Honey by Bobby Goldsboro
Artist: Bobby Goldsboro Weeks at #1: 5 weeks Chart dates: April 13, 1968 – May 11, 1968
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A sad (actually a tearjerker) that was a top charting (5 weeks!) hit in 1968. Many people remember the symbolism in the fact that it climbed to #1 the week after the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King. The song has the dubious distinction of having been ranked as one of “the worst songs of all time” on a few occasions. Or per Marianne Spellman in slon.com – “Honey” is one of those wildly over-the-top emo pop/country story songs that suck people in and down with it, in the same way as when people rubberneck at horrific accidents or watch Dr. Phil. The laughably-sexist lyrics combined with Goldsboro’s goat-with-a-seizure-disorder vibrato was and is still enough to send me into rant territory.
