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"Bobby's Girl"
"Bobby's Girl"
Single by Susan Maughan
B-side	"Come a Little Closer"
Released	1962
Genre	Pop Rock
Length	2:15
Label	Philips Records 326544 BF
Songwriter(s)	Gary Klein, Henry Hoffman
Susan Maughan singles chronology

"Bobby's Girl"
"Bobby's Girl"
Single by Marcie Blane
B-side	"A Time To Dream"
Released	September 28, 1962
Genre	Pop Rock
Length	2:15
Label	Seville Records 45-120
Songwriter(s)	Gary Klein, Henry Hoffman
Producer(s)	Marvin Holtzman
Marcie Blane singles chronology

"Bobby's Girl" is a song and single written by Gary Klein and Henry Hoffman. The original was performed by American teenage singer Marcie Blane, and became a No. 3 hit on the US charts. A near-simultaneous cover by British singer Susan Maughan was a hit in the UK, coincidentally also reaching No. 3 on the UK charts.^[2]^[3] Both Blane and Maughan are one-hit wonders; for both these artists, "Bobby's Girl" marked their only appearance on a national top 40 chart.

Marcie Blane version

Blane's version of the song was released in the United States in August, 1962. It has a spoken introduction and a backing refrain of "You're not a kid anymore" and was popular with the American teenage audience. It entered the charts in October and made the Top 10 within a month, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 by December, where it stayed for four weeks.^[4] It reached No. 2 on the Cash Box chart, staying on the charts for nineteen weeks, and made Blane (very briefly) the top-selling female singer in the US.^[5]

Chart history

Weekly charts

Chart (1962–1963)	Peak position
Canada (CHUM) Hit Parade^[6]	3
New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade)^[7]	5
Sweden (Kvällstoppen)^[8]	1
Sweden (Tio i Topp)^[9]	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[10]	3
U.S. Cash Box Top 100^[11]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1963)	Rank
U.S. Cash Box ^[12]	49

Susan Maughan version

Susan Maughan's cover version was released in the UK, also in 1962. It featured Wally Stott and his orchestra and chorus.^[13] Substantially re-arranged from Blane's original, Maughan's version dropped the spoken word intro, and had a more sophisticated, less 'teen-age' sound. It spent nineteen weeks on the UK's Record Retailer chart, peaking at No. 3.^[14]^[15]

Chart history

Chart (1962–63)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart^[16]	3
Ireland IRMA^[16]	3
Israeli Singles Chart^[16]	3
New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade)^[17]	6
Norway VG-lista^[16]	6

Other versions

Tracey Ullman version

In 1983 Tracey Ullman released a version of "Bobby's Girl" on the album You Broke My Heart in 17 Places and as a single. Ullman's version reached No. 45 in West Germany.^[18]

Foreign-language versions

1963 : Swedish artist Lil Malmkvist did a version in German (Ariola AT 10 106). It reached No. 16 at the Musikmarkt Top 50-list.
1963 : French singer Arielle performed the French-language version Je n'aime que Bobby^[19] (I only love Bobby).
1972 : Canadian singer Mimi Hétu performed the French-language version Pardonne-moi^[20] (Forgive me).
1984 : French singer Douchka performed the French-language version Mon p'tit cœur^[21] (My little heart).

References

^ "discogs.com". discogs.com. 1962. Retrieved June 23, 2021.
^ "Bobby's Girl". www.discogs.com. 1962. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
^ "Bobby's Girl". BMI Repertoire. 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
^ Yesteryear's Hits. Billboard. 30 December 1967. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
^ "Marcie Blane". www.spectropop.com. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
^ http://chumtribute.com/62-12-17-chart.jpg CHUM Hit Parade, December 17, 1962
^ Flavour of New Zealand, 3 January 1963
^ Hallberg, Eric (1993). Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P 3: Sveriges radios topplista över veckans 20 mest sålda skivor 10. 7. 1962 - 19. 8. 1975. Drift Musik. p. 243. ISBN 9163021404.
^ Hallberg, Eric; Henningsson, Ulf (1998). Eric Hallberg, Ulf Henningsson presenterar Tio i topp med de utslagna på försök: 1961 - 74. Premium Publishing. p. 313. ISBN 919727125X.
^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, December 29, 1962
^ Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 28, 1963
^ "Bobby's Girl - Susan Maughan". www.discogs.com. 1962. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
^ "UK Official charts - Susan Maughan". www.officialscharts.com. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
^ "Cover details". www.whosampled.com. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Billboard Magazine, January, 1963". Billboard. 13 March 1965.
^ Flavour of New Zealand, 13 December 1962
^ Tracey Ullman - Bobby's Girl, norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
^ "Tu M'As Devancée - Arielle". www.discogs.com. March 1963. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
^ "Pardonne-Moi - Mimi Hétu". www.discogs.com. April 1972. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
^ "Douchka - Douchka". www.discogs.com. 1984. Retrieved 3 September 2019.