(Sings) 'There he sits with a pen and a yellow pad, he's a handsome lad, that's my boy/P-R-L-F-Q spells 'Mom and Dad.' That ain't too bad, 'cause that's my boy.' It was a crude little rocket ship, and on the side of it, it had 'P-R-L-F-Q.' I said, 'Well, what does that spell?' And he said 'Mom and Dad.' Yikes! All of a sudden he shows me this picture that he'd drawn. It went on from there, and I guess that was the fastest that I ever wrote a song that eventually became a hit. In 45 minutes to an hour, I had the whole song written.Įverybody didn't agree with you (about it being a hit).Ĭlive Davis had signed me, and he had signed Jerry Fuller to be my producer. Jerry was a great songwriter and had produced a lot of hits on his own, songs that he had written.

I sang him the song over the phone and said, 'I think we ought to do this on my new album.' He said, 'That's a good song, but it sounds like a Bobby Goldsboro song to me.'Īnd it just so happened that Bobby Goldsboro showed up that next week in town, and a friend of mine knew him, and I ended up over at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, playing him this song.

He loved it, and he was coming off of the biggest hit in the universe at that time, called 'Honey.'ĭidn't he want to change something on it? Bobby Goldsboro Wiki, Biography, Age as Wikipedia Bobby Goldsboro is an American pop and country singer-songwriter. He had a string of pop and country hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including his signature No. He called up and said, 'Could I change this to 'Watching Danny Grow?' We've (recorded) it, but my son's name is Danny.' I said, 'Nope.' 1 hit Honey, which sold over 1 million copies in the United States, and the UK top-10 single Summer (The First Time). I calculated it was midnight in Nashville when he called me about this, and I could hear people in the background, and I knew they were doing vocals and had already spent the money on that record, and there was a good chance that they'd go ahead and put a vocal on it. I said, 'I just can't do it.' He said, 'Well, OK, then.'. He's 'Scott' now, and now I'm going to really shock you: He's 50 years old. Phil Snow, Sports Director of Montgomery's WSFA-TV In partnership with Nashville Songwriters Association International, each week we will release a new video interview with a Nashville songwriter about his or her work.Top row: The woman behind Coach Bryant is Phil Snow's wife. The grinning gray-headed guy next to Phil Snow is Jim Davis (1909-1981) who played Jock Ewing on DALLAS. The unidentified guy next to Coach Bryant,Ĭoach Paul Bryant (1913-1983) Find-A-Grave link Ĭornelia Wallace (1939-2009), Find-A-Grave link George Lindsey (1928-2012), Find-A-Grave link The guy right behind Goldsboro is Curly Putman (1930-2016).

Wallace (1919-1998) Find-A-Grave link ĭirectly behind Governor Wallace is Jimmi Sue Cannon from Sylacauga, Alabama. Entertainer was with Dean Martin as a Gold Digger.

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