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Bobby Goldsboro (born Bobby Goldsborough, January 18, 1941, in Marianna, Florida), is an American country\pop singer, as well as a songwriter.

While he was a teenager, Goldsboro's family moved to Dothan, Alabama. He left Auburn University after his second year to pursue a musical career.

After three years playing guitar for Roy Orbison, he set out on a solo career in 1964. He soon had a Top Ten hit with his own composition "See the Funny Little Clown."

Other Top 40 hits from the 1960s included:

• "Whenever He Holds You"
• "Little Things"
• "Voodoo Woman"
• "It's Too Late"
• "Blue Autumn"
• "Me Japanese Boy I Love You"
• "Honey"
• "Autumn of My Life"
• "The Straight Life"

"Honey" was a Number One hit in 1968 in the Billboard Hot 100. The single reached Number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, selling in excess of one million copies. It also reached Number 1 on the Country charts and also became his first country hit. It was also the beginning of his hits becoming more successful on the country charts than on the pop charts by this time. He also wrote some of his hits as well, one in particular, With Pen In Hand, was recorded by several artists, the biggest of which was a pop version by Vicki Carr that was a Top 40 pop hit in 1969 and country singer Johnny Darrell who took his version to number 3 on the country charts a year earlier in 1968. Bobby would also record his own version of the song in 1972 but it only graced the lower regions of the pop charts. In the 1970s he had more hits, including "Watching Scotty Grow,"(a country Top 10 and nearly made the Top 10 on the pop charts peaking at #11 in 1971), "Summer (The First Time)," "Hello Summertime," "Butterfly for Bucky," and "Me and the Elephants." "Summer (The First Time)" would also become his last major pop hit in 1973. From 1973 to 1975, he hosted the syndicated television variety series The Bobby Goldsboro Show.

With his pop career winding down, in the early 1980s, Goldsboro had several Top 20 country music hits with "Goodbye Marie", "Alice Doesn't Love Here Anymore" and "Love Ain't Never Hurt Nobody" all released in 1981. His song, "The Cowboy And The Lady" became a Top 10 country hit as "The Cowgirl And The Dandy" for Brenda Lee in 1980 and for John Denver in 1981 as "The Cowboy And The Lady". During that decade, Goldsboro retired from performing to produce children's entertainment. More recently he scored the soundtrack to the CBS situation comedy, Evening Shade, and in 1995, he launched the children's TV series The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon.

• All Music Guide

• Official website
• Bobby Goldsboro Discography
• Classic Bands