The 200th #1 record in Billboard Hot 100 chart history also regularly appears on many “worst record of all time” lists. And I’m sure Bobby Goldsboro has cried about that all the way to the bank. Look, it’s very sappy, etc., but perhaps what America needed at the time as it was #1 the week after Martin Luther King’s shooting and remained in the Top 10 until the week Bobby Kennedy was shot. Written by Bobby Russell, who also wrote “Little Green Apples.” Conventional wisdom says the young woman in the song died from cancer, but there’s a school of thought that believes she committed suicide. Either way, it remained at the top for five weeks.
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