Goodbye Marie
| "Goodbye Marie" | ||||
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| Single by Bobby Goldsboro | ||||
| from the album Bobby Goldsboro | ||||
| Released | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Curb | |||
| Songwriter(s) |
Mel McDaniel Dennis Linde |
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"Goodbye Marie" is a country-pop song written by Mel McDaniel and Dennis Linde. The song is about a man who has to leave his lover to head for "the lonesome highway" back to his home in Houston, Texas.
Bobby Goldsboro took a version of the song to #17 on the Billboard Country chart in 1981.Kenny Rogers had previously recorded the song on his 1979 #1 album Kenny. Although the song was not issued as a single at the time, after Kenny Rogers signed to RCA Records his former label Liberty Records issued a newly overdubbed version as a single that went to #47 in 1986.
McDaniel also released the song on his I'm Countryfied album in 1981, and as the B-side of his single "I Call It Love."
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