Indeed it does! I was little when this song came out in 68' but I remember it still, I still have the 45 record of this song, it's the year I was adopted!👍✌️
Wow--once again --It's breakfast ,getting ready for school--and WIP on the radio and the smell of coffee brewing. Great memories--you always make me cry. I miss my parents so much. Thank you!!
I remember this song as a kid! Wow! A forgotten 45 . Carol Burnett sung this on her show I was watching her show and she was singing this song and I remember Bobby Goldsboro Thad this song. Two years ago he visited the job I worked at. Didn't recognize him and he was soo humble. He's friend of the owner of the company I work for. Very quiet gentleman.
My late parents liked the Straight Life by Bobby Goldsboro, he had about 3 hit songs during 1968. I became a high school Freshman in 1968, attended Oakcrest High School in Mays Landing,New Jersey. It was a great year for music the .
Although familiar with Bobby's hits I,m surprised that I,ve never heard of this one it's such an engaging song,a real 💎 thanks for the post Auckland New Zealand 2023
Bobby got into art and kid shows...One of the most successful singers,hard to say how many great songs he could have sang had he stayed in music.... A man has to do what he wants to do but, I miss his talent as a musician ,I grew up looking up to him as an inspiration in my own music. His guitar and voice is a gift from 'God'
Love all his songs still today. I listen to them after midnight when I turn the tv off. I'm 66 now and I am amazed I still remember the words to the songs. I guess I remember them is because he has always been my favorite . My favorite is Honey
This song was written and originally recorded by the great Sonny Curtis who wrote dozens of hit songs, is a member Of The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. Sonny is best know for writing and performing the theme to The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Love Is All Around" and was a member of Buddy Holly's Crickets. Incredible talent - Sonny Curtis!
You just don't hear great old songs like this enough on any radio station or even sometimes on Music Choice. Bobby Goldsboro is a long forgotten genius and performer.
He was a man of a hundred faces but had a voice second to none! He was flat out great and it all started with his hit "Little Things" in the mid 60's and it went all the way to other major hits & his own TV show in the 70's. That's one great talent.
Haha, funny thing my wife never brought me crackers and beers . Fast forward 20 years and I'm sitting here on my terrace in a tropical paradise with a lovely lady leaving the straight life behind
On this day in 1968 {December 21st} Dick Clark conducted a telephone interview with Bobby Goldsboro on his ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'... The week before Bobby Goldsboro's "The Straight Life" was at #49 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, that was also it's eighth and final week on the chart... "The Straight Life" entered the Top 100 chart on October 20th, 1968 at position #75, five weeks later it would peak at #36 {for 2 weeks}... It reached #6 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart... Between 1961 and 1973 he had twenty-six Top 100 records; two* made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Honey", for three weeks in 1968... Besides "Honey", his other Top 10 record was "See The Funny Little Clown", it peaked at #9 {for 1 week} on March 8th, 1964... Bobby Goldsboro will celebrate his 77th birthday next month on January 18th {2018}... * He just missed having a third Top 10 record when "Watching Scotty Grow" peaked at #11 in 1971...
@sauquoit13456 The later stuff like Scotty charted higher on A/C. Haven't checked, but I wouldn't be surprised if it hit #1. WIP in Philly played it a ton. Probably my favorite, but I loved all of Bobby's songs. Honey makes me cry every time I hear it.
I was 10 or 11 when this came out. Always liked it. It really rings true, 40+ years later. It's nice to consider all the possibilities out there, but there's a lot to be said for the straight life, especially if you find the right person to share it with.
You just don't hear great old songs like this enough on any radio station or even sometimes on Misic Choice. Bobby Goldsboro is a long forgotten genius and performer.
I remember listening to this great song in Phoenix, AZ on AM 55 KOY a legendary MOR station back in the 60's & 70's. Thanks for posting this memory maker.
I always thought he was much cuter than this. I must be thinking of Bobby Sherman! Oh Lord how I date myself. Bobby had some great songs when I finally had a "transistor radio" (only am of course) of my very own, I could find music I wanted to listen to.
@75surfgirl Yes, BG was one of those singers that were a part of the soundtrack of my pre-teen years, waking up, the smell of breakfast... aww, what a memory you've brought back !
Back in the early 80's David Letterman did a real funny skit of this song on his show. I've never heard the song before until my friend said "Yeah that Bobby Goldsboro" But it totally reminds me of Letterman.
@thespeez I agree with what you've been saying, but the hasbeens had replacements, like for example, Manilow, Judy Collins, Carol King, etc. When I was young, they were considered uncool. There will always be a segment of every age group that likes raucous or wild music, and one which likes tame, nice sounding music--that which you would call sappy. And that segment often remains quiet about it. I was one who didn't care what others thought. I listened to what I liked.
(p2) it's important to remember that during the 1960s and early '70s, many of the record labels were getting somewhat desperate to get rid of artists from the old days; such as Bennett, Como, Mancini, Mitch Miller, Andy Williams and the like. Rock and soul had taken over and the labels considered these artists 'has-beens'. Goldsboro's popularity was pretty much gone after 1973.
Probably listening to Ken Garland who did mornings for many years on WIP before they went all sports and Ken moved down the dial to 950 WPEN til he retired in the Fall of 92 before passing on in Feb. of 93. I recall only hearing this get played on SUNNY 104 when they were an Easy Country station in the Fall of 78.
I think we all (those of us who aren't Billionaires) dream of living this kind of life and wondering what life would be like but it takes a sense of Adventure NOT $$$ and mine is having a BBQ in the pouring rain even if I did win the Big one!!
I had that station tuned in a few times. Think they play oldies on Sats.. I found someother AM mor stations up near that area. 1490 Hazelton,Pa comes to mind and 1490 WBCB Levittown does play some music.
@MrTrashcan1 With the powers-that-be having moved WIP's sports format to FM, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea for the AM to go to a MOR format appropriate for today. There's a station in Albany NY which is doing that (WROW) and they're doing well with it.
@zyxquark The artists you mention have a certain level of respect and 'coolness' about them. I remember as a teen in the early '80s how many of my peers would like not only those artists; but Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who and other classic rock artists. But don't forget, we're talking rock 'n' roll here, not 'sappy' pop! Goldsboro fits the latter category. It was considered about as cool to admit you liked Goldsboro in my day as, say, Barry Manilow or Barbra Streisand. (go to p2, Please)
for everyone looking for AM MOR format, google WGPA Bethlehem. they do have a presence on the world wide web. They are a 500 watt daytime only broadcast station in Bethlehem PA. Privately owned. they may have what some are looking for in good old-fashioned AM terrestrial radio...
@thespeez There was an independent station here for the last few years playing nostalgia, WHAT 1340, but their 60s/70s playlist was feeble with too much swing/big band. They don't really remember the MOR format or the original songs. And these stations don't think they can sustain a baby boomer audience alone--so they include their parents and grandparents and end up alienating everyone. Also WIP is now owned by CBS, so the likelihood of MOR on the AM station is probably zilch.
(p2) I will admit; I'm not a big Goldsboro fan myself (a song like "Honey" does nothing for me). With that said, there are 3 other songs besides this one he did that I liked [those being "Watching Scotty Grow"; "It's Too Late" and every teen boy's ultimate fantasy "Summer (The First Time)"].
@thespeez then why are so many teenagers and twenty-somethings obsessed with the beatles, the stones, the doors, credence etc. I talk to them on youtube all the time
It is still available on 45 flip side of Watching Scotty Grow. Just get the best copy out there. Also available on his 1971 LP We Gotta Start Lovin which is also On CD 2-album set with his album Honey, very expensive though.
@MrTrashcan1 With WHAT's limited range and with lack of an 'inner city' appeal, it's little surprise that they failed. If a station such as either 1540 or 950 was to pick up such a format, they'd have a fighting chance (and I mean FIGHTING). I just figured with 'ROW having relative success with their 18 m/o MOR format that MAYBE there'd be a chance that other stations in different markets might get a clue. IMNSHO I just thought 610 would've been great.
@zyxquark M-TV DID have a major influence on the course of music, no doubt. But much of what happened did so because the youth were pushing the industry in that direction; just like they did in times past. If you look at the musical trends over the last sixty years or so, you'll see that this is the case. The only musical genre that could be considered a fad was disco. Even it has made a mild comeback. With rap having been around for about three decades, I wouldn't consider it a fad. (to p2)
You do know he means straight as not being a bachelor/one woman man? Straight back then didn't mean homo.Back then we weren't obsessed with the homosexual lifestyle as they are now.
@thespeez I don't really buy that. I think the advent of m-tv and video encouraged the music business to promote the careers of people whose main characteristic is being pretty, looking like a model or soap opera star, and the actual music people, people genetically gifted with outstanding musical talent, aren't given the career opportunities. the result is mediocre popular music, lousy songs, mediocre all the way. just my opinion. I also think "rap" is more like the hoola hoop, just a fad.
He is the oddest looking person, I think. Can't guess his ethnicity at all. "White" just doesn't get it., but neither does any other category either. All I can really think of is "odd looking", but how knows?
