See the Funny Little Clown
Bobby Goldsboro
1964
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
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About Bobby Goldsboro
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
Bobby Goldsboro worked as a guitarist with Roy Orbison before establishing his own recording career. See the Funny Little Clown, Little Things and Honey became familiar parts of his repertoire, while songwriting and publishing offered additional outlets through House of Gold Music. He also hosted The Bobby Goldsboro Show and later created music and stories for children's television. These activities, followed by work in oil painting, connected his performing career with several other forms of creative production.
Artist background sources
Bobby Goldsboro - official biography
Read artist biography for Orbison guitar work, repertoire, publishing, television, children's projects and painting. Omit uncertain House of Gold chronology, first-solo claim, rankings, changing totals and advertising assertions; publishing is not claimed as authorship of its entire catalog. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
See the Funny Little Clown by Bobby Goldsboro appears at number 63 in the reviewed U.S. year-end table for 1964. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
Billboard year-end 1964 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
Other appearances and versions
catalog version unspecified
Original release date and exact pressing/version are not independently established.
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Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Billboard year-end 1964 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
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1960-2025. Each year contains 150 selections.