body, he
…transformed himself into a human bomb…
Bobby Goldsboro and his band were among our passengers. Bobby was at the
heights of his popularity…
During taxi to the terminal, the hijacker stood up and…removed the explosives
from his body…
I asked (later to an agent), “What was that liquid?” “Nitro” “What would set it off”
“Hold it about waist high and drop it on a tile floor,” he said…I still feel lucky.”
JIMMIE RODGERS
(September 18, 1933
- January 18, 2021)
Singer
Best known for #1 hit,
“Honeycomb” in 1957
Wrote “It’s Over,”
which Bobby Goldsboro
recorded. The track was
released only on the
8-track and cassette tape
versions of “Word Pictures”
in 1968.
With his six year-old son Danny and wife Mary Alice,
Bobby finally arriving home to Nashville.
HAL HOLBROOK
Born Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr.
(February 17, 1925 - January 23, 2021)
Emmy & Tony Award Winning Actor
Academy Award Nominee
Co-starred in CBS-TV “Evening Shade,”
for which Bobby Goldsboro performed
the music in Seasons Three and Four
JIM
WEATHERLY
(March 17, 1943 -
February 3, 2021)
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Wrote “Midnight Train to
Georgia,” awarded
Grammy Hall of Fame
Wrote
“Love Has Made a
Woman Out of You,”
which Bobby Goldsboro
recorded on his 1980
self-titled album
