"Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby, Goodbye)" is a popular song written by

Bob Crewe Robert Stanley Crewe (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. Crewe co-wrote and produced a string of Top 10 singles with Bob Gaudio for the Four Seasons. As a songw ...

and Bob Gaudio (a member of The Four Seasons). The Four Seasons' version of the song made it to No. 1 in Canada and No. 12 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1965. On the original issue of the single, the title was "Bye Bye Baby". However, on the album, ''The 4 Seasons Entertain You'', and on later issues of the song, the name was changed to the longer, more familiar one. The song is about saying goodbye, not because the person is unloved but rather because the relationship is adulterous ("there's a wedding ring on my finger"). ''

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'' described it as "a heartfelt rhythmic stomp’er that again features the attention-getting falsetto sound of

Frankie Valli Francesco Stephen Castelluccio (born May 3, 1934), better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer and occasional actor, best known as the frontman (lead singer) of The Four Seasons (band), the Four Seasons. He is known for ...

and a top teen Calello arrangement."

Chart history

Other charting versions

A version by British group The Symbols reached No. 44 in the UK Singles Chart in 1967. A Japanese version by Hiromi Go was released in December 1975 in Japan and charted at No.9 in the Oricon charts, in the exact same backing sound style and step as the Rollers' version, including an eight-bar guitar solo, distributed by CBS/Sony, which appears in his second compilation album ''Go Hiromi no Subete''.

Bay City Rollers version

A cover of the song by the Scottish boy band Bay City Rollers was released in the UK on February 28, 1975 as the only single from the group's second studio album '' Once Upon a Star''. It reached number one in the UK, Ireland and Australia, and was also a hit in several other music markets across the world. It was number one on the UK Singles Chart for six weeks from March 1975 and ended the year as the UK's top-selling single of 1975. The Four Seasons' version is quite sparse in instrumental backing, instead carried by the vocals, while the Bay City Rollers' is faster and has a fuller backing sound. Played a whole step lower, it includes an eight-bar guitar solo, supposedly by Eric Faulkner but probably a session musician, which is not present in the original.

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