Bobby Goldsboro - The Straight Life

[@LindaMethod]

Wow! I literally haven't heard this wonderful song in about 40 years!! Oh, the memories.... What an underrated song, too bad it didn't get the attention I think it deserved.

[@KTA0806]

I've always liked this tune, takes me back to Jmy junior high days here in California. Glen Campbell also did a version, it's on the Wichita Lineman album. Both Bobby and Glen's takes on it are good.

[@nobs4me2]

One of my all-time, favorite singers. Oh, the memories come flooding back!

[@D.N..]

how innocent !! very nice and warm song!

[@1bobbygoldsborofan]

How can you not love Bobby Goldsboro? Wish he was still an influence on our music industry. It greatly needs his genius.

[@Wlsnd]

Thanks so much for posting this great song! After hearing one of his cricket sounds in it, I had to listen a few more times to be sure it wasn't my imagination. He doesn't even crack a smile, but he sure slipped it in. How cool! Pretty slick if you ask me! Thanks ever so much for taking me back at least 40 years tonight.

[@zackyko]

whoa!!!bring back those teenage life...fantastic!what a sweet song....

[@LindaMethod]

How precious!!! This reminds me of my childhood. Why won't oldies stations play this?? It's going on my playlist. Thank you, ggregsnyder.

[@LindaMethod]

I love this!! How it reminds me of my childhood, those sweet and carefree days. Thanks for posting!!!!

[@uscgccampbell]

Hey, I want that shirt !!!! I love every one of BG's songs!..I saw him in person in 1965. He is a native of my home state.A really great guy. Capt Sam

[@rod1148]

Haven't heard this for about 40 years. Thanks for posting

[@MrTrashcan1]

One of my favorites from my childhood.

[@bryans42]

absolutely fantastic

[@theguyrocks1]

Always loved this song.

[@StanBennet]

The song, especially the recorded version, is as close to "musical" poetry as you can get.

[@thespeez]

This song barely broke the top 40 in 1968 reaching only #36. Because of that and the 'unfamiliarity factor' not many oldies or classic MOR stations are willing to play it. In any case, I consider this as well as "It's Too Late" and "Summer (The First Time)" to be among the better tunes Goldsboro recorded.

[@1bobbygoldsborofan]

What a fantastic performer!! What a voice!

[@Roman92103]

Beautiful song that's been ingrained in my psyche since childhood. Cool video - thanks!

[@jagdpanther1944]

love the lyrics.....they mean as much now as they did in the 60's

[@oldermuscleguy]

Great song . Another great song is Water Colored Days which you tube doesn't have . Coconut wine sounds really good after work haha

[@LindaMethod]

Oh, Bobby is so adorable, even in that fruity shirt!! I love him! Lord, how this song reminds me of such days gone by, childhood days.....

[@PalaniRides]

About 10 years ago on my way back from seeing my little sister at her dorm at USC, a Los Angeles station know for its obscure oldies, classics, and standards played this song and it blew my mind. It must have been some 30 years since I had heard it. I immediately ordered it online. The songs that can get lost in one's head. That being said, what does he say at 39 seconds? "Having a ball on a couple of(_____)"??? And I disagree with the poster that claimed Campbell's version was better. WHAT???

[@ryoushii]

Great pop song from the 60's, almost makes up for his gawdawful 'Honey' :P

[@codifications48me]

Liked this video. Great job BG

[@PalaniRides]

Thank you, Greg. That would make sense. And thanks for posting the video.

[@brightchance1]

love it! Nice Video!

[@RM1SS]

"Havin' a ball on a couple of bob" was the way I always hear it. A bob was a shilling - one twentieth of a pound sterling before they switched from Lsd to decimal money.

[@ggregsnyder]

One website I just checked says "having a ball with a couple 'a bob," and in British "bob" is a very small amount of money. That's not official, though, just a website that posts lyrics. I always thought it was a "cup full of pog" (popular Hawai'ian drink".

[@SirDilbere]

A 'Bob' was a Shilling - about 20 cents Australian. We used the same currency before decimal currency came in in the late '60s. And yes you really could have a ball with a few bob back then, now it takes a lot more.

[@d4seasons]

a cool song.****

[@PeteRieck]

This is a cool song! I laugh because we used to give each other a hard time growing up. I made fun of my Bobby Goldsboro hairdo in high school. I'll tell you what..... Now that we all have responsibilities, it sure is nice to escape to a mellow song for a brief few minutes.

[@teleny2]

I love this song. It's like every men's magazine from 1945 to '70 thrown in a blender...but married life is better! They don't make songs like that anymore.

[@MrJeff1947]

He can afford to wear 2 ties, because he likes cheap dates. Corn on the Cob and Coconut Wine runs about tree-fiddy!

[@cf1934]

@kentonlarsen He was playing a game in his mind! He didn't really do it .

[@Starrman69]

Anyone have "If you gotta heart"??

[@ggregsnyder]

Da man knows how to treat his ladies.

[@GeorgeHenderson]

A bob is a shilling, roughly equivalent to a US dime. Odd choice for Mexico, but songwriters can't always afford to choose the exact word. Maybe he really wanted to get the bit about ladies and corn cobs in, and he was prepared to rhyme "cob" with anything.

[@MrJeff1947]

Treating the ladies to "Corn On The Cob" ? WTF ?

[@ggregsnyder]

Of course, it was a frog noise, not a cricket. Many people made the wrong connection, and on one of the talk shows, he mentioned having a cricket sound in his act, too, so people could compare it to his signature frog. And yes, heard the rice krispie story on Carson or Douglas or Merv...

[@ggregsnyder]

In fact, it was a frog sound (he did a cricket for awhile, so that you could tell the difference).

[@sjplwc]

A few thoughts: first, BG seems like an awfully, awfully nice guy. I remember him vividly being on the Mike Douglas (another awfully nice guy)Show regularly when I was a kid. Second, he does a serviceable version here, but I have to say Glen Campbell's cover of this song (also available on KZbin) is light years better. Check it out. Third, what is Bobby G up to these days?

[@lynn0511]

@PalaniRides Having a ball on a couple of "bob"

[@cf1934]

@ggregsnyder I believe a "bob" is a shilling. Like a buck is a dollar.

[@Buzzbox3rd]

a bob is 10 cents

[@orangehornet57]

This song got dropped from a reissue of Greatest Hits. United Artists was bad about abridged albums. What's the deal with corn on the cob?