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Bobby Goldsboro Honey TV Show Live
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@24tv48 Honey , a tearjerker about the death of a man's young wife, was recorded in one take. Although later remade, the original hit version is 3:58. • Goldsboro : Bobby Russell wrote 'Honey'. He came up to the studio to play some songs for me and my co-producer. He played Honey with just a guitar and we just both flipped out and said man, we gotta cut that. • So, we went in and cut it for the album and it just came off like a monster the very first take. Even the musicians, the violin players came into the control room to listen to the playback. So, we said man that was the first take, let's go do it again. And the second take sounded exactly like it. • We couldn't really improve on it, so we called Bobby from the studio and said we have cut a monster with this song. Of course I never dreamed it was gonna be as big as it was, but we knew we had a hit with it. • It was so much the arrangement Don Tweedy wrote, the high voice on there, the violins, everything he wrote in there. Don Tweedy's arrangement was as important as anything. • Q - Didn't you perform Honey on The Smothers Brothers TV show? • A - Well, what happened is The Smothers Brothers did a take-off on the song. They had the Honey house. They were doing like a tour and showing the tree. It was like a spoof of the song. • They (The Smothers Brothers) told me years later when I ran into them, we had more mail about doing that song than anything we ever did political or anything on that show, most of it put us down for doing it. (laughs) The bottom line was the people said you don't joke about things like that. • When I saw the re-run of it, I thought it was funny, but the majority of people that saw it didn't like it. • ______________________________________________________ • See the tree, how big it's grown • But friend it hasn't been too long, it wasn't big • I laughed at her and she got mad • The first day that she planted it was just a twig. • Then the first snow came and she ran out • To brush the snow away so it wouldn't die • Came runnin' in all excited slipped and almost hurt herself • And I laughed till I cried. • She was always young at heart • Kinda dumb and kinda smart and I loved her so. • And I surprised her with a puppy • Kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago. • And it would sure embarrass her • When I came in from workin' late 'cause I would know • That she'd been sittin' there and cryin' • Over some sad and silly late, late show • And Honey, I miss you; And I'm bein' good • And I'd love to be with you; If only I could • She wrecked the car and she was sad • And so afraid that I'd be mad • But what the heck though I pretended hard to be • Guess you could say, she saw through me and hugged my neck. • I came home unexpectedly • And caught her cryin' needlessly in the middle of the day • And it was in the early spring • When flowers bloom and robins sing she went away. • And Honey, I miss you; And I'm bein' good • And I'd love to be with you; If only I could • One day while I was not at home • While she was there and all alone, the angels came • Now all I have is memories of Honey • And I wake up nights and call her name. • Now my life's an empty stage • Where Honey lived and Honey played and love grew up • And a small cloud passes overhead • And cries down on the flower bed that Honey loved.
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