Nothing happened for Shane, so Bobby Goldsboro recorded "Honey," and it became a #1 hit in April 1968. Russell told Goldsboro that he could have a try at the song if Shane's record flopped. Russell said to Bobby Goldsboro that it was in top 20 in the music charts down in Texas. It was already getting a little bit of airplay on radio stations. However, Russell told him Bob Shane, from the group The Kingston Trio already had recorded the song. He asked Russell if he could try singing the song as a possibility of a new hit. song you played for me the other day?" Russell said, "You mean 'Honey'?" Goldsboro replied "Yes, I think so." So Russell played the song for Montgomery and Goldsboro, with another guitar, and it just "floored them both." Goldsboro was delighted. Then, in an ironic twist of fate, Montgomery took him over to Bobby Russell's office again, and the three were brainstorming until at last Goldsboro said "How about that. Montgomery and Goldsboro were sitting around and thinking about new songs that he could sing. And Goldsboro walked back to his apartment.Ī few weeks later, he was with his new producer, Bob Montgomery (his producer had been Jack Gold, who produced "Little Things," "See The Funny Little Clown," and most of his pre-'68 songs). Goldsboro just thought that the song "didn't do anything for him," he later remembered. At the end of the song, Henley said it was a great song. Russell told them the song was called " Honey" and played it on a guitar for Henley and Goldsboro. So they went over to Bobby Russell's office. Bobby Russell's office at Acuff-Rose Music was right across the street from where Goldsboro lived. Larry Henley had said that he had just heard this nice new song that Bobby Russell had played for him. One day in early 1968, Bobby Goldsboro was sitting at home in his apartment in Nashville, Tennessee, when Larry Henley (the falsetto singer from the group The Newbeats) walked in to talk to him.
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