It especially gets me today. My father sang this to my mom regularly. It was their song. Today would have been their 39th anniversary. Except he didn't quite get there. He died around easter.
Bobby Goldsboro was an American pop & country singer-songwriter from the 60's-70's. "Honey" was his biggest hit but he had a lot of great songs including "See The Funny Little Clown", "Summer (The First Time)", "It's Too Late", "Little Things", "Too Many People", "With Pen In Hand", "Hello Summertime", "Watching Scotty Grow" etc. Some of his songs were performed by other artists such as Brenda Lee, Dolly Parton, John Denver.
For other quaint but sad story song ballads of the 70s... there is .. Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun. Bread, 1972 - Everything I Own. Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, 1974 - Billy Don't Be a Hero. Nazareth, 1971 - Love Hurts. Gilbert O'Sullivan,1972 - Alone Again (Naturally). Albert Hammond, 1974 - It Never Rains in California. Meatloaf - Two Out of Three Ain't Bad. Chicago, 1976 - If You Leave Me Now. Styx, 1980- Babe.
Songs of loss were not uncommon in popular music. It gave people an outlet to feel their grief in a kind of shared way. Honey passed away , a song for people especially younger who have lost their partner too soon. ☮️
The quintessential song about death and grief. This is possibly the saddest song ever written. I was 12 in spring 1968 when it became a #1 hit. Apparently everyone needed a good cry that year lol. The song came back to haunt me when my mother died of bone cancer in Dec of 1994 and I'm looking at my elderly father, hearing him in my mind, younger, in my memory singing that damned song around the house in 1968. Then one day it dawned on me...he had lost his mother when he was 18, the grandmother I never knew. What a sweet but hideous song this is all at the same time... it will rip your heart out. When I hear it I am reminded of all that, but mostly how I miss my dad singing that around the house and mother and my late younger brother. I certainly cannot get through this song hearing it or singing.
He had a great voice and he had a fast vibrato, what they sometimes call a quaver vibrato. Bobby Fuller of the Bobby Fuller Four had a similar quaver vibrato. That was in the 1960s. And they have some great songs by the way. A New Shade of Blue is one of my favorites. And he died in mysterious circumstances with a belly full of gasoline.
This song came out in 1968. I discovered it when my brother and I got into Mama’s records. She came home and I was sitting there bawling over it, lol. I was about 9 at the time I first remember hearing it. Whenever asked my favorite song that makes me cry, this song does it every. single. time…,even as I was watching this video, here comes the tears, lol. ❤
Great reaction to an excellent song, but did you get that she died? The way you reacted, I’m thinking not. Listen again and pay more attention to the words. “One day while I was not at home, while she was there and all alone, the angels came” means SHE DIED! The saddest part of the song 😔😔😔‼️ Oh! And the background singers sound to me like a choir in a church. Probably my favorite song by Bobby besides “With Pen in Hand”. I saw him in the mid 1970s in Arizona when I was in my twenties. He sounded the same live as he does on record. Great‼️
I grew up with this song version in Spanish, the lyrics are a bit different but in Spanish is even more beautiful and emotional, after 60 years still some like heaven to me, thank you for bringing so many memories back
knew it when I was young on the radio. Please check out David Allan Coe, still live still performing and had many hits he wrote and composed. Learn about him and life in prison
I was around when this came out, and I've always thought that Honey was suffering from depression and took her own life. Could also be that she had a terminal illness that she didn't tell him about.
Bobby Goldsboro was a major heartthrob back in the day. They even had a record (45 rpm) that was part of a cereal box (I don't remember what brand of cereal). You could actually cut out part of the box and throw it on your turntable and play it.
I remember buying cereal just to get the song. Honeycomb I think was the cereal offering it. Other singers and songs often did the same. That brings back a lot of memories
I was born in 1964. I heard this song on the Radio when I was 3 or 4 years old. It's been with me ever since. Not too many people react to this song, thank you for your reaction
Another great song by Bobby Goldsboro was “These Are the Best Times”, from the 1973 Disney movie, Superdad. The movie starred a young Kurt Russell, Ed Begley, Jr. and the motion picture debut of the late Bruno Kirby. The best video is the one from the movie where there is a choir in the church.
I think it's fantastic that you interact with your mom about this stuff. That's a really wonderful thing. Wow, I remember hearing this on the radio sometimes when I was a very little kid, but I just right now was really listening to the lyrics for the first time, and I'm fairly certain that his partner got really lonely, and then got clinically depressed, and then took her own life. And then he planted a tree in the back to commemorate her, and he can't stop thinking about her, and sees her everywhere around the place. WHOA.
